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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY Area of Advance | Welcome to the April newsletter!A month with a lot of action! 8 April we held the seminar Swedish universities in European Chips Act. It was an interesting day with many insights.
This is certainly an urgent topic. We thank everyone who helped in making this a good and rewarding day, speakers, exhibitors and not least the audience!
We have now published a webpage from the day with an article and some photos. Here you will also find links to related news. Link to article.
One interesting spin off on the subject is a
news item about semiconductors where SVT Väst visits Chalmers
cleanroom. Find out more about it in this newsletter.
Finally, we encourage you to save the date for the security conference CyberSweden 2025, 10-11 September at Chalmers. | Enjoy this and much more in this newsletter!
Best regards from the ICT team.
Erik Ström,
Director, Information and Communication Technology Area of Advance News | Events | Calls | Vacancies | | | | Chalmers clean-room featured on SVT Semiconductors - essential components in everything from household toasters to cutting-edge space rockets - constitute the backbone of modern technology. However, global challenges such as pandemics and geopolitical tensions can disrupt supply chains, leaving industries vulnerable. To strengthen Europe's independence in semiconductor manufacturing, a state-of-the art and dust-free lab at Chalmers Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience has become an indispensable asset. Last Wednesday, the MC2 Myfab clean-room made the headlines as SVT paid it a visit! Take a look as MC2's Head of Department Maria Messing and Erik Ström, Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Director of IKT Area of Advance, give them a tour around the lab! | | |
Jan Grahn on how China's trade ban
affects the chip industryOn the topic of semiconductors, earlier this week Jan Grahn spoke with Ny Teknik about the implications of China's export ban and the ongoing trade war for the global supply chain within the industry. Additionally, he discussed Europe's - and specifically Sweden's - prospects for entering the semiconductor manufacturing market in the coming years. | | | Amplifier with tenfold bandwidth opens up for super lasers
The rapidly increasing data traffic is placing ever greater demands on the capacity of communication systems. In an article published in the prestigious journal Nature, a research team from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, introduces a new amplifier that enables the transmission of ten times more data per second than those of current fiber-optic systems. This amplifier, which fits on a small chip, holds significant potential for various critical laser systems, including those used in medical diagnostics and treatment.
| | | AI on the move: How artificial intelligence is reshaping logistics
AI is rapidly transforming logistics, paving the way for significantly more efficient supply chains. But just as AI-powered logistics will help logistics, transport and supply chain actors work faster and better it will also make some tasks redundant. These were some of the messages from Northern LEAD Day 2025, which highlighted the opportunities and implications of AI’s accelerating reshaping of the field.
| | | Rekrytering stärker banden
mellan KTH och ChalmersAlexandre Proutiere, välkänd forskare på KTH inom datavetenskap och maskininlärning ansluter på deltid till Chalmers, för att stärka forskningsmiljön inom AI.
--- Recruitment strengthens ties
between KTH and ChalmersAlexandre Proutiere, a well-known researcher at KTH in computer science and machine learning joins Chalmers part-time to strengthen the research environment in AI. | | | | | | "Försämringar för amerikanska universitet drabbar oss alla"Rektor kommenterar. "Den allvarligaste följden som jag ser det, av förändringarna i USA, är att världens motor för akademisk utveckling riskerar att försvagas" skriver rektor Martin Nilsson Jacobi om situationen för lärosätena i USA.
Han intervjuades också av både Svenska
Dagbladet och Göteborgs-Posten i frågan.
| | | "Hard times for American universities affects all of us"President's perspective. "The most serious consequence, as I see it, of the changes in the U.S. is that the world’s engine for academic development risks being weakened", President Martin Nilsson Jacobi writes in a comment on the situation for higher education in the USA.
He was also interviewed by Svenska
Dagbladet och Göteborgs-Posten in the matter. | | | | | Optisk förstärkare
och halvledare i mediefokus Ett Nature-publicerat framsteg från Peter Andreksons forskargrupp har fått stor medieuppmärksamhet runtom i världen. Det handlar om en optisk förstärkare som kan överföra tio gånger mer data per sekund än dagens teknik. SVT Nyheter Väst och SVT:s Rapport sände nyligen ett reportage från labbet på MC2, och internationellt har medier som amerikanska Interesting Engineering/MSN, spanska La Razón Digital och kinesiska Sohu rapporterat.
SVT Nyheter Väst besökte nyligen också renrummet på MC2, för att rapportera om den pågående kraftsamlingen för oberoende elektronikproduktion i Europa, där halvledarkomponenter spelar en nyckelroll. | | | Optical amplifier and
semiconductors in media focus A Nature-published article from Peter Andrekson's research group has received a lot of media attention around the world. The advance is an optical amplifier that can transmit ten times as much data per second, compared to today's technology. SVT Nyheter Väst and SVT's Rapport recently recorded a segment from the lab at MC2, and internationally, media such as American Interesting Engineering/MSN, Spanish La Razón Digital and Chinese Sohu have reported.
SVT Nyheter Väst recently also visited the cleanroom at MC2, to report on the ongoing gathering of forces for independent electronics production in Europe, where semiconductor components play a key role.
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Världens minsta
användbara kylskåp
När vi tänker på kylning är det oftast mat vi har i åtanke – men inom kvantteknik är det avgörande för att hålla systemen stabila.
Nu har forskare vid Chalmers tagit fram ett kvantkylskåp – en apparat som kyler ner kvantsystem till extremt låga temperaturer och därmed minskar felen redan från start.
En av personerna bakom arbetet är Aamir Ali, som började studera fysik redan som tolvåring och i dag arbetar med att lösa en av kvantdatorernas största utmaningar: att hålla så kallade qubitar stabila genom att kyla ner dem till nära den absoluta nollpunkten.
| | | The world's smallest
useful refrigerator
When we think of refrigeration, we usually think of food – but in quantum computing, it's key to keeping devices stable.
Now, researchers at Chalmers have developed a quantum refrigerator – a device that helps cool down quantum devices to ultra-low temperatures, removing errors from the very beginning. One person behind this work is Aamir Ali, that started studying physics at just 12 years old and is now working on solving one of quantum computing’s biggest challenges: keeping qubits stable by cooling them down to near absolute zero.
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How data-driven studies translate into chemical and physical principles
AI for Science seminar with Rose Cersonsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison. | | | | |
Enabling Near-Field Communications: Beam Shaping, Optimization, and Channel/Data Estimation
Welcome to the seminar with Professor Koji Ishibashi, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. The seminar is sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA).
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Transformative impacts of machine learning on transportation planning and policy researchWelcome to a seminar with professor Xinyu (Jason) Cao from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,
internationally well-known for his research on residential self-selection in the relationships between the built environment and travel behavior.
As a conventional approach to uncover the relationships between variables, data modeling usually requires a priori assumption. However, if the assumption does not hold true, data modeling may yield questionable findings and theories. This presentation highlights the usefulness of machine learning approaches in improving our understanding of the relationships between variables.
Xinyu (Jason) Cao specializes in land use and transportation interaction, the effects of ICT on travel behavior, and planning for quality of life. His recent work focuses on using machine learning to address the nonlinear relationship in the land use-transportation research. | | | Participation
Please register for physical or online participation via the registration form. Microsoft Teams Meeting ID: 363 615 664 232
Passcode: s9Ro337F | | | Collaborate to transform:Sustainable production in a changing world |
How do we maintain sustainable production and resilience in a continuously changing world? We are more than ever right in the middle of a changed and transforming world order where industry must swiftly adapt to new and complex conditions where access to technology, critical materials and skills and competences may be disrupted. Responding to this requires innovative thinking and the ability to transform current mindsets and ways of working. At the same time, climate change requires a shift in production to minimize climate impact. The urgency and complexity of the task calls for a joint-up thinking and a co-creative effort – we need to collaborate to transform! Welcome to a seminar about these urgent issues!
Welcome to a day where we discuss these issues from several perspectives: - Navigating sustainable production and resilience through collaborative approaches
Lars Nyborg - Managing the Twin Transformation: The Power of Collective Intelligence to Harvest the Complementary Opportunities of Sustainability and Digitalization
Frank Piller - Partnership is the new leadership
Fredrik Carlsson - Humanitarian Logistics: Where Collaboration and Transformation are Matters of Life and Death
Sarah Schiffling
As audience, you will have the opportunity to engage in the discussion and help us to co-create an even sharper view on the topic of the day. The day is moderated by Pernilla Warberg. Find out more about the programme and the speakers at our website! | | | | | | | Workshop in Advancements in High-Dimensional Methods for Machine LearningThis two-day workshop brings together researchers from computer science, statistical physics, and high-dimensional probability to explore fundamental challenges in machine learning. The event will feature both international and local speakers, covering key interdisciplinary topics such as bayesian inference, signal processing. machine learning theory and rigorous mathematical foundations of machine learning Where: Scaniasalen, Campus Johanneberg Register here by May 19. | | | | | Seminar, AI4Science:
Multiscale Modeling with Machine Learning Potentials
Speaker: Julija Zavadlav, Technical University of Munich
Multiscale modeling is essential for understanding complex phenomena in fields ranging from life sciences to materials engineering. A prominent research area is the development of machine learning potentials (MLPs), which have emerged as a powerful tool for bridging the gap between quantum-mechanical accuracy and classical molecular dynamics efficiency. I will showcase the significant achievements of both atomistic and coarse-grained MLPs in effectively capturing many-body interactions. Julija Zavadlav is an Assistant Professor for Multiscale Modeling of Fluid Materials at the Technical University of Munich.
Location: Online, or Edit Analysen, Chalmers Campus Johanneberg
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International Electric Vehicle SymposiumThe
world's most important conference
for electric transportation, EVS38, will be held at Svenska Mässan on
June 15-18, 2025. Gothenburg City is hosting the event, which is
aimed at a broad range of experts and anyone interested in the future
of electric mobility. Of course, Chalmers will be well represented.
EVS
brings together politicians,
industry, policymakers and researchers from all over the world, and
is expected to attract 10,000 visitors and experts from 70 countries
to Gothenburg. This is the first time the congress will take place in
Sweden.
Sonia
Yeh, Professor of Energy
and Transportation Systems at Chalmers, is looking forward to the
conference:
"The
interest in EVS38 is record-breaking. Chalmers leads several research forefront on
electromobility. With your contributions, we can showcase them to the
world at EVS. The conference provides excellent networking
opportunities as it includes scientific programs, panel discussions,
keynotes, and exhibitions". | | | | |
CyberSweden 2025Cybercampus, RISE and Chalmers are proud to announce CyberSweden 2025—the first annual research conference dedicated to advancing the field of cyber security through world-class dialogue and collaboration. Join us at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, 10-11th of September for an immersive two-day event featuring prominent speakers and leading researchers from around the globe. CyberSweden 2025 brings together academia, industry, and government to explore the latest breakthroughs, share cutting-edge research, and discuss the most pressing challenges and opportunities in the cyber security landscape. What to expect: - Keynotes by internationally renowned experts
- In-depth research presentations and panels
- Opportunities for networking and cross-sector collaboration
- A poster session/showcase of emerging technologies and innovative projects
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