"OpenReadings 2019" which took place from 19 to 22 March 2019 in Vilnius is an international academic platform for students and young researchers from all over the world to present their on-going research results and practices in the fields of Physics and Natural Sciences.

Among the invited scientists was Gérard Mourou – winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.” Mourou is a founding Director of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan and is currently also a professor at École polytechnique in Palaiseau, France.

In addition, there was such well-known scientists as Jocelyn Bell Burnell – astrophysicist credited with one of the most significant astrophysics discoveries of the 20th Century: the radio pulsar. The discovery, which she made as graduate student, earned a Nobel Prize in 1974 and it could one day form the basis of a “galactic positioning system” for navigating outside our solar system.

Post graduate students and young scientists of KNUTD: assistant professor of the Department of Applied Ecology, Technology of Polymer and Chemical Fibers Maksym Koliada and assistant professor of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry KPI named after Igor Sikorsky - Natalia Tarasenko took part in the conference presenting the poster entitled “Improvement of the fibrous sorbents properties for waste water treatment from iron ions”.

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