The aims of the event are to bring researchers closer to the general public and to increase public awareness of research and innovation activities with a view to supporting the public recognition of research and innovation activities, to creating an understanding of the impact of researchers’ work on citizens’ daily lives and to encouraging young people to embark on research careers.
The event is therefore particularly aimed at young people and their families.
The organisers of these events always seek the involvement of researchers funded by H2020 and Horizon Europe, including the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA).
The participation of the GRAPES fellows in the event is therefore strongly encouraged. The link European Researchers’ Night includes the websites of each organisers that the fellow can contact directly and offer his/her participation.
Shahroz Khan (U. Strathclyde, ESR10) has reeived an Honourable Mention Award for his research at the Doctoral Researcher Awards (DRA 2022) competition. Congratulations Shahroz!
We are very hapy to welcome to GRAPES the Cognition and Computation in Design (Co-Design) Lab (https://codesign.berkeley.edu/) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University California Berkeley! The Co-Design Lab, led by Prof. Kosa Goucher-Lambert has just joined our Project as a Partner Organization.
The second Doctoral School will take place *physically* from Monday, June 13 to Friday, June 17 at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano. It will start with lunch on Monday and end after lunch on Friday.
The event will focus on *CAD* in its broadest sense, covering the historical development of the field, latest research results, applications, and the relevance for industry. It features keynote talks by GRAPES members and invited high-profile speakers, short presentation by the ESRs, work package meetings, supervisory board and educational committee meetings, and social activities.
Confirmed speakers include Fehmi Cirak (U. Cambridge), Adi Levin (Meta), and Ulrich Reif (TU Darmstadt).
You can download a pdf version of the programme here and the book of abstracts here.
Registration
To register for the workshop, just send an e-mail with your name, affiliation, arrival and departure date, and dietary restrictions to kai.hormann@usi.ch before *May 20, 2022*.
The main event will happen at room D1.14, on the first floor (one above the ground floor) of the D sector of the East Campus building. The registration desk will be on the ground floor of the D sector.
Travel instructions
To travel to Lugano, you will fly into Zurich or Milano Malpensa airport and then take a train (approximately 2 hours) to Lugano. Take bus #6 (direction Cornaredo) to get from the train station to the university (get off at stop “Campus Universitario”).
Accommodation
Lugano has numerous hotels, but we recommend the following hotels:
An interesting event about women in STEM that will feature a former MSCA-ITN project coordinator (Prof Manjit Dosanjh) will be held on 18 March. The event is open to everybody and the link to register and follow it is in the attached flyers: Women in STEM Mind the Gap 2022, Panel on Women and STEM-Mind the Gap.
The GRAPES Network has one (1) open research training position at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Leif Kobbelt. The position is for 27 months and *may* lead to a PhD. For details see http://grapes-network.eu/phd-positions/, or contact Prof. Leif Kobbelt. Applications should be submitted via email to sekretariati8@cs.rwth-aachen.de following the instructions at http://grapes-network.eu/phd-positions/how-to-apply/.
Following the signing of the Grant Agreement Amendment, the Project’s duration has been extended for six months until 31 May 2024. The Amendment documents are available at the Document Library of the Participant Portal.
The University of Konstanz is looking for a Phd candidate to start the research in August 2021 on the topic of “Polynomial optimization problems with symmetry” under the scope of POEMA project.
The details and application of this job position is available on POEMA project website.
On May 31, 2021, Carla Manni and Hendrik Speleers (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) are organizing the online mini-workshop “Dimension of Multivariate Splines: An Algebraic Approach”.
