Nobel Laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (With Prof. Veljko Milutinovic and Prof. Petraq Papajorgji)

Name: Nobel Laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (With Prof. Veljko Milutinovic and Prof. Petraq Papajorgji)
Start: 2016-10-12T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-10-12T21:00:00+02:00
Location: University of New York Tirana

Oct 12, 2016, 4:00 – 7:00 PM (UTC)

Tirana

University of New York Tirana, Kodra e Diellit, Tirana, 1010

Nobel laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. Since 1986 Prof. Shechtman teaches a Technological Entrepreneurship class at Technion, which has inspired 10K students for launching startups.

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About this event

Panel discussion: Startups, entrepreneurial ecosystem. But how?
​Prof. Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. 
Prof. Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals.
Prof. Shechtman is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the Israel National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded many prizes including the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the EMRS award, etc.
Since 1986 Prof. Shechtman teaches a Technological Entrepreneurship class at the Technion. Shechtman's class has inspired 10,000 students to develop their creative ideas for launching startups.
Nobel laureate Dan Shechtman, Technion will be joined by Prof. Veljko Milutinovic, University of Belgrade, and Prof. Petraq Papajorgji, University of New York Tirana.
Prof. Veljko Milutinovic was a codesigner of the DARPAs first GaAs RISC microprocessor. Now he teaches at the University of Belgrade, in EE and MATH.
Join us on October 12th.