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| Vening Meinesz Medal awarded to Tonie Van Dam |
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| Published on Tuesday, 07 May 2019 | |
| Tonie Van Dam, Professor in Physical Geodesy at the University of Luxembourg has recently received the 2019 Vening Meinesz Medal from the European Geosciences Union (EGU). |
| ISED 2019: New challenges for CISO: Artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and regulations |
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| Event date: Friday, 10 May 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 16:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.040 (3rd floor) 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| The BicsLab Partners Day: ICT for a sustainable agriculture in Luxembourg |
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| Event date: Monday, 13 May 2019 | |
| Hour: 14:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Belval Campus – Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH), Black Box (main entrance) 11 Porte des Sciences, Esch-sur-Alzette |
| How can AI help security managers? |
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| Published on Tuesday, 14 May 2019 | |
| This question was tackled during the fifth edition of the Information Security Education Day (ISED) organised on 10 May 2019 by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science... |
| The University appoints Gilbert Massard Director of Medical Education |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 May 2019 | |
| The Board of Governors of the University of Luxembourg has appointed Professor Gilbert Massard Director of medical education and full professor, with the initial task to launch the new bachelor in... |
| University grants ArcelorMittal and CERATIZIT access to Supercomputer |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 May 2019 | |
| The University of Luxembourg has entered service agreements with Luxembourg-based companies ArcelorMittal and CERATIZIT. |
| The BicsLab Partners Day: great success for the first edition |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 May 2019 | |
| On 13 May 2019, more than 50 attendees from the University of Luxembourg as well as Luxembourgish companies and institutions joined the “BicsLab Partners Day”: the scientific forum to meet and matc... |
| Three students in science receive the “Top Student Prize” |
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| Published on Friday, 24 May 2019 | |
| Dany Dos Santos Ramos, Laurence Lampecco and Julien Putz, respectively students in the Master en Sciences de l’Ingénieur – Efficacité Energétique et Economique (MEEE), Bachelor en Informatique (BIN... |
| Read a comic about science in Luxembourg at LLC |
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| Event date: Monday, 27 May 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 29-06 | 17:00 | |
| Place: Welcome Zone Luxembourg Learning Centre 7, Ënnert den Héichiewen L-4362 Esch-Belval |
| Physics beyond physics: secondary school teachers meet researchers |
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| Published on Tuesday, 28 May 2019 | |
| On 6 May 2019, the Scienteens Lab organised an afternoon of training for Luxembourgish teachers on Limpertsberg campus. Titled “Physics beyond physics: From liquid crystal-enabled design to microbe... |
| 9th HPC School |
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| Event date: Thursday, 20 June 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 21-06 | 19:00 | |
| Place: Belval campus 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Starting a business in Luxembourg: what are the legal aspects? |
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| Event date: Thursday, 27 June 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:30 12:00 | |
| Place: University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, Learning Centre, room 2.02 |
| The AI future |
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| Event date: Thursday, 27 June 2019 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir, Room 3.370 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Toby Walsh, University of New South Wales (UNSW) |
| UniGR Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems and Applications (VTSA 2019) |
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| Event date: Monday, 01 July 2019 | |
| Hour: 8:00 05-07 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir, Campus Belval, 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Technical and legal perspectives of smart contracts: an interdisciplinary dialogue |
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| Event date: Monday, 01 July 2019 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir (MSA), Room 4.500 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Eliza Mik & Robert Norvill |
| Novel computer model supports cancer therapy |
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| Published on Tuesday, 02 July 2019 | |
| Researchers from the Life Sciences Research Unit (LSRU) of the University of Luxembourg have developed a computer model that simulates the metabolism of cancer cells. They used the programme to inv... |
| Engineering alumni on a visit at the University |
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| Published on Friday, 05 July 2019 | |
| On 14 June 2019, five alumni from the class of 2006 in “Mechanical Engineering” came back to the University of Luxembourg. The visit was organised by Prof. Stefan Maas and Joël Da Cruz Antunes in o... |
| 9th HPC School: learning more about supercomputers |
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| Published on Monday, 08 July 2019 | |
| On 20-21 June 2019, the 9th edition of the High Performance Computing (HPC) School gathered more than 100 participants in Belval. On this occasion, the HPC team lead by Prof. Pascal Bouvry and... |
| Scienteens Academy 2019 - Workshop in English |
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| Event date: Monday, 08 July 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 12-07 | 18:00 | |
| Place: House of Biomedicine / Biotech I (BT1) |
| Rencontre UNI/OAI diplomés Master Architecture et Ingénierie |
| Event date: Monday, 08 July 2019 |
| Hour: 18:00 21:00 |
| Place: OAI - Forum Da Vinci 6, bd Grande-Duchesse Charlotte L-1330 Luxembourg |
| Great success for the UniGR Summer School VTSA 2019 |
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| Published on Thursday, 18 July 2019 | |
| From 1 to 5 July 2019, the UniGR Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems & Applications (VTSA) took place for the 12th time on Belval Campus. Mainly dedicated to students holding a Ba... |
| International Comic Festival Contern: learn more about science |
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| Event date: Saturday, 20 July 2019 | |
| Hour: 10:00 21-07 | 19:00 | |
| Place: 4, place de la Mairie L-5310 Contern |
| BD Festival in Contern: the University presents its science comics |
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| Published on Monday, 29 July 2019 | |
| For the first time, the University of Luxembourg participated in the International Festival of Comic Books in Contern, taking place on 20-21 July 2019. Seven young scientists presented the science... |
| World-championship in Automated Reasoning: computer scientist awarded |
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| Published on Wednesday, 04 September 2019 | |
| On the occasion of the annual World Championship for Automatic Theorem Proving (“CADE ATP System Competition”, in short CASC) which took place on 28-29 August 2019 in Brazil, Alexander Steen, compu... |
| Scienteens Academy 2019 - Workshop in German |
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| Event date: Monday, 09 September 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 13-09 | 18:00 | |
| Place: House of Biomedicine / Biotech I (BT1) |
| 11th European CubeSat Symposium |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 11 September 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 13-09 | 17:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir |
| 2nd DRIVEN workshop |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 11 September 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:30 12-09 | 17:30 | |
| Place: Belval campus - Maison des Sciences Humaines |
| Mathematical Careers Day |
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| Event date: Friday, 20 September 2019 | |
| Hour: 16:00 21:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir – Room 3.010 (3rd floor) 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Gesondheetsdag |
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| Event date: Saturday, 21 September 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir Salle 3.510 (3ème étage) |
| Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg: visit our labs in physics and engineering |
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| Event date: Sunday, 22 September 2019 | |
| Hour: 10:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Physics: Campus Limpertsberg, 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie, L-1511 Luxembourg Engineering: Campus Kirchberg, 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg |
| Life Science PhD Days 2019 |
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| Event date: Monday, 23 September 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 25-09 | 17:30 | |
| Place: Campus Belval - Maison du Savoir (MSA) - 3rd floor |
| Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg: more than 400 visitors! |
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| Published on Tuesday, 24 September 2019 | |
| On 22 September 2019, the University of Luxembourg welcomed more than 400 visitors on Limpertsberg and Kirchberg campus sites to discover the laboratories for Physics and Engineering. |
| Researchers uncover privacy flaw in e-passports |
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| Published on Wednesday, 25 September 2019 | |
| ESORICS 2019 Conference: Researchers at the University of Luxembourg have discovered a flaw in the security standard used in biometric passports (e-passports) worldwide since 2004. This standard, <... |
| Physics Colloquium: Polarized neutrons and magnetism |
| Event date: Wednesday, 25 September 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
| Speaker: Artem Goukassov, invited by Prof. Andreas Michels |
| European experts exchange about CubeSat technologies |
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| Published on Thursday, 26 September 2019 | |
| The University of Luxembourg hosted for the first time the European CubeSat Symposium which took place from 11 to 13 September 2019 on Belval Campus. More than 150 worldwide participants from... |
| Collaboration with SPARC Industries on plasma simulation |
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| Published on Wednesday, 02 October 2019 | |
| The University of Luxembourg and SPARC Industries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop software technology for space applications. |
| Another success story for the Mathematical Careers Day |
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| Published on Thursday, 03 October 2019 | |
| On 20 September 2019, around 70 participants with a mathematical background from different levels took part in the Mathematical Careers Day on Belval campus. This second edition was held by the ini... |
| Accessing genetic information from the past is crucial |
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| Published on Monday, 07 October 2019 | |
| Aurélien Ginolhac, bioinformatician at the University of Luxembourg, has contributed to the recent publication “Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny... |
| Une journée d’échanges sur les défis de la santé au Luxembourg |
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| Published on Wednesday, 09 October 2019 | |
| Le 21 septembre 2019, l'Association Luxembourgeoise des Etudiants en Médecine (ALEM) et l'Université du Luxembourg ont organisé la première édition du "Dag vum lëtzebuerger Gesondheetssystem&q... |
| Space Master students discover the lunar lab |
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| Published on Thursday, 10 October 2019 | |
| On 26 September 2019, the first cohort of students from the Interdisciplinary Space Master gathered on the Kirchberg campus for a networking event during which they had the opportunity to learn mor... |
| Journée Mondiale de la Normalisation 2019 |
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| Event date: Friday, 11 October 2019 | |
| Hour: 13:30 18:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval, Biotech II 6, avenue du Swing L-4367 Belvaux |
| PhD defense: Liquid Metals and Liquid Crystals Subject to Flow: From Fundamental Fluid Physics to Functional Fibers |
| Event date: Friday, 11 October 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Limpertsberg Campus, 0.03 |
| Speaker: Lawrence William HONAKER |
| Lëtz Go Gold 2019: researchers run against child cancer |
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| Published on Tuesday, 15 October 2019 | |
| For the second time, life Sciences researchers from the University of Luxembourg participated in the Lëtz Go Gold charity run organised on 28 September 2019 by the Kriibskrank Kanner Foundation. On... |
| Physics Colloquium: Recent research using polarized neutrons on some not-very-recent materials |
| Event date: Wednesday, 16 October 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
| Speaker: Ross Stewart, invited by Prof. Andreas Michels |
| Journée Mondiale de la Normalisation 2019 au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg |
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| Published on Thursday, 17 October 2019 | |
| Le 11 octobre 2019, l’ILNAS, en collaboration avec l’Université du Luxembourg (Uni.lu), a organisé une session d’information pour célébrer la 50ème Journée Mondiale de la Normalisation. Cet év... |
| Surfing on waves in a one-dimensional quantum liquid |
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| Published on Thursday, 17 October 2019 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg, together with international collaborators, have recently published an article in the internationally renowned journal Physical Review Letters. In this... |
| PhD Defense: Development of an innovative U-shaped steel-concrete composite beam solution: Experimental and numerical studies on the mechanichal behaviour |
| Event date: Thursday, 17 October 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus, Salle des Conseils |
| Speaker: Maxime TURETTA |
| University and ArcelorMittal extend collaboration in steel engineering |
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| Published on Friday, 18 October 2019 | |
| ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction |
| Alexandre Tkatchenko elected as American Physical Society Fellow |
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| Published on Monday, 21 October 2019 | |
| For the first time in Luxembourg, a physicist has been recognised by the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding contributions to physics. Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko from the Physics an... |
| Thermodynamics 2.0: New thermodynamic framework for cells |
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| Published on Monday, 21 October 2019 | |
| Physicists at the University of Luxembourg have developed theoretical tools to analyse and optimise chemical engines ranging from simple chemical reaction networks to complex metabolic pathways. |
| University invests in virtual reality tool for new medical students |
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| Published on Wednesday, 23 October 2019 | |
| The University of Luxembourg is actively preparing for the new Bachelor in Medicine, which will start in September 2020. The University has announced the acquisition of a highly advanced 3D virtual... |
| Demonstration of Anatomage, a virtual anatomy table |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 23 October 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 06-11 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Belval campus, MSA. room 2.050 (2nd floor) |
| TEDxUniversityofLuxembourg: Rewiring our Future |
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| Event date: Friday, 25 October 2019 | |
| Hour: 12:30 18:30 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir, entrance Auditoires, room 3.540 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| FNR Award 2019 for physicist Riccardo Rao |
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| Published on Monday, 28 October 2019 | |
| Riccardo Rao, former doctoral candidate at the University of Luxembourg, received the 2019 FNR Award in the category Outstanding PhD Thesis for his project entitled “Conservation Laws i... |
| PhD Defense: Confidence‐based Decision‐making Support for Multi‐sensor Systems |
| Event date: Thursday, 31 October 2019 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Nombre, MNO 10.30 |
| Speaker: Gilles NEYENS |
| Prof. Yannick Baraud appointed as ERA chair holder in data science |
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| Published on Tuesday, 05 November 2019 | |
| Professor Yannick Baraud has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as responsible for the European Research Area (ERA) Chair in Mathematical Statistics and Data Science entitled “SanDAL”. Wi... |
| 5th International Systems Biomedicine Symposium - Systems neuroscience: bridging the scales of the brain |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 05 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 19:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir Room 3.500 |
| Outstanding Paper Award to Valentino Vigneri and Christoph Odenbreit |
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| Published on Thursday, 07 November 2019 | |
| The Nordic Steel Construction Conference 2019 took place from 18 to 20 September in Copenhagen (Denmark). For this conference, the publisher Ernst & Sohn and its Steel Construction journ... |
| 2nd CriTiCS Bio International Workshop |
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| Event date: Thursday, 07 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 8:30 08-11 | 14:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus - Maison du Savoir (MSA) 2, Avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Foire de l'Etudiant 2019: visit us! |
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| Event date: Thursday, 07 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 10:00 08-11 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Luxexpo The Box 10, Circuit de La Foire Internationale, 1347 Luxembourg Entrée Sud Hall 2 / Hall 3 |
| Science Festival 2019: play with Science! |
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| Event date: Thursday, 07 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 10:00 10-11 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Luxembourg-Grund Musée national d’histoire naturelle + Abbaye Neumünster |
| PhD Defense: The impact of macro-substrate on micropollutant degradation in activated sludge systems |
| Event date: Friday, 08 November 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus, D17 - Salle des Conseils |
| Speaker: Anne CHRISTEN |
| Foire de l'Etudiant 2019: thanks for visiting us! |
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| Published on Tuesday, 12 November 2019 | |
| The Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) was part of the University of Luxembourg booth during the “Foire de l’Etudiant 2019” which took place on 7-8 November 2019 at Luxexpo. On... |
| PhD Defense: Developing individual-based gut microbiome metabolic models for the investigation of Parkinson’s disease-associated intestinal microbial communities |
| Event date: Tuesday, 12 November 2019 |
| Hour: 13:00 15:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison de la Biomédecine II (BIOTECH II), BT2-E00-015 |
| Speaker: Federico BALDINI |
| Metal additive manufacturing - Roundtable |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 13 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust Nancy Metz room | |
| Speaker: Arvid Eirich, Mobility goes Additive & Anne Lange, LCL |
| Science Festival 2019: mathematics in the spotlight |
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| Published on Thursday, 14 November 2019 | |
| Mathematicians from the University of Luxembourg participated actively in the Science Festival which took place from 7 to 10 November 2019 at Neimënster to present mathematics in a funny and intera... |
| Award Ceremony of the European Solar Prize 2019 |
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| Event date: Friday, 15 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 13:30 19:30 | |
| Place: Belval campus, Maison des Art et des Etudiants |
| AI algorithm can learn the laws of quantum mechanics |
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| Published on Monday, 18 November 2019 | |
| An interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, and computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg, the University of Warwick and the Technical University of Berlin have developed a deep... |
| Expo: Henri Moissan, prix Nobel de chimie 1906 |
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| Event date: Monday, 18 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 8:00 06-12 | 20:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir, Entrée Auditoires, Rez-de-chaussée 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| L'humanité à l’Ère des métaux rares, défis et enjeux à l'échelle de la planète |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 19 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 18:00 20:00 | |
| Place: Mines Nancy – Campus Artem 92 rue du Sergent Blandan 54 000 Nancy |
| Valentiny Foundation - Vortragsreihe Energie |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 19 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 19:00 20:00 | |
| Place: Valentiny Foundation 34 route du vin, L-5440 Remerschen |
| Development of colorectal cancer kit detection |
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| Published on Wednesday, 20 November 2019 | |
| Biologists from the University of Luxembourg together with researchers from the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL) and oncologists from the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) are in the... |
| The “Physics meets Biology” website is launched! |
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| Published on Thursday, 21 November 2019 | |
| Physicists and biologists from the University of Luxembourg have recently launched the "Physics meets Biology" website. This initiative combines expertise in condensed matter physics... |
| Séminaire "Urgence climatique et éducation" |
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| Event date: Thursday, 21 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 22-11 | 12:30 | |
| Place: Cercle Cité 3 rue Genistre, L-1623 Luxembourg |
| PhD Defense: Optimisation Assisted Designing Mechanical Elements for Direct Metal Laser |
| Event date: Thursday, 21 November 2019 |
| Hour: 14:20 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus, Building JFK, JFK Salle Metz |
| Speaker: Thanh Binh CAO |
| International exchanges about value stream management standards |
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| Published on Friday, 22 November 2019 | |
| The University of Luxembourg hosted the International Standardization Organization Technical Committee ISO/TC 154 plenary meeting in October 2019. International experts from 18 participating c... |
| New opportunities for proteins identification using nanotechnology |
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| Published on Friday, 22 November 2019 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg and their international research partners have reported a comprehensive perspective on how novel nanoscale tools called plasmonic nanopores might improv... |
| PhD Defense: Feldtest und dynamische Simulation der außenliegenden Wandtemperierung - Auswertung der Ergebnisse eines Feldtests und dynamische Simulationsstudien eines außenliegenden Wand- und Lufttemperierungssystems |
| Event date: Friday, 22 November 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus, D17 |
| Speaker: Christoph Wilhelm SCHMIDT |
| Palaeoproteomic analysis for cultural heritage and molecular phylogeny beyond the limits of ancient DNA |
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| Event date: Monday, 25 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 13:00 16:00 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg, Belval campus, Biotech II | |
| Speaker: Prof. Enrico Cappellini, University of Copenhagen |
| PhD Defense: Modelling Parkinson’s disease in human midbrain organoids |
| Event date: Monday, 25 November 2019 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison de la Biomédecine II (BIOTECH II), Riken Conference Room |
| Speaker: Anna Sophia MONZEL |
| PhD Defense: Pathogenic effect of Parkinson's disease-associated Miro1 mutations in mitochondria-endoplasmic reticulum tethering and mitophagy |
| Event date: Tuesday, 26 November 2019 |
| Hour: 13:00 15:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison de la Biomédecine II (BIOTECH II), BT2-E00-15A |
| Speaker: Clara BERENGUER |
| PhD Defense: Deep Neural Networks for Personalized Sentiment Analysis with Information Decay |
| Event date: Friday, 29 November 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Nombre, MNO 1.020 |
| Speaker: Siwen GUO |
| PhD Defense: Towards a Modeling Framework with Temporal and Uncertain Data for Adaptive Systems |
| Event date: Friday, 29 November 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Kirchberg Campus, Building JFK, Salle JFK-E00-005 |
| Speaker: Ludovic MOULINE |
| PhD Defense: Graph-Based Algorithms for Smart Mobility Planning and Large-Scale Network Discovery |
| Event date: Tuesday, 03 December 2019 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Nombre, Room MSA 4.530 |
| Speaker: Boonyarit CHANGAIVAL |
| Ferro-Tech wins the PRODPILOT productivity Grand Prix |
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| Published on Friday, 06 December 2019 | |
| “Don’t find fault. Find a remedy”, a famous quote from Henry Ford describes very well the basic idea behind the INTERREG A- Greater Region project PRODPILOT. |
| Graduation Ceremony Saar-Lor-Lux Bachelor programme in physics |
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| Event date: Friday, 06 December 2019 | |
| Hour: 17:00 19:00 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg, auditoire BS 0.04 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg |
| FSTC Graduation Ceremony 2019 |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 10 December 2019 | |
| Hour: 14:00 21:00 | |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir |
| PhD Defense: Improvement of the load-bearing capacity of dry-stacked masonry |
| Event date: Wednesday, 11 December 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Nombre, MNO 1.040 |
| Speaker: CHEWE NGAPEYA Gelen Gael |
| FSTC Graduation Ceremony 2019: congratulations to new graduates! |
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| Published on Thursday, 12 December 2019 | |
| The Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) conferred degrees to 107 bachelor and 98 master students in mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science and life sciences. Twelve... |
| Colorectal cancer initiation and progression: the role of low oxygen |
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| Published on Friday, 13 December 2019 | |
| Scientists from the University of Luxembourg together with researchers from the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL) and the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) have recently demonstr... |
| Three doctoral candidates in biology receive the 2019 Pelican Grant |
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| Published on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 | |
| Borja Gomez Ramos, Nadège Minoungou and Mina Tsenkova, three PhD students from the Life Sciences Research Unit (LSRU) at the University of Luxembourg, have recently been awarded the Pelican Grant f... |
| Surfing on Quantum Waves: protein folding revisited |
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| Published on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 | |
| Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg have now unambiguously shown that quantum-mechanical wavelike interactions are indeed crucial even at the scale of natural biological processes. |
| A stroll in the world of finitely generated groups |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 17 December 2019 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval Maison du Savoir, room 3.110 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Indira Chatterji |
| Amal Tawakuli awarded the 2019 Zonta Women in Technology Scholarship |
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| Published on Wednesday, 18 December 2019 | |
| Amal Tawakuli, a doctoral candidate within the Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) at the University of Luxembourg, has recently received the 2019 Women in Technology Scholarshi... |
| FSTC becomes FSTM |
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| Published on Wednesday, 18 December 2019 | |
| As of 1 January 2020, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) has become the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) with five new departments. This change is the res... |
| PhD Defense: Deep Pattern Mining for Program Repair |
| Event date: Wednesday, 18 December 2019 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Belval Campus, Maison de la Biomédecine II (BIOTECH II), Conference 1-2 |
| Speaker: LIU Kui |
| Remise officielle des diplômes de la Formation Spécifique en Médecine Générale |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 18 December 2019 | |
| Hour: 17:00 20:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, auditoire 0.03 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Astigmath: Math et jeux |
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| Event date: Sunday, 30 May 2021 | |
| Hour: 11:30 12:30 | |
| Place: Online |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Ferdi Schüth, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DyProSo 2021: International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids |
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| Event date: Sunday, 05 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 09-09 | 18:00 | |
| Place: University of Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg 162a rue de la Faïencerie Luxembourg. |
| ICCMA 2021 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14-11 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg |
