Networks like curves and going beyond probabilities September 13, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Klara Stokes: How is a network like a curve? Associate professor at Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University. Graphs are combinatorial models of networks. Networks arise everywhere – [...]
Lighting up life, feeding mathematicians and plants in pain June 14, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Nicolò Maccaferri: Light as a probe to understand life Assistant professor at Department of Physics, Umeå University. Biomolecules ‘speak and understand’ the natural language of biological processes as [...]
Symmetries in math biology and Optimization May 17, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Fredrik Ohlsson, Associate professor at Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University Not just a pretty face: Symmetries in mathematical biology Symmetries are an important and ubiquitous concept in [...]
DNA’s Dark Matter, Robust Networks and Forest Canopies May 3, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Peter Kindgren, Researcher, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU Why do organisms need non-coding DNA? All eukaryotic organisms have a lot more [...]
In search of collaborators to study forest canopies, childrens' tastes and new bioinformatic tools April 26, 2022 Three researchers pitched projects during the IceLab multidisciplinary postdoctoral project call information session. They are seeking project partners to complete their teams and submit a project together for the call. Find out more about [...]
Giving Advice and Mnemonics March 22, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Linus Andersson, Docent Linus Andersson, Department of psychology, Umeå university, and deputy director of the science center Curiosum. The research group also consists of Linnea Karlsson Wirebring and Gustaf Wadenholt at the same [...]
Mars and Motion March 1, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Merve Yesilbas, Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry and Group Leader of Yeşilbaş Lab. ‘Planetary Geochemistry and Spectroscopy’. Umeå University Following the Water on Mars: Is it just a cold desert or habitable environment? Mars [...]
IceLab relaunches the Lunch Pitches starting March 1st 2022 after a two year gap IceLab relaunches the Lunch Pitches March 1st with two pitches from Merve Yesilbas and Signe Lundqvist on Mars and Motion. The Integrated Science Lab (IceLab) launched the Lunch Pitches in 2015, with the aim [...]
IceLab and the Medical Faculty Launch AI Hackathon Turning the hype of machine learning-powered precision medicine into actual science calls for collaboration between life-science researchers and data scientists. Therefore, an AI Hackaton pitch event will be organized at Umeå University on 12 October. The Faculty of [...]
IceLab Open Pitches for the IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Project Call April 20, 2021 In this pitch session researchers who had not identified a research partner, either to collaborate on an application for the IceLab multidisciplinary postdoctoral project call, or in general for future collaboration, presented a 5 minute pitch. [...]
