'Tis the time of new Bachelors, Masters and Doctors
Yes, Ljusgården is filled with seats and finely dressed people. Students and family members ready to celebrate the new graduates. Hard work has paid off and a milestone has been reached. Congrats!
It truly is an action-packed time of year with speeches by our new honorary doctors today, a symposium on data driven innovation on 5 June and on the same day an open event on story-telling with South African author Karen Jennings.
In "Messages" we want to highlight information from Lund University about funds available for the development of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL).
Lastly, we have been informed that early this morning police sealed off the area of the Pro-Palestinian demonstration in Lundagård and initiated an eviction of the demonstrators.
Statistics Professor Malgorzata Bogdan named IMS Fellow 2024
Malgorzata Bogdan, Professor of Statistics, Lund University School of Economics and Management and University of Wroclaw, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
Markus Lahtinen is the new chairman for Säkerhet för Näringsliv och Samhälle
Markus Lahtinen, Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Informatics at Lund University School of Economics and Management, assumed the position of chairman for the think tank Säkerhet för Näringsliv och Samhälle (SNOS, Security for Industry and Society).
Predicting the redshifts of distant astronomical objects with machine learning
NASA Swift satellite and AI unravel the distance of the farthest gamma-ray bursts. In this project, LUSEM Statistics Professor Malgorzata Bogdan, consulted on the choice of statistical methods and the interpretation of the results. The research article was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters on 24 May.
The Unit for Educational Services at Lund University has just launched its first part of a webinar series on availability and inclusion. The next webinar on 27 August will be featuring Deputy Vice Chancellor Jimmie Kristensson. The webinars are held in Swedish, but with subtitles in English.
Natalie Irmert is awarded Ratio’s scholarship for young researchers
In 2022, Ratio instituted this scholarship, which is specifically aimed at doctoral students and newly-disputed researchers, who want to acquire new experience and skills in research related to the conditions of business. Natalie Irmert has been awarded a scholarship of SEK 50 000.
Errors detected in several historical consumer price indices
Several inaccuracies in historical CPIs in popular online databases have been discovered, according to new research by Jonas Ljungberg at Lund University, published in Cliometrica. This can have major consequences for both research and the decisions politicians make regarding economic policy.
Curious and want to get a brief glimpse of what was on the agenda at the latest Faculty board meeting? By "Minutes in brief" you can get, yes exactly, brief information.
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