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  • KTH team won 24 hour Programming Contest

    Published May 11, 2009

    Last weekend a team from KTH won the 24-hour World Programming Championships in Budapest, Hungary. This is the second time that KTH has won the competition.

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  • Professor Birgisson new Vice-President of KTH

    Published Apr 30, 2009

    Björn Birgisson, Professor of Highway and Railway Engineering, has been appointed as Vice-President of KTH with responsibility for Research Structure and Content.

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  • Eva Malmström Jonsson to become Deputy President of KTH

    Published Apr 24, 2009

    Eva Malmström Jonsson, Professor at Fibre and Polymer Technology has been appointed as the new Deputy President of KTH. Her area of responsibility will be the role of education in society.

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  • Gunnar Björk appointed as EPS Fellow

    Published Apr 20, 2009

    Gunnar Björk, Professor of Photonics at KTH is the first Swede to be appointed as an EPS Fellow. This makes him one of only 40 Europeans to hold this honorary title.

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  • Mathematical power package from KTH

    Published Apr 20, 2009

    GMP, a mathematical programme that leads the world within its field, is to be released in a new version from KTH. GMP is used in programs for data security and for mathematical research

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  • World Championship in competitive programming at KTH

    Published Apr 17, 2009

    KTH will be the host of the World Championship in competitive programming which will be held on a university campus for the first time, 18-22 April. A total of 100 teams from all over the world will p...

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  • Interactive mat makes child’s play into exercise

    Published Apr 14, 2009

    Mats Hanson, Professor at KTH, and Eva Fors of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences have, with the help of McDonald’s, developed a play mat for children. For a period of around two months t...

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  • Traces of dark matter discovered by KTH experiment

    Published Apr 06, 2009

    The international satellite experiment Pamela, which was partially constructed by astrophysicists at KTH, may have discovered particles that form space’s dark matter. This discovery was published in t...

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  • Professor Östling wins major European research grant

    Published Mar 19, 2009

    Mikael Östling, Professor of Microelectronics and Applied Physics at KTH, has been awarded a prestigious grant by ERC, the European Research Council. This is an Advanced Investigators Grant, aimed at ...

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  • Record fast spintronics from KTH and Gothenburg University

    Published Mar 13, 2009

    Record high frequencies for data communications with spintronic oscillators. Results achieved by researchers at KTH and Gothenburg University may be a breakthrough for the superfast wireless home elec...

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  • Two KTH teams in eco car competition

    Published Mar 09, 2009

    Five Swedish student teams, of which two are from KTH, will be participating in this year’s European eco-car competition, the Shell Eco-marathon. Altogether some 200 student teams are expected to take...

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  • Polar expedition studies whaling industry

    Published Mar 06, 2009

    Five Swedish student teams, of which two are from KTH, will be participating in this year’s European eco-car competition, the Shell Eco-marathon. Altogether some 200 student teams are expected to take...

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  • Fluid mechanics research gave job as Council-financed researcher

    Published Feb 24, 2009

    Luca Brandt, Junior Researcher in mechanics at KTH, has been awarded a position as Council-financed researcher in fluid mechanics. He investigates how currents in the air can be manipulated in order t...

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  • Supercomputer for the material of the future

    Published Feb 20, 2009

    With the help of a new supercomputer, a group of physicists and chemists at KTH, Linköping and Uppsala universities will create new material for future environment and energy technology. Börje Johanss...

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  • Web-based tool wins STING prize

    Published Feb 16, 2009

    Researchers Juliette Soulard and Stephan Meier have been awarded SEK 50 000 via the entrepreneur programme Startup, which is arranged by STING in cooperation with KTH Innovation and Innovationsbron Mi...

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  • Photo album for disabled people wins prize

    Published Feb 10, 2009

    A concept for a picture show program that has been developed by KTH student Frida Löfqvist has won first prize in the AOL/TopCoder Sensations Developer Challenge – an international competition. The pr...

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  • KTH space research shown on new Swedish stamps

    Published Feb 03, 2009

    Sweden Post are celebrating the International Astronomy Year 2009 by issuing stamps with a space theme. The images on the stamps are of the PoGOLite, the product of an international cooperation projec...

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  • Tuula Teeri to be President of Aalto University in Helsinki

    Published Dec 19, 2008

    The Aalto University Foundation has appointed Tuula Teeri, Deputy President of KTH, as the first President of Aalto University. Aalto University in Helsinki is a university created through the merger ...

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  • Closer cooperation with industry hones KTH position

    Published Dec 18, 2008

    Increased collaboration with industry will strengthen KTH’s position among the international university elite. This is the message that President Peter Gudmundson has been discussing with the Dagens I...

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  • Professor Pål Nyrén wins prize

    Published Dec 17, 2008

    Pål Nyrén, Professor of Biochemistry at KTH, has been awarded the Wilhelm Westrup Prize of MSEK 1.3 by the Royal Physiographical Society of Lund. Pål Nyrén is best known for his development of pyroseq...

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