News & Events

Prof. Yannick Baraud appointed as ERA chair holder in data science
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...

Science Festival 2019: play with Science!
Event date: Thursday, 07 November 2019
Hour: 10:00 10-11 \| 18:00
Place: Luxembourg-Grund Musée national d’histoire naturelle + Abbaye Neumünster

Journées SL2R

Event date: Thursday, 05 December 2019

Hour: 15:00 06-12 | 14:00

Place: Maison du Savoir Room MSA 3.350

Speaker: Erik van den Ban (Utrecht), Wolfgang Bertram (Lorraine), Sourav Ghosh (Luxembourg), Ines Kath (Greifswald), Bernhard Krötz (Paderborn), Salah Mehdi (Lorraine), Rupert Yu (Reims)

A stroll in the world of finitely generated groups
Event date: Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Hour: 16:00 17:00
Place: Campus Belval Maison du Savoir, room 3.110
Speaker: Prof. Indira Chatterji

Inaugural lecture Prof. Yannick Baraud
Event date: Thursday, 23 January 2020
Hour: 15:30 18:30
Place: Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.520
Speaker: Prof. Yannick Baraud

Lost in Translation Surfaces

Event date: Wednesday, 29 January 2020

Hour: 9:00 31-01 | 18:00

Place: UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG Maison du Nombre Room MNO 1.020

Speaker: Marcos Cossarini, Vincent Delecroix, Viveka Erlandsson, Linda Kleist, Francis Lazarus, Arnaud de Mesmay, Bram Petri, Anja Randecker, Matěj Stehlík

From Thurston's Corrugations to Smooth Fractals
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

New Bachelors in Engineering, Medicine, Physics and Mathematics
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.

Astigmath : le quiz qui corrige votre vision des maths !
Event date: Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Hour: 17:00 17:45

A Andersson's Defense

Event date: Thursday, 30 April 2020

Hour: 14:00 16:00

Speaker: Assar Andersson

Quiz Astigmath: great success for the first edition
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...

International Day for Women in Mathematics
Event date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Hour: 15:30 17:45

J Devillet's Defense

Event date: Friday, 22 May 2020

Hour: 14:00 16:00

Speaker: Jimmy Devillet

Les mathématiques, un grand défi de cette pandémie
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...

ERC Grantee strengthens mathematics, statistics and finance
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...

First edition of Math camp: Making math easier, one scoop at a time
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...

SanDAL Workshop on Data Science
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

SanDAL Workshop on Data Science: great interest among researchers
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...

Daniel Berhanu Mamo's Defense

Event date: Wednesday, 02 December 2020

Hour: 14:00 16:00

Astigmath - Le ciel dans tous ses états
Event date: Thursday, 03 December 2020
Hour: 19:00 20:00
Place: Online

SanDAL Winter School on Mathematical Statistics
Event date: Monday, 07 December 2020
Hour: 9:00 11-12 \| 18:00
Place: Online

Astigmath: learning mathematics and space by playing
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...

Young mathematicians exchange about data science
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...

Better understanding numerical simulation errors with probability
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...

Mathematical didactics: learning how to become a math teacher
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...

Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2020 in science
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...

How to better solve estimation problems
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...

Astigmath - Math et culture
Event date: Sunday, 14 March 2021
Hour: 18:00 19:00
Place: Online

Astigmath - Fêtons la journée de Pi

Event date: Sunday, 14 March 2021

Hour: 18:00 19:00

Speaker: Olga Paris - Romaskevich, Hugo Parlier, Bruno Teheux.

False Discovery rate control with unknown null distribution

Event date: Thursday, 18 March 2021

Hour: 13:00 14:00

Speaker: Etienne Roquain from LPSM, Sorbonne University

Adding numbers and shuffling cards
Event date: Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Hour: 16:00 17:00
Place: Online
Speaker: Persi Diaconis, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University

The percolation phase transition of the random plane wave

Event date: Thursday, 06 May 2021

Hour: 13:00 19-01 | 4:14

Place: WEBEX

Speaker: Hugo Vanneuville from Université Grenoble-Alpes

Knotty Games
Event date: Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Hour: 16:00 16:50
Place: Online
Speaker: Prof. Allison Henrich, Seattle University

Probability and Statistics seminar

Event date: Thursday, 20 May 2021

Hour: 13:00 14:00

Speaker: Anna Gusakova from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Probability and Statistics seminar

Event date: Thursday, 27 May 2021

Hour: 13:00 14:00

Speaker: Louis Gass from IRMAR

Astigmath: Math et jeux
Event date: Sunday, 30 May 2021
Hour: 11:30 12:30
Place: Online

Probability and Statistics seminar

Event date: Thursday, 10 June 2021

Hour: 13:00 14:00

Speaker: Yvik Swan from Université Libre de Bruxelles

Multiplicities seminar

Event date: Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Hour: 16:00 17:00

Speaker: Lisa Sauermann

On the cap-set problem and the slice rank polynomial method
Event date: Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Hour: 16:00 16:50
Speaker: Lisa Sauermann

MATh.en.JEANS: secondary school students present their results
Published on Tuesday, 22 June 2021
On 18 June 2021, the University of Luxembourg welcomed 16 secondary school students from the lycée Alfred Mézières Longwy for a one day MATh.en.JEANS conference. Students had the opportunity to pre...

Probability and Statistics seminar

Event date: Thursday, 24 June 2021

Hour: 13:00 14:00

Speaker: Maurizia Rossi from University of Milano-Bicocca

Probability and Statistics seminar

Event date: Thursday, 01 July 2021

Hour: 13:00 14:00

Speaker: Christoph Thäle from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

PhD Defence

Event date: Tuesday, 06 July 2021

Hour: 14:00 15:00

Speaker: Luca Notarnicola

International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields (ICON STARF)
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

Data Science Summer School for high-school students
Event date: Monday, 19 July 2021
Hour: 9:00 23-07 \| 16:30
Place: Belval Campus

Statistics: a constantly evolving field
Published on Friday, 23 July 2021
On the occasion of the International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields (ICON STARF) which took place remotely on 12-16 July 2021, young researchers and renowned experts from around the wo...

Data Science Summer School: success for the first edition
Published on Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The first edition of the Data Science Summer School gathered 12 secondary school students from 19 to 23 July 2021 on Belval campus to learn more about data science. They enjoyed a lot the interacti...

Mathematician receives prestigious grant in machine learning
Published on Monday, 30 August 2021
Mikołaj Kasprzak, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg has been recently selected for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship programme....

New Professor in Algebra joins the Department of Mathematics
Published on Monday, 30 August 2021
Pieter Belmans has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as Assistant Professor, specialised in algebraic geometry.

Boot Camp

Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021

Hour: 9:00 10-09 | 16:00

Math Camp 2021
Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021
Hour: 9:00 17-09 \| 16:00
Place: Belval campus Maison du Savoir

Prep Camp

Event date: Monday, 13 September 2021

Hour: 9:00 17-09 | 16:00

Seminar "Graph complexes in algebra and geometry"

Event date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Hour: 11:00 12:00

Place: Webex meeting

Speaker: Matija Bašić

Leiden-Luxembourg Number Theory PhD Day 2021

Event date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Hour: 12:00 17:00

Place: Campus Belval MSA 3.520

Second edition of Math Camp: for a good start in mathematics
Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021
The second Math Camp, organised by the University of Luxembourg from 6 to 17 September 2021, gathered more than 150 new students who were interested in being well prepared to start their bachelor d...

Mathematical Careers Day 2021
Event date: Thursday, 30 September 2021
Hour: 16:15 19:00
Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette

University launches a website for its Esch2022 projects
Published on Monday, 04 October 2021
In February 2022, the University’s hometown Esch-sur-Alzette will launch the European Capital of Culture 2022, under the leitmotiv REMIX. The University will support Esch2022 with eight diverse and...

Discovering mathematical careers: a wide range of job opportunities
Published on Wednesday, 06 October 2021
On 30 September 2021, around 70 participants attended the third edition of the Mathematical Careers Day at the University of Luxembourg, on Belval campus. Bachelor, Master and PhD students in mathe...

The Inside View: Raymarching and the Thurston geometries

Event date: Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Hour: 16:00 17:00

Place: Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98679092296

Speaker: Sabetta Matsumoto

Deconvolution with unknown noise distribution

Event date: Thursday, 14 October 2021

Hour: 16:00 17:00

Place: Campus Belval MSA 3.530

Speaker: Pr. Elisabeth Gassiat

What make statistics robust?
Published on Monday, 18 October 2021
Robustness has become a major issue in statistical learning and deep learning today. Mathematicians from the University of Luxembourg have recently published a paper in the prestigious journal ...