News & Events

GEM Day: Girls Exploring Math
Event date: Tuesday, 02 April 2019
Hour: 9:30 16:00
Place: Belval Campus

First GEM Day: promoting mathematics among girls
Published on Friday, 05 April 2019
On 2 April 2019, the first edition of GEM (Girls Exploring Math) Day was organised at the University of Luxembourg. Twenty-two students from the Lycée Hubert Clément and Lycée des Garçons in Esch s...

Tessellations of the plane and beyond
Event date: Tuesday, 23 April 2019
Hour: 16:30 17:30
Place: Belval Campus Maison du Savoir, room 3.040 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
Speaker: Fanny Kassell

L’Université nomme trois professeures et un professeur invité
Published on Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Sur proposition du Prof. Stéphane Pallage, recteur de l’Université du Luxembourg, le conseil de gouvernance de l’Université a lors de sa récente séance nommé trois professeures.

Mathematical Careers Day
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

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

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