Another zoologist who is using robots to understand the behaviour of real animals is Daniel Germann, of the University of Zurich.
Professor TOBIAS SEIDL (University of Zurich): You have to know a lot about yourself, and you have to know a lot about your approaching speed.
This thought-provoking and frankly outrageous idea comes to us from Matthew Hulbert of ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Christian Brusch, a lecturer at the University of Zurich.
Until his appointment to the top job, Rohner, who has a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich, was the head of the bank's Global Wealth Management and Business Banking division.
Dr Georg Bosshard, from the University of Zurich, told the committee that although no doctor really wanted to assist someone to end their life, it was "sometimes the lesser of two evils".
Another paper, co-authored by Andreas Kuhn of the University of Zurich, investigates the effect of a change in Austrian employment-insurance rules that allowed blue-collar workers earlier retirement in some regions than others.
Developmental biologist Christian Mitgutsch, and his colleagues, from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, looked at the hands of eight mole species, and compared them with those of their close relative, the shrew.
Tobias Seidl at the University of Zurich says that's because nobody thought fast-moving ants were smart enough to bend and stretch their way under low-hanging obstacles without first slowing down to check them out.
Finally, I talked to Yosuke Morishima, a post-doctoral student in micro economics and experimental economic research at the University of Zurich, who told me about a classic behavioral economics study conducted in the mid 1980s.
In the late 1980s a young neuroscientist named Martin Schwab, now a professor at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, suspected the culprit was the spinal cord's myelin, the insulating sheath that surrounds nerves.
In a recent simulation, Zheng Song of the University of Chicago, Fabrizio Zilibotti of the University of Zurich and two colleagues show that pensions need to be cut by over 35% to bring contributions and payouts into line over the long run.
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While Zurich is home to more than 50 museums and 100 art galleries, take a crash course in the weirder side of the city at the Moulage Museum, part of University Hospital Zurich.
Karl Hofstetter, a professor of law at Zurich University and one of the authors of the Swiss takeover rules, defends the discrepancy on the grounds that many Swiss firms are controlled by families.
"If we are correct, this is the first time we are seeing a planet forming inside its natal environment, " said Sascha Quanz, an astronomer at the Swiss university ETH Zurich and leader of the team.
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