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Chercheurs à l’école 2019: promoting scientific vocations

From 25 to 29 March 2019, 19 researchers from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) participated in the 9th 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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Open Day 2019: thanks for your participation

Organised by the University of Luxembourg on 23 March 2019 in Belval, the Open Day was a great opportunity to present our Bachelor and Master programmes in mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science and life sciences. In addition, visitors could enjoy interactive activities organised by our students, teachers and researchers.

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Innovation in the building sector: researchers meet industrials

The third meeting “Research: innovation and construction” organised by the University of Luxembourg, OAI, Neobuild, LIST, Luxinnovation and CNCD gathered more than 200 participants from academia and industry on 26 February 2019 in the Chambre des Métiers.

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Hackathon: design & coding technology solutions at the University

From 1 to 3 February 2019, students of the Master in Information and Computer Sciences (MICS) as well as from Saarland University participated in the hackathon, a concept launched for the first time at the University of Luxembourg by adjunct Prof. Dr. Sergio Coronado, with the support of Prof. Dr. Romain Martin, Vice-Rector for academic…

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NEUBIAS 2019: fruitful exchanges on bioimage analysis

The third European BioImage Analysts Conference NEUBIAS gathered almost 300 participants from 2 to 8 February 2019 in Luxembourg. Researchers, image analysists, microscopists, software developers and industrial partners from all over the world discussed the recent scientific developments and open tools in bioimage analysis.

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Robotix-Academy: discovering industrial robotics at the University

The fifth edition of the Robotix-Academy took place at the University of Luxembourg, on Kirchberg Campus, from 04 to 08 February 2019. This five-day training gathered 40 Master students, 4 professors and a dozen assistants from different partner Universities of the Greater Region: Université de Lorraine (France), Université de Liège (Belgium), ZeMA Saarbrücken (Germany) and…

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PMC Pump Prime Fund 2018 for Elisabeth Letellier

In the frame of the annual retreat of the Personalised Medicine Consortium (PMC), which took place in December 2018, Dr. Elisabeth Letellier from the Life Sciences Research Unit (LSRU) received an award for her research on colorectal cancer.

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Master MSSI celebrates 10 years !

Launched in 2009 by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), the « Master en Management de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information” (MSSI) has been very successful to train high level information security managers. Ten years after, it was time to celebrate this achievement, to give an overview and to…

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« Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles »: research and ethical challenges

The five-day workshop on « Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles » took place from 21 to 25 January 2019 at the University of Luxembourg. The two guest researchers Antonio Bikić and Adriano Mannino (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) did impressively show, which research questions we will be confronted in the future with regard to autonomous vehicles and their ethical challenges.

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“Physics meets Biology” meeting: fruitful interdisciplinary exchanges

What happens when physicists meet biologists? A dense and rich event with exciting presentations and lively discussions. This is how a recent initiative from the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit (PHYMS) and the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LSCB) from the University of Luxembourg started with the first edition of the “Physics meets Biology”…