Editorial: Securing Academic Freedom through Networks.

Is there a need to reimagine academic freedom? Does it happen? Where and how? As guest editors of this special issue, we have enjoyed the challenge of curating a set of papers under the theme of ‘reimagining academic freedom’. By ‘reimagining’ we refer to an act of imagining again and anew, more precisely to develop new conceptualisations and codifications of academic freedom (AF) from different perspectives. Because academic freedom is a necessary precondition to sociological imagination that challenges and defies the status quo1, we also employ the concept of ‘social imaginary’2 as a framework for understanding academic freedom and its multiple facets. Here ‘social imaginary’ refers broadly to the organising structure of shared understanding of academic freedom that makes legible or illegible certain relationships and practices within a given community. Social imaginaries can also organise social relations on different scales (e.g. national, regional, global), circumscribe the questions deemed worth asking and delimit the answers considered viable or valid, they, thus, link present conditions to future aspirations.3 As the authors in this issue argue, imaginaries also remount to all that has not been, to the unexpressed potentialities, to the reservoirs of the future – in term of the virtuality of action – that the past holds in its folds (see Pinto & Zellini, this issue).

The 13th (EC) 2 meeting was held at the University of Bologna, 13-14 December 2002, with the theme Model Selection and Evaluation.This collection of papers originates from that conference.(EC) 2 is an acronym for European Conference of the Econom(etr)ics Community, focusing on Econometrics and Quantitative Economics.The programme chair for this meeting was Niels Haldrup with Herman K. van Dijk acting as co-chairman and with Renzo Orsi as the local organizer.The series of (EC) 2 conferences was established in 1990, and each is organized about a particular theme, taking place over 2 days.Originally the conferences were intended to be relatively small in scale with no parallel sessions.To give as many participants as possible a chance to present their work, two poster sessions are also included.Given the success of the meetings, there has been an increasing number of participants at the conferences.In Bologna, there were almost 150 registered participants, and because of the growing interest in (EC) 2 meetings it has become necessary to turn down more papers for presentation than we would like.Although around 130 papers were submitted for presentation, only 14 contributing (plus four invited) papers were presented in the plenary programme, with 35 papers in poster sessions.Over the years the popularity of the meetings has also attracted many more participants from outside Europe.At the 2002 Bologna meeting, there were participants from 20 countries, enhancing our forum for European researchers in 'Quantitative Economics and Econometrics'.The conference series also sought to provide a forum where junior participants and senior invited presenters could meet and discuss their research, and the meetings have proved very successful in this respect.In Bologna, five of the 18 papers in the plenary programme were presented by younger researchers who were also well represented in the poster sessions.This Bulletin special issue is on the same theme as the 2002 conference, namely Model Selection and Evaluation and includes 11 papers from the conference: merely page constraints precluded a larger selection of the papers from the conference.The papers reported here, after rigorous reviewing and

Adrian Viens, Guest Editor of this Olivieri symposium, and Julian Savulescu, the Editor of JME, set the scene for the symposium. In failing...[her] when she needed them most, it is...

The International Conference on “Cell Death in Cancer and Toxicology” was conceptualized and organized jointly by CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and International Cell Death Society at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India from February 20–22, 2018. Cell death is an integral part of cellular homeostasis in living system. Alteration in cell death process has been −associated with various patho-physiological conditions including cellular toxicity and cancer. Abnormal cell proliferation and defective cell death are key reasons for aggressive cancer and treatment resistance. Although apoptosis is a key cell death program, discovery of various types of programmed cell death mechanism has provided alternative −approaches to develop novel anticancer strategies where conventional pathway of apoptosis fails to respond. Therefore, elimination of cancer cells by inducing cell death is one the prime targets for current therapeutic strategies. However, selective killing of cancer cells is still limited in clinical settings and an ongoing part of intense research worldwide. This meeting brought together scientists and researchers from diverse disciplines working across the globe with a goal of understanding cell death and its implications in cancer biology and toxicology. The meeting provided a platform to scientists and young researchers showcasing their novel findings in the areas of cell death in the context of cancer and toxicology. The meeting provided a unique platform for connecting people to initiate new collaborations and a forum for interaction among scientists, scholars, clinicians and pharmaceutical industry working across the globe. The Conference included a full range of academic sessions including one plenary lecture and 12 preferred sessions. The event had 77 talks by invited eminent speakers from national and international research institutes, universities, −academia and industry. The meeting showcased 80 posters and 16 oral presentations where young researchers to presented their research and seek feedback from the experts in the field. We thank the contributors for their valuable inputs and Cancer Medicine for giving us the opportunity as Guest Editors of this special issue comprising the abstracts of different talks and posters presented in the conference. We sincerely appreciate the generous support provided by the Council of Scientific & industrial Research, India; Science & Engineering Research Board, India; Department of Science & Technology, India; Indian Council of Medical research, India; Council of Science & Technology, U.P., India and Defence Research and Development Organization, India for their financial support.

The aim of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the sub field ‘geographies of children and youth’ and outline ongoing research within the subfield in the Nordic countries. It is shown how geography of children and youth is a relatively new subfield in the Nordic countries but is thriving being spearheaded primarily by young researchers. The main fieldwork locations are the Nordic countries and Africa where principally qualitative methodologies are employed in data collection. Thematically a wide range of issues are being researched. Much of the work being carried out fits within the growing interest in examining the connection between ordinary young people's social position and the production of space, including young people's use of public space. The relationship between place and identity is another important focus. Mobility and migration, however, is arguably where Nordic researchers are making the greatest contribution to the literature on the geographies of children and youth. This special issue should be of interest both to geographers outside of the sub‐field who are curious to know what is going on within geographies of children and youth, and to those who are already specialists in this area but know little about the research emanating from the Nordic countries.

Connecting Art and Science: How Far Have We Come?

Guest Editor Beatrix Haselsberger asks what it will take for today's young researchers to become tomorrow's professors

This issue is a collection of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Photo-Induced Phase Transitions; Cooperative, non-linear and functional properties (PIPT'05), which was held in Rennes (France) on 24–28 May 2005 and chaired by Hervé Cailleau and Tadeusz Luty. The first PIPT conference was organized by Professor Keiichiro Nasu in Tsukuba, Japan, in 2001. During 5 days, PIPT'05 provided an interdisciplinary forum for research communications between solid state physicists, photophysicists, photochemists and photobiologists, as well as material scientists. Scientists came from all around the world (Europe, Japan, USA, Canada, ...). The fascinating scientific challenge of the possibility of triggering physical properties of a material by light excitation was at the heart of the exchange of ideas between scientists of the different fields. The topics of the conference were about light-induced phenomena in functional materials, nano-particles and devices, photo-induced structural, magnetic and/or electronic phase transitions, photo-induced gauge type phase transitions, photo-induced cooperative molecular switching and chemical reactions in solids, dynamics of out-of-equilibrium processes, light-driven non-thermal processes such as coherent phonons, shock waves, surface melting and femtomagnetism, precursor phenomena, coherent, co-operative and non-linear processes in excited states and new investigations by light, x-ray and electron probes.As you will see, the collection of papers presented here cover many of the fields mentioned above. The PIPT conferences, encompassing different areas of light-induced phenomena are also meant to bridge the gap between experimentalists and theoreticians, and to promote communication between scientists working on different continents. The present conference was attended by 148 participants from 17 countries, with the total number of 87 presentations (16 invited, 27 contributed talks and 44 posters). It is encouraging to note that, in addition to the unwavering participation of the established members of the PIPT community, numerous young researchers could also participate in the conference. This has been possible thanks to the generous sponsorship from the University of Rennes 1, Rennes Métropole, Conseil Général d'Ille et Vilaine, Région Bretagne, CNRS (France) and JST/ERATO (Japan) and the organizers would like to express their enormous gratitude to these organizations.The present conference benefited also from substantial logistic support from the University of Rennes 1, which is gratefully acknowledged here.The papers published in this issue were refereed and accepted papers, according to the normal rules of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series. This proceedings issue comprises 40 papers. Thanks are due to IOP Publishing Ltd, of Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE, UK for their willingness to publish these proceedings.The Guest Editors express their gratitude to all the authors and the referees, while the organizers of PIPT'05 would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the International Advisory Committee and of the Local Organization Committee, the invited speakers, the session chairmen and all the attendees (see photo below) for their contribution to the conference. At the website http://www.gmcm.univ-rennes1.fr/pipt additional information and some photographs can be found. It is also a pleasure to announce that the next conference of the PIPT series will be held in 2007 in Japan, and will be chaired by Shin-ya Koshihara.

<p>Increasingly, careers in ocean research are international and lie outside traditional employment sectors (academia and government). In response to a need for training that prepares the next generation of ocean scientists for a globalized, multisectoral environment, we initiated a transatlantic, multi-disciplinary graduate school which connected students and their supervisors in Halifax, Canada and Kiel, Germany. We took advantage of complementary capacities and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic to create a training program that conveyed technical and research skills in ocean science and advanced technology, and promoted the ability to manage deep sea and open ocean environments. Our goal was to provide each graduate with an international network and the ability to work effectively as an “advocate for the ocean”.</p><p>The transatlantic graduate school was supported from 2012 to 2020 with funding obtained, separately, from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s CREATE program in Canada and the Helmholtz Association’s Graduate Research School program in Germany. The NSERC CREATE Transatlantic Ocean System Science and Technology (TOSST) was based at Dalhousie University, whereas the Helmholtz Ocean System Science and Technology (HOSST) graduate school was based at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) with participation from the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel. TOSST supported a total of 20 PhD and 3 Masters candidates. HOSST supported 24 doctoral researchers. The participants were recruited into 2 cohorts.</p><p>The participants’ disciplines ranged from marine geology to atmospheric physics and included molecular ecology, marine conservation as well as social and policy sciences, etc.. The common focus was on the Atlantic Ocean and on value-added training that addressed business skills as well as economic, regulatory, management and cultural aspects relevant to Atlantic Ocean spaces. A program of annual Summer Schools included two held in a small island developing state (Cabo Verde), with participation of African students.</p><p>TOSST-HOSST did not attempt to unify the disparate academic systems of Germany and Canada but, instead, focussed on connecting and broadening the experience of young researchers. The program sought to maximise the value of transatlantic scientific cooperation, convey broad experience and skills beyond students’ individual projects and disciplines, and create a diverse community of scholars who could work effectively together.</p><p>The presentation will highlight benefits and challenges encountered, on both sides of the Atlantic, and lessons learned during the program. Examples of lessons learned included: the value of a bilateral, cohort model for building networks of young researchers over long distances (as opposed to more distributed, multi-institutional networks); the importance of regular (effective) videoconferencing as well as (occasional) face-to-face meetings; the importance of program coordinators for overcoming barriers to international exchanges; the risk of overburdening the participants with program requirements without compensation of the academic requirements of home institutions; the need for supervisors to commit to the international aspects of the program; the value of exposure to radically different research environments (including those in developing countries).</p>