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Virginia Dignum joins Nobel laureates for a discussion on AI
Published: 2026-10-06

Researchers and experts gather at the Nobel Week Dialogue, focusing on artificial intelligence this year.

3D printers can make advanced research more accessible
Published: 2026-10-05

A doctoral thesis shows that ordinary 3D printers can build advanced scientific equipment right in the lab.

New AI research strengthens privacy protection in healthcare
Published: 2026-09-30

How can we make use of sensitive data without revealing more information than is necessary?

Under stress, bacterial RNA and proteins tell different stories
Published: 2026-09-21

Researchers at Umeå University show when RNA and protein levels diverge in disease-causing bacteria.

Bacteria can help each other survive in persistent infections
Published: 2026-09-15

New thesis shows why stubborn infections may need to be understood as bacterial communities.

Tiny proteins in the spotlight at a Nobel Symposium in Umeå
Published: 2026-09-09

Leading researchers gather in Umeå for a Nobel Symposium on microproteins, tiny proteins with important roles.

Researchers receive doctoral students via MSCA Doctoral Network
Published: 2026-09-08

Nicolò Maccaferri, Aleksandra Foltynowicz and Katarina Wulff get doctoral student funding via EU programme.

New AI methods make medical image analysis more reliable
Published: 2026-09-03

New AI methods take into account the structures in medical images and provide more reliable results.

Metamaterials make the unexpected possible
Published: 2026-08-31

Who has not dreamed of an invisibility cloak? The potential of metamaterials inspires researchers worldwide.

A Few Minutes of Freezing Can Change the Fate of Iron in Nature
Published: 2026-08-27

Ice is not a passive freezer, it affects iron minerals in a warmer climate with frequent freeze-thaw-cycles.

Dissertations

Sargam Gupta, Computing Science
Fri
16
Oct
Sargam Gupta, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 16 October 09:00 - 13:00
Place NAT.D.470.

Defence of doctoral thesis. On the Limits of Privacy in Federated Learning: Personalization and Adversarial Analysis.

Saeideh Ghanbari Azar, Computing Science
Wed
21
Oct
Saeideh Ghanbari Azar, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 21 October 09:00 - 13:00
Place KBE301 – Lilla hörsalen, KBC.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Generalization, Imbalance, and Data Generation in Machine Learning.

Arvid Krantz-Horned, Computing Science
Fri
23
Oct
Arvid Krantz-Horned, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 23 October 09:00 - 13:00
Place KBE301 – Lilla hörsalen, KBC-huset.

Defence of doctoral thesis. What looks difficult to navigate on a map? An analysis of perceived route difficulty from the perspective of a map reader.

Igor Ryazanov, Computing Science
Mon
26
Oct
Igor Ryazanov, Computing Science
Time 13:00 - 17:00 26 October 13:00 - 17:00
Place NAT.D.440.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Computational Analysis of Linguistic Agency.

November

Jayalakshmi Baskar, Computing Science
Fri
13
Nov
Jayalakshmi Baskar, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 13 November 09:00 - 13:00
Place MIT.A.121.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Argument-based Person-Tailored Human-Agent Dialogues to Support Health and Well-Being in Older Adults.

Hanna Axén, Physical geography
Fri
20
Nov
Hanna Axén, Physical geography
Time 09:00 - 13:00 20 November 09:00 - 13:00
Place Stora hörsalen, KBC (KBE303).

Defence of doctoral thesis. Patterns and drivers of carbon cycling in old growth boreal forests.

Diego Alejandro Miranda, Chemistry
Fri
27
Nov
Diego Alejandro Miranda, Chemistry
Time 09:00 - 13:00 27 November 09:00 - 13:00
Place BIO.E.203 – Aula Biologica.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Biopolymers Inside and Out - Bacterial cell factories for biopolymers production from residual biomass.

December

Anindya Sundar Das, Computing Science
Tue
1
Dec
Anindya Sundar Das, Computing Science
Time 13:00 - 17:00 1 December 13:00 - 17:00
Place MIT.A.121

Defence of doctoral thesis. Unmasking the Unknown: Addressing Anomalies for Trustworthy AI.

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Latest update: 2022-11-03