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Kovács Balázs (where Kovács is the family name, and Balázs is the given name) is not a rare Hungarian name: there are nearly four thousand of us in the world. We are spread across many scientific and creative fields, it would be exciting to find out who is currently working on what! For this purpose, we are organizing an interdisciplinary conference, where the topics of which are connected only by the names of the speakers.
Venue: Magtár Rendezvényház, Pécs, Hungary, Dóm tér 6. 📍
Scheduled to: Saturday, November 8, 2025 1-9PM and Sunday, November 9, 2025 9AM-12PM📅
Saturday, November 8 |
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| 1:00PM | Opening, including:
~ Introduction of the organizers, ~ Our guests of honour presenting ISNA (International Same Name Association) (Hirokazu Tanaka and Hirokazu Tanaka), ~ Presentation of ELTE Language Research Lab. |
| 1:30PM- | Quantum computing with neutral atoms |
| 1:50PM- | Cardiological examinations from fetal life to adulthood |
| 2:10PM- | How a digital pinball game is made, or an insight into the world of video game development |
| 2:30PM- | From the Palóc village pottery workshop to world-class tile production - 100-year history of the Romhány ceramic industry |
| 2:50PM- | questions, answers, counter-questions |
| 3:00-3:30PM: break | |
| 3:30PM- | The relationship between history and politics in Hungary in the 1950s |
| 3:50PM- | Overcoming the math bugaboo - or how to increase your child's self-confidence if they have success experiences in math |
| 4:10PM- | Stock trading supported by text mining |
| 4:30PM- | Genetics - genomics in the service of aquaculture |
| 4:50PM- | questions, answers, counter-questions |
| 5:00-5:30PM: break | |
| 5:30PM- | How does political division affect teamwork? |
| 5:50PM- | A destroyed settlement in the swamp world: The environmental history of Vátyon |
| 6:10PM- | The future of tourism, or new tourism in practice. Introduction to the world of tourism without tourists |
| 6:30PM- | questions, answers, counter-questions |
| 6:40- 7:00PM | Presentation of the evening music programs |
| 9:00PM- | Our dj is Kovács Balázs Party in the Partisan café&bar with dj Artim |
Sunday, November 9 |
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| 9:30AM- | Interactive web-based sonification solutions |
| 9:50AM- | Railway track diagnostics |
| 10:10AM- | Round-table discussion about the topics and pending questions |
| 10:30-10:40AM: break | |
| 10:40AM- | A practicing psychologist's approach to working with clients |
| 11:00AM- | Numerical models in the research of groundwater systems and their contamination |
| 11:20AM- | The moral politics of state- and peacebuilding in the Philippines |
| 11:40-12:00AM: closing discussion | |
The names the speakers aren't listed separately, as of course everyone is Balázs Kovács or some variant of the name. Clicking on the title of the presentations will reveal who is who, what their field of expertise is, and their contact information.
The program may change and other surprise elements may be added to it on site!
The conference is going to be in organized in Hungarian! Be prepared with a live translator app.
Direct contacts: