PhD researcher Sead JAHIĆ will present the lecture at the Monday CS seminar series on Monday, 11 February, 2019, at 16:00 at the premises of UP FAMNIT,
Postdoc position with teaching in Computer Science, University of Primorska, HICUP Lab (Slovenia), DEADLINE EXTENDED
The Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies at the University of Primorska (UP FAMNIT) is offering a postdoc position at HICUP LAB with the possibility for tenure position.
We welcome applicants from EU as well as Internationally who are enthusiastic about working as part of a multidisciplinary team focusing on applied computer science research in the following areas:
- Computational Interactions
- Human-computer Interaction
- Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence in Medicine
- Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing
- EEG analysis and Brain computer interfaces
The selected candidate will be offered a tailored postdoc research position at HICUP LAB, UP FAMNIT.
New student projects with industry – CS students involved in intedisciplinary work
UP FAMNIT students (among them also CS students) will have a posibility to upgrade their knowledge with practical experience in projects run by industry partners and academic supervisors. UP FAMNIT was succesfull with five new projects under the call "Creative Path to Practical Knowledge". These projects aim to involve students in innovative, problem-solving and team-solving challenges in the working environment of companies and other organizations.
Seminar “Challenges in the cyclic scheduling of batch processes” Mate HEGYHATI (28.1.2019)
The Monday Seminar on Computer Science will host Mate HEGYHATI with the lecture titled "Challenges in cyclic batch process planning" on Monday, January 28, 2019, at UP FAMNIT.
Informativa 2019
University of Primorska has for the 11th consecutive year presented itself at the traditional and largest Slovene education, scholarship and employment fair called Informativa. The fair took place at the Gospodarsko razstavišče in Ljubljana on 25 and 26 January. Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies and the Department of Information Sciences were also there.
Mathematical day for secondary school students of Gymnasium Koper – various workshops organised by DIST members
The 12th mathematical day at UP FAMNIT was held on Wednesday, 23 January. The 3rd year secondary school students from Gymnasium Koper. 95 students accompanied by their professors had a possibility to experience various uses of mathematical theories in everyday life.
The third lecture in the series on “Famnit’s trips to mathematical universe” 2018/19 by Klen Čopič Pucihar
In 2014, Klen received his PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster, UK. He is currently working as one of the heads of the Laboratory for Human-Computer Interaction (HICUP Lab) at the University of Primorska, where he is also an assistant professor. He is researching new ways to increase human abilities by using digital technologies. The main challenge is the user interface that creates a bottleneck between a person and the ubiquitous high-end processor performance and the potential of large amounts of data.
Seminar “Academic publishing from a viewpoint of a galley-man” Nino BAŠIĆ (14.1.2019)
Nino Bašić will hold a lecture titled "Academic publishing from a viewpoint of a galley-man" on Monday, January 14, 2019, at 4.00 pm at the premises of the Faculty of Mathematics, Science and Information Technology University of Primorska, as a part of the Monday Computer Science Seminar.
Marinka ŽITNIK from Stanford University presenting “Deep Learning for Network Medicine”
Dr. Marinka ŽITNIK is a postdoctoral research fellow in Computer Science at Stanford University. She will present a seminar titled "Deep Learning for Network Medicine" as a part of the Monday Computer Science Seminar – this time exceptionally on Thursday.
New research programme “Mathematical modeling and encryption: from theoretical concepts to everyday applications” financed by Slovenian Research Agency ARRS
Researchers from the University of Primorska and the department DIST have had accepted another research programme by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS). In the next six years the researchers will under the guidance of prof. dr. Enesa Pasalica, a top scientist in the field of cryptography of symmetric keys and head of the Center for cryptography at UP FAMNIT. They will work with an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers, together wiuth doctoral and postdoctoral students working at our University and the InnoRenew CoE.