Philipp Birken

Lund University had an open call for guest professors last year, and the response has been way over expectations with an extremely high quality of applications. As a result, I am very happy that Yingda Chen from Virginia Tech will be a visiting professor at the Center for Mathematical Sciences for two years, two months each.

She is doing very interesting work on low rank methods for high order discretizations of PDEs for interesting applications, such as Nuclear Fusion. This summer should be good!

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/yingda-cheng

#LundUniversity

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Yingda Cheng

Lund University. Why did you choose Lund University?I chose to apply for the visiting professorship because I was drawn by the excellent research reputation of Lund University. I have been visiting Sweden since 2019, and in particular Uppsala University and KTH. The open and collaborative research environment in Sweden is very appealing to me.

Feb 4 at 4:24pmWeb
Show threadPhilipp BirkenFeb 4

The intention was to get 25 visitors, but due to the strong resonance, it will be 45 researchers. The full list can be found here:

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lund-university-programme-global-excellence-2025

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Lund University Programme for Global Excellence 2025

Lund University.

Show threadPhilipp BirkenFeb 4

And I am posting this here, because LinkedIn shouldn't be the only social network where you can learn about this!

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Show threadPhilipp BirkenFeb 9

And @kallekn has written an article for @sydsvenskan about this:

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/enormt-intresse-for-lunds-universitet-45-toppforskare-fran-hela-varlden-pa-vag-hit/

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Enormt intresse för Lunds universitet – 45 toppforskare från hela världen på väg

”Jag hörde om Lund redan 1999 när jag studerade i Peking.”

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Show threadPhilipp BirkenFeb 9

@kallekn @sydsvenskan

Lund University had it's own newspaper until recently, but now there's just a PR department that has one-way communication. That means that Kalle at Sydsvenskan is practically the only journalistic entity covering the university. And he's doing a goob job, well worth my subscription!

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Show threadKalle KniiviläFeb 9

@philippbirken Good to hear, but there is guaranteed to be a lot of interesting stuff going on that I know nothing about. Unless somebody tells me...

😃

Show threadKalle KniiviläFeb 11

@philippbirken We are first with this piece of news in any case.

😉

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/de-utmanar-rektorn-vid-lunds-universitet-vi-har-hela-listan/

#lund #university

De utmanar rektorn vid Lunds universitet – vi har hela listan

Tio kandidater kvar, fyra har fallit bort.

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Show threadKalle KniiviläFeb 4

@philippbirken I'll probably write one more article about this tomorrow and post here. Here is the last one.

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/mangder-av-internationella-toppforskare-vill-till-lunds-universitet/

Mängder av internationella toppforskare vill till Lunds universitet

Rektorn: ”Det är för att vi är så fantastiska.”

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Show threadPhilipp BirkenFeb 4
@kallekn Nice, I'll append the new one to this thread!