Sixty-eight projects from 20 cities across the country will be presented online at the Seventh Scientific Session of the High School Student Institute of BAS on 10, 11, 12 November. For the first time this year, students with such diverse research projects, some of which are interdisciplinary, will take part in the scientific session. […]
The publication “150 years Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Temple of Knowledge” is the first encyclopaedic edition of BAS which brings together in one book a wide range of topics related to both the diverse scientific activity and the centuries-old history of the Academy. In a popular science and comprehensible form, it presents the contemporary image of BAS and its scientific potential, the 150-year history of organisational and scientific activity and the significant achievements of academic scientists in all fields of knowledge. […]
On 8 October 2020, the Assembly of Academicians at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences elected Prof. Maxim Kontsevich, a Russian and French mathematician, born on 25.08.1964 in Khimki, Moscow Region, a foreign member of BAS. Maxim Kontsevich is a professor at the Institute of Advanced Research (IHES), Paris and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. He is one of the leading mathematicians and theoretical physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries with outstanding contributions to algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and geometric aspects of mathematical physics, such as knot theory, quantization and mirror symmetry. Prof. Kontsevich is the author of a number of new ideas and theories with a huge influence on the development of modern mathematics and theoretical physics: Deformation quantization, Homological mirror [...]
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences celebrated its 151st anniversary with a solemn ceremony. Scientists, public figures, politicians and journalists attended the celebration in “Prof. Marin Drinov” hall of the Academy. […]
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announces with deep sorrow that on 11 October 2020, after a short illness, Academician Iliya Georgiev Pashev died. Acad. Iliya Pashev is an iconic figure in Bulgarian molecular biology. He is the third academician (after Acad. Rumen Tsanev and Acad. Asen Hadjiolov Jr.) in this relatively young science for Bulgaria. He was born on 12 July 1938 in an intellectual Bulgarian family. His father Georgi Pashev was a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers and is the author of dozens of books and short stories on historical topics. After graduating from high school in Plovdiv, Acad. Pashev enrolled in medicine at the Plovdiv Higher Medical Institute, graduating with honors in 1962. After a short period as a general practitioner, [...]
Petar Beron was awarded with the Sign of Distinction of the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences at a ceremony held on 9 October 2020 in the Academy. Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS, conferred the award for his merits in the field of acarology and zoogeography and on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The award ceremony was attended by representatives of the Board of BAS and the National Museum of Natural History of BAS (NMNHS). […]
