Category: Research

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    A First Step to Space for High School Students

    On 23 April a select group of Luxembourgish high school students gathered at the Elsenborn Airbase in Belgium to experience the satisfaction of launching a satellite for themselves. The students were participants in the second annual CanSat competition organised by the Luxembourg arm of the European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO).

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    Dept. of Physics & Materials Science and LIST/MRT cohost PhD gathering

    In the framework of the Doctoral Programme in Physics and Materials Science (DPPM), the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) of the University of Luxembourg and the Department of Materials Research and Technology at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST/MRT) invited all PhD candidates, supervisors, and scientists working on related research fields to…

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    2022 Pelican Grant: five doctoral students awarded

    Susanne Gonder, Elisa Gomez De Lope, Kyriaki Barmpa, Andrea Scafidi, Catherine Delbrouck have recently been awarded the Pelican Grant from the Fondation du Pélican de Mie et Pierre Hippert-Faber. It is now 10 years that the grant is offered to students in support to their training and mobility activities in the context of their research projects.

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    The Mitacs Globalink Research awarded to Claudia Bandiera

    PhD student Claudia Bandiera supervised by Prof. Viti and belonging to the FNR Bridges Maas4All, received the Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) for research in Canada. This grant will allow her to spend 3 to 4 months at the Université de Montréal, hosted by Prof. Emma Frejinger where she will be able to work on her project “Mobility-as-a-Service Equilibrium…

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    A new Doctoral Training Unit

    Discipline of history from an “age of scarcity” to an “age of abundance”Making sense of such “big data of the past” requires new approaches to data management, mining, visualization, and interpretation – an endeavour that poses multiple challenges to the disciplines of both history and data science.

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    The University of Luxembourg leading research in thermodynamics

    Molecular machines are the smallest machines ever built by mankind and such outstanding result has been sealed by the 2016 Nobel prize in Chemistry. But how do such machines really work?

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    Tiny but Mighty: Atomic Forces at the Engineering Scale

    An interdisciplinary manuscript reporting on a collaboration between physicists and computational engineers from the University of Luxembourg and Padova (Italy) has been published in Physical Review Letters. This work reveals that interactions between many electrons in materials can induce a colossal enhancement of atomic forces at the nanoscale and in large engineering-scale systems.

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    A new academic cooperation

    The University of Luxembourg and the Freie Universität Berlin, ranked 83rd by Times Higher Education,  have recently signed a 5 years agreement for academic cooperation and exchange.

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    JEO award winner for findings in machine learning methods in sports

    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 learning methods in sport injury prediction and prevention: a systematic review” received this high-level recognition and showing us once again the importance of mathematics,…

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    First edition of the Math Day Competition

    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.

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