The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success Author: Albert-Laszlo Barabási This book aims to summarize success in a single formula containing a set of five rules that catch “the complex but reproducible mechanisms that generate success”. The book club has enjoyed this easy to read book that leaves a lot of room [...]
Announcing the IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships With financial support from the Kempe Foundations, IceLab now invites applications from multidisciplinary research teams for three multidisciplinary research projects Many challenging research questions exist in the under-explored terrain between traditional disciplines. The Integrated Science Lab (IceLab) works to promote [...]
Plants sticking together and algae fighting climate change with Stéphane Verger and Christiane Funk February 4, 2020 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Stéphane Verger, Assistant Professor at Umeå Plant Science Center, SLU. How do Plants Achieve Multicellularity? Most of the plants that we see [...]
Understanding Robots and Sustaining Scientific Innovation with Suna Bensch and Krishna Upadhyayula January 21, 2020 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Suna Bensch, Senior Lecturer and Thomas Hellström, Professor at Department of Computing Science, Umeå University. Title: How should we develop understandable robots? Imagine yourself [...]
Meet Cécile Carpentier and Kevyn Raynal Cécile and Kevyn are Master's students from Rennes, France working on projects with Sebastian Diehl on ecological modelling Cécile Carpentier and Kevyn Raynal were both working through their Master's Degrees in Ecological Modelling at the University of Rennes when the time came to find a [...]
Bringing Science to the Citizens December 10, 2019 First Pitcher: Tim Hofmeester, Researcher at Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, SLU Title: Education through citizen science: how to reach those that could learn the most? Citizen science (CS), or the involvement on non-professional participants [...]
Species of animals and plants with low abundances organize in ghettos to survive Similar to the organization of human cities, animal and plant communities have ghettos or ethnic neighborhoods, where low-abundant species group to enhance their persistence against more competitive species. This unexpected ecological pattern is the [...]
Environmental Footprints and Autonomous Microservices with Kavitha Shanmugam and Johan Tordsson November 26, 2019 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Kavitha Shanmugam, PhD student at Department of Chemistry, Umeå University. Title: Using life cycle assessment (LCA) to interpret sustainable performance of services provided by cities [...]
Visualizing Change and Intelligent Companions November 12, 2019 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Do you have data that you want to find your story in? Is there any ethical issue regarding support people using AI? How to reach proactiveness and reactiveness, learning + reasoning AI for coaching systems? [...]
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objective and Key Results Author: Christina R. Wodtke This book shows a method for how you can organise your work and focus you attention to what is important. This is done with: Objective & Key Results = OKRs These are short statements of [...]
