The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, awarded an honorary medal "FOR MERITS TO BAS" to Prof. Raytcho Lazarov. The Governing Board of the Academy awarded the distinction to Prof. Lazarov for his contribution to the modern development of scientific research in the field of numerical methods and algorithms at BAS. Raytcho Lazarov is a world-renowned scientist in the field of mathematics and computer science, Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University. He has published highly acclaimed and cited joint papers with scientists from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics and the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS.  

A new experimental laboratory at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT) will be established under the "VIBraTE" project, funded by the Horizon Europe programme. This was announced by Assoc. Prof. Dimiter Prodanov who presented the planned activities of the project and gave a lecture at BAS on the perspectives of neurotechnologies. The "VIBraTE" project has started in February 2023 and will last until 31 January 2028. The Director of IICT Corr. Mem. Svetozar Margenov, who opened the event, specified that so far in Bulgaria such an innovative project had not been implemented. Assoc. Prof. Dimiter Prodanov works at IICT and shares a position at the Imec Centre for Nano-Electronics in Leuven (Belgium), which is the world-leading research [...]

A memorial plaque to Academician Stefan Dodunekov was inaugurated on 10 November in Veliko Tarnovo. The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of BAS, the Union of Mathematicians in Bulgaria and the Regional Academic Center of BAS in Veliko Tarnovo organized the event. The memorial plaque of Acad. Dodunekov is located in the alley "Personalities of Bulgaria with contribution to Veliko Tarnovo", where memorials are placed to prominent personalities who contributed with their activities to the development and promotion of the city in all areas of life. The opening ceremony was attended by the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member (Academician) of BAS, His Eminence Metropolitan Grigory of Veliko Tarnovo, the Deputy Mayor of Veliko Tarnovo Municipality Prof. Georgi Kamarashev, [...]

A panel discussion on the topic "Trust in the digital world" was held on September 27 at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, together with the technology company Huawei Technologies Bulgaria. During the discussion, experts shared experiences and knowledge on topics related to trust in the digital world, proactive identification of future cyber threats, biometrically secured community resource sharing, the digital future with artificial intelligence and data management, "smart" cities, infrastructure for high performance computing. The topics were discussed in front of scientists, representatives of universities, businesses and NGOs. The event was opened by Corr. Mem. Prof. Stefan Hadjitodorov, Vice-President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. "Today we will discuss interesting, new and regional solutions addressing the extremely important topic of cybersecurity challenges. The Bulgarian Academy [...]