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October 17, 2015 | Max Planck Research
Eternal life lasts a very long time. MPIDR researcher Ralf Schaible can already affirm that the freshwater polyp Hydra comes quite close to this ideal. In a long-term experiment he and his colleagues investigate why, under certain circumstances, Hydra doesn’t age. more
October 16, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
On October 26, demographer Jakub Bijak of the University of Southampton will give a lecture at the MPIDR. He will talk about the epistemological and methodological challenges demographers face when using agent-based modeling. more
October 13, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
On October 21, mathematician Tom Snijders will give a lecture at the MPIDR. He will explain how to study peer influence in networks using the stochastic actor-oriented model. more
October 13, 2015
MPIDR director Mikko Myrskylä has been awarded the Jutikkala Prize by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters on October 12. The prize brings a cash award of 15.000 euros. more
October 09, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
On October 19, psychologist Icek Ajzen from the University of Massachusetts will give a lecture about the theory of planned behavior at the MPIDR. The theory is one of the most popular and widely applied reasoned action models. more
October 08, 2015 | Demografische Forschung aus Erster Hand
At age 40, Finns, Swedes, and Norwegians have reached the mid-point of life. Whether an individual has more or fewer than 40 additional years to live after reaching age 40 depends on the person’s sex. But almost as important as sex in determining life expectancy is whether the person belongs to the so-called “vanguard”. more
October 03, 2015
A study by MPIDR researchers Sebastian Klüsener and Rembrandt Scholz that shows that the east-west divide in life expectancy is vanishing has attracted considerable attention from the media. An overview of the articles published on this topic. more
September 14, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
On September 22, Wolfgang Lutz, director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital will give a lecture at the MPIDR. He will explain how to apply the Theory of Demographic Metabolism can be applied to World Population and Human Capital Projections. more
August 20, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
On September 3, John Bongaarts, vice president at the Population Council, will give a lecture at the MPIDR. He will address the question of why fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa was later and is slower than in the developing world. more
August 18, 2015 | Max Planck Research
The main topic of the current issue of the quarterly Max Planck Research is dedicated to the topic of aging. One article in this issue is about a long-term project of the MPIDR, in which researchers are trying to figure out why the freshwater polyp Hydra does not age. more