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    Changes in the DSSE

    Aline Vander Borght and Benjamin Ledran have recently joined the Doctoral School in Science and Engineering (DSSE). Aline replaces Oliver Glassl as doctoral school facilitator while Benjamin will complement the team of doctoral school administrators. Oliver Glassl takes a new challenge at the Dean’s Office to work on the development of the FSTM curricula. We…

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    Chercheurs à l’école 2021: science is magic

    From 15 to 19 March 2021, 17 researchers from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) participated in the 10th edition of « Chercheurs à l’école » organised by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). They shared their passion and experience as researchers with secondary school students in Luxembourg. 

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    The reign of algorithms

    Jim Jean-Pierre Barthel, doctoral researcher within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg, explains algorithms taking the example of chess game between human and machine.

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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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