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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... |
International Day for Women in Mathematics |
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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 |
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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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
Daniel Berhanu Mamo's Defense |
Event date: Wednesday, 02 December 2020 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Astigmath - Math et culture |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Event date: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 | |
Hour: 16:00 16:50 | |
Speaker: Lisa Sauermann |
MATh.en.JEANS: secondary school students present their results |
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Published on Tuesday, 22 June 2021 | |
On 18 June 2021, the University of Luxembourg welcomed 16 secondary school students from the lycée Alfred Mézières Longwy for a one day MATh.en.JEANS conference. Students had the opportunity to pre... |
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) |
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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 |
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 |
Statistics: a constantly evolving field |
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Published on Friday, 23 July 2021 | |
On the occasion of the International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields (ICON STARF) which took place remotely on 12-16 July 2021, young researchers and renowned experts from around the wo... |
Data Science Summer School: success for the first edition |
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Published on Tuesday, 27 July 2021 | |
The first edition of the Data Science Summer School gathered 12 secondary school students from 19 to 23 July 2021 on Belval campus to learn more about data science. They enjoyed a lot the interacti... |
Mathematician receives prestigious grant in machine learning |
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Published on Monday, 30 August 2021 | |
Mikołaj Kasprzak, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg has been recently selected for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship programme.... |
New Professor in Algebra joins the Department of Mathematics |
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Published on Monday, 30 August 2021 | |
Pieter Belmans has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as Assistant Professor, specialised in algebraic geometry. |
Boot Camp |
Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021 |
Hour: 9:00 10-09 | 16:00 |
Math Camp 2021 |
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Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021 | |
Hour: 9:00 17-09 | 16:00 | |
Place: Belval campus Maison du Savoir |
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 |
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Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021 | |
The second Math Camp, organised by the University of Luxembourg from 6 to 17 September 2021, gathered more than 150 new students who were interested in being well prepared to start their bachelor d... |
Mathematical Careers Day 2021 |
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Event date: Thursday, 30 September 2021 | |
Hour: 16:15 19:00 | |
Place: Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
University launches a website for its Esch2022 projects |
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Published on Monday, 04 October 2021 | |
In February 2022, the University’s hometown Esch-sur-Alzette will launch the European Capital of Culture 2022, under the leitmotiv REMIX. The University will support Esch2022 with eight diverse and... |
Discovering mathematical careers: a wide range of job opportunities |
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Published on Wednesday, 06 October 2021 | |
On 30 September 2021, around 70 participants attended the third edition of the Mathematical Careers Day at the University of Luxembourg, on Belval campus. Bachelor, Master and PhD students in mathe... |
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? |
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Published on Monday, 18 October 2021 | |
Robustness has become a major issue in statistical learning and deep learning today. Mathematician Yannick Baraud from the University of Luxembourg has recently published a paper in the prestigious... |
Teaching Awards 2021: congrats to Gabor Wiese and Sebastiano Tronto |
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Published on Thursday, 21 October 2021 | |
At the Rentrée Académique, Gabor Wiese, Professor in Mathematics and Sebastiano Tronto, Doctoral Researcher in Mathematics, received the Teaching Awards for their outstanding wo... |
Inauguration of Exploratis at the Luxembourg Science Center |
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Event date: Saturday, 23 October 2021 | |
Hour: 15:00 18:00 | |
Place: Luxembourg Science Center 1 Rue John Ernest Dolibois, 4573 Differdange |
FNR Awards 2021: two researchers in mathematics & physics shortlisted |
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Published on Monday, 25 October 2021 | |
Mathematician Hugo Parlier and physicist Martin Stöhr from the University of Luxembourg have been shorlisted at the 13th edition of the FNR Awards. |
Exploratis: a new experimental station at the Science Center |
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Published on Thursday, 28 October 2021 | |
The Luxembourg Science Center in Differdange now boasts a new experimental station called Exploratis. Faced with intriguing puzzles, visitors can either try them by themselves, race against ea... |
A Kalugin's Defense |
Event date: Friday, 29 October 2021 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: On line |
Speaker: Alexey Kalugin |
Alexey Kalugin's defense |
Event date: Friday, 29 October 2021 |
Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
Place: UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG Maison du Nombre Room MNO 1.050 |
Speaker: Alexey Kalugin |
Adaptive estimation from indirect observations |
Event date: Thursday, 04 November 2021 |
Hour: 13:00 14:00 |
Place: MSA room 3.540 of the MSA building |
Speaker: Anatoli Juditsky from Université Grenoble-Alpes |
Science Festival 2021: participate in our workshops! |
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Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 | |
Hour: 9:00 14-11 | 19:00 | |
Place: Centre culturel de rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster + Musée national d’histoire naturelle |
Prof. Anton Thalmaier receives the Grand Prix en Mathématiques |
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Published on Tuesday, 16 November 2021 | |
The "Grand Prix en Mathématiques de l’Institut Grand-ducal" also called “Prix de la Bourse de Luxembourg” was awarded to Anton Thalmaier, Professor in Stochastics Analysis within the Depa... |
Science Festival 2021: researchers share their passion for science |
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Published on Thursday, 18 November 2021 | |
On the occasion of the Science Festival Luxembourg which took place on 11-14 November 2021 at Neumünster Abbey, researchers from the University of Luxembourg interacted with the general public to e... |
New Professor in Statistics |
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Published on Monday, 29 November 2021 | |
Christophe Ley has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as Professor in Statistics. He will reinforce the growing team of statisticians in order to boost research and training in mathematic... |
Solvability of systems of invariant differential equations on symmetric spaces G/K |
Event date: Wednesday, 15 December 2021 |
Hour: 10:00 13:00 |
Place: UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG Campus Belval, Maison du Nombre salle MNO 1.050 |
Speaker: Guenda Palmirotta |
Uni.lu “Simplicity of Complexity” showcased at Dubai World Expo |
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Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021 | |
The University of Luxembourg’s project “the simplicity of complexity », initiated by the University’s Department of Mathematics, was featured at the Luxembourg’s Pavilion at the Dubai World Ex... |
Hypothesis testing on high-dimensional spheres: the Le Cam approach |
Event date: Thursday, 16 December 2021 |
Hour: 13:00 14:00 |
Place: UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG Campus Belval |
Speaker: Davy Paindaveine |
Geometry Winter Workshop in Luxembourg |
Event date: Monday, 24 January 2022 |
Hour: 9:00 26-01 | 17:00 |
Place: CAMPUS BELVAL 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
Quantifying some properties of curves and arcs on hyperbolic surfaces |
Event date: Wednesday, 26 January 2022 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.110 |
How to become the world record holder for solving the Rubik's cube |
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Published on Monday, 31 January 2022 | |
Sebastiano Tronto, doctoral student in Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg and 2021 World record holder for solving the Rubik's cube in the least amount of moves shares his passion about th... |
Math Day 2022 |
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Event date: Saturday, 05 February 2022 | |
Hour: 9:30 15:00 | |
Place: Online |
Inaugural lecture Prof. Mark Podolskij: New developments in high dimensional statistics |
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Event date: Tuesday, 08 February 2022 | |
Hour: 11:00 14:00 | |
Place: Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.370 | |
Speaker: Prof. Mark Podolskij |
Interning in the Mathematics department |
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Published on Thursday, 10 February 2022 | |
Tatjana Van Steenbergen Bergeron is a high school pupil who did an internship in the Department of Mathematics beside Prof. Dr. Antonella Perucca, Associate Professor in Mathematics and its Didacti... |
Fast and Fair Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Functional Parameters |
Event date: Thursday, 10 February 2022 |
Hour: 13:00 14:00 |
Place: room 1.020 of MNO Campus Belval, Maison du Nombre 6 avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette |
Speaker: Dominik Liebl |
First Master student promotion in Data Science |
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Published on Friday, 11 February 2022 | |
Launched in September 2021 with 17 students from all over the world, the Master of Data Science was officially inaugurated on 7 February 2022 at the University of Luxembourg on Belval campus. This... |
Prof. Mark Podolskij gives inaugural lecture |
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Published on Monday, 14 February 2022 | |
The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Technology (FSTM) and the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) came together on 8 February 2022 to officially welcome Prof. Mark Podolskij, full profess... |
Higher supergeometry and mathematical physics' |
Event date: Tuesday, 15 February 2022 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Campus Belval room 1.040 Maison du Nombre 6, avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette |
Speaker: Eduardo IBARGUENGOYTIA |
First edition of the Math Day Competition |
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Published on Wednesday, 16 February 2022 | |
On 5 February, the Maths Team of the Department of Mathematics organised for the very first time a mathematical competition involving 50 pupils from various high-schools in Luxembourg. |
Participate in the project ReCreate! |
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Published on Thursday, 17 February 2022 | |
The University of Luxembourg, and more specifically the Department of Mathematics, will be at the Expo in Dubai from 22 February to 5 March 2022 with their project ReCreate. This is the second time... |
JEO award winner for findings in machine learning methods in sports |
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Published on Friday, 18 February 2022 | |
PhD student Hans Van Eetveld has won the JEO Award for Young Researcher in Basic Science from the European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy. His paper on “Machine learn... |
Waste-free sequential Monte-Carlo |
Event date: Thursday, 03 March 2022 |
Hour: 13:00 14:00 |
Place: Campus Belval, Room MNO 1.020 |
Speaker: Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE) |
Workshop on McKean-Vlasov SDEs and Related Topics |
Event date: Thursday, 10 March 2022 |
Hour: 13:00 11-03 | 17:00 |
Place: Campus Belval, Maison du Nombre Room 1.050 |
Speaker: Organisers: Vytautė Pilipauskaitė, Mark Podolskij |
The Rubik Show |
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Event date: Monday, 14 March 2022 | |
Hour: 17:00 18:00 | |
Place: Online (via Zoom) |
Uni's “ReCreate” Project draws over 1,000 visitors/day at Dubai Expo |
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Published on Monday, 11 April 2022 | |
University researchers Hugo Parlier and Bruno Teheux from the Department of Mathematics (DMATH) of the University of Luxembourg transformed mathematics into mind-bending gameplay experiences and sh... |
Girls Exploring Math |
Event date: Thursday, 12 May 2022 |
Hour: 9:00 16:00 |
Place: Université du Luxembourg Campus Belval |
Regularity of Stochastic processes |
Event date: Thursday, 19 May 2022 |
Hour: 9:00 20-05 | 17:00 |
Place: UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG Campus Belval, Maison du Nombre Room 1.050 Department of Mathematics 6 avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette |