Tuesday, 20 February 2018 Announcement: 8th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics, 1-7 July 2018, Rogla (Slovenia)
We are happy to announce the 8th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics to be held on Mt. Rogla, Slovenia, July 1 - July 7, 2018. There will be two courses (8 hours each):
1. Finite permutation groups
Colva Roney-Dougal, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
2. Vertex-transitive graphs and their local actions
Gabriel Verret, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Conference fee for payments before March 31, 2018 is 120 € for students, and 200 € for other participants, and for payments after March 31, 2018 the fee for students is 150 Eur, and 250 Eur for other participants.
The number of participants is limited, so please register as soon as possible.
The registration form together with other relevant information (overview of the mini-courses, accommodation, traveling information, mode of payment, instructions for students etc.) is available at https://conferences.famnit.upr.si/e/rogla2018
We have limited financial support for PhD-students. This includes half-board in one of the bungalows and the exemption from conference fee payment. Students that want to apply for it, should indicate this in the registration form and send their motivation letter and short CV (in English).
Deadline for the financial support application is February 28th, 2018.
According to regulations and in view of the amount of work designed for these courses, the Summer School is credited with 2 ECTS. In order to collect the assigned credit points, the student must solve a certain number of problems and tasks, as required by the lecturer.
Please, feel free to forward this message to your colleagues and students. For further questions please contact sygn@upr.si.
(Group picture from the 7th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics 2017)
Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Project DA.RE.: creating new profiles that the market demands
On Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 February, UP FAMNIT is hosting the partners of DA.RE. project, which aims to train experts that the global market needs.
In the first phase of the project, partners identified the set of skills for professional profiles that the market demands. The analysis brought to light that there is a need of professionals with the knowledge in machine learning, statistical modelling, predictive analytics and big data management.
During the two days in Koper, the group of experts from Italy, Serbia, Portugal, United Kingdom and Slovenia will work on the design of the Pilot Course for Data Scientists, which will be a 150 hours course dedicated to about 450 participants from five countries and will be held in English. Students will be awarded with 21 ECTS credit points.
Da.Re. project has been funded with the support from the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme.
(Foto: participants of the meeting were welcomed by Vice-rector for Internationalization Assoc. Prof. Boris Kavur, PhD)
Thursday, 1 February 2018 Assoc. Prof. Dunja Bandelj, PhD co-author of the Strategic Research Agenda with the key EU priorities regarding Mediterranean agriculture
Agriculture faces a number of common problems related to the management of natural resources (in particular soil, water and biodiversity), the propagation and emergence of animal and plant diseases and the impact of climate change on the productivity and sustainability of agricultural and food systems.
Among the programmes that are focused on current challenges of the Mediterraneanean Agriculture, we can find ARIMNet2 (Coordination of Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean; 2014-2017) which is an ERA-NET Action financed by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration.
The main goal of the programme was to enhance the coordination of agricultural research in the Mediterranean area and strengthening the cooperation among stakeholders from the food and agriculture sector.
ARIMNet2 gathered 24 partners from 15 Mediterranean countries, which developed the Strategic Research Agenda (ISRA) describing the key priorities for the European Union and Mediterranean countries in the field of Mediterranean agriculture research, development and innovation.
The Strategic Research Agenda was prepared by a group of scientific experts - among them there was also Assoc. Prof. Dunja Bandelj, PhD – coordinator of the undergraduate study programme Mediterranean Agriculture and head of the Department of Applied Sciences at UP FAMNIT. Read the short interview with Prof. Bandelj here).
Find the Strategic Research Agenda online and read more about the project here.
Congratulation to Prof. Dunja Bandelj for this important scientific collaboration!
Thursday, 1 February 2018 Call for enrolment into undergraduate study programmes in 2018/19 academic year
In 2018/19 Academic Year UP FAMNIT offers the following study programmes: Conservation Biology, Bioinformatics (NEW: available also in English), Biopsychology, Computer Science (available also in English), Mathematics (available also in English), Mathematics in Economics and Finance, Mediterranean Agriculture.
All information about the application procedure are available here.
EU CITIZENS
Candidates can apply in three terms:
- first application term: from 6 February to 30 March 2018,
- second application term: from 22 to 29 August 2018 (available places will be published on 21 August 2018 on this website),
- third application term: from 26 to 27 September 2018 (available places will be published on 25 September 2018 on this website).
NON-EU CITIZENS AND SLOVENE NATIONALS WITHOUT SLOVENE CITIZENSHIP
Candidates can apply in four terms:
- first application term: from 6 February to 28 May 2018,
- second application term: from 28 May to 20 July 2018 (available places will be published on 28 May 2018 on this website),
- third application term: from 13 August to 14 September 2018 (available places will be published on 13 August 2018 on this website).
- fourth application term: from 26 to 27 September 2018 until 12:00 (available places will be published on 26 September 2018 on this website).
Thursday, 1 February 2018 Our Department of Mathematics active at the Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum in China
It is commonly known, that science has no borders, but now it is also time to admit that there are also no borders for our mathematicians: this week eight members of our Department of Mathematics are actively participating at the International Workshop on Symmetries of Graph and Networks at the Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum. The workshop is taking place in Sanya (China) and it is organized by Marston Conder (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Yan-Quan Feng (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Klavdija Kutnar (University of Primorska,), Mei Lu (Tsinghua University, China) and Jin-Xin Zhou (Beijing Jiaotong University, China).
(Participats from UP FAMNIT Department of Mathematics - from left to right: Ademir Hujdurović, Primož Šparl, Istvan Kovacs, Klavdija Kutnar (UP FAMNIT Dean), Robert Jajcay, Aleksander Malnič, Edward Dobson and Dragan Marušič (UP Rector).
Untill tomorrow, a large group of leading experts in the area of symmetries in graphs and networks will share recent developments and techniques, in order to develop further collaborations, and to provide an opportunity for younger, up-and-coming researchers to meet and learn from established authorities in the subject area.
Abstracts of the talks to be presented at the workshop are available at the Workshop webpage.
Members of the Workshop Scientific Committee are: Brian Alspach (University of Newcastle, Australia), Marston Conder (University of Auckland, New Zeland), Yan-Quan Feng (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Cai Heng Li (South University of Science and Technology, China), Dragan Marušič (University of Primorska) and Jozef Siran (Open University, UK).
(Participants of the workshop)
The Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF) was established to host research conferences, workshops and retreats. It is located at the resort city of San Ya of Hainan Province in Southern China, and since it serves as an international hub for mathematicians and mathematical scientists to dissimilate latest results and to develop newest ideas. Surelly, it is one of the assets for the mathematical community worldwide.
