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Science outreach events

Umeå University researchers disseminate their knowledge and their research outside the University through various events and public lectures.

In our calendar, you can read about upcoming public lectures.

Upcoming defences of doctoral theses

April

Anton Eklund, Computing Science
Thu
3
Apr
Anton Eklund, Computing Science
Time 13:15 - 17:00 3 April 13:15 - 17:00
Place UB.A.230 Lindellhallen 3.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Evaluating Document Clusters through Human Interpretation.

Christian Kammler, Computing Science
Fri
4
Apr
Christian Kammler, Computing Science
Time 00:00 - 12:00 4 April 00:00 - 12:00
Place MIT.A.121

Defence of doctoral thesis. Modeling Norms for Social Simulations: Increasing Realism in Social Simulations to Support Decision Makers in Their Desciscion Making

Christian Kammler, Computing Science
Fri
4
Apr
Christian Kammler, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 4 April 09:00 - 13:00
Place MIT.A.121.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Modeling Norms for Social Simulations: Increasing realism in social simulations to support decision makers in their decision making.

Van Minh Dinh, Chemistry
Fri
4
Apr
Van Minh Dinh, Chemistry
Time 09:00 - 12:00 4 April 09:00 - 12:00
Place KBC Lilla hörsalen KBE301.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Valorization of biomass byproducts: the potential of chitin and lignin from the perspective of solid catalysts.

Katarzyna Olovsson, Energy Technology
Fri
11
Apr
Katarzyna Olovsson, Energy Technology
Time 09:00 - 13:00 11 April 09:00 - 13:00
Place BIO.E.203 – Aula Biologica.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Thermochemical properties and quality measures of limestone and quicklime.

Edvin Forsgren, Computational Science and Engineering
Wed
16
Apr
Edvin Forsgren, Computational Science and Engineering
Time 09:00 - 13:00 16 April 09:00 - 13:00
Place Kempesalen KBC (Stora hörsalen).

Defence of doctoral thesis. Chemometric Strategies for Supervised Multi-Model Analysis.

Adam Silumbwe – Public Health
Tue
29
Apr
Adam Silumbwe – Public Health
Time 09:00 - 12:00 29 April 09:00 - 12:00
Place Hall Alicante, University Hospital Umeå, building 5B, 3 floor

Defence of doctoral thesis. Rolling the wheels of collaboration: Tobacco control policy development and alcohol policy implementation in Zambia.

May

Andreas Brännström, Computing Science
Mon
5
May
Andreas Brännström, Computing Science
Time 13:00 - 17:00 5 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place HUM.D.220

Defence of doctoral thesis. Formal Methods for Verification in Human-Agent Interaction

Maria Bendtsen Kronkvist – Psychiatry
Fri
9
May
Maria Bendtsen Kronkvist – Psychiatry
Time 09:00 - 12:00 9 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place Hall Umeälven, Psychiatry building, point ZA21, University Hosital, Umeå

Defence of doctoral thesis. Participation in Care Decisions - Shared decision-making in social psychiatric care

Andreas Berner – Medical Biochemistry
Fri
9
May
Andreas Berner – Medical Biochemistry
Time 09:00 - 12:00 9 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place KBE301 - Small assembly hall

Defence of doctoral thesis. Investigating the Biology and specific Targeting of Individual G-Quadruplex Structures.

Miriam Rutegård - Diagnostic radiology
Fri
9
May
Miriam Rutegård - Diagnostic radiology
Time 13:00 - 17:00 9 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place Betula

Defence of doctoral thesis. Miriam Rutegård is defending her doctoral thesis in diagnostic radiology

Samuel Videholm – Pediatrics
Fri
9
May
Samuel Videholm – Pediatrics
Time 13:00 - 16:00 9 May 13:00 - 16:00
Place Assembly hall Snäckan, Östersund Hospital

Defence of doctoral thesis. Pathways of inequalities in paediatric infectious diseases: Evidence from register-based cohort studies in Sweden.

Elia Astanterabi Swai – Public Health
Thu
22
May
Elia Astanterabi Swai – Public Health
Time 09:00 - 12:00 22 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place Hall Alicante, Building 5 B, 3 floor, Umiversity Hospital, Umeå

Defence of doctoral thesis. BEING YOUNG AND PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED: Voicing the needs and challenges of children, adolescents, and their carers in northeastern Tanzania.

Mariam Taha. Computing Science
Fri
23
May
Mariam Taha. Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 12:00 23 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place NAT.D.360

Defence of doctoral thesis. Problematic Metric Space for Machine Learning: Data and Model Spaces

Erik Zäll, Experimental Physics
Fri
23
May
Erik Zäll, Experimental Physics
Time 09:00 - 13:00 23 May 09:00 - 13:00
Place KBE301, Lilla hörsalen.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Heating a sustainable future.

Samielle Drake - Economics
Fri
23
May
Samielle Drake - Economics
Time 10:00 - 12:00 23 May 10:00 - 12:00
Place Hörsal UB.A.220 – Lindell 2

Defence of doctoral thesis. Navigating Public Procurement

Ayush Kumar Varshney, Computing Science
Mon
26
May
Ayush Kumar Varshney, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 26 May 09:00 - 13:00
Place BIO.A.206 - Aula Anatomica.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Navigating Model Anonymity and Adaptability.

Ayush Kumar Vashney, Computing Science
Mon
26
May
Ayush Kumar Vashney, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 12:00 26 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place BIO.A.206

Defence of doctoral thesis. Navigating Model Anonymity and Adaptability

Signe Lundqvist, Mathematics
Tue
27
May
Signe Lundqvist, Mathematics
Time 13:00 - 17:00 27 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place Hörsal UB.A.220 – Lindellhallen 2.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Does it move? Euclidean and projective rigidity of hypergraphs.

Maarten Laurits Jensen, Computing Science
Tue
27
May
Maarten Laurits Jensen, Computing Science
Time 13:00 - 17:00 27 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place MIT.A.121

Defence of doctoral thesis. Dynamic Content-Sensitive Deliberation for Social Simulations: Balancing Scalability and Realism

Thomas Gu – Neurology
Fri
30
May
Thomas Gu – Neurology
Time 09:00 - 12:00 30 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place 1 D, T9, Hall B

Defence of doctoral thesis. Carotid Near-Occlusion – Diagnostics, Pathophysiology and Risk of Recurrent Ipsilateral Ischemic Stroke

June

Sonakshi Garg, Computing Science
Mon
2
Jun
Sonakshi Garg, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 12:00 2 June 09:00 - 12:00
Place HUM.D.210

Defence of doctoral thesis. Bridging AI and Privacy: Solutions for High-Dimensional Data and Foundation Models

Cyrille Bader – Medical biochemistry
Tue
3
Jun
Cyrille Bader – Medical biochemistry
Time 3 June at 09:00 until 3 July at 12:00 3 June at 09:00 until 3 July at 12:00
Place KBE301 - small assembly hall

Defence of doctoral thesis. Molecular guardians? Biochemical studies of tactors involved in mitochondrial DNA maintenance and beyond.

Emil Häglund, Computing Science
Thu
5
Jun
Emil Häglund, Computing Science
Time 10:00 - 12:00 5 June 10:00 - 12:00
Place NAT.D.320

Defence of doctoral thesis. Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and Contextual Advertising

Emil Häglund, Computing Science
Thu
5
Jun
Emil Häglund, Computing Science
Time 10:00 - 13:00 5 June 10:00 - 13:00
Place NAT.D.320.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Artificial Intelligence in Marketing & Contextual Advertising.

Malin Mickelsson – Medical Biosciences
Thu
5
Jun
Malin Mickelsson – Medical Biosciences
Time 13:00 - 16:00 5 June 13:00 - 16:00
Place Assembly hall Betula, University Hospital, Umeå

Defence of doctoral thesis. Evaluation of potential risk markers associated with subclinical atherosclerosis.

Junhong Li - anathomy
Wed
11
Jun
Junhong Li - anathomy
Time 13:00 - 16:00 11 June 13:00 - 16:00
Place Aula Biologica

Defence of doctoral thesis. The Role of Myoblasts in Healing tendon Tissue