Category : Recherche

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    Carte Blanche: About crises, climate change, time constants & hydrogen

    Europe mobilises billions of Euros these days to fight against the virus crisis. But what is the difference to the climate crisis? It is the so-called time constant, the time between an action and the system’s reaction, to say the least. The time constant of the virus crisis is a matter of days – we can…

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    A step forward towards photonic circuits with metamaterials

    Researchers from the University of Luxembourg and their international research partners have recently reported how a special kind of artificial materials, called epsilon-near-zero metamaterials, might enable an unprecedented control of light properties on a temporal scale which is 1000 billion times smaller than a second. The scientists have published an article in Communications Physics, an open…

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    Deuxième comité d’accompagnement réussi du projet PRODPILOT

    Le 28 mai 2020, le deuxième comité d’accompagnement du projet INTERREG V A PRODPILOT s’est déroulé avec succès malgré les difficultés causés par la crise sanitaire. En raison de la situation actuelle, la réunion n’a pas pu avoir lieu au Luxembourg comme prévu. Toutefois, comme le consortium ne voulait pas manquer l’occasion de présenter personnellement…

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    Quiz Astigmath: great success for the first edition

    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 ». Intended for all ages, this inaugural version attracted over 250 participants who were asked questions about mathematics, its history and its famous contributors. A lot had to…

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    Cross-border cooperation continues irrespective of lock-down

    The University of Luxembourg is part of several Interreg projects that support cooperation between local and regional partners from the Greater Region. PRODPILOT, one of these projects, focuses on analysing the status of productivity in terms of lean and Industry 4.0 using a self-assessment tool. A virtual workshop was recently organised with the six partners…

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    Zur Hochwasserhistorie der deutschen und luxemburgischen Mosel

    Offizielle Pegelaufzeichnungen der Mosel liegen seit etwas über 200 Jahren vor. Um das langfristige Trendverhalten der Hochwasserabflüsse besser abschätzen zu können, wurden auch vier Jahrhundertereignisse zwischen 1572 und 1784 rekonstruiert und statistisch analysiert. Zudem geben historische Berichte Auskunft über noch weiter zurückliegende Ereignisse, wovon das « Magdalenenhochwasser » vom Juli 1342 in mehrfacher Hinsicht ein Extremereignis war.…

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    Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions: award for physicist Daniel Barragan

    Daniel Barragan-Yani, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg, has recently been awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission. With a budget of 178.320 euros for two years, Daniel will work on defect-based quantum technology.

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    International experts exchange about weather prediction

    On 25-26 February 2020, the international workshop on improving Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tropospheric Products for Meteorology gathered more than 40 renowned experts on Kirchberg campus to exchange about the tools to improve prediction of weather.

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    Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: award for physicist Irvine Ong

    Irvine Ong, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg has been recently awarded the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission. With a budget of 178 320 euros for two years, Irvine will work on microplastic-microbe interactions.

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    LuxCube team goes to ESA Academy training workshop

    Andrija Djordjevic, student in the Bachelor of Science and Engineering in mechanical engineering at the University of Luxembourg, participated in a CubeSat training workshop given by the European Space Agency (ESA) in order to support the development of the University first CubeSat satellite: LuxCube. This was the first time that a Luxembourgish student participated in…

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