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COVID-19 Advisory Team in the Polish Senate

On October 19, 2020, the COVID-19 Advisory Team headed by Prof. Jerzy Duszyński, President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, presented its report – "Understanding COVID-19" – in the Senate of the Republic of Poland. Senators and the public had the opportunity to get acquainted with the experts’ guidelines. The meeting was held as part of the session of the Senate team "Health of the Poles".

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Can computers outsmart human experts?

Is it possible to "teach" computers to plan multistep organic syntheses? A group of scientists from the PAS Institute of Organic Chemistry, Northwestern University and Ulsan University in South Korea, led by Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski, has proven that automated synthetic planning at an expert level is feasible. Their groundbreaking program has been recently described in Nature.

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