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(November 5, 2014) Emanuele Recchia talks about the bank’s approach of finding and developing the talents of their employees.
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Boris Goncharov – Cryptography & Steganography
(October 13, 2014) Boris Goncharov gives an lecture on cryptography and steganography, showing why these two are important in the computer science field. He talks about the applications and use of cryptography, key management processes, information hiding alternatives such as steganography and watermarking, etc.
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Elena Poptodorova – Coming from the Past, Going to the Future
(November 14, 2014) Elena Poptodorova talks about the American engagement in Bulgaria and the strong relationship between the two countries. Elena Poptodorova is the ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States of America.
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Albena Spasova – The Dark Side of Technologies
(October 6, 2014) Albena Spasova gives a lecture on the dark side of technologies. She talks about the fraud schemes and internet crime evolution such as traditional and dynamic phishing, botnets, new tools for organized crime groups, etc.
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Marije Cornelissen – What’s Next for the European Union?
Marije Cornelissen presents her vision about the probable development of the main body of the European Union in the next five years.
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Yavor Siderov – Migrants, Refugees & Recipient Countries: The Case of Bulgaria
Yavor Siderov gives a lecture on the issue of rising number of migrants and refugees in Bulgaria. He talks about the importance of integration of refugees and how this can be achieved through changes in their status, placement and cultural integration.
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Veselin Lalev – Options Trading Strategies & Contemporary Events
(March 27, 2014) Veselin Lalev shares his experience with financial options and stock trading, and also talks about contemporary events and their effects on stock trading…
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Kamen Kanev – Advanced Human-Computer Interactions in Augmented Environments
(March 12, 2014) Kamen Kanev proposes different models of interaction between humans and computers in an augmented world. Watch to learn about exciting HCI examples, including a Robocop-style outfit for policemen and others.
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Stanislav Gatsev – Client-server Communication
(October 2, 2014) Stanislav Gatsev talks about the client-server communication and stresses on the more important parts of the application development. This talk is part of the Mobile Computing course at AUBG.
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Stanislav Gatsev – Multithreading in Android
(September 30, 2014) Stanisav Gatsev gives an lecture on multithreading in Android. He shows some basic steps for developing an Android application. This talk is part of the Mobile Computing course at AUBG.
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Velizar Shalamanov – Cooperation of Southeast Europe and Its Significance for the Region’s Security
(September 29, 2014) Velizar Shalamanov gives a speech about the aspects of regional cooperation and the implications for the security of Southeast Europe. Velizar Shalamanov is the interim Minister of Defense in Bulgaria.
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Rene Tomova – The Magic of Retail
(April 2, 2014) Experienced retailer Rene Tomova shares her experience with retail, marketing and entrepreneurship. After graduating from AUBG, Rene became head of Mtel’s retail operations and later co-founded Creative Shower, a design thinking lab…
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Alexander Naydenov – Corporate Culture and Entrepreneurial Attitude
(September 21, 2013) Alex Naydenov leads a discussion with AUBG alumni on corporate life, the skills it gives you, and how they can be useful if you decide to become an entrepreneur…
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Mark Kramer – Cold War Myths & Realities
(February 26, 2014) Harvard professor Mark Kramer talks how today’s threats and challenges actually stem from the Cold War. Watch the video to learn about common misconceptions and misinformation about the Cold War…
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Blagovest Belev – Bitcoin: The Digital Revolution in Money
(March 20, 2014) Blagovest Belev talks about Bitcoin and how it has revolutionized the financial industry. Watch to hear the answers to the most frequently asked questions about Bitcoin…
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The Politics of the Olympics
(February 19, 2014) AUBG Professors Cosmina Tanasoiu and Nicholas Spina discuss the political side of the Olympic Games…
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Velina Getova – Leadership for a New Era
(February 13, 2014) AUBG alumnus Velina Getova presents her research on leadership, what it means to be leader in the 21st century and how we can become better leaders ourselves…
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Bunyan Saptomo – Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific Region
(February 12, 2014) Indonesian Ambassador Bunyan Saptomo talks about Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole, detailing Indonesian ideology…
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Michael McGoldrick – Discovering the Power of the Third Sector
(March 31, 2014) Former AUBG professor Michael McGoldrick leads a discussion of the third sector, how it is funded, what industries it includes and its role in our modern world, especially in the United States…
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Iliya Lingorski – The Triumph of Geopolitics Over Freedom?
(April 17, 2014) Former Deputy Finance Minister Iliya Lingorski talks about the recent Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, and how that event demonstrates a triumph of geopolitics over freedom in our modern world…
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Cosmina Tanasoiu – Politics and Fantasy Cinema: From Machiavelli to Game of Thrones
(December 4, 2013) In this extremely interesting talk, Cosmina Tanasoiu draws parallels between Game of Thrones and real-world politics. It turns out George R. R. Martin’s creation is not far from the truth…
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Georgy Ganev – Bulgaria’s Post-Communist Economic Transition: Myths and Reality
(November 25, 2013) Prof. Georgy Ganev of Sofia University talks about the economic myths haunting Bulgaria – from the myth of high unemployment, to the myth of high inflation – and refutes all of them…
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Yukiko Abe – Regional Variations in Women’s Participation in the Labor Market
(November 19, 2013) Yukiko Abe gives an lecture on the regional variations in women’s participation in the labor market. She emphasizes on women’s behavior, changes in the regional differences and on comparison between the high-participation regions and the other ones. Yukiko Abe is a professor at Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University, Japan. View Regional Variations in Women’s Participation in the Labor Market on YouTube The AUBGTalks Channel on YouTube American University in Bulgaria Main Site Follow […]
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Marco Arndt – Issues of De-Communization in Germany and Bulgaria
(December 3, 2013) Marco Arndt talks about dealing with communist dictatorship in Germany and Bulgaria. He draws the parallels between the two countries regarding the process of de-communization.
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Alexandar Vasilev – Solow Model
(November 13, 2013) Alexandar Vasilev gives an lecture on the Solow Model, a fundamental method implemented both in Economics and Mathematics.
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Cristofer Scarboro – Revenge of the More
(March 18, 2014) Cristofer Scarboro talks about Communism and the reasons why it collapsed.
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Theodora Dragostinova – Culture for the Masses?
(April 15, 2014) Theodora Dragostinova gives a talk on the contradictory logic of Bulgarian cultural diplomacy in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Ken Heather – What is a Fair Distribution of Income?
Ken Heather gives a lecture on fair distribution of income, a topic that seems to be of great interest for everybody. He discusses issues related to fairness, justice, taxes and people awareness.
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Michael Davidson – Public Diplomacy
(October 16, 2013) Michael Davidson discusses international relations and how they really work in reality. He also talks about the people involved in the practical application of diplomacy and the way they take decisions.
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Alexander Belokapov – Data Mining at CommEq
Alex Belokapov works at Commetric, CommEq and FidEq. He talks about the more technical side of media mining. He explains how and why they are using data mining techniques.
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Spyros Garyfallos – Introduction to Commetric & CommEq
Spyros Garyfallos, CEO at Commetric, talks about media mining. He gives an introduction to Commetric and presetns the business aspect of their operations.
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Metodi Nikolov – The Cognity Risk Management System
Metodi Nikolov, Senior Quantitative Analyst at FinAnalytica, talks about the Cognity Risk Management System.
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Metodi Nikolov – Statistical Analysis of Financial Data
(April 2, 2014) Metodi Nikolov, Senior Quantitative Analyst at FinAnalytica, talks about the probability models that a given financial data series follows. The speaker gives information about the kinds of outcomes and answers that can be gotten from the data.
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Metodi Nikolov – Financial Data
(March 26, 2014) Metodi Nikolov, Senior Quantitative Analyst at FinAnalytica, talks about financial data – stocks, bonds, funds, interest. He gives information about the instruments, from which data that is modeled, that are usually extracted.
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Metodi Nikolov – Introduction to FinAnalytica & Cognity
(March 26, 2014) Metodi Nikolov is a Senior Quantitative Analyst at FinAnalytica. He talks about risk management and the way they deal with it at FinAnalytica in building their software, called Cognity.
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Rado Nikolov – Introduction to R
Rado Nikolov, CTO at Transmetrics, shows how to use R, an open-source software for statistical computing, to work with data.
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Rado Nikolov – Hidden Markov Model in Details
Rado Nikolov, CTO at Transmetrics, talks about the Hidden Markov Model in details that is used to predict future volume distribution. The speaker shows how the forward and backward algorithms work.
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Rado Nikolov – Transmetrics’s Current Solution
(March 12, 2014) Rado Nikolov is a CTO of Transmetrics. The problem that the company is trying to solve is that more than half of the capacity is unused. The speaker talks about Transmetrics’ solution for Agility and the use of the Hidden Markov Model to predict future volume distribution.
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Rado Nikolov – The Transmetrics Problem
(March 12, 2014) Rado Nikolov is a CTO of Transmetrics, a startup company, trying to bring big data and predictive analytics into the world of cargo transport. He says that the problem of this industry is that half of the money spent are spent on transporting empty space.
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Maxim Behar – The World in a Social Media Chaos
(March 25, 2014) Maxim Behar talks about the social media chaos and how it influences and changes the world and people in it. He gives the three major points which creates this chaos, compares the old traditional media with the new one, and suggests how people should behave in the social media chaos nowadays.
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Boyko Vassilev – Are We Being Misguided? Media and Global Conspiracy in the Balkans
(January 28, 2014) Boyko Vassilev is the former director of BNT News and former war correspondent. He talks about the media and global conspiracy in the Balkans, touching interesting topics in the field of journalism such as the truth of media, television, etc.
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Daniel Berg – EBRD Responding to Crisis
(November 8, 2013) Daniel Berg is the director of EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) for Bulgaria. In this video, he gives a short lecture on the strategies of EBRD during a crisis…
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Martin Milev – Private Equity Deal Structures
(April 22, 2013) AUBG alumnus Martin Milev has been working as an investment professional for the last 3 years at Oriens Ltd, Danube Fund. In this video, Martin Milev gives a short lecture on private equity deal structures for Professor Miroslav Mateev’s Company Valuation course.
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Bistra Boeva – Corporate Governance and its European Dimensions
(October 9, 2013) Dr. Bistra Boeva talks about corporate governance and how it is perceived and implemented in Bulgaria and Europe as a whole. Dr. Boeva holds a postdoctoral degree in International Business in addition to a Master’s degree in Law…
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What Impact Will You Have on the World?
(October 16, 2013) Participants in the Summer Entrepreneurship Program 2013 share their takeaways from their intense 5-week hands-on entrepreneurship training in the United States. Watch Kristiyan Dimitrov and Teodor Dimitrov share their view on starting a business and succeeding, and then pitch their teams’ ideas in front of the audience.
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The Melon Way: A Startup Story
(November 27, 2012) The founders of a famous AUBG tech startup, Melon, visited AUBG to talk about their journey as entrepreneurs and where Melon is today …
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Old Theories and New Insights About Culture and Business
(September 18, 2013) AUBG professors Veneta Andonova and Asli Goksoy, along with PhD student Jana Schmutzler gave a co-teaching talk on the newest research in organizational culture and entrepreneurial behavior …
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Elizabeth Crighton – Whither the Arab Spring?
(September 17, 2013) Elizabeth Crighton, Professor of Government and Politics at Pomona College, talks about the failure of the revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa to deliver on their promises.
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Alexander Chernev – Lifestyle Branding and the Competition for a Consumer’s Identity
(November 21, 2012) Alexander Chernev, renowned professor at the Kellogg School of Management, spoke for AUBG’s MBA program on the recent developments that have taken place in the positioning of brands on the market …