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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
Acoustics, Flowering time and Small molecules April 2, 2019 Watch Lunch Pitches Video First Pitcher: Marcus Klaus,Postdoctor at Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University Title: How acoustics can advance and communicate (aquatic) science Most humans rely on their eyes more than on their ears – and so do most [...]
Life satisfaction, science communication, and unobserved variables March 19, 2019 Watch Lunch Pitches Video First Pitcher: Raoul Theler, Visiting researcher at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE) Title: How to deal with confounding unobserved variables in data The independence between instruments and individual unobserved characteristics is a traditional condition, [...]
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 [...]
The minimum set cover problem in bipartite graphs Hive Talk Snippet Jelena talked about the application of the minimum set cover problem in real systems that can be mapped onto a bipartite network. We discussed how this combinatorial problem can be extended to optimizing different systems. [...]
Shortcuts in modeling carbon and nutrient dynamics at the sediment-water interface with Sebastian Diehl Hive Talk Snippet Sebastian talked about how to better model the flux of nutrients in the sediment-water interface of aquatic ecosystems.
Tea Tales and Artificial Environment February 19, 2019 Watch Lunch Pitches Video First Pitcher: Judith Sarneel, Researcher at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University Title: Tea Tales: what can tea bags tell us about decomposition? With an international team, we developed a standardized method to measure decomposition. [...]
