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| PhD Defense: The ALMA-Yactul Ecosystem: A Holistic Approach for Student-Centered Integration of Learning Material |
| Event date: Wednesday, 08 January 2020 |
| Hour: 9:00 10:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Nombre, MNO 1.030 |
| Speaker: GREVISSE Christian |
| Taming ultrafast electrons with light |
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| Published on Thursday, 09 January 2020 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with European researchers have exploited light to control the motion of electrons in a metallic nanocircuit. This could have major implications... |
| PhD Defense: Machine learning-based methods for driver identification and behavior assessment: Applications for CAN and floating car data |
| Event date: Thursday, 09 January 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Nombre (MNO), E01 012-6010 |
| Speaker: JAFARNEJAD Sasan |
| University of Luxembourg strengthens its computing capacities |
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| Published on Friday, 10 January 2020 | |
| In May 2020, the University will give a boost to its research based on intensive computing and "big data" analysis. The University has just signed a four-year contract with Atos, an inter... |
| PhD Defense: Experimentelle Untersuchungen und analytische Modellierung von adiabaten Siedevorgängen in Naturumlaufsystemen |
| Event date: Friday, 10 January 2020 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus, Salle de Conseil |
| Speaker: HAAG Michel |
| Photonics Online Meetup (POM) |
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| Event date: Monday, 13 January 2020 | |
| Hour: 20:00 14-01 | 1:00 | |
| Place: Live-streaming Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 1.03 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Mete Atature, University of Cambridge - Prof. Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania - Prof. Mercedeh Khajavikhan CREOL, Florida |
| PhD Defense: Performance evaluation and modelling of saas web services in the cloud |
| Event date: Wednesday, 15 January 2020 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir, room 4530 |
| Speaker: IBRAHIM ALI ZAINELABDEN Abdallah |
| Adriana González’s experience in climate change to strengthen ENERGE |
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| Published on Monday, 20 January 2020 | |
| Last December 2019, Adriana González, Doctoral researcher at the Department of Engineering, was once again designated as the Costa Rican Negotiator for the area of Technology at the “COP25 Chile” (... |
| LuxCube team goes to ESA Academy training workshop |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 January 2020 | |
| Andrija Djordjevic, student in the Bachelor of Science and Engineering in mechanical engineering at the University of Luxembourg, participated in a CubeSat training workshop given by the European S... |
| AI4Health Lecture Series |
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| Published on Wednesday, 22 January 2020 | |
| Since March 2020, the University of Luxembourg has been organising lectures to exchange about Artificial Intelligence in the biomedical sector. |
| Big Data at the Nanoscale |
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| Published on Wednesday, 22 January 2020 | |
| An international team of scientists, including physicists from the University of Luxembourg, have reported a comprehensive view-point on how machine learning approaches can be used in Nanoscience t... |
| Characterization of cohesive powders: from fundamentals to applications |
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| Event date: Thursday, 23 January 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:30 15:30 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg Belval campus |
| Inaugural lecture Prof. Yannick Baraud |
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| Event date: Thursday, 23 January 2020 | |
| Hour: 15:30 18:30 | |
| Place: Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.520 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Yannick Baraud |
| 1.2 million euros to explore information, irreversibility and energy |
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| Published on Monday, 27 January 2020 | |
| Prof. Massimiliano Esposito from the University of Luxembourg together with international scientists have been awarded a large grant from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) to explore... |
| New ERA-Chair enhances University’s research activities |
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| Published on Monday, 27 January 2020 | |
| On 23 January, Prof. Yannick Baraud gave his inaugural lecture as new holder of the ERA Chair in Mathematical Statistics and Data Science – SanDAL. The prestigious grant of 2.5 million euros from t... |
| L’Université du Luxembourg et l’OAI bâtissent le futur |
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| Published on Tuesday, 28 January 2020 | |
| La convention signée fin 2019 entre l’Université du Luxembourg et l’Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-Conseils (OAI) va au-delà de la simple institutionnalisation des liens entre le monde aca... |
| How a surface treatment improves the inside of a solar cell |
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| Published on Monday, 03 February 2020 | |
| In the frame of the European project Sharc25, physicists from the University of Luxembourg with European experts have succeeded in explaining the recent efficiency improvements in thin film solar c... |
| World Cancer Day: Tumour biology is a research focus at the University |
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| Published on Tuesday, 04 February 2020 | |
| Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. It accounts for more than 9 million deaths per year, a number which is estimated to rise (Figure 1). In Luxembourg, there are about 3000 new... |
| PhD Defense: Role of intracellular S100A9 in the neutrophil pro-inflammatory functions |
| Event date: Friday, 07 February 2020 |
| Hour: 13:00 14:00 |
| Place: Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir, 3.520 |
| Speaker: HANN Justine |
| Minds and Machines: Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Education |
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| Event date: Monday, 10 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14-02 | 17:00 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg, Belval campus Learning Centre |
| Comment la lune devient un peu luxembourgeoise |
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| Event date: Monday, 10 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 18:30 19:30 | |
| Place: Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg 4, rue Barblé Luxembourg | |
| Speaker: Dr Tom Wirtz, LIST |
| University supports closing the gender gap in science |
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| Published on Tuesday, 11 February 2020 | |
| 11 February marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, designed to raise awareness for gender gaps in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and M... |
| PhD Defense: Design and Optimization of Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer Systems |
| Event date: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 |
| Hour: 14:30 15:30 |
| Place: Kirchberg, Building JFK, E004/E005 |
| Speaker: GAUTAM Sumit |
| 6th Young Water Professionals BeNeLux conference |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 12 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14-02 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg |
| Exposition # Liewen |
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| Event date: Monday, 17 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 10:00 06-03 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Conférence sur le don d'organes au Luxembourg |
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| Event date: Friday, 21 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 12:30 14:30 | |
| Place: Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir, salle 3.530 (3ème étage) 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| PhD Defense: Untersuchung der metallurgischen Phasenbildung und deren Einfluss auf die Verbindungseigenschaften sowie auf die Versagensursachen von laserstrahlgeschweißten Hartmetall-Stahl-Verbunden |
| Event date: Monday, 24 February 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg, Bâtiment JFK, Salle Metz, Nancy |
| Speaker: SCHIRY Marc |
| Young professionals exchange about water issues |
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| Published on Tuesday, 25 February 2020 | |
| On 12-14 February 2020, the University of Luxembourg hosted the sixth edition of the Young Water Professionals BeNeLux conference. More than 150 students, researchers, professors and professionals... |
| International Workshop on Improving GNSS and SAR Tropospheric Products for Meteorology |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 26-02 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Luxembourg |
| From Thurston's Corrugations to Smooth Fractals |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:30 17:20 | |
| Place: Université du luxembourg Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.110 2, avenue de l'Université, L4365 Esch-sur-Alzette | |
| Speaker: Vincent Borrelli, Maître de conférences, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 |
| Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: award for physicist Irvine Ong |
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| Published on Friday, 28 February 2020 | |
| Irvine Ong, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg has been recently awarded the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from the E... |
| Philosophy of Mind: of Mice, Men, and Machines |
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| Event date: Monday, 02 March 2020 | |
| Hour: 10:00 06-03 | 16:00 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg, Belval campus Learning Centre, room 2.02 |
| Know Operator Learning - An Approach to increase Trust in Deep Learning for Medical Image Processing |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 03 March 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg, Belval campus Luxembourg Learning Centre, room 2.02 7, Ënnert den Héichiewen, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette | |
| Speaker: Prof. Andreas Maier, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
| Zwei Doktorarbeiten zwischen Geist und Informatik |
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| Published on Tuesday, 10 March 2020 | |
| In den vergangenen Wochen haben zwei Doktorandinnen Ihre wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten präsentiert und sich den Fragen und Anregungen der fünfköpfigen internationalen Expertenkommission gestellt. |
| LeLa Prize: Scienteens Lab wins third place for Experiment of the Year |
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| Published on Tuesday, 10 March 2020 | |
| For the first edition of the LeLa Prize, the third prize in the category Experiment of the Year was awarded to a mathematics workshop developed by the Scienteens Lab at the University of... |
| Older People Care and Mental Health Treatment by Adaptive Technology |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 10 March 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg, Belval campus Maison du Savoir, room 4.510 2, avenue de l'Université, 4365 Esch-sur-Alzette | |
| Speaker: Prof. Jim Torresen , University of Oslo, Norway |
| Lecture Series “Science of Science in the Spotlight”: Effects of competition on universities. Building on the case of French universities |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 10 March 2020 | |
| Hour: 17:00 19:00 | |
| Place: Belvla Campus, Luxembourg Learning Center, Hub 2.02 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christine Musselin CNRS Director of Research, Dean of Research at Sciences Po, CNRS Director of Research, Co-director of LIEPP “Higher Education and Research” Research Group, Paris, France |
| Computational Poetry: How machines create art |
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| Published on Friday, 20 March 2020 | |
| The World Poetry Day on 21 March celebrates the unique ability of poetry to capture the creative spirit of the human mind. While many consider art and math to be two disconnected concepts, the Univ... |
| Better understanding satiety feeling |
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| Published on Monday, 23 March 2020 | |
| Researchers from the Universities of Burgundy, Paris, and Luxembourg together with other scientists from CNRS, INRA and INSERM groups have just highlighted a mechanism in the brain that led to sati... |
| Engineering students build their own drones |
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| Published on Tuesday, 24 March 2020 | |
| During their first semester, students from the Bachelor in Engineering at the University of Luxembourg have worked in teams to design and develop drones. |
| COVID-19: Research Luxembourg is mobilising |
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| Published on Wednesday, 25 March 2020 | |
| Provision of equipment and specialised personnel, support for hospital staff, scientific studies |
| Remote teaching: Uni community shares impressions after first weeks |
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| Published on Friday, 27 March 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg is adapting to exceptional circumstances. Because of COVID-19, the University has canceled all in-class teaching until further notice. Teachers and students are transit... |
| International experts exchange about weather prediction |
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| Published on Friday, 27 March 2020 | |
| On 25-26 February 2020, the international workshop on improving Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tropospheric Products for Meteorology gathered... |
| Launch of the MTECH Master’s degree! |
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| Published on Monday, 30 March 2020 | |
| Developed by ILNAS, the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Lifelong Learning Center (LLLC) of the Chambre des salariés (CSL), the new Master "Technopreneurship: Mastering smart ICT, s... |
| Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions: award for physicist Daniel Barragan |
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| Published on Monday, 30 March 2020 | |
| Daniel Barragan-Yani, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg, has recently been awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship f... |
| Towards digital transformation of legal practice |
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| Published on Monday, 30 March 2020 | |
| The paper "NAI: Towards Transparent and Usable Semi-Automated Legal Analysis" by Alexander Steen and Tomer Libal, postdocs at the University of Luxembourg, won the best paper award (1st p... |
| University publishes an ISO standard for Value Stream Management |
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| Published on Monday, 30 March 2020 | |
| For the first time, the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) published an ISO standard under the lead of Luxembourg. With support of the Institut luxembourgeois de la normalisation, de... |
| Engineering meets Quantum Mechanics |
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| Published on Friday, 03 April 2020 | |
| In an interdisciplinary collaboration between computational engineers and physicists from the University of Luxembourg, published in Nature Communications, a method combining quantum and conti... |
| Guardian Glass sponsors scholarship at the University of Luxembourg |
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| Published on Tuesday, 07 April 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg and Guardian Glass announce the launch of a new scholarship programme to support international Master’s students in physics or engineering. The programme, funded by Gua... |
| Bachelor & Master Days - Virtual Open Days |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 08 April 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 10-04 | 16:00 | |
| Place: en ligne: openday.uni.lu |
| New Bachelors in Engineering, Medicine, Physics and Mathematics |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 April 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg will launch four new Bachelor programmes – in engineering, medicine, physics and mathematics - starting in September 2020. |
| Cross-border cooperation continues irrespective of lock-down |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 April 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg is part of several Interreg projects that support cooperation between local and regional partners from the Greater Region. PRODPILOT, one of these projects, focuses on... |
| Doctoral research in law and physics boosted by PRIDE Grants |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 April 2020 | |
| The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) has awarded two PRIDE Grants to the University of Luxembourg. The grants will support the research work of 27 PhD candidates and represent a total financ... |
| Progress for Alzheimer and Parkinson‘s treatments |
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| Published on Wednesday, 22 April 2020 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with scientists from Australia, China and Switzerland have recently studied amyloid diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's by using a part... |
| International Webinar - China and the World amid/after Covid-19 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 23 April 2020 | |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 | |
| Speaker: Prof. WAN Guanghua & Prof. DING Chun |
| Bachelor Day III - Virtual Open Days |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 29 April 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 20:00 | |
| Place: en ligne: openday.uni.lu |
| Astigmath : le quiz qui corrige votre vision des maths ! |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 29 April 2020 | |
| Hour: 17:00 17:45 |
| Master Day III - Virtual Open Days |
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| Event date: Thursday, 30 April 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 20:00 | |
| Place: en ligne: openday.uni.lu |
| International Webinar - Feedback from medical resuscitators for intensive care (2nd edition) |
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| Event date: Thursday, 07 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 10:00 11:30 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Huiqin Xi & Prof. Qin Wang & Prof. Jing Du |
| Quiz Astigmath: great success for the first edition |
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| Published on Friday, 08 May 2020 | |
| On 29 April 2020, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg hosted an interactive online trivia game called "Astigmath: le quiz qui corrige votre vision des mathématiques&q... |
| Successful first edition of the Science Comics |
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| Published on Friday, 08 May 2020 | |
| More than 8000 copies of the science comics “Through the looking glass” have been distributed so far in Luxembourg and the Greater Region. Due to the wide interest in those short stories about rese... |
| International Day for Women in Mathematics |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 15:30 17:45 |
| International Webinar - Response Measures to COVID-19 in China: Essential lessons learned from China and other regions |
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| Event date: Thursday, 14 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 10:30 12:00 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Weibing Wang & Prof. Yihan Lu |
| 1.2 million euros to tackle the notorious oncogene RAS in cancer |
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| Published on Monday, 18 May 2020 | |
| Daniel Abankwa, Professor within the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg, has recently gained a total of €1.2 million competitive funding from the Luxembou... |
| Bachelor Day IV - Virtual Open Days |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 19 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 20:00 | |
| Place: en ligne: openday.uni.lu |
| CANBIO programme: training PhD students in cancer biology |
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| Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2020 | |
| In the frame of the Cancer Biology “CANBIO” doctoral training unit launched in 2016 by the University of Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and the Laboratoire National de Santé (... |
| Master Day IV - Virtual Open Days |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 20 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 20:00 | |
| Place: en ligne: openday.uni.lu |
| [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 fight |
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| Published on Friday, 22 May 2020 | |
| Anupam Sengupta, Professor within the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg, is principal investigator of the COVID-19 research project "V-SIDE: Virus-Sur... |
| Virtual Chalcogenide Photovoltaic Conference 2020 |
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| Event date: Monday, 25 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 8:30 28-05 | 17:00 |
| International Webinar - How to obtain evidence of vertical transmission in viral infected pregnant women: Reflection on COVID-19 epidemic |
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| Event date: Thursday, 28 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Hou Wei |
| University Projects Receive Additional Funding to Research COVID-19 |
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| Published on Wednesday, 03 June 2020 | |
| The FNR has published the results of its second COVID-19 Fast Track Call. Eight projects from the University of Luxembourg have been retained for funding, representing a financial commitment of 347... |
| [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 fight |
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| Published on Thursday, 04 June 2020 | |
| Christoph Schommer, Professor within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg, is principal investigator of the COVID-19 research project "DEEPHOUSE: Deep Mining With... |
| Live chat - Bachelor en Médecine |
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| Event date: Monday, 08 June 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 fight |
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| Published on Tuesday, 16 June 2020 | |
| Daniel Abankwa, Professor within the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg, is co-principal investigator of the COVID-19 research project "CovScreen: Combine... |
| Art meets artificial intelligence at University during Esch2022 |
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| Published on Monday, 15 June 2020 | |
| As part of Esch2022, the European capital of culture project, computer scientists at the University of Luxembourg will create the AI & ART pavilion, a multidisciplinary and interactive environm... |
| International Webinar - COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 emergency & critical care situation and strategy |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 June 2020 | |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Yu Zhui |
| Deuxième comité d’accompagnement réussi du projet PRODPILOT |
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| Published on Monday, 15 June 2020 | |
| Le 28 mai 2020, le deuxième comité d'accompagnement du projet INTERREG V A PRODPILOT s'est déroulé avec succès malgré les difficultés causés par la crise sanitaire. En raison de la situation actuel... |
| Les mathématiques, un grand défi de cette pandémie |
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| Published on Tuesday, 16 June 2020 | |
| "190 nouvelles infections détectées", "seuil des 2000 infections dépassé" : que de nouvelles choquantes pour la population du Luxembourg en cette soirée du 31 mars 2020 ! Pourqu... |
| Future Engineering Talks: European Dimension and Civil Engineering |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 16 June 2020 | |
| Hour: 17:10 19:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Salon virtuel Etudes supérieures |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 17 June 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 20-06 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 fight |
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| Published on Friday, 19 June 2020 | |
| Vladimir Despotović, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg, is co-principal investigator of the COVID-19 research project: “Covid-19 Detectio... |
| [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 fight |
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| Published on Monday, 22 June 2020 | |
| Alexandre Tkatchenko is the principal investigator of a large international consortium of physicists, chemists, mathematicians and computer scientists, aiming to investigate the fundamental mechani... |
| University’s supercomputer supports fight against COVID-19 |
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| Published on Friday, 26 June 2020 | |
| The University’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility has significantly contributed to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic since mid-March 2020. |
| Academic promotions announced |
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| Published on Friday, 26 June 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg is pleased to announce the following academic promotions. |
| Doctoral candidates learn how to produce science comics |
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| Published on Friday, 26 June 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg starts a new series of science comics in order to highlight science and research in Luxembourg. The comics are produced within the framework of the Doctoral Education i... |
| A step forward towards photonic circuits with metamaterials |
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| Published on Tuesday, 07 July 2020 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg and their international research partners have recently reported how a special kind of artificial materials, called epsilon-near-zero metamaterials<... |
| EU Commission approved European Space University for Earth & Humanity |
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| Published on Friday, 10 July 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg is a partner in the project “European University - European Space University for Earth and Humanity” (UNIVERSEH), approved by the European Commission under the Erasmus+... |
| Towards a new way of producing solar cells? |
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| Published on Monday, 20 July 2020 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with international scientists have investigated the oxidation process of solar cell materials whose results could change the current way of pro... |
| Winter semester 2020/2021: Hybrid teaching mode |
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| Published on Monday, 20 July 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg will implement a blended teaching and learning approach for the winter semester 2020/2021. |
| University professor to co-lead the MeluXina supercomputer |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 July 2020 | |
| Prof. Pascal Bouvry, expert in computer science and high-performance computing (HPC), and Roger Lampach, CEO of LuxConnect, have been appointed CEO of Luxprovide S.A, the company that manages the i... |
| Carte Blanche: About crises, climate change, time constants & hydrogen |
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| Published on Friday, 24 July 2020 | |
| Europe mobilises billions of Euros these days to fight against the virus crisis. But what is the difference to the climate crisis? It is the so-called time constant, the time between an... |
| ERC Grantee strengthens mathematics, statistics and finance |
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| Published on Monday, 03 August 2020 | |
| Mark Podolskij has been appointed professor in mathematics, with a focus on statistics, probability and finance at the University of Luxembourg. Prof. Podolskij brings with him a “Consolidator Gran... |
| [Article series] The Experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 Fight |
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| Published on Wednesday, 12 August 2020 | |
| Dr. Jun Pang is a research scientist at the University of Luxembourg’s Faculty of Science, Technology, and Medicine (FSTM) and its Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)... |
| LaserSTAMP project: outstanding results for laser industry |
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| Published on Friday, 14 August 2020 | |
| Launched in September 2016, the multidisciplinary cross-border project “Laser and Surface Treatment Assisted Metal Polymer assembly (LaserSTAMP)”, coordinated by the University of Luxembourg in col... |
| University researchers help raise public awareness for science |
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| Published on Tuesday, 18 August 2020 | |
| The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) has recently launched the interactive campaign letzSCIENCE to raise awareness about research in Luxembourg. From 30 July – 10 August 2020, science images... |
| Winter semester 2020/2021: Hybrid teaching mode |
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| Published on Wednesday, 26 August 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg will implement a hybrid teaching mode for the winter semester 2020/2021.
“Hybrid” teaching offers a mixture of in-person classes for smaller groups of students... |
| Physicists pin down the pay off between speed and entropy |
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| Published on Thursday, 27 August 2020 | |
| Researchers Massimiliano Esposito and Gianmaria Falasco from the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg have developed a valuable tool to manipulate non-equilib... |
| ESA-CLAIRE Conference: Space and AI |
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| Event date: Friday, 04 September 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Belval becomes setting for Esch2022’s participation in Ars Electronica |
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| Published on Monday, 07 September 2020 | |
| From 9 to 13 September, Belval will be the setting for the Ars Electronica Esch2022 Luxembourg Garden. This interactive multimedia experience is presented by Esch2022 – European Capital of C... |
| University hosts Welcome Day for new students |
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| Published on Tuesday, 08 September 2020 | |
| On Friday, 11 September, the University of Luxembourg will host the Welcome Day for all new students from 11.00 to 15.00 on Belval Campus. |
| Neutron scattering provides new insights into nanoparticles |
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| Published on Friday, 11 September 2020 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg, the University of Salamanca and from General Numerics Research Lab in Germany have investigated the spin structure of nanoparticles. Their findings ha... |
| Using Machine Learning to combat the Coronavirus |
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| Published on Monday, 14 September 2020 | |
| The intensive binding of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on human host cells appears to be a significant factor in the virus’s high infectiousness. A joint team of researchers from the University of L... |
| First edition of Math camp: Making math easier, one scoop at a time |
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| Published on Monday, 21 September 2020 | |
| The Department of Mathematics (DMATH) at the University of Luxembourg organised the first Math camp between 31 August and 10 September 2020 on Belval campus as well as online. The camp aimed at off... |
| Helping machine learning to help us in personalized medicine |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 23 September 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 13-09 | 17:30 | |
| Place: Online | |
| Speaker: Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez, University Heidelberg, Germany |
| AI&Art Pavilion for Esch2022: kick-off meeting |
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| Event date: Friday, 25 September 2020 | |
| Hour: 14:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Hall des Poches à Fonte Avenue du Rock'n'Roll / Avenue des Hauts fourneaux 4061 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Using drones to better predict urban flooding |
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| Published on Monday, 28 September 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg and the start-up RSS-Hydro are working together to optimise the prediction of flooding in Burange in the south of Luxembourg. Supported by the City of Dudelange, t... |
| Successful start for the new Bachelor in Medicine |
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| Published on Monday, 28 September 2020 | |
| The new Bachelor in Medicine team welcomed 125 students during the launch of the academic year 2020-2021, which started on 14 September 2020 at the University of Luxembourg. They inaugurated the fi... |
| Jorge Toro-Pozo receives the best PhD thesis award from ERCIM |
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| Published on Tuesday, 29 September 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral researcher Jorge Toro-Pozo was awarded with the ERCIM STM PhD thesis award for the excellent scientific quality of his thesis "Computational and Symbolic Analysis of Distance-Boun... |
| AI & Art Pavilion for Esch2022: the project is officially launched |
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| Published on Tuesday, 29 September 2020 | |
| The AI&Art Pavilion for Esch2022 was officially launched during the kick-off meeting which took place on 25 September 2020 in Belval. After a welcome speech by rector Stéphane Pallage and an ov... |
| CITIES2030: providing food for all in 2030 |
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| Published on Monday, 05 October 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg together with 41 European partners have recently received 12 million euros for the project CITIES2030 “Co-creating resilient and sustainable food towards FOOD2030”, coo... |
| Cellulose: an ever-present material with remarkable properties |
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| Published on Wednesday, 07 October 2020 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg have recently made significant steps forward in resolving some of the outstanding research questions about cellulose. Their findings have been published... |
| TEDxUniversityofLuxembourg 2020 |
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| Event date: Monday, 12 October 2020 | |
| Hour: 18:30 16-10 | 20:00 | |
| Place: online |
| SanDAL Workshop on Data Science |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 13 October 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14-10 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Belval campus Maison du Savoir, Audimax (-1) 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| World Standards Day 2020: Prof. Peter Plapper awarded |
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| Published on Wednesday, 14 October 2020 | |
| On the occasion of the World Standards Day 2020, Prof. Peter Plapper from the University of Luxembourg received the “National Delegate for Standardization trophy” from the Institut Luxembourgeois d... |
| VR application on deforestation: researchers win best demo award |
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| Published on Wednesday, 14 October 2020 | |
| In the framework of the project "Forest SaVR – A Virtual-Reality Application to Raise Awareness of Deforestation", Dr. Jean Botev and Adriano Viegas Milani received the best demo/poster a... |
| SanDAL Workshop on Data Science: great interest among researchers |
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| Published on Thursday, 15 October 2020 | |
| The interdisciplinary workshop organised on 13-14 October 2020 at the University of Luxembourg gathered more than 60 participants in the frame of the European project “ERA Chair in Mathematical Sta... |
| Innovative use of machine learning for discoveries in chemistry |
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| Published on Friday, 16 October 2020 | |
| Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko and his research team at the University of Luxembourg have been awarded grants totalling 500,000 euros to conduct research in the emerging field of machine learning metho... |
| CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors: a revolution for biomedicine |
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| Published on Monday, 19 October 2020 | |
| The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for the discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. The technology, widely used as a genetic engineeri... |
| Science Comic Exhibition Luxembourg Science Center |
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| Event date: Monday, 19 October 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 22-02 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Luxembourg Science Center 50, rue Emile Mark 4620 Differdange |
| International Conferences on Logic & AI |
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| Event date: Monday, 26 October 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 02-11 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Online with Zoom |
| University receives strong THE subject rankings |
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| Published on Wednesday, 28 October 2020 | |
| Times Higher Education (THE) has published its World Subject Rankings 2021, listing the University of Luxembourg in ten subject areas. |
| University marks the start of the academic year with excellence awards |
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| Published on Wednesday, 28 October 2020 | |
| On 27 October, the University honoured lecturers and a student association during the annual Rentrée Académique, the official opening of the new semester, for their outstanding commitment and work... |
| Artificial Intelligence applied to Cardiology |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 28 October 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Online | |
| Speaker: Dr. Victor Vicente Palacios, Philips Salamanca, Spain |
| Understanding the factors that shape microbiomes |
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| Published on Monday, 02 November 2020 | |
| In two scientific articles recently published in high-impact journals – Nature Microbiology and Nature Communications – the Systems Ecology group at the University of Luxembourg's Luxembourg Centre... |
| Université à l'essai |
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| Event date: Monday, 02 November 2020 | |
| Hour: 8:45 06-11 | 18:15 | |
| Place: online |
| Foyer Group supports Uni.lu research with a donation of 100000 € |
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| Published on Tuesday, 03 November 2020 | |
| In a context marked by the COVID-19 crisis, Foyer Group made several donations totalling €100,000 to the holders of four research projects at the University of Luxembourg. Due to exceptional health... |
| Learning from Mutual Explanations for Cooperative Decision Making in Medicine |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 04 November 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Online | |
| Speaker: Prof. Ute Schmid, University Bamberg, Germany |
| High school students try out the University of Luxembourg |
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| Published on Friday, 06 November 2020 | |
| From 2 to 6 November high school students from around the world experienced what it feels like to be a student at the University of Luxembourg during the “Université à l’Essai” (Test University).&n... |
| Visit the University of Luxembourg at the virtual student fair |
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| Published on Tuesday, 10 November 2020 | |
| Future students can find information about study programmes of the University of Luxembourg from 12-13 November at the Foire de l’Étudiant (student fair). |
| The University launches the Institute for Advanced Studies |
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| Published on Wednesday, 11 November 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg has launched an Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) with the aim to strengthen its interdisciplinary research. The IAS will further reinforce the University’s internat... |
| Information driven healthcare in Halland |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 11 November 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Online | |
| Speaker: Prof. Mattias Ohlsson, Halmstad University and Dr. Markus Lingman, Region Halland, Sweden |
| Uni.lu @ Foire de l'Étudiant |
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| Event date: Thursday, 12 November 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 13-11 | 18:00 | |
| Place: online |
| Two University professors on Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list |
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| Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 | |
| Professors Stéphane Bordas and Alexandre Tkatchenko from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine have been ranked among the world’s most influential academics on the “Highly Cited Researche... |
| It's all about the ground truth - how to prove that AI can outperform experts |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 18 November 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Online | |
| Speaker: Prof. Georg Dorffner, Medical University Vienna, Austria |
| First graduates of the Bachelor in Computer Science |
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| Published on Thursday, 19 November 2020 | |
| Launched in September 2017 as a high-standard programme, the Bachelor in Computer Science has enjoyed growing success across the Greater Region and beyond, starting from 27 students in September 20... |
| FNR Awards 2020: congratulations to Maciej Chrzanowski |
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| Published on Friday, 20 November 2020 | |
| Maciej Chrzanowski, who did his doctorate within the Department of Engineering at the University of Luxembourg, received an FNR Award for his outstanding PhD thesis: “Shear Transfer in... |
| Virtual simulators: the future of medical studies |
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| Published on Wednesday, 25 November 2020 | |
| In order to anticipate future training needs in the healthcare sector, the University of Luxembourg will invest in cutting-edge 3D tools in the coming months. On this occasion, from September to No... |
| Student Delegation: meet your Faculty representatives |
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| Published on Monday, 30 November 2020 | |
| On 1 November 2020, two students from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) have been elected student delegates: Patrick Leske (Bachelor in Engineering, semester 3) and Aymeric Le... |
| PhD Defense: A Newform Theory for Katz Modular Forms |
| Event date: Wednesday, 02 December 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, MNO - Room E05-0525150 |
| Speaker: Daniel Berhanu MAMO |
| Astigmath - Le ciel dans tous ses états |
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| Event date: Thursday, 03 December 2020 | |
| Hour: 19:00 20:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| SanDAL Winter School on Mathematical Statistics |
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| Event date: Monday, 07 December 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 11-12 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| PhD Defense: Robust Real-time Sense-and-Avoid Solutions for Remotely Piloted Quadrotor UAVs in Complex Environments |
| Event date: Monday, 07 December 2020 |
| Hour: 9:00 11:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – JFK Building – Online |
| PhD Defense: Demand-Side-Management mit Wärmepumpen in Luxemburg - Potenziale und Herausforderungen der Wärmepumpenflexibilität für die Systemintegration der erneuerbaren Energien |
| Event date: Thursday, 10 December 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – Main Building – Salle du Conseil |
| Speaker: Steffen BECHTEL |
| PhD Defense: Recycling of gravel wash mud for manufacturing CO2-reduced cement |
| Event date: Thursday, 10 December 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MNO – 1.040 |
| Speaker: Vishojit Bahadur THAPA |
| University sees more than 1,600 graduates in 2020 |
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| Published on Friday, 11 December 2020 | |
| In the academic year 2019/2020, more than 1,600 students graduated from the University of Luxembourg. Overall, 659 Bachelor and 544 Master students as well as 121 doctoral candidates finished their... |
| PRODPILOT virtual Grand Prix 2020: congratulations to Parts Europe |
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| Published on Friday, 11 December 2020 | |
| On 30 November 2020, the Interreg Greater Region PRODPILOT consortium awarded the company Parts Europe for their innovative productivity improvement project "Implementation of lean management&... |
| Astigmath: learning mathematics and space by playing |
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| Published on Friday, 11 December 2020 | |
| On 3 December 2020, almost 75 players of all ages participated in the fourth edition of the online interactive quiz "Astigmath: le quiz qui corrige votre vision des mathématiques". This e... |
| Towards an extensive offer for medical studies |
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| Published on Monday, 14 December 2020 | |
| With the aim of creating a “Health campus”, the University of Luxembourg organised different meetings with potential partners. In parallel, two new courses are offered for first-year bachelor stude... |
| Five higher education institutions create UNIVERSEH |
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| Published on Monday, 14 December 2020 | |
| “UNIVERSEH – The European Space University for Earth and Humanity”, an alliance of five higher education institutions, was officially launched in a virtual inauguration ceremony today. UNIVERSEH wa... |
| 10th HPC School |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 15 December 2020 | |
| Hour: 9:00 16-12 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| PhD Defense: Pressure sensing with nematic liquid crystal and carbon nanotube networks |
| Event date: Tuesday, 15 December 2020 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Limpertsberg Campus – BS – Room 0.03 |
| Speaker: Meenu MURALI |
| Young mathematicians exchange about data science |
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| Published on Wednesday, 16 December 2020 | |
| From 7 to 11 December 2020, more than 60 doctoral candidates from universities around the world attended the online winter school on mathematical statistics organised by the University of Luxembour... |
| 30 years Interreg: University of Luxembourg a strong research partner |
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| Published on Wednesday, 16 December 2020 | |
| 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the interregional programme “Interreg” – one of the key instruments of the European Union supporting cooperation across borders through project funding. Launched... |
| PhD Defense: On Reductions of Local and Global Galois Representations Modulo Prime Powers |
| Event date: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MNO – 0525150 |
| Speaker: Emiliano TORTI |
| PhD Defense: Metabolic modelling-based approach to identify tailored metabolic drugs |
| Event date: Thursday, 17 December 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – Biotech II – Room BT2-E00-016 |
| Speaker: Tamara BINTENER |
| PhD Defense: Large scale parallel simulation for Discrete Element Method |
| Event date: Friday, 18 December 2020 |
| Hour: 9:00 11:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MNO – Online |
| Speaker: Abdoul-Walid MAINASSARA |
| Better understanding numerical simulation errors with probability |
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| Published on Tuesday, 05 January 2021 | |
| Mathematicians from the Universities of Luxembourg, Aarhus and Tokyo have recently published their findings in the renowned journal Annals of Applied Probability. In this paper, they demonstra... |
| New ERC grant to develop novel chemical discovery platform |
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| Published on Thursday, 07 January 2021 | |
| Alexandre Tkatchenko, professor of theoretical chemical physics at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded a Proof-of-Concept grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop a nove... |
| PhD Defense: Mining App Lineages: A Security Perspective |
| Event date: Thursday, 07 January 2021 |
| Hour: 9:00 11:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg - Building JFK – Room E004/E005 |
| Speaker: Jun Gao |
| Modifying molecular interactions by squeezing molecules |
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| Published on Monday, 11 January 2021 | |
| In a paper published in Nature Communications on 08 January 2021, the Theoretical Chemical Physics group, from the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) at the University of Luxembou... |
| More than 800 guests explored the University virtually |
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| Published on Monday, 18 January 2021 | |
| On 16 January, guests from around the world explored the option of studying at the University of Luxembourg during the virtual Information Day. |
| PhD Defense: Multipath routing on anonymous communication systems: enhancing privacy and performance |
| Event date: Monday, 11 January 2021 |
| Hour: 13:30 15:30 |
| Place: Online |
| Speaker: Augusto Wladimir de la Cadena Ramos |
| Towards a sustainable and trustworthy recommitment system |
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| Published on Wednesday, 13 January 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg and the European Investment Bank (EIB) through the STAREBEI programme are working together to encourage private equity partners to invest in innovative and sustainable... |
| PhD Defense: Human Motion Analysis using 3D Skeleton Representation in the Context of Real-world Applications: From Home-based Rehabilitation to Sensing in the Wild |
| Event date: Wednesday, 13 January 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg, JFK 414 (4th floor) |
| Speaker: Renato Lemos Baptista |
| PhD Defense: Load-bearing Mechanisms of Headed Stud Shear Connections with Narrow Steel Sheeting Transverse to the Beam |
| Event date: Thursday, 14 January 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – Bât A |
| Speaker: Valentino Vigneri |
| Where there’s a problem, there's a start-up: Engineering by ASETS-LUX |
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| Published on Friday, 15 January 2021 | |
| For over a century, the steel industry brought prosperity to Luxembourg and its population and left its mark on Luxembourg economy, society and landscapes. The knowledge and resources of this histo... |
| Virtual Information Day 2021 |
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| Event date: Saturday, 16 January 2021 | |
| Hour: 10:00 16:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Mathematical didactics: learning how to become a math teacher |
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| Published on Monday, 18 January 2021 | |
| Within the framework of the Master in Secondary Education in Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg, students can choose to do a thesis in mathematical didactics. Recently, three graduates who... |
| PhD Defense: Securing Robots: A Comprehensive Perspective of Security Challenges and Solutions for the Robotic Operating System |
| Event date: Tuesday, 19 January 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg – JFK -E-00-004 |
| Speaker: Sean Rivera |
| Final SeRaMCo Conference: Precast Concrete in the Circular Economy |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 20 January 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 16:30 | |
| Place: Online |
| Interinstitutional research focuses on ferroic materials |
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| Published on Thursday, 21 January 2021 | |
| Advanced Materials are among the important Key Enabling Technologies (KET), which are critical drivers and accelerators to allow European industries to retain competitiveness. With fascinating chem... |
| Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2020 in science |
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| Published on Friday, 22 January 2021 | |
| The Doctoral School of Science and Engineering (DSSE) at the University of Luxembourg has recently awarded nine doctoral candidates for their outstanding doctoral thesis. The research topics includ... |
| PhD Defense: Tight-binding perspective on excitons in hexagonal boron nitride |
| Event date: Friday, 22 January 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences - Room 0.03 |
| Speaker: Thomas Galvani |
| PhD Defense: Carbon nanotube films as absorber for solar thermal harvesting |
| Event date: Friday, 22 January 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: LIST – Room F001-A |
| Speaker: Hameeda Jagalur Basheer |
| Winter Workshop on Manufacturing, Mechanics & Characterisation of Advanced Engineering Materials |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 26 January 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 29-01 | 17:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| PhD Defense: Direction of Arrival Estimation and Localization Exploiting Sparse and One-Bit Sampling |
| Event date: Wednesday, 27 January 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Online |
| Speaker: Saied Sedighi |
| An overview of ML methods to model symptoms in movement disorders (the case of Parkinson’s disease): from classical ML to DL |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 27 January 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Online via Webex | |
| Speaker: Prof. Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave |
| PhD Defense: Scattering Theory for the Hodge-Laplacian and covariant Riesz transforms |
| Event date: Thursday, 28 January 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Online |
| Speaker: Robert Baumgarth |
| Release of science comic LUX:plorations Vol. 1 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 28 January 2021 | |
| Hour: 17:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Instagram live stream: https://www.instagram.com/uni.lu/ |
| LUX:plorations: New science comics made in Luxembourg |
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| Published on Friday, 29 January 2021 | |
| Scientists in Luxembourg have teamed up with local comic artists to produce a new series of science comics. Led by the University of Luxembourg, the comic project combines science and art made in L... |
| PhD Defense: Scalable computational modelling of concrete ageing and degradation |
| Event date: Friday, 29 January 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval – MNO - Webex meeting room – 1st floor |
| Speaker: Michal Habera |
| Uni startup first Luxembourgish winner of the World Summit Awards |
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| Published on Monday, 01 February 2021 | |
| For the first time ever, a Luxembourgish start-up is among the 40 winners of the World Summit Awards, an international competition for promoting local digital innovation to improve society. The sta... |
| Surviving turbulent times: lessons from the phytoplankton |
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| Published on Tuesday, 02 February 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg, together with scientists from Sweden, Israel and Switzerland, have established mechanistic links between physiological stress and migratory behaviour i... |
| Cancer Quiz: Test your knowledge! |
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| Published on Thursday, 04 February 2021 | |
| For the World Cancer Day (4 February), an interdisciplinary team of scientists in Luxembourg publishes a quiz about cancer on Kahoot. The quiz contains several questions about the causes of cancer,... |
| PhD Defense: Agile Fertigungssteuerung für (re)fabrikationsystem |
| Event date: Thursday, 04 February 2021 |
| Hour: 9:30 11:30 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – Bât Central – Room D17 / Salle des conseils |
| Speaker: Sebastian GROß |
| PhD Defense: Enhanced signal space design for multiusermimointerference channels |
| Event date: Thursday, 04 February 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Remote |
| Speaker: Alireza HAQIQATNEJAD |
| Latent dimensions of global trade: a data-driven approach |
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| Published on Friday, 05 February 2021 | |
| How can we encode the specialisation patterns of countries? A new article published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE by researchers from the Universities of Luxembourg and Buenos Aires ... |
| Lindsay Flynn and Etienne Fodor awarded with FNR ATTRACT Fellowships |
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| Published on Friday, 05 February 2021 | |
| The two researchers will strengthen the research units in respectively social sciences and physics. |
| Two researchers reinforce the quantum physics team |
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| Published on Wednesday, 10 February 2021 | |
| As of January 2021, Professor Adolfo del Campo and Dr. Aurélia Chenu have joined the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DphyMS) at the University of Luxembourg to establish the “Quantum S... |
| ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction: 10 years of collaboration |
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| Published on Thursday, 11 February 2021 | |
| Launched in 2011 by the University of Luxembourg and ArcelorMittal, the Chair of Steel Construction has achieved numerous successes thanks to the support and motivation of both partners. Many new p... |
| New innovative and sustainable projects for the Greater Region |
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| Published on Tuesday, 16 February 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg takes part in three new Interreg projects which tackle regional challenges in the construction, manufacturing and water sectors. The projects are carried out with sever... |
| PhD Defense: Probabilistic modeling for content popularity learning for proactive caching |
| Event date: Wednesday, 17 February 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Remote |
| Speaker: Sajad MEHRIZI RAHMAT ABADI |
| Transforming shapes: the art of computational engineering |
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| Published on Thursday, 18 February 2021 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg, the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research in Poland and the Franche-Comté Electronics Mechanics Thermal Science and Optics in France are wor... |
| How to better solve estimation problems |
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| Published on Friday, 19 February 2021 | |
| Mathematicians from the Universities of Luxembourg and Sorbonne have recently published a paper in the prestigious journal Annals of Statistics. In this paper, they propose a new robust tool f... |
| Elements of AI: free online courses |
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| Event date: Monday, 22 February 2021 | |
| Hour: 10:00 31-03 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Researchers exchange about advanced engineering materials |
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| Published on Tuesday, 23 February 2021 | |
| The interdisciplinary workshop “Winter Workshop on Manufacturing, Mechanics & Characterisation of Advanced Engineering Materials” organised on 26-29 January 2021 by the University of Luxembourg... |
| Virtual Master Days 2021 |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 25-02 | 19:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Online Seminar: LCL Conversation Series - Green Hydrogen – The Fuel of the Future? |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 | |
| Hour: 17:00 19:00 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Pit Losch, Advisor - Renewable Energies, Luxembourg Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning / Dr. Florian Ausfelder, Team Leader - Energy, DECHEMA / Dr. Gaston Trauffler, Head of Industrial Policy - FEDIL |
| Exploring the future: on forensics, robots, humans and more |
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| Published on Thursday, 25 February 2021 | |
| Six new interdisciplinary research projects have received multi-year funding in the context of the Audacity funding instrument of the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies. |
| Virtual Master Days inform about study programmes |
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| Published on Friday, 26 February 2021 | |
| Prospective students from around the world explored their options of obtaining a Master’s degree at the University of Luxembourg during the virtual Master Days from 24-25 February. |
| [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 fight |
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| Published on Friday, 26 February 2021 | |
| Iris Behrmann, Head of the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine (DLSM) at the University of Luxembourg, is co-principal investigator of the COVID-19 research project "CovSerum: Early detec... |
| Grande Région: Congrès médical sur la simulation et la digitalisation |
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| Published on Tuesday, 02 March 2021 | |
| Les Facultés de Médecine et les centres hospitaliers de la Grande Région invitent les professionnels de la santé et les médias au congrès NHL-ChirEx, qui se tiendra les 11 et 12 mars sur une platef... |
| 1 million Euros for black holes made from semimetals |
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| Published on Wednesday, 03 March 2021 | |
| Semimetals are a class of materials which share features known from both metals and semiconductors. In recent years, it was found that the electrons flowing in certain novel – so-called “topologica... |
| University and Paul Wurth create Chair in Energy Process Engineering |
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| Published on Thursday, 04 March 2021 | |
| Paul Wurth S.A., a company of SMS group, and the University of Luxembourg have entered into an agreement to create and finance the Paul Wurth Chair in Energy Process Engineering. The 5-year... |
| International Master in Biomedicine celebrates its first graduates |
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| Published on Thursday, 04 March 2021 | |
| Launched in 2018 as a tri-national programme with the University of Luxembourg, the University of Strasbourg and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the first graduates from the International... |
| Master in Technopreneurship: students start their first courses |
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| Published on Monday, 08 March 2021 | |
| The new Master in Technopreneurship: “Mastering smart ICT, standardisation and digital trust for enabling next generation of ICT solutions” officially started in February 2021 with 12 students. Thi... |
| University opens Master of Data Science in September 2021 |
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| Published on Thursday, 11 March 2021 | |
| Starting September 2021, the University of Luxembourg will offer a new Master of Data Science. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, the Master's programme will train students in data analysis, mo... |
| Towards green steel: Paul Wurth Chair in Energy Process Engineering |
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| Published on Thursday, 11 March 2021 | |
| On 4 March, the University and Paul Wurth, a leading player in the design and supply of technological solutions for steelmaking and a company of the SMS group, announced the creation of the new Pau... |
| Astigmath - Math et culture |
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| Event date: Sunday, 14 March 2021 | |
| Hour: 18:00 19:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Better understanding breast cancer |
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| Published on Monday, 15 March 2021 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that Ser5 phosphorylation of the actin-bundling protein L-plastin increases breast cancer cell invasiveness. Their findings have been... |
| The reign of algorithms |
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| Published on Friday, 19 March 2021 | |
| Jim Jean-Pierre Barthel, doctoral researcher within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg, explains algorithms taking the example of chess game between human and machine. |
| Virtual Open Day 2021 |
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| Event date: Saturday, 20 March 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Chercheurs à l'école 2021: science is magic |
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| Published on Monday, 22 March 2021 | |
| From 15 to 19 March 2021, 17 researchers from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) participated in the 10th edition of "Chercheurs à l’école" organised by the Luxembourg... |
| Successful virtual Open Day welcomes 2,500 guests |
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| Published on Monday, 22 March 2021 | |
| More than 2,500 guests explored the University of Luxembourg during its Virtual Open Day on Saturday, 20 March. The vast majority of guests came from Luxembourg, representing 41%. |
| PhD Defense: Mathematical Approaches to Biological Complexity in Systems Biomedicine |
| Event date: Monday, 22 March 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – Biotech II - Executive Room / Webex |
| Speaker: Susan GHADERI |
| First-year student in informatics awarded |
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| Published on Tuesday, 23 March 2021 | |
| Elmir Avdusinovic, who started the Bachelor in Applied Information Technology in September 2020, received a copy of the book “How Big is Big? How Fast is Fast?: A Hands-On Tutorial on Mathematics o... |
| Advancing diagnosis and therapy: Exploring the cancer microbiome |
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| Published on Tuesday, 23 March 2021 | |
| Six new interdisciplinary research projects have received multi-year funding in the context of the Audacity funding instrument of the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies. |
| PhD Defense: Exploring the role of Parkin in mitochondrial DNA maintenance pathways in iPSC-derived neuronal models from Parkinson's disease patients |
| Event date: Tuesday, 23 March 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – LCSB – Biotech II - Executive Room / Webex |
| Speaker: Kobi WASNER |
| Adding numbers and shuffling cards |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 23 March 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Online | |
| Speaker: Persi Diaconis, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University |
| Internships in science communication in Luxembourg |
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| Published on Thursday, 25 March 2021 | |
The University of Luxembourg is collaborating with 13 different partners in order to offer a variety of hands-on science communication internships for doctoral candidates i... |
| Astigmath: linking mathematics and culture |
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| Published on Thursday, 25 March 2021 | |
| On the occasion of the Festival "Les maths dans tous leurs états" and to celebrate the Pi days, the University organised on 14 March 2021 the online interactive quiz "Astigmath:... |
| Preparing for the future of finance with a new interdisciplinary track |
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| Published on Thursday, 25 March 2021 | |
| Starting September 2021, the Master in Finance and Economics will offer a new track of specialisation in Digital Transformation in Finance. |
| New Professor in computational interaction |
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| Published on Monday, 29 March 2021 | |
| Luis Leiva recenlty joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg as Associate Professor in the fields of machine learning and human-computer interaction. |
| Lasting impact of birth mode on microbiome and immune system |
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| Published on Monday, 29 March 2021 | |
| In a recent scientific publication, researchers from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) and the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg address th... |
| PhD Defense: Droplet entrainment of fission products from sump water at elevated temperatures |
| Event date: Monday, 29 March 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – Block D – Room D17 |
| Speaker: Mohammed OUALLAL |
| Relais pour la Vie 2021: together and connected |
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| Published on Tuesday, 30 March 2021 | |
| The cancer research team from the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg took part in the 2021 edition organised by the Fondation Cancer. |
| Achieving Explainable AI Through Semantic Technologies: Challenges and Future Directions in Digital Health |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 14 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online via Webex | |
| Speaker: Dr. Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy |
| 10 years building colorectal cancer collection |
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| Published on Friday, 16 April 2021 | |
| Initiated in 2011 by the University of Luxembourg and the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL) as a concerted action against colorectal cancer (CRC), the collection of tumour samples from variou... |
| PhD Defense: Magnetoelectric thin-film composites for energy harvesting applications |
| Event date: Monday, 19 April 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Belvaux – LIST – Room Conference F0.11 |
| Speaker: Tai NGUYEN |
| PhD Defense: Understanding the role of colorectal cancer-associated bacteria in colorectal cancer |
| Event date: Monday, 19 April 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Belval – Maison de la biomédecine Biotech II – Room BT2 E00-016 |
| Speaker: Dominik TERNES |
| Virtual Bachelor's Days 2021 |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 22-04 | 19:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| FNR Covid19-projects: Humanities |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online via Webex | |
| Speaker: Dr. Eugenio Peluso, LISER and Prof. Dr. Isabelle Astrid Albert, University of Luxembourg |
| Live Cancer Quiz (EN, FR & DE) |
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| Event date: Friday, 23 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 19:00 21:00 | |
| Place: Online (Zoom) |
| PhD Defense: Dry-stacked insulation masonry blocks based on Miscanthus concrete |
| Event date: Monday, 26 April 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Belval campus – MNO Room 1.030 |
| Speaker: Patrick PERIERA DIAS |
| Live Chats May & June 2021: find your study programme! |
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| Published on Tuesday, 27 April 2021 | |
| In May and June 2021, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine organises several live chats to answer all remaining questions regarding the study programmes offered at the Faculty. |
| Helping robots analyse their surroundings |
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| Published on Wednesday, 28 April 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg have recently presented a new material which can become a key component of a new infrastructure designed to help robots understand their surroundings. T... |
| PhD Defense: Comprehensive Peptidomic Analysis of Cell Culture Models and Exosomes |
| Event date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021 |
| Hour: 13:30 14:30 |
| Place: Luxembourg – LIH – Room Rosalind Franklin |
| Speaker: Miriam FOUGERAS |
| FNR Covid19-projects: Humanities & ICT |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online via Webex | |
| Speaker: Prof. Stefan Krebs, Prof. Robin Samuel and Dr. Jorge Augusto Meira, University of Luxembourg |
| An informative quiz night about cancer |
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| Published on Thursday, 29 April 2021 | |
| On 23-25 April 2021, an interdisciplinary team of scientists in Luxembourg invited the public to participate in three interactive online quizzes around the topic of cancer. Participants learned mor... |
| PhD Defense: Identifying and targeting the metabolic vulnerabilities in IDH mutant gliomas |
| Event date: Thursday, 29 April 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Luxembourg – LIH – Room Pasteur Curie / Webex |
| Speaker: Andrés CANO GALIANO |
| PhD Defense: Specification and model-driven trace checking of complex temporal properties |
| Event date: Thursday, 29 April 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg – JFK – Room E004/E005 |
| Speaker: Chaima BOUFAIED |
| Smart Photo Booth - New workshops in computer science |
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| Published on Monday, 03 May 2021 | |
| Discover the new computer science workshop for high-school students (15-19 years old) that will be offered five times between 7 June and 9 July. Registrations are open starting today! |
| The future is now - how can humans and robots live together? |
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| Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2021 | |
| TRANSCEND is one of six new interdisciplinary research projects which received multi-year funding in the context of the Audacity funding instrument of the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies. |
| PhD Defense: Multiantenna signal processing with optimization algorithms |
| Event date: Tuesday, 04 May 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg campus – JFK Room 414 |
| Speaker: ARORA Aakash |
| Machine Learning for Brain Health and Understanding at Starlab Neuroscience |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 05 May 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online via Webex | |
| Speaker: Dr. Aureli Soria-Frisch, Director, Neuroscience BU, Starlab Barcelona |
| Knotty Games |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 11 May 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 16:50 | |
| Place: Online | |
| Speaker: Prof. Allison Henrich, Seattle University |
| University bestows 1710 diplomas for the academic year 2019/2020 |
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| Published on Wednesday, 12 May 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg hosted a different “Graduation Week” on 11 and 12 May for graduates of the academic year 2019/20. The hybrid ceremonies allowed for award-winning graduates to receive t... |
| PhD Defense: Development of a multiplex digital PCR strategy for sensitive preanalytic characterisation of DNA and its application in molecular pathology |
| Event date: Wednesday, 12 May 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Dudelange - LNS - Semi-online |
| Speaker: DE FALCO Alfonso |
| FNR Covid19-projects: ICT |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 12 May 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online via Webex | |
| Speaker: Dr. Muhannad Ismael (LIST), Dr. Jun Pang & Dr. Joshgun Sirajzade (University of Luxembourg) |
| PhD Defense: Dna Methylation: Conducting the orchestra from exposure to phenotypes |
| Event date: Tuesday, 18 May 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Esch-sur-Alzette – LIH – Webex |
| Speaker: GOMES FERNANDES Sara Beatriz |
| 2020 Pelican Grant: five doctoral students awarded |
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| Published on Thursday, 20 May 2021 | |
| Beatriz Garcia Santa Cruz, Dimitrios Kyriakis, Eleftheria Charalambous, Erica Grant and Mohaned Benzarti have recently been awarded the Pelican Grant from the Fondation du Pélican de Mie et Pierre... |
| ISED 2021: Impact of Covid-19 on Cybersecurity: national review and associated challenges |
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| Event date: Friday, 21 May 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 12:30 | |
| Place: Online |
| PhD Defense: Enhancing Smart Grid Resilience and Reliability by Using and Combining Simulation and Optimization Methods |
| Event date: Wednesday, 26 May 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg campus – JFK Room E004/005 |
| Speaker: ANTONIADIS Nikolaos |
| FNR Covid19-projects: Life Sciences |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 26 May 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online via webex | |
| Speaker: Dr. Francesco Sarracino, STATEC, Dr. Aymeric Fouquier and Lisa Veiber, University of Luxembourg |
| New courses in general medicine, medical oncology and neurology |
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| Published on Friday, 28 May 2021 | |
| Beginning in September 2021, the University of Luxembourg will offer three courses in medical specialisations for students holding a Master’s degree in medicine: general medicine, medical oncology... |
| PhD Defense: Legal knowledge extraction in the data protection domain based on ontology design patterns |
| Event date: Friday, 28 May 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Italy - University of Bologna |
| Speaker: LEONE Valentina |
| PhD Defense: Algorithmic business and the EU law on fair trading |
| Event date: Friday, 28 May 2021 |
| Hour: 13:00 15:00 |
| Place: Belval campus – MNO – Online Teams |
| Speaker: GALLI Federico |
| PhD Defense: Liquid Crystal Shells: from Physics Mysteries, via Chemistry Challenges, to Biosensing Opportunities |
| Event date: Friday, 28 May 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Luxembourg – Limpertsberg – Room 0.03 |
| Speaker: SHARMA Anjali |
| Astigmath: Math et jeux |
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| Event date: Sunday, 30 May 2021 | |
| Hour: 11:30 12:30 | |
| Place: Online |
| How to manage the impact of Covid-19 on cybersecurity? |
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| Published on Monday, 31 May 2021 | |
| The sixth edition of the Information Security Education Day (ISED) organised on 21 May 2021 by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) gathered al... |
| Magnetic materials analysis has never been so comprehensible |
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| Published on Monday, 31 May 2021 | |
| Professor Andreas Michels, physicist at the University of Luxembourg, explores the complex world of magnetic materials by shooting neutrons on them. He has now published his insights in a 380-page-... |
| Materials and metals in a circular economy: an opportunity for the Greater Region |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 10:00 16:30 | |
| Place: online |
| PhD Defense: Functional analysis of long noncoding RNAs in gliobastoma and chemoresistance |
| Event date: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 |
| Hour: 13:00 14:00 |
| Place: Belval campus – MSA Room 3.010 / Online |
| Speaker: Mohamad SARMINI |
| LUX:plorations Vol. 1 Science Comic Exhibition @Luxembourg Science Center |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 02 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 30-09 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Luxembourg Science Center 50, rue Emile Mark 4620 Differdange |
| FNR Covid19-projects: Life Sciences |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 02 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online via webex | |
| Speaker: Dr. Andreas Husch and Dr. Anupam Sengupta, University of Luxembourg & Dr. Ulrich Leopold, LIST |
| PhD Defense: Chemical Vapor-Phase Deposition of Nanostructured Silver Layers |
| Event date: Friday, 04 June 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Belval – LIST – Room F011A |
| Speaker: Sabrina Myriam WACK |
| PhD Defense: Dna Methylation: Conducting the orchestra from exposure to phenotypes |
| Event date: Friday, 04 June 2021 |
| Hour: 10:30 11:30 |
| Place: Luxembourg – LIH – Online |
| Speaker: Sara Beatriz GOMES FERNANDES |
| Ten University Projects Granted Early Access to MeluXina |
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| Published on Monday, 07 June 2021 | |
| Luxembourg’s first supercomputer MeluXina was officially launched on 7 June. MeluXina is a key element of Luxembourg’s data-driven innovation strategy, catering for the needs of companies, start-up... |
| DRIVEN Online Course on Iso-Geometric Analysis (IGA) |
| Event date: Monday, 07 June 2021 |
| Hour: 9:00 09-06 | 13:00 |
| Place: Online (Webex) |
| Speaker: Professor Stéphane Bordas |
| Solar cell efficiency record: University of Luxembourg comes close |
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| Published on Tuesday, 08 June 2021 | |
| A solar cell developed by physicists from the University of Luxembourg and Uppsala University has recently been certified with an efficiency of 14%, which comes close to the world record of 15.5%.... |
| Science Writing Competition |
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| Published on Thursday, 10 June 2021 | |
| Research is everywhere and it is for everyone! All scientists and researchers in Luxembourg are asked to prove this by participating in this popular science writing competition. Articles about scie... |
| On the cap-set problem and the slice rank polynomial method |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 16:50 | |
| Speaker: Lisa Sauermann |
| PhD Defense: Social Network Analysis for Digital Humanities |
| Event date: Thursday, 17 June 2021 |
| Hour: 14:30 15:30 |
| Place: Belval campus – MNO - Online |
| Speaker: Antonio Maria FISCARELLI |
| PhD Defense: Characterization of novel covalent and non-covalent drugs against K-Ras surrogate targets |
| Event date: Friday, 18 June 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval campus – Maison de la Biomédecine – Biotech I / Online |
| Speaker: Sunday Ojochegbe OKUTACHI |
| MATh.en.JEANS: secondary school students present their results |
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| Published on Tuesday, 22 June 2021 | |
| On 18 June 2021, the University of Luxembourg welcomed 16 secondary school students from the lycée Alfred Mézières Longwy for a one day MATh.en.JEANS conference. Students had the opportunity to pre... |
| Mouse movements reveal your behaviour |
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| Published on Tuesday, 22 June 2021 | |
| In two recently published research papers, computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg and international partners show how mouse movements can be used to gain additional knowledge about t... |
| Celebrating women in engineering: An interview with Maryam Baniasadi |
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| Published on Tuesday, 22 June 2021 | |
| 23 June marks the International Women in Engineering Day. At the University of Luxembourg, we celebrate the work and achievements of women engineers.
Dr Maryam Baniasadi grew up in a middle... |
| PhD Defense: Tumour-associated microglia/macrophage heterogeneity in gliobastoma |
| Event date: Tuesday, 22 June 2021 |
| Hour: 9:30 10:30 |
| Place: Luxembourg – LIH – Edison - Room Marie Curie & Louis Pasteur / Online |
| Speaker: Yolanda Sofia PIRES AFONSO |
| John Templeton Foundation grant to better understand the universe |
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| Published on Thursday, 24 June 2021 | |
| Researcher Aurelia Chenu from the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) at the University of Luxembourg has recently received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in order to p... |
| MASSENA Young Scientist Conference 2021 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 24 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 8:30 25-06 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Sport Hotel Leweck Lepschter-Dellt L-9378 Lipperscheid Luxembourg |
| PhD Defense: High-accuracy Surveying Methods and Applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| Event date: Friday, 25 June 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg campus – Bât Central – Salle du Conseil |
| Speaker: Dietmar BACKES |
| Thermodynamic cost of active materials |
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| Published on Monday, 28 June 2021 | |
| An international team of scientists, including Professor Etienne Fodor, a theoretical physicist from the University of Luxembourg, have recently studied the thermodynamic cost in active field theor... |
| Making concrete more sustainable |
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| Published on Monday, 28 June 2021 | |
| Engineers from the University of Luxembourg with European partners are working on innovative concrete precast products made of recycled aggregates and sands. On 25 June 2021, Minister for Energy an... |
| Biodiesel from wastewater? Turning a problem into an opportunity |
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| Published on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 | |
| Sewage, what was called wastewater for a long time, is not a waste, but contains valuable substances that can be used as raw materials for biobased products. However, worldwide this potential is ha... |
| PhD Defense: Leveraging Execution Logs to Support Model Inference and Software Testing |
| Event date: Tuesday, 29 June 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg campus – JFK -Room 05 / Online |
| Speaker: Salma MESSAOUDI |
| LCL x FSTM Energy Seminar: Flexibility for the Energy System of the Future |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 30 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 17:00 18:30 | |
| Place: Campus Belval room MSA 3.510 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Ferdi Schüth, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung |
| “Memorandum of Understanding” between CentraleSupélec and Uni.lu |
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| Published on Thursday, 01 July 2021 | |
| CentraleSupélec - Metz Campus is pleased to announce the signing of the first “Memorandum of Understanding” between the University of Luxembourg and CentraleSupélec. The main objective of this agre... |
| FSTM General Assembly 2021 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 01 July 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Onilne via Webex |
| PhD Defense: Using the Blockchain Technology for Trust Improvement of processes in Logistics and Transportation |
| Event date: Friday, 02 July 2021 |
| Hour: 10:30 12:00 |
| Place: Université Paris-Saclay - France |
| Speaker: IMERI Adnan |
| PhD Defense: Topics in Computational Number Theory and Cryptanalysis - On Euclidean Lattices, Edwards Curves and Cryptographic Multilinear Maps |
| Event date: Tuesday, 06 July 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MSA – Room 4.520 |
| Speaker: NOTARNICOLA Luca |
| PhD Defense: Steps Towards Semantic Code Search |
| Event date: Wednesday, 07 July 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus - Bloc E – Meeting Room Rdc |
| Speaker: KIM Kisub |
| Young scientists exchange about energy materials |
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| Published on Thursday, 08 July 2021 | |
| On 24-25 June 2021, the MASSENA Young Scientist Conference organised by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) gathered almost 70 young researche... |
| PhD Defense: Complex Network Metrics in Manufacturing - Suitability and Interpretation |
| Event date: Thursday, 08 July 2021 |
| Hour: 9:30 11:30 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus - Room D17 (Salle des Conseils, Bâtiment Central) |
| Speaker: OMAR Yamila Mariel |
| PhD Defense: Study of bismuth-based antiferroelectric materials |
| Event date: Thursday, 08 July 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.500 |
| Speaker: MILESI-BRAULT Cosme |
| PhD Defense: An in-detailed investigation of the structure-to-properties relationship between oligomeric performance resins and rubbers |
| Event date: Thursday, 08 July 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belvaux – LIST – Conference Room F011A |
| Speaker: WOLF Arnaud |
| The Faculty presents its main achievements 2019-2020 |
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| Published on Friday, 09 July 2021 | |
| On the occasion of its General Assembly, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) presented the new brochure "FSTM Highlights 2019-2020". |
| PhD Defense: Integrated multi-omic analyses of the dynamics of mobile genetic elements within a mixed microbial community |
| Event date: Friday, 09 July 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – Maison de la Biomédecine I – Biotech I - Room Coffee Lounge |
| Speaker: MARTINEZ ARBAS Susana |
| International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields (ICON STARF) |
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| Event date: Monday, 12 July 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 16-07 | 18:00 | |
| Place: University of Luxembourg Belval campus 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| PhD Defense: EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS FACTORS ON COLON CANCER AND ITS MICROENVIRONMENT |
| Event date: Monday, 12 July 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – Maison de la Biomédecine II – Biotech II - Room E00-016 |
| Speaker: NURMIK Martin |
| PhD Defense: Novel Strategies for the Assessment of Exposure to Fast-Elimination Endocrine Disruptors with Non-Invasive Biological Sampling |
| Event date: Tuesday, 13 July 2021 |
| Hour: 9:30 11:30 |
| Place: Limpertsberg – Bât des Sciences – Room BS 1.03 |
| Speaker: FAYS François |
| PhD Defense: LASER WELDING OF METALS TO POLYMERS UNDER THE SPECIAL INFLUENCE OF SURFACE PRETREATMENT ON INTERFACIAL THERMAL TRANSFER |
| Event date: Wednesday, 14 July 2021 |
| Hour: 9:15 11:15 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus - Bloc G - D 17 - Salle des Profs. |
| Speaker: AL-SAYYAD Adham |
| Developing new genomics technologies to map DNA epigenetic modifications and damage in humans, parasites and cancer |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 14 July 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online via Webex | |
| Speaker: Dr Sergio Martinez-Cuestra AstraZeneca R&D and the University of Cambridge, UK |
| PhD Defense: PLASMA INITIATED CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION - FROM THE GROWTH MECHANISMS TO ULTRATHIN LOW-K POLYMER INSULATING LAYERS |
| Event date: Thursday, 15 July 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Belvaux – LIST – Conference Room F011A |
| Speaker: ABESSOLO ONDO Dominique |
| PhD Defense: Machine Learning for MIMO Detection and Eavesdropping with Symbol-Level Precoding Countermeasures |
| Event date: Thursday, 15 July 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus - JFK - Room 414 |
| Speaker: MAYOUCHE Abderrahmane |
| PhD Defense: High-accuracy Surveying Methods and Applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| Event date: Friday, 16 July 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus - Bât Central - Salle du Conseil |
| Speaker: BACKES Dietmar |
| PhD Defense: Quantitative limit theorems and geometric applications |
| Event date: Friday, 16 July 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval – MNO - Room 0122030 |
| Speaker: NOTARNICOLA Massimo |
| Data Science Summer School for high-school students |
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| Event date: Monday, 19 July 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 23-07 | 16:30 | |
| Place: Belval Campus |
| Reducing the use of antibiotics to improve animal health |
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| Published on Tuesday, 20 July 2021 | |
| Doctoral student Alessio Buscemi from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg together with international students have recently won the Innovation 4 Change (I4C) contest... |
| University supports Goodyear STEM Student Challenge |
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| Published on Thursday, 22 July 2021 | |
| For the second time, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) at the University of Luxembourg has supported the Goodyear STEM Student Challenge. |
| Esch 2022: computer science students develop applications |
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| Published on Thursday, 22 July 2021 | |
| In the frame of the course “Software Engineering Project”, second-year students from the Bachelor in Applied Information Technology have developed applications for Esch 2022. Most of them developed... |
| Statistics: a constantly evolving field |
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| Published on Friday, 23 July 2021 | |
| On the occasion of the International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields (ICON STARF) which took place remotely on 12-16 July 2021, young researchers and renowned experts from around the wo... |
| PhD Defense: Design and synthesis of novel benzoxazines to replace traditional reinforcing resins in rubber compounds |
| Event date: Friday, 23 July 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belvaux – LIST – Room F011A |
| Speaker: TREJO MACHÍN Acerina |
| Data Science Summer School: success for the first edition |
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| Published on Tuesday, 27 July 2021 | |
| The first edition of the Data Science Summer School gathered 12 secondary school students from 19 to 23 July 2021 on Belval campus to learn more about data science. They enjoyed a lot the interacti... |
| Huawei Seeds for the Future: a great experience |
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| Published on Tuesday, 27 July 2021 | |
| Pietro Sgobba, doctoral student in mathematics at the University of Luxembourg, participated in the virtual session Huawei Seeds for the Future, which offers students a full immersion into Chinese... |
| Towards a global flood monitoring system |
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| Published on Thursday, 29 July 2021 | |
| Severe flooding following the heavy rainstorms of recent weeks caused devastating damages in central Europe. Situational awareness on the ground is crucial for effective disaster response, and toda... |
| PhD Defense: Enhancement of Vegetable Oil Functionality for Rubber-Composite Processing and Properties |
| Event date: Thursday, 29 July 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Belvaux – LIST – Room F011A |
| Speaker: DATTA SARMA Arpan |
| Luxembourg Olympiads in natural sciences: congrats to the winners! |
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| Published on Friday, 30 July 2021 | |
| On 1 July 2021, 18 secondary school students who won the Luxembourg Biology Olympiad, the Luxembourg Chemistry Olympiad and the Luxembourg Physics Olympiad were congratulated during the award cerem... |
| Improving Security in Future Automotive Networks |
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| Published on Monday, 02 August 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg and Honda R&D Europe have decided to work together to investigate and develop new efficient and secure in-vehicle communication technology. The three-year research... |
| European scientists develop technology for protein identification |
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| Published on Thursday, 05 August 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg participates in PROTEIN-ID, a research consortium that aspires to create device able to generate a proteins identity card. The newly funded project will develop a metho... |
| LUX:plorations science comic nominated for GINCO Award 2021 |
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| Published on Wednesday, 18 August 2021 | |
| The science comic "LUX:plorations - A Universe of Research Volume 1" is nominated for the GINCO Award 2021. The collection of short stories is on the shortlist for the “Best Shortform Com... |
| In memory of Nelly Kieffer |
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| Published on Thursday, 19 August 2021 | |
| Nelly Kieffer passed away on August 3, 2021. She was professor for biology at the University of Luxembourg and its Faculty of Science, Technology, and Communication until 2007. |
| PhD Defense: Optimal Motion Planning and Control with Safety Guarantees for Aerial Robots |
| Event date: Thursday, 19 August 2021 |
| Hour: 15:30 17:30 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – JFK – Online |
| Speaker: CASTILLO LOPEZ Manuel |
| Mathematician receives prestigious grant in machine learning |
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| Published on Monday, 30 August 2021 | |
| Mikołaj Kasprzak, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg has been recently selected for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship programme.... |
| New Professor in Algebra joins the Department of Mathematics |
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| Published on Monday, 30 August 2021 | |
| Pieter Belmans has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as Assistant Professor, specialised in algebraic geometry. |
| Can AI help with data protection risk assessment? |
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| Published on Thursday, 02 September 2021 | |
| By combining machine reasoning, data analysis and legal expertise, computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg have developed a solution which enables companies to automate essential task... |
| DyProSo 2021: International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids |
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| Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 08-09 | 18:00 | |
| Place: University of Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg 162a rue de la Faïencerie Luxembourg. |
| Math Camp 2021 |
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| Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 17-09 | 16:00 | |
| Place: Belval campus Maison du Savoir |
| PhD Defense: Dynamic Pricing Strategies in the Carsharing Business: Profit Maximisation and Equity Considerations |
| Event date: Tuesday, 07 September 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval – MSA – Room 3.500 |
| Speaker: GIORGIONE Giulio |
| PhD Defense: Computational guided frameworks to identify signaling perturbations: application to cellular conversion, disease and regeneration |
| Event date: Thursday, 09 September 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Belvaux - Maison de la Biomédecine II, Biotech II – Riken B |
| Speaker: ZHENG Menglin |
| PhD Defense: Tumour Immune Evasion Promoted by Actin Cytoskeleton-Driven Polarization of Inhibitory Signals to the Immunological Synapse |
| Event date: Thursday, 09 September 2021 |
| Hour: 14:30 16:30 |
| Place: Place: Luxembourg – LIH – Webex – Room Marie Curie/Louis Pasteur |
| Speaker: WURZER Hannah |
| PhD Defense: Structuration of piezotronic junctions for ultrasensitive strain sensors |
| Event date: Friday, 10 September 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Belvaux - LIST – Conference Room F0.11A |
| Speaker: JOLY Raoul |
| Physicists exchange about dynamical properties of solids |
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| Published on Monday, 13 September 2021 | |
| From 6 to 8 September 2021, the university of Luxembourg hosted the 38th International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids (DyProSo 2021) on the campus Limpertsberg. The event,... |
| PhD Defense: FATIGUE LIFE OPTIMIZATION OF A HIGH-PRESSURE LOADED ALUMINUM VALVE BODY AND LEAKAGE INVESTIGATION FOR ELASTOMERIC SEALS AT LOW TEMPERATURE |
| Event date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg – Central Building – Room D10E |
| Speaker: REPPLINGER Christian |
| PhD Defense: Verification of Design Models of Cyber-Physical Systems Specified in Simulink |
| Event date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg – JFK Building – E004/005 |
| Speaker: GAALOUL Khouloud |
| PhD Defense: Attacks and Proofs for PAKE Protocols |
| Event date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021 |
| Hour: 18:00 20:00 |
| Place: Belval – MNO - E01-0146010 |
| Speaker: SALA Petra |
| Winners of Science Writing Competition |
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| Published on Thursday, 16 September 2021 | |
| Following the launch of the first Science Writing Competition by the University of Luxembourg in June 2021, the Jury congratulates the five winners for their excellent writing: Daniele Proverbio, L... |
| Welcome, new students 2021-2022! |
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| Published on Thursday, 16 September 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg welcomed over 1,000 new students on its traditional Welcome Day, on 16 September, on Belval Campus. |
| Welcome Day 2021 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 16 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 11:00 15:00 | |
| Place: To be announced |
| PhD Defense: On the Maintenance of System User Interactive Tests |
| Event date: Thursday, 16 September 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg – Building E - Ground floor meeting room (BLE-E00-012) |
| Speaker: RWEMALIKA Renaud |
| Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg 2021: discover the magic of science! |
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| Event date: Sunday, 19 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 10:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Campus Kirchberg: 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg: 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie, L-1511 Luxembourg |
| PhD Defense: Communication Algorithms for 5G Internet of Things Systems via Satellites |
| Event date: Monday, 20 September 2021 |
| Hour: 9:00 11:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg – JFK Building – E004 |
| Speaker: KODHELI Oltjon |
| "Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg 2021": 560 Visitors Discover Our Labs |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 September 2021 | |
| On 19 September 2021, the University of Luxembourg welcomed 560 visitors on Kirchberg and Limpertsberg campus sites to discover the laboratories in engineering, space, mobility and physics in the f... |
| New courses in medicine launched |
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| Published on Wednesday, 22 September 2021 | |
| On 20 September 2021, the University of Luxembourg honoured students of medicine and launched the new medical specialiations. More than 70 people attended the event in Belval. |
| PhD Defense: Transport in topological condensed matter systems |
| Event date: Wednesday, 22 September 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Limpertsberg – Bât des Sciences |
| Speaker: EKSTRÖM Carl |
| Second edition of Math Camp: for a good start in mathematics |
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| Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021 | |
| The second Math Camp, organised by the University of Luxembourg from 6 to 17 September 2021, gathered more than 150 new students who were interested in being well prepared to start their bachelor d... |
| Statistical physics provides novel strategies for low-power computers |
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| Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with the University of Louvain have reported a comprehensive theory on how to construct rigorous stochastic models of complex electroni... |
| PhD Defense: Development of a Decision Support System for Incorporating Risk Assessments during the System Design of Microsatellites |
| Event date: Friday, 24 September 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg – JFK Building – Online |
| Speaker: PANDI PERUMAL Raja |
| PhD Defense: Reference Measurements and Simulations of Static and Dynamic Characteristics of Prestressed Concrete Bridges under Outdoor Conditions for Structural Health Monitoring |
| Event date: Friday, 24 September 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg – Bât Central – Salle D10E |
| Speaker: KEBIG Tanja |
| PhD Defense: TERT Homeostasis: Understanding and targeting the Telomerase promoter in anti-cancer strategies |
| Event date: Monday, 27 September 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval – MSA – Room 4.350 |
| Speaker: HAFEZI François |
| AIFA21 – AI and the future of arts |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 10:00 30-09 | 17:00 | |
| Place: AI Pavilion: Computational Creativity Hub, MSA ground floor |
| PhD Defense: Investigation of the function of the antioxidant gluathione in B cells |
| Event date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Limpertsberg – Bât des Sciences – BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: FRANCHINA Davide |
| PhD Defense: Predictive Assistance for Security Risk Assessments |
| Event date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Place: Kirchberg – JFK Building – E004/005 |
| Speaker: BETTAIEB Seifeddine |
| Mathematical Careers Day 2021 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 30 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:15 19:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| PhD Defense: Study of resorcinol formaldehyde latex adhesive in flexible rubber composites: Multiscale characterization of initial structure and its evolution upon thermal treatment |
| Event date: Friday, 01 October 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: LIST – Belvaux – Room F011 |
| Speaker: ENGANATI Sachin Kumar |
| University launches a website for its Esch2022 projects |
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| Published on Monday, 04 October 2021 | |
| In February 2022, the University’s hometown Esch-sur-Alzette will launch the European Capital of Culture 2022, under the leitmotiv REMIX. The University will support Esch2022 with eight diverse and... |
| PhD Defense: A Distributed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Traffic Management System |
| Event date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.180 |
| Speaker: SAMIR LABIB Nader Nashaat |
| Discovering mathematical careers: a wide range of job opportunities |
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| Published on Wednesday, 06 October 2021 | |
| On 30 September 2021, around 70 participants attended the third edition of the Mathematical Careers Day at the University of Luxembourg, on Belval campus. Bachelor, Master and PhD students in mathe... |
| Life Sciences PhD Days |
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| Event date: Thursday, 07 October 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 08-10 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| PhD Defense: Advanced characterization of silica surface networks in rubber compounds |
| Event date: Thursday, 07 October 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Belvaux - LIST – Room F001 |
| Speaker: YAN Chuanyu |
| Journée d’introduction pour les médecins en voie de spécialisation |
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| Published on Friday, 08 October 2021 | |
| Le 30 septembre 2021, l’Université du Luxembourg a accueilli les jeunes médecins qui entament des études spécialisées en médecine générale, neurologie et oncologie médicale sur le campus de Limpert... |
| A new kind of creativity: Artificial Intelligence for the Arts |
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| Published on Friday, 08 October 2021 | |
| From 28 to 30 September 2021, the hybrid workshop AI and the Future of Art (AIFA) gathered more than 100 experts in artificial intelligence and artists to exchange about the growing interactions be... |
| New academic year 2021-2022 opens with optimism and hope |
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| Published on Friday, 08 October 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg held its Rentrée Académique 2021-2022 on 7 October on Belval Campus. |
| PhD Defense: Spinning Functional Fibers : An Interplay of Rheology, Miscibility & Crosslinking |
| Event date: Friday, 08 October 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Limpertsberg – Bât de Science – Room 0.03 |
| Speaker: VATS Shameek |
| PhD Defense: Investigating T cells in the context of Neuroimmunology: Molecular and cellular mechanisms during a stress response and a patient-based study in Parkinson's disease |
| Event date: Monday, 11 October 2021 |
| Hour: 15:30 17:30 |
| Place: Esch-sur-Alzette – LIH - HoBH Dpt. Of Infection and Immunity – Room Françoise BARRE SINOUSSI |
| Speaker: CAPELLE Christophe |
| University to lead the first European Master’s programme in HPC |
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| Published on Tuesday, 12 October 2021 | |
| A consortium of European partners led by the University of Luxembourg has been selected by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to design and implement the first pan-European High Performance Compu... |
| Launch of the Luxembourgish EPS Young Minds team |
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| Published on Wednesday, 13 October 2021 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) have recently launched a national section of the European Physical Society (EPS) Young Mi... |
| PhD Defense: Ozone gas sensors based on off-stoichiometric copper-chromium-oxide thin films |
| Event date: Wednesday, 13 October 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Belvaux – LIST – Conference room |
| Speaker: ANTUNES AFONSO João Ricardo |
| What make statistics robust? |
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| Published on Monday, 18 October 2021 | |
| Robustness has become a major issue in statistical learning and deep learning today. Mathematician Yannick Baraud from the University of Luxembourg has recently published a paper in the prestigious... |
| Potential production of hydrogen in Luxembourg |
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| Published on Wednesday, 20 October 2021 | |
| On 15 October 2021, the University of Luxembourg gathered representatives from academia, government and industry to exchange about the implementation of the hydrogen strategy published in September... |
| Teaching Awards 2021: congrats to Gabor Wiese and Sebastiano Tronto |
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| Published on Thursday, 21 October 2021 | |
| At the Rentrée Académique, Gabor Wiese, Professor in Mathematics and Sebastiano Tronto, Doctoral Researcher in Mathematics, received the Teaching Awards for their outstanding wo... |
| Secondary school students learn more about energy |
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| Published on Friday, 22 October 2021 | |
| Students from the Lycée Michel Lucius participated in the energy balance workshop conceived by physicists and computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg. By doing experiments with renewa... |
| Inauguration of Exploratis at the Luxembourg Science Center |
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| Event date: Saturday, 23 October 2021 | |
| Hour: 15:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Luxembourg Science Center 1 Rue John Ernest Dolibois, 4573 Differdange |
| FNR Awards 2021: two researchers in mathematics & physics shortlisted |
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| Published on Monday, 25 October 2021 | |
| Mathematician Hugo Parlier and physicist Martin Stöhr from the University of Luxembourg have been shorlisted at the 13th edition of the FNR Awards. |
| Exploratis: a new experimental station at the Science Center |
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| Published on Thursday, 28 October 2021 | |
| The Luxembourg Science Center in Differdange now boasts a new experimental station called Exploratis. Faced with intriguing puzzles, visitors can either try them by themselves, race against ea... |
| Uni.lu @ Foire de l'Étudiant 2021 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 28 October 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 29-10 | 17:00 | |
| Place: online |
| PhD Defense: Australian Indigenous life writing: a discourse analysis with word embedding modelling |
| Event date: Thursday, 28 October 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MNO – Room 1.020 |
| Speaker: KAMLOVSKAYA Ekaterina |
| PhD Defense: Quantizations and moduli stacks of curves |
| Event date: Friday, 29 October 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MNO – Room 1050 |
| Speaker: KALUGIN Alexey |
| PhD Defense: Analysis of flow induced texturing in complex fluids with Brillouin Rheology - a proof of concept |
| Event date: Wednesday, 03 November 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Limpertsberg Campus – Bâtiment des Sciences – Room 1.04 |
| Speaker: LEHR Claudius Moritz |
| Science Comic LUX:plorations Vol. 2 out now |
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| Published on Friday, 05 November 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg just published Volume 2 of LUX:plorations, an award-nominated science comic. Local scientists and artists have teamed up to create eight short stories about science and... |
| Exhibition Science Comic LUX:plorations Vol. 2 @MSA |
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| Event date: Friday, 05 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 8:00 27-12 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir Auditoires |
| Robotix-Academy Summer School 2021 in Luxembourg |
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| Published on Wednesday, 10 November 2021 | |
| The 2021 edition of the Robotix-Academy took place at the University of Luxembourg on 7-8 October 2021. The two-day training gathered 14 participants from the Universities of Birkenfeld, Liège and... |
| University inaugurates its AION supercomputer |
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| Published on Wednesday, 10 November 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg officially inaugurated its AION High Performance Computer (HPC) during a ceremony on Belval Campus. The new supercomputer now provides state-of-the-art support to the U... |
| AI in Action: BNAIC/BENELEARN 2021 |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 10 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 8:00 12-11 | 17:00 | |
| Place: Belval campus |
| ICCMA 2021 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14-11 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Virtual via zoom |
| Science Festival 2021: participate in our workshops! |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14-11 | 19:00 | |
| Place: Centre culturel de rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster + Musée national d’histoire naturelle |
| PhD Defense: Enhancing PV Hosting Capacity in Distribution Grid Configurations via Decentralized PV and Battery Inverter Control |
| Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – Weicker – Room A25 |
| Speaker: TORCHYAN Khachatur |
| 11th HPC School |
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| Event date: Friday, 12 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 8:30 19-11 | 12:45 | |
| Place: Hybrid (WebEx + MSA) |
| Fondation Enovos "Prix d'Excellence” 2021 awarded to Elisa Urbain |
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| Published on Tuesday, 16 November 2021 | |
| Elisa Urbain who graduated from the Master en Efficacité Energétique et Economique at the University of Luxembourg recently received the "Prix d'Excellence" from the Fondation Enovos. She... |
| Prof. Anton Thalmaier receives the Grand Prix en Mathématiques |
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| Published on Tuesday, 16 November 2021 | |
| The "Grand Prix en Mathématiques de l’Institut Grand-ducal" also called “Prix de la Bourse de Luxembourg” was awarded to Anton Thalmaier, Professor in Stochastics Analysis within the Depa... |
| Science Festival 2021: researchers share their passion for science |
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| Published on Thursday, 18 November 2021 | |
| On the occasion of the Science Festival Luxembourg which took place on 11-14 November 2021 at Neumünster Abbey, researchers from the University of Luxembourg interacted with the general public to e... |
| PhD Defense: Functional coatings based on MWCNT-Metal oxide nanocomposite for solar energy harvester application |
| Event date: Friday, 19 November 2021 |
| Hour: 9:00 11:00 |
| Place: Belval, Maison du Savoir |
| Speaker: PRASADAM Vasu Prasad |
| PhD Defense: Interface Voc deficit in Cu(InGa)S2 solar cells: characterisation, simulation and mitigation |
| Event date: Friday, 19 November 2021 |
| Hour: 13:30 15:30 |
| Place: Belval Campus – Maison du Savoir – Room 4.520 |
| Speaker: SOOD Mohit |
| PhD Defense: Functional and phenotypical aspects of murine natural killer cells in the context of education |
| Event date: Friday, 19 November 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: LIH – House of BioHealth – Big Conference Room |
| Speaker: PATIL Neha |
| Information Day |
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| Event date: Saturday, 20 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 10:00 16:00 | |
| Place: online |
| Hyperbolic metamaterials provide a novel strategy for nanophotonics |
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| Published on Monday, 22 November 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with international partners from Sweden, USA and Italy have reported on a novel magnetically tunable optical effect in a special kind o... |
| Scienteens Lab launches new workshops in computer science |
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| Published on Monday, 22 November 2021 | |
| The Scienteens Lab, an extracurricular learning centre of the University of Luxembourg, is organising its first workshops in computer science for secondary school pupils. Designed to be an interact... |
| PhD Defense: The antioxidant Glutathione as a regulator of natural killer cell immunity |
| Event date: Monday, 22 November 2021 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.110 |
| Speaker: FRIAS GUERRA Luana |
| PhD Defense: Copper-Carbon Nanotube Composites for Lightning Strike Protections |
| Event date: Tuesday, 23 November 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: LIST conference room F011A |
| Speaker: DUHAIN Antoine Edmond |
| PhD Defense: 5G and beyond networks with UAV: trajectory design and resource allocation |
| Event date: Wednesday, 24 November 2021 |
| Hour: 13:30 15:30 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – JFK – Room 414 |
| Speaker: TRAN DINH Hieu |
| PhD Defense: Co-Evaporation of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites and Their Characterization via Scanning Probe Microscopy |
| Event date: Friday, 26 November 2021 |
| Hour: 13:00 15:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – Bâtiment des Sciences |
| Speaker: GALLET Thibaut, Quentin |
| New Professor in Statistics |
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| Published on Monday, 29 November 2021 | |
| Christophe Ley has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as Professor in Statistics. He will reinforce the growing team of statisticians in order to boost research and training in mathematic... |
| PhD Defense: The Th17 cell - IL22 axis depends on glutathione upon intestinal inflammation |
| Event date: Monday, 29 November 2021 |
| Hour: 15:30 17:30 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.010 |
| Speaker: BONETTI Lynn |
| Learning how to develop science workshops |
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| Published on Wednesday, 01 December 2021 | |
| Scientists learned how to develop hands-on and brains-on science workshops for lay audiences in a training offered by the Luxembourg Science Center. |
| Les spécialistes en oncologie découvrent l’unité de simulation |
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| Published on Friday, 03 December 2021 | |
| Dans le cadre de leur formation spécialisée en oncologie médicale, nos jeunes médecins en voie de spécialisation (MEVS) ont pu approfondir leurs connaissances et développer leurs compétences dans l... |
| Prestigious award for research work on steel construction |
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| Published on Friday, 03 December 2021 | |
| During the XIII Conference on Steel and Composite Construction which took place remotely on 25-26 November 2021, engineers from the University of Luxembourg received the Professor Eduardo de Arante... |
| PhD Defense: Signaling, function and modulation of CXCR3 variants |
| Event date: Friday, 03 December 2021 |
| Hour: 9:30 11:30 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MSA – MSA 4.180 / Webex |
| Speaker: REYNDERS Nathan |
| PhD Defense: Plasma-induced polymerization of liquid layers for the synthesis and deposition of Interpenetrating Polymer Network films |
| Event date: Friday, 03 December 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: LIST – Belvaux – Conference room F011A |
| Speaker: NIEMCZYK Edyta Monika |
| PhD Defense: Cellular Heterogeneity as Emergent Behavior in Systems Biology |
| Event date: Thursday, 09 December 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – Biothech II - Maison de la Biomédecine II – Room Riken |
| Speaker: MARTINA Silvia |
| PhD Defense: Selection of lipid accumulator Microthrix parvicella in municipal wastewater treatment plants for subsequent biodiesel production |
| Event date: Thursday, 09 December 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus – Bâtiment Central – D10 D |
| Speaker: UWIZEYE Marie Louise |
| AI in action: How to recommit in Private Equity |
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| Published on Friday, 10 December 2021 | |
| Recommitments are essential for limited partner investors to maintain a target exposure to private equity. However, recommitting to new funds is irrevocable and expose investors to cashflow uncerta... |
| PhD Defense: Thermodynamics of Quantum Collisions |
| Event date: Monday, 13 December 2021 |
| Hour: 15:30 17:30 |
| Place: Limpertsberg Campus - Bâtiment des Sciences – BS 0.03 |
| Speaker: LOURENÇO JACOB Samuel |
| FSTM Graduation Ceremony 2021 |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 14 December 2021 | |
| Hour: 14:00 20:00 | |
| Place: Belval campus Maison du Savoir, Audimax (-1) |
| Working together with robots, how do you do that? |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 14 December 2021 | |
| Hour: 14:30 16:00 | |
| Place: 2 Av. de l'Université, 4365 Esch-sur-Alzette Building MSA - Ground Floor - Computational Creativity Hub | |
| Speaker: Egberdien van der Peijl |
| Accreditation for three study programmes in computer science |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 December 2021 | |
| The Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine of the University announces the successful accreditation of three study programmes: |
| BRAINS - Uni students will conduct experiment in Space |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 December 2021 | |
| Five students from the University of Luxembourg will send mini brains to the International Space Station (ISS) to carry out research experiments under microgravity con... |
| Two University professors on Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 December 2021 | |
| Professors Stéphane Bordas and Alexandre Tkatchenko from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine have been ranked among the world’s most influential academics on the “Highly Cited Researche... |
| PhD Defense: Sovability of systems invariant differential equations on symmetric spaces G/K |
| Event date: Wednesday, 15 December 2021 |
| Hour: 10:30 12:30 |
| Place: Belval Campus – Maison du Nombre– MNO 1.050 |
| Speaker: PALMIROTTA Guendalina |
| Developing new protocols to better understand quantum systems |
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| Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021 | |
| Aurélia Chenu, who joined the University of Luxembourg in January 2021, recently won the prestigious ATTRACT funding from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) to create her own group in quan... |
| Uni.lu “Simplicity of Complexity” showcased at Dubai World Expo |
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| Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg’s project “the simplicity of complexity », initiated by the University’s Department of Mathematics, was featured at the Luxembourg’s Pavilion at the Dubai World Ex... |
| The Faculty celebrates its 2021 graduates in science |
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| Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021 | |
| The Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine has conferred diplomas to 337 new graduates, namely 129 Bachelors, 120 Masters, 58 doctorates as well as 30 students from vocational trainings. |
| University confers over 1850 diplomas for the 2020/2021 academic year |
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| Published on Friday, 17 December 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg has conferred over 1850 diplomas for the 2020/2021 academic year. A series of graduation ceremonies took place between 14 and 16 December for the Bachelor, Master and U... |
| Prof. Danièle Waldmann takes up a new challenge |
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| Published on Wednesday, 05 January 2022 | |
| Danièle Waldmann, Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Luxembourg, has decided to take up a new challenge. As of 15 January 2022, she will lead the Institute of Solid Structures (Ins... |
| New research on how race and gender shape science |
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| Published on Monday, 10 January 2022 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg together with scientists from the University of Montreal, Georgia Tech and Berry College have recently demonstrated that racial and gender identities s... |
| Benelux competition in programming: learning how to solve problems |
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| Published on Wednesday, 12 January 2022 | |
| For the first time, students from the University of Luxembourg participated in the 2021 Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) which consisted in solving the most algorithmic problems/puzzles... |
| University publishes a pocket guide about science communication |
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| Published on Thursday, 13 January 2022 | |
| Interested scientists, researchers and science communicators can find theoretical knowledge as well as practical tips on science communication in this new publication of the University of Luxembourg. |
| Des diplômés en médecine pourront continuer leurs études en Belgique |
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| Published on Thursday, 13 January 2022 | |
| Le gouvernement luxembourgeois et le gouvernement de la Communauté française de Belgique ont signé un accord garantissant l'accès de huit diplômés du Bachelor en médecine de l'Université du Luxembo... |
| Workshop: From materials innovation to autonomous robots |
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| Event date: Friday, 14 January 2022 | |
| Hour: 9:00 20:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| PhD Defense: On Trustworthy AI and Localized Complex Network Analytics |
| Event date: Friday, 14 January 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus- MNO – Room 1.040 |
| Speaker: ESMAEILZADEH DILMAGHANI Saharnaz |
| PhD Defense: Laser fusion welding of Cu to Al with spiral trajectory and monitoring of process signals |
| Event date: Monday, 17 January 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus- Bloc G - Salle des Conseils D 18 |
| Speaker: MATHIVANAN Karthik |
| Physics department workshop: developing synergies! |
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| Published on Tuesday, 18 January 2022 | |
| After a hiatus of over two-years caused by the pandemic, the second edition of the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) workshop took place on 15 December 2021 at the Tramsscha... |
| PhD Defense: A tale of adversity: the impact of early life infection beyond the immune system |
| Event date: Thursday, 20 January 2022 |
| Hour: 13:30 15:30 |
| Place: Esch-sur-Alzette - LIH - House of BioHealth - Room Salle Barré-Sinoussi / online |
| Speaker: MERZ Myriam Pia |
| PhD Defense: DAXX maintains heterochromatin at (peri)centromeres independently of ATRX, preventing R-loop-induced DNA double strand breaks and genomic instability |
| Event date: Friday, 21 January 2022 |
| Hour: 13:30 15:30 |
| Place: Strassen - LIH - Edison - Room Salle Marie Curie & Louis Pasteur |
| Speaker: PINTO Lia |
| PhD Defense: Diet–gut microbiota axis in microbial B vitamin production, immune homeostasis, and food allergy |
| Event date: Monday, 24 January 2022 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Esch-sur-Alzette - LIH - House of BioHealth - Room Salle Barré-Sinoussi |
| Speaker: PARRISH Amy |
| Exhibition Science Comic LUX:plorations Vol. 2 @Luxembourg Science Center |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 25 January 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 24-02 | 17:00 | |
| Place: Luxembourg Science Center 1 Rue John Ernest Dolibois L-4573 Differdange |
| PhD Defense: Quantifying some properties of curves and arcs on hyperbolic surfaces |
| Event date: Wednesday, 26 January 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.110 |
| Speaker: DOAN Nhât Minh |
| PhD Defense: Security, Scalability and Privacy in Applied Cryptography |
| Event date: Wednesday, 26 January 2022 |
| Hour: 17:00 19:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus – MNO - Room 1.020 |
| Speaker: VITTO Giuseppe |
| Math Day 2022 |
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| Event date: Saturday, 05 February 2022 | |
| Hour: 9:30 15:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Inaugural lecture Prof. Mark Podolskij: New developments in high dimensional statistics |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 08 February 2022 | |
| Hour: 11:00 14:00 | |
| Place: Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.370 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Mark Podolskij |
| Information session: Master in Information Systems Security Management |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 22 March 2022 | |
| Hour: 17:30 19:00 | |
| Place: To be confirmed |
| Science Fair: Science meets music |
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| Event date: Sunday, 27 March 2022 | |
| Hour: 10:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Rockhal |
| ISED 2022: Demystifying the Dark Web: Challenges & Threats |
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| Event date: Friday, 20 May 2022 | |
| Hour: 9:00 12:30 | |
| Place: Belval campus Maison du Savoir, room 3.350 (3rd floor) |
