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| AWARDS | | 2013 IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Education Award to Mehdi Jazayeri
The recognition is presented annualy to those who distinguished themselves in the field of software engineering education. Together with ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Education Award, it is the highest acknowledgment in the field. Prof. Jazayeri is among the few to have received both honours. The Professor has also been awarded for the mark he left to USI's Faculty of Informatics as its first Dean. A Faculty which has been taken as a role model in many International Institutions. More information. | | EXHIBIT OPENING AT THE ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE | | Sublime Cities: the new exhibition by Mimmo Jodice, one of the biggest names in Italian photography, gets underway Photographer since the sixities avant-guard, experimental with a careful eye on the different expressions of photography, he has been the tireless key player of the cultural
debate, that has led to the international success of Italian photography. The opening will be held on Thursday, 2 May at 7pm at the Academy's Gallery (Canavée Building, Mendrisio Campus), and the exhibit will be open until 9 June 2013. More information. | | SOCIAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2013 | | The Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus back at USI The public lecture held by the inventor of the microcredit and social business will be held on 15 May at 6pm in the Aula Magna of Lugano Campus (registration is required). The second Social Business Conference, is an interactive day organised by the Social Business Earth in cooperation with CP Start-up and USI's Institute of Management, with the support of the City of Lugano and the BSI Group. The event aims at promoting cooperation
among public administration, private businesses and foundations, in order to design new sustainable social businesses to solve society's most urgent problems. Full day programme. | | PROJECT DIGITAL COPYRIGHT FOR E-LEARNING (DICE) | | Two Seminars on Copyright in Education In the framework of the project DICE the e-lab offers two seminars in English: on Tuesday, 30 April (Room A24, at 2pm: Copyright principles & methodology with prof. Bertil Cottier and Anna Picco) and on Tuesday, 25 June (room A13, 2pm: Discussing your copyright questions with prof. Bertil Cottier and Marcello Baggi). The seminars will introduce the basic principles of Swiss Copyrights and provide tools to solve practical cases in the field of education. Registration required. More information. | | PNR65: PUBLIC SPACES IN THE CITTÀ TICINO OF THE FUTURE | | Local Strategies Alessandro Balducci, Andreas
Kipar, Roberto Stoppa and Michele Arnaboldi will tackle issues on the theme Local Strategies on Friday, 3 May from 2pm to 6pm in room C.3.89 (Mendrisio Campus). The lecture is part of the series of public lectures promoted by the research project PNR65 Public Spaces in the Città Ticino of the future of the Swiss National Science Foundation conducted by Professor and Architect Michele Arnaboldi. A series about issues such as quality of the public space and culture of the territory. | | USI AND FAMILIES | | Science Holidays for Children The initiative aimed at fourth and fifth graders promoted by USI's Ideatorio and the Educational Institute City of Lugano, in cooperation with the Society of Natural Science of Ticino is back. The destination is Mascengo and the programme is the perfect blend of fun, biology, snacks, nature, hikes and chemistry. The world of
science
unfolds thanks to small discoveries: from the realm of the invisible observed at the microscope to the limitless cosmos. More information. |
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Monday, 29 April, 2pm | The great development of Chinese cultural industry. Strategies and influences in national and international media | Room A13, Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 30 April, 2pm | Influences and conflicts of new media on Chinese social culture | Room A13, Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 30 April, 5.30pm | Seminar Listening and Silence with prof. Eddo Rigotti | Room A21, Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 30 April, 6pm | Giovanni Boccaccio Decameron, IV 1 Tancredi and Ghismunda | Studio 2 RSI, Besso | Thursday, 2 May, 2pm | The role of mass media in the Chinese cultural development strategy | Room A13, Lugano Campus | Thursday, 2 May, 7pm | Opening of the exhibit Sublime Citites by photographer Mimmo Jodice | Academy Gallery, Canavée Building, Mendrisio Campus | Friday, 3 May, 2pm | The image of China in the global context | Room A13, Lugano Campus | Saturday, 4 May, 10am | Dies academicus | Aula Magna, Canavée Building, Mendrisio Campus |
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