Category : Recherche

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    Relais pour la Vie 2021: together and connected

    The cancer research team from the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg took part in the 2021 edition organised by the Fondation Cancer.

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    Better understanding breast cancer

    Researchers from the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that Ser5 phosphorylation of the actin-bundling protein L-plastin increases breast cancer cell invasiveness. Their findings have been published in the renowned open access journal “Cell Communication and Signaling”.

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    Researchers exchange about advanced engineering materials

    The interdisciplinary workshop “Winter Workshop on Manufacturing, Mechanics & Characterisation of Advanced Engineering Materials” organised on 26-29 January 2021 by the University of Luxembourg and the University of Limerick gathered more than 60 participants.

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    How to better solve estimation problems

    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 for solving estimation problems within the Bayesian paradigm.

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    Two researchers reinforce the quantum physics team

    As of January 2021, Professor Adolfo del Campo and Dr. Aurélia Chenu have joined the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DphyMS) at the University of Luxembourg to establish the “Quantum Science and Technology” and the “Quantum Dynamics and Control” groups, respectively. 

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    Latent dimensions of global trade: a data-driven approach

    How can we encode the specialisation patterns of countries? A new article published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE by researchers from the Universities of Luxembourg and Buenos Aires answers this question using methodologies from Natural Language Processing.

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    Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2020 in science

    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 included masonry walls, IT security, geometry, large scale modeling, causes of Parkinson’s disease, light-matter interaction, laser welding, system protocols and voting procedures.

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    Mathematical didactics: learning how to become a math teacher

    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 are now secondary school teachers in Luxembourg have published their work in didactical journals and magazines for teachers.

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    Modifying molecular interactions by squeezing molecules

    In a paper published in Nature Communications on 08 January 2021, the Theoretical Chemical Physics group, from the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) at the University of Luxembourg, developed a practically applicable method that is able to accurately describe interactions between molecules in an arbitrary confining environment or ”squeezed molecules”.

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    Better understanding numerical simulation errors with probability

    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 demonstrate how probability theory provides a better understanding of numerical simulation errors and could be useful for different applications.

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