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56th
Anniversary of the United
Nations Celebrated at Bilkent
On October 24, at the Bilkent Concert Hall, the 56th
anniversary of the U.N. was celebrated with two performances by the
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra directed by Karl Anton Rickenbacher and
addresses from honored guests
The guest speakers included Mr. Alfredo Witschi-Cestari, United
Nations Resident Coordinator; Prof. Talat Halman, Director of the
Center for Turkish Literature....
Chemistry Research Group Discovers a New Liquid Crystalline System
Asst. Prof. Ömer Dağ and graduate student Özgür Çelik
have discovered a new Liquid Crystalline (LC) system, which was
published as a frontispeice in the communication section of the
prestigious journal, Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The
cover picture depicts the polarized optical microscopy image
(characteristic to hexagonal phase of LCs) and a schematic diagram
for this system....
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PASO Students Film Festival Was Held
 This
year, the PASO Student Films Festival was held in the Ankara
German Cultural Center between 18-21 October. The aim of this
activity, which was hosted by the Bilkent University Department
of Communications and Design and Ankara University Faculty of
Communications...
Also in this issue:
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Artificial Intelligence Group Launches Meetings
Can machines think? Do they have emotions? Can
computers be made to think intelligently? Are we computers? What
are computers anyway? Founded in 1992 under the auspices of the
world-wide Association for Computing Machinery, Bilkent ACM
SIGART, a local “Special Interest Group on Artificial
Intelligence”, brings together a diverse group of people
interested in these sort of questions....
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