This month you can read about an exciting inverse problem on the new issue of Physics World. Professor Samuli Siltanen from University of Helsinki was interviewed regarding the current research in Finland for synthesizing speech and creating artificial voice. This study is part of a big research project in Finland, connecting University of Helsinki, University of Tampere, […]
Month: January 2015
AIP2015: encouraging parents to travel

As I announced in a previous post, next May the University of Helsinki will host AIP2015, the biggest event in Inverse Problems to date. Some weeks ago I happened to read this post on the funny and interesting blog Tenure, She Wrote. Child care services at a conference? Brilliant! - I thought. I brought the idea to […]
Italian women in science who made us proud in 2014
2014 was a good year for women in science, especially in mathematics, since for the very first time the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani was awarded with the Fields medal. I would like to move the spotlight on two Italian women who achieved great things in 2014. Samantha Cristoforetti Engineer, air force captain, but mostly astronaut! She is […]
What if getting cancer is mostly about bad luck?

Few days ago, Science published a groundbreaking research by Tomasetti and Vogelstein from Johns Hopkins University, hinting how getting cancer is significantly a matter of bad luck (*). The authors focus on stem cells and their divisions, and by applying some statistics, show that there is a strong correlation between such repeated process and the development of cancer. […]
Science to masses: why it doesn't work?

Here I am, back from the holidays and ready to go back to my publishing rhythm. This post come quite late with respect to the piece of news that inspired it. Long story short, last November the newly appointed President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker eliminated the role of (independent) Chief Scientific Adviser after […]