Calendar of 2020
Published:
- Dec 14: I was the opponent at the PhD defense of Naeimeh Atabaki-Pasdar, Lund. Congrats!. Link to thesis: (here).
- Dec 1: Promoted to full Professor in Scientific Computing!
- Oct 30: I gave a lecture in the Applied Mathematics Seminars-series at the University of Warwick.
- Oct 12: today CRUSH Covid starts! This project aims to trace cluster spread of Covid-19 in the Uppsala Region, helping with the local test-and-trace strategy and with the optimization of resource allocation. CRUSH Covid has got some coverage:
- Press release by Uppsala university
- Description by Uppsala university
- Short report by Swedish Television
- Mats Martinell interviewed by TV4
- Sept 30: paper published. The reference is J. Liu, S. Engblom, C. Nettelblad: Flash X-ray diffraction imaging in 3D: a proposed analysis pipeline in J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A 37(10):1673–1686 (2020) (doi).
- Sept 23–24: Academy meeting, Stockholm.
- Sept 8: Organizing the “mini kick-off” for SysCon.
- Aug 13: Paper finally published! We have developed a procedure for Bayesian posterior exploration of parameters in epidemiological models defined over contact networks. Find out more in S. Engblom, R. Eriksson, S. Widgren: Bayesian epidemiological modeling over high-resolution network data in Epidemics 32 (2020) (doi). Open access!
- Aug 10: Welcome week for the Master’s program Computational Science Class 2020. Welcome!
- Jul 17: new preprint available from arXiv. Håkan Runvik, Alexander Medvedev, Robin Eriksson, Stefan Engblom: Initialization of a Disease Transmission Model. Here we study the problem of initializing a large epidemiological model with many hidden states using recorded disease data.
- June 15: Opinion piece with Tove Fall, Paul Franks, Maria Gomez, and Alexander Medvedev.
- June 4: I gave an invited guest-lecture in the Cancer Biology course organized by Femke Heindryckx.
- June 2: an opinion piece on the Swedish Covid-19 strategy published with Lars Calmfors, Tove Fall and others.
- Apr 22–23: (Online) Academy meeting.
- Apr 3: (Online) Chairman of the Jury in the Unga forskare (Young researcher) competition, in Stockholm.
- Apr 1: another opinion piece published with Tove Fall and others.
- Mar 31: Jing Liu successfully defended her PhD thesis Towards Fast and Robust Algorithms in Flash X-ray single-particle Imaging. The opponent was Helmut Grubmueller. Congratulations!
- Mar 20: an opinion piece published with Tove Fall and others.
- Feb 13: preprint with Jonathan Bull released: Distributed and Adaptive Fast Multipole Method In Three Dimensions. Download the daFMM3D-software at stenglib.
- Feb 5–6: Academy meeting in Stockholm.
- Jan 27: release of URDME 1.4.0 at www.urdme.org.
- Jan 16: start of graduate course Numerical methods in stochastic modeling and simulations (7.5hp). Welcome!
- Jan 13–14: TDB Internal conference 2020.
“An elite spy embarks on a covert mission. In a twist of fate, he starts to suspect that the target is his own life which leads him to question everything he knows.”