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DTU Informatics and DTU Mathematics merged on 1 January 2013.

Lundbeckfond Fellowship 2012 has decided to grant Associate Professor Morten Mørup from the Section for Cognitive Systems with DKK 10 mill. for his research project ‘Non-parametric Relational Modeling of Functional and Structural Brain Connectivity.’

You have 9 soda bottles from which you can get a deposit. If it takes 4 bottles to buy 1 new, how any bottles can you buy?

The first students at the only elite education in mathematics in Denmark have begun at DTU. During the entire education the students must maintain a GPA of at least 10.0 – otherwise they will be dismissed from the program.

Scientists all over the world are increasingly using the compute to solve complex scientific engineering problems. What many scientists do not know however, is that they do not necessarily have to invest in large, expensive computer systems to perform their calculations.

Professor and section leader Rasmus Larsen has just been granted 20 million DKR by the Danish Council for Strategic Research.
“Those who get grants from us are those with the best ideas,” says chairman of the program committee Erik Bisgaard Madsen.

The world’s leaders right now are gathered at the climate summit in Copenhagen. DTU Informatics has constructed a barometer which continuously gauges the atmosphere around COP15.

The hourglass is running out. We all have a common responsibility to reduce CO2 emission so the earth will not wither away. Therefore innovation network InfinIT is currently focusing on green IT.

Stuttgart has just been host to international VISION2009 fair. The world’s leading developers in machinery with artificial sight, also known as machine vision, are gathered there. Among them is the image group from DTU Informatics.

Together with university partners in Lübeck and Bukarest as well as two companies in Zürich and Berlin, the image group at Informatics have developed two new cameras, and developed a series of methods for analyzing applications based on these cameras.

Operation GRØN DYST has been launched to further and make visible climate and sustainability at the study programs at DTU. Right now students can sign up for a range of new green courses offered by DTU among others.

Professor Lars Kai Hansen from DTU Informatics has been appointed “Cátedra de Excelencia” by the Spanish university Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Organisational changes are the order of the day almost every month, both within and across the departments at DTU. This process is necessary and makes

all the difference between being an elite university and quietly fading away.

DTU Avisen was present at the kick-off of just such a process of change.

Now you have access to play all of the graduation games from DADIU

Before long your mobile phone can help you navigate around restaurants with an angry

smiley – and it can even guide you to the nearest bus or train when you want to go home again.

Most mobile phones are equipped with a GPS, but in the future everyone will own a compass as well.

And the compass opens up a whole new set of features on your mobile phone.

Thanks to a million kr. grant from the Strategic Research Council the Danes are secured better foods with time.

Minister of science Helge Sander has just awarded the Free Research Council’s Young Elite Researcher prize to Michael Sass Hansen from DTU Informatics. The prize is awarded for his medical image analysis of the brain.

Four teachers from DTU Informatics are among the chosen

There may be many reasons the bill from the electricity company is no laughing matter. Maybe it is because the living room temperature is 30° all year around due to a fondness of walking around in bare feet and t-shirt. Maybe you live in a house and cannot push the thermometer past 17° regardless of how high you crank up the thermostat, because the house is about as windproof as the average tent.

Helle Rootzén replaces Kaj Madsen who chose to retire after 41 years of faithful service at DTU.

A new unit at DTU Informatics is now available to everyone at DTU in need of help regarding experiment planning, statistics and other kinds of data analysis at a high professional level.

Research in hyperspectral image analysis for food inspection.

ITMAN - DTU Informatics Graduate School ITMAN, announces two PhD scholarships within planning and evaluation of radio-therapeutic treatment of head-and-neck cancer using PET/CT scanning in co-operation with Copenhagen University Hospital, Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR) at Hvidovre Hospital and the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. Submission deadline: May 15, 2009.

At the Open House event, DTU Informatics was represented by staff and students from Software technology, IT & Health and MatTek.

Professor Jan Madsen, CSE, has been appointed as the Danish representative on ARTEMIS Governing Board. As member of the Governing Board, one of Jan Madsen’s tasks will be to participate in devising the general strategy for the development of ARTEMIS.