Research meets practice with Wolfgang Lutz

Research meets practice with Wolfgang Lutz

20 MAY 2015

Wittgenstein Centre Founding Director Wolfgang Lutz was invited to give his views on what is the best way to limit populations growth at this GIZ event on 26 May 2015.
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Sergei Scherbov at the Shanghai Forum

Sergei Scherbov at the Shanghai Forum

18 MAY 2015

Sergei Scherbov was invited to give a presentation on reassessing aging and to participate in the round table discussion entitled “Dealing with Asia’s Aging Challenges” at the Shanghai Forum, 22-25 May 2015.
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Workshop on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games

Workshop on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games

8 MAY 2015Workshop

Wittgenstein Centre researchers will present their latest results at the 13th Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, 13-16 May 2015.
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Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer Version 1.2

Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer Version 1.2

6 MAY 2015

A more user-friendly version of this online data explorer is now available with new back-projections for populations by age, sex, and six levels of education from 2010 to 1970.
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Horizon 2020 grant supports aging and health research

Horizon 2020 grant supports aging and health research

5 MAY 2015

A new grant from the European Union will support an international research project that includes Wittgenstein Centre researchers. The project aims to achieve a better understanding of aging.
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Visualization of the Global Human Capital Data Sheet 2015

Visualization of the Global Human Capital Data Sheet 2015

28 APR 2015

The Wittgenstein Centre provides a new visualization tool for presenting population projections by age, sex, and level of educational attainment for the world with a time horizon to 2060.
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Demographic aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation

Demographic aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation

27 APR 2015Paper

In this paper, Wolfgang Lutz and Erich Striessnig address the contribution of changes in population size and structures to greenhouse gas emissions and to the capacity to adapt to climate change.
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Faster increases in life expectancy will lead to slower population aging

Faster increases in life expectancy will lead to slower population aging

15 APR 2015Paper

In this new paper published in PLOS ONE, W. Sanderson and S. Scherbov show that people become healthier, more capable, and indeed younger in many ways even if they have lived longer lives.
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Seminar: Redefining aging - the role of grandparenting

Seminar: Redefining aging - the role of grandparenting

13 APR 2015

Valeria Bordone was invited to give a Seminar entitled "Redefining aging: The role of grandparenting" at the University of Southampton on 23 April 2015.
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Validation of the Wittgenstein Centre back-projections

Validation of the Wittgenstein Centre back-projections

7 APR 2015

In this Interim Report Markus Speringer and colleagues provide a validation of the Wittgenstein Centre back-projections for populations by age, sex, and six levels of education from 2010 to 1970.
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