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    Prof. Siebentritt receives honorary doctorate from Uppsala University

    Prof. Susanne Siebentritt from the Department of Physics at the University of Luxembourg has recently been awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. This distinction marks her impressive work on the development of thin film solar cells and research on complex material systems used in them, like chalcopyrites and kesterites. She has…

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    Soins de santé en mouvement : journée d’échanges entre professionnels

    L’Université du Luxembourg a accueilli le 26 janvier 2023 une centaine de personnes à l’occasion de la première journée d’échanges organisée par le Ministère de la Santé sur le thème « Les soins de santé en mouvement : la conceptualisation des soins ».

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    Significant advances in nonequilibrium physics

    Phase transitions are ubiquitous in Nature and manifest in the sudden changes in the state of matter when the external conditions are varied. Cooling a piece of iron can turn it into a ferromagnet and make a gas of alkali atoms form a Bose-Einstein condensate. The driving of phase transition leads to the formation of…

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    Luxembourg and Japanese Universities exchange about data science

    The Luxembourg-Waseda conference on Modelling and Inference for Complex Data took place from January 23-25 at the University of Luxembourg in hybrid mode. Around 100 participants registered online and in person for this event which offered a quite diversified and broad range of methods and tools to deal with complex data. 

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    Computational Modeling of Handwriting Movements

    On February 9th in Maison du Savoir in Belval, around 40 participants gathered together to listen to the inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Luis Leiva on “Computational Modeling of Handwriting Movements”.

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    (post)Modern Thermodynamics School and Workshop

    Organized by members of the Department of Physics and Materials Science and co-funded by the FNR and by the University of Luxembourg, the event (post)Modern Thermodynamics consisted of a school and a workshop that took place at the University of Luxembourg during the second week of December 2022. Approximately 30 members from the University of…

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    Experimental Mathematics Lab: A research experience for students

    Giving students a real research experience and a very different learning environment from very early on in their studies — that is the aim of the Experimental Mathematics Lab in the Department of Mathematics.

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    Physics department workshop: community building & synergy development

    The annual workshop of the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) was held on December 5th, 2022, at the Maison des Arts et des Etudiants on the Belval Campus. This event is a great opportunity for academic members of the Department and bachelor/master students in physics to discuss with colleagues and fellow scientists and…

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    Workshops to improve doctor-patient communication

    Over semester 5 last year, the year 3 medical students at the University of Luxembourg had the opportunity to develop their doctor-patient communication skills, and to train on various profiles of patients: the depressed patient, the taciturn patient, the talkative patient, the aggressive patient. To this end, two professional actors, Ms Monique Melsen and Ms…

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    Research project on circular economy receives FNR grant

    CircuRement (promote resource recoverability by aligning product designs with end-of-life process chains), a project carried out within the Department of Engineering, has received the FNR JUMP grant. 

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