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A new MSc in Biosolutions programme to open in Kalundborg, hopefully next year

The University of Copenhagen plans to open a new two-year MSc in Biosolutions programme in Kalundborg in 2024; currently, it is awaiting approval from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. The goal is to…

Astrid ferments plant-based cheese

Cheese is the most exciting food there is – especially if it is made from plants! So thinks Astrid Bonke, who has a bachelor’s degree in Food and Nutrition and has since studied Food Science with a specialisation in…

Digital Dependence: Online Fatigue and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Assistant professor Kristoffer Albris has with colleagues from SODAS, published an article in Media, Culture & Society entitled 'Digital Dependence: Online Fatigue and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Lockdown'.

New visiting researcher at PRIVACY

Welcome to Davide M. Parrilli

Bachelor Project at BARC wins Computational Geometry Challenge

Last month, a team consisting of BA student William Bille Meyling, and BARC researchers Mikkel Abrahamsen and André Nusser were announced winners of the CG:Shop 2023 challenge

Invitation to the inauguration of professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen

Invitation to the inauguration of professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen March 3 at 1 pm in Copenhagen Plant Science Center Auditorium A2.11.01 - CPSC1, entrance via Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C

Modern arms technologies help autocratic rulers stay in power

Autocrats and dictators quickly acquire new arms technologies from abroad and often use them against their own citizens. Now a study shows that the spread of military technologies inhibits democratic reform.

Construction work near the Biocenter

There is a risk that this type of construction work may be noisy and can sometimes produce low-frequency vibrations. For further details, please see the attached letter from the construction management (in Danish only).…

Daisy Newsletter 31 and 32 out

Daisy Newsletter 32 is out AgroEco-HPM funded Daisy Newsletter 31 is also out, some time ago Daisy 6.32 released

An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies

Associate Professor Karen Waltorp has co-edited the book An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies, authored the preface and in collaboration with Maja Hojer Bruun, the chapter 'Drones as a gendered matter of concern'

Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life

Associate Professor Karen Waltorp has edited the book Energy Futures. She contributed the chapter ‘Imagining energy futures beyond colonial continuation‘.

Newly appointed professor: Data science can save food research decades

We can potentially save decades of food research by using data science to investigate where we have the greatest chance of finding the most significant results. It is a latent game changer when we want to convince…

MIAO wins two awards for best paper in 2022

The Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) group, headed by Jakob Nordström in the Algorithm & Complexity Section at DIKU, has received two awards for their research on combinatorial optimization…

Student project grants 2022/2023

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Gene targeting in cell lines

Here we apply apply our expertise in CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing to cell lines. We can now help you generating your new in vitro experimental system by knocking out your gene of interest, or introducing point…

BARC researcher secures EU funding in theoretical computer science

Ass. professor Radu-Cristian Curticapean recieves 1.5 million Euro grant from the European Research Council to conduct research in the field of theoretical computer science

Roberta Sinatra in Northwestern University Panel on “Inequalities in Scientific Production”

SODAS professor Roberta Sinatra will discuss “Inequalities in Scientific Production” in conversation with Jevin West, Cassidy Sugimoto, and Fariba Karimi in panel hosted by Northwestern University

New ThinkChina Lecture: Researching urban-digital life in/on/from China

Dr Carwyn Morris from Leiden University will discuss researching urban-digital life in contemporary China.

UCPH researcher lauded for superb solution of algorithmic riddle from the 1950s

Solving the riddle can reduce electric car battery consumption and make life tougher for currency speculators in the future. The discovery has just won the award for best research article and was honored at the field’s…

UCPH researcher lauded for superb solution of algorithmic riddle from the 1950s

Solving the riddle can reduce electric car battery consumption and make life tougher for currency speculators in the future. The discovery has just won the award for best research article and was honored at the field’s…

Open World Conference 10-11 Nov. 2022: Open Science and Global Dangers

Marking the centenary of Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in physics, and the United Nations announcing 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, we acknowledge Bohr’s vision of an open world

10 BARC papers accepted for SODA and SOSA 2023

Basic Algorithm Reasearch Copenhagen is represented at next year’s SODA and SOSA conferences to be held in Florence, Italy, January 22-25, 2023. In total 10 papers are accepted in relation to BARC members.

CPH Tech Policy Commitee

SODAS and the Crown Princess Mary Center have initiated the CPH Tech Policy Committee, bringing together national and international experts in the global tech policy field

Disability and Technology in Africa: Introduction

In collaboration with Herbert Muyinda, Professor Susan Whyte has edited and co-authored a special issue of Africa, the Journal of the International African Institute.