TWAS and ISTIC announce the recipients of the first ‘ISTIC-TWAS Entrepreneurship Awards’.

Jacob Palis, president of TWAS, has won the 2010 Balzan Prize in mathematics.

The role of science academies in advancing science, technology and innovation in the Balkans will be a key topic of discussion at an international workshop taking place in Trieste, Italy, on 9 and 10 September 2010.

"The development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is one of the highest priorities of the government of Kosovo," says Lule Ahmedi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Pristina in Kosovo's capital city.

The TWAS 21st General Meeting will take place in Hyderabad, India, on 19-22 October 2010. More than 300 invitees from 54 countries are expected to attend. Dr. Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, will address the delegates at the opening ceremony.

"International climate change negotiations are more like a marathon than a sprint," says Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

"Energy demand is skyrocketing in the developing world and, if current trends continue, it will exceed the level of demand in the world's richest countries by 2015," says Mohamed Hassan, executive director of TWAS.

"People intrinsically understand that nature bestows untold benefits that we all value and cherish as human beings," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The number of computed tomography (CT) scans has increased threefold since 1993. These procedures, prescribed to more than 70 million patients worldwide in 2007, have now become commonplace in both the developed and many parts of the developing world.

Padma will be blogging live from TWAS's 21st General Meeting in Hyderabad, 19-22 October 2010.