Category: Research

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    Agreement with Ministry of Economy for teaching and research in HPC

    The Ministry of the Economy and the University of Luxembourg have signed an agreement that provides a framework for higher education and research activities focused on High-Performance Computing, including the creation by the University of a pilot European Master’s degree in High-Performance Computing, Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. The Ministry of the Economy has…

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    Uni opens physics and engineering labs for 16th Portes Ouvertes

    Following in previous years’ footsteps, the University of Luxembourg once again opened its physics and engineering laboratories to the public this year.

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    EIC Pathfinder grant for research in AI-driven data visualisation

    A team of researchers from the University of Luxembourg, AEGIS IT Research GmbH (Germany), Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and Telefónica I+D (Spain) has received an EIC Pathfinder Challenge grant of 4 million euros for their research in AI-driven data visualisation systems. This is the first EIC Pathfinder grant that is coordinated by the University…

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    “Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg”: Visit University Labs

    The University of Luxembourg will participate in the 16th edition of the “Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg”.

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    Partnership with Daiwa Pharmaceutical on dietary guidelines in cancer

    The University of Luxembourg and Daiwa Pharmaceutical, a Japanese leading supplier of functional foods, have entered a strategic partnership, along with the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch and the Luxembourg Institute of Health, with the aim to study dietary supplements for cancer patients and to identify the underlying mechanisms between gut bacteria (microbiome), its derived metabolites…

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    Spresso: Historical newspaper photography goes supercomputing

    While supercomputers are traditionally being used in physics, material science and advanced chemistry, the Spresso project entails the very first formal cooperation between the Luxembourgish supercomputer MeluXina, the Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg and an interdisciplinary team of researchers of the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Department of Computer Science of the…

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    University of Luxembourg to use AWS Processors in HPC Research

    Today, the University of Luxembourg announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud computing infrastructure in order to accelerate strategic high-performance computing (HPC) research and development in Europe.

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    First professors appointed in nursing sciences

    The Board of Governors of the University of Luxembourg has appointed Laurence Bernard and Marie Friedel Full professors in Nursing Sciences who will jointly develop a comprehensive study offer in Nursing at the University.

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    Amazon to support student research at the University of Luxembourg

    Amazon and the University of Luxembourg have signed a five-year agreement to support thesis research projects at the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance for students within the Master of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) programme.

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    How bacteria synchronise to build complex structures in good time

    Bacteria collaborate and coordinate collectively as they form a shared structure called a biofilm, such as the dental plaque on our teeth or the microbiome associated with our gut. This self-organisation in multiple complex layers – despite variations of cellular properties at individual level – requires that the living systems share common, yet precise time,…

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