Calendar of 2025

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Published: December 31, 2025

Nov 3: Start of the Project course in Computational Science. Welcome!
Oct 14–16: Swedish e-Science Academy in Umeå.
Sep 18–19: SciLifeLab group leader retreat.
Sep 1–5: Participated in the ENUMATH 2025 conference where I organized a minisymposium (MS82: The mathematics of pathology: quantitative methods) together with Fred Vermolen. I also gave a talk in the minisymposium MS20: Local and nonlocal transport in single and multiple scale heterogeneous processes.
Aug 27–28: At the Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness Network Meeting 2025.
Aug 20: Open position: Postdoc in Computational Epidemiology. Deadline to apply 31st of October 2025!
Aug 19–20: Visiting Advances in stochastic processes and numerical analysis.
May 26–28: Visit to Basel and to Mustafa Khammash to engage as the external advisor for the PhD defense of Elena D’Ambrosio. Congratulations!
May 5–6: I co-organized a DDLS-workshop entitled Infectious disease epidemiology: surveillance, forecasting and modelling together with Tove Fall, Tom Britton, and Laura Carroll. Read more in the DDLS post. Below photo: We had a memorable panel discussion too!
Apr 29: New preprint! We have been working with this one for some time now, happy to see it finalized: E. Blom, S. Engblom: DLCM: a versatile multi-level solver for heterogeneous multicellular systems, available via arXiv. The numerical experiments can be reproduced using URDME.
Apr: as of 1st of April I am the program chair of Applied Scientific Computing.
Mar 28: organized a half-day meeting with the eSSENCE graduate school.
Mar 17–18: TDB internal conference.
Mar 14: I gave a short talk in Upp-Upp, the internal conference for Statisticians in Uppsala.
Mar 13: visit to the Swedish parliament within the RIFO-program. Thanks a lot!
Jan 17: Gesina Menz presented her half-time seminar. External reviewer: Torbjörn Lundh.
Jan 14–16: participation in the BIT’65 conference.
Jan 10: poster presentation session in the Project course in Computational Science. Welcome!
Jan 8–9: final presentations in the Project course in Computational Science.

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Calendar of 2024

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Published: December 31, 2024

Dec 6: open position Postdoc in Computational Epidemiology. Welcome to apply using the online system. Deadline: 28th February 2025.
Nov 19: Visit by MP Monica Haider as part of RIFO.
Nov 18: new preprint! G. Menz, S. Engblom: Modelling Population-Level Hes1 Dynamics: Insights from a Multi-Framework Approach, available via arXiv.
Nov 4: Start of the Project course in Computational Science. Welcome!
Oct 23–24: SWEDCOMP24.
Oct 22: leadership in science, arranged by Sweden’s young academy.
Oct 16–17: participating in the Swedish e-Science Academy 2024.
Oct 7–8: participating in the DDLS Symposium on Data-Driven Environmental Monitoring of Infectious Diseases
Oct 2–3: visit to the Swedish parliament within the RIFO-program. I had the honour of following MP Monica Haider during this visit. Thanks a lot!
Sep 13: I organized a kick-off for the eSSENCE grad-school.
Sep 6: I was the chairman on Tuan Anh Dao’s PhD defence. He defended his PhD thesis Invariant domain preserving schemes for magnetohydrodynamics. Congrats!.
Sep 5: organized a Mini Workshop in Computational Fusion and Plasma together with Murtazo Nazarov.
Aug 29–30: visiting the Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness Retreat 2024.
May 28: visiting eSSENCE Lund.
May 27: visiting eSSENCE Umeå.
May 25: annual day of SUA in Umeå.
May 24: participating in the Doctoral Degree Conferment Ceremony for Robin Marin. Congrats!.
May 17: Paper published: E. Blom, S. Engblom: Morphological stability for in silico models of avascular tumors in Bull. Math. Biol, 86 (2024) (doi). Also check out the associated SMB blog post.
Mar 26: Erik Blom gave his halftime seminar. External reviewer was Philip Gerlee.
Mar 8: I was the chairman on Camille Clouard’s PhD defence. She defended her PhD thesis A computational and statistical framework for cost-effective genotyping combining pooling and imputation. Congrats!.
Feb 20: I was formally appointed the new Director of eSSENCE. Lots of things to take care of, stay tuned…
Feb 2: new preprint, E. Blom, S. Engblom, G. Menz: Modeling the hallmarks of avascular tumors, available via arXiv.

Calendar of 2023

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Published: December 31, 2023

Oct 31: I will be the course responsible for the advanced level course Project course in Computational Science
Oct 23: I will give the module “Foundations of probabilistic modelling” in the PhD level course Mathematical Foundations for Computational Science.
Oct 11–12: eSSENCE Academy.
Sept 15: paper submitted, E. Blom, S. Engblom: Morphological stability for in silico models of avascular tumors, available via arXiv.
Sept 12: paper finally published! R. Marin, H. Runvik, A. Medvedev, and S. Engblom: Bayesian Monitoring of COVID-19 in Sweden, in Epidemics, 45 (2023) (doi). Note the extensive Supporting Information. The associated software and data can be downloaded at GitHub.
Update: Sara Hamis made a nice illustration of this paper in the form of a movie poster. “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.”
Sept 4–8: organizing an ENUMATH minisymposium entitled Mathematical and computational models of cells, cell-populations, and applications thereof joint with Fred Vermolen. Also giving a talk in the minisymposium Analysis and Numerics for Systems of Nonlinear PDEs in Mathematical Biology.
Aug 31–Sept 1: participated in the SciLifeLab Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness retreat.
Aug 21: We have written an essay on CRUSH Covid in the current issue of Qvintensen, the journal of Statistikfrämjandet.
Jan 18: First lecture in the course Scientific Computing II. Welcome!

Calendar of 2022

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Published: December 31, 2022

Dec 22: New paper published! The reference is S. Bronstein, S. Engblom, and R. Marin: Bayesian inference in Epidemics: linear noise analysis in Math. Biosci. Eng., 20(2) (2023):4128–4152 (doi). Open access!
Reproduce the numerical experiments: BISDE.tar (requires Matlab, R, and relies on URDME and SimInf).
Nov 29: Guest lecture Results of computations: communication and responsibility in the project course in Computational Science.
Nov 14–18: Installation week for new full Professors at Uppsala university.
Oct 5–6: eSSENCE Academy.
Sep 28: Served as a member of a PhD grading committe for Peter Brommesson at Linköping’s university who defended his thesis Cattle Shipments and Disease Spread Modeling.
Aug 22–26: I was one of the key speakers at Hausdorff School: “Inverse problems for multi-scale models” organized by Lorenzo Contento, Jan Hasenauer, and Yannik Schälte.
Aug 19: Robin Marin publicly defended his PhD thesis Computational Modeling, Parameterization, and Evaluation of the Spread of Diseases. Congratulations! Faculty opponent was T. J. McKinley, members of the grading committe included Ullrika Sahlin, Uno Wennergren, and Umberto Picchini.
Aug 18: I arranged a miniworkshop entitled Surrounded by data, starved for insight with some external and internal guests.
May 31: Guest-lecture entitled Computational modeling of populations of cells: applications to tumor behavior in the Advanced Cancer Biology course organized by Femke Heindryckx.
May 3: new preprint submitted! R. Marin, H. Runvik, A. Medvedev, and S. Engblom: Bayesian Monitoring of COVID-19 in Sweden, can be downloaded from arXiv. This was work conducted during an extended period of time and part of this was reported within the CRUSH Covid collboration, see also their data portal. Our software can be downloaded at GitHub.
Mar 21: new preprint submitted! S. Bronstein, S. Engblom, and R. Marin: Bayesian inference in Epidemics: linear noise analysis, can be downloaded from arXiv.
Feb 4: Acting as the chairman at the dissertation defense of Viktor Bro who defended his thesis Volterra Modeling and Estimation of the Human Smooth Pursuit. Congratulations!
Feb 3: First lecture in the course Numerical Functional Analysis. Welcome!
Jan 18: First lecture in the course Scientific Computing III. Welcome!

Calendar of 2021

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Published: December 31, 2021

Dec 23: Opinion piece with Krister Forsberg and Tove Fall.
Dec 10: Member of the grading committe for Lena Leitenmaiers defense of the thesis Analysis and numerical methods for multiscale problems in magnetization dynamics.Congratulations!
Nov 30: Guest lecture Results of computations: communication and responsibility in the project course in Computational Science.
Oct 8: Opinion piece with Tove Fall and Mats Martinell.
Sept 23: Academy meeting, my final one! Thanks for these 5 years!
Aug 30: I will start giving the course Scientific Computing III. Welcome!
June 29: Member of the grading committee for Carl Lundholm’s PhD-defence for the thesis Cut Finite Element Methods on Overlapping Meshes: Analysis and Applications, Chalmers University of Technology. Congrats!
June 10: I gave a guest-lecture entitled Computational modeling of populations of cells: applications to tumor behavior in the Advanced Cancer Biology course organized by Femke Heindryckx.
May 6–7: Two short interviews for local-TV concerning the decline of COVID-19 in Uppsala and the decline in fatality of the disease.
Apr 30: Contributed with a talk at MIT IDSS: Paths from Research to Impact: A Year of Collaborative Research on COVID-19.
Mar 25 Chairman of the Jury in the Unga forskare (Young researcher) competition. A short summary by the Young Academy.
Jan 29 Member of a Aku Kammonen’s grading committe at KTH. The thesis was entitled Numerical algorithms for high dimensional integration with application to machine learning and molecular dynamics. Congrats!
Jan 26 (12.00–13.00): I participated in UPPTALK on the topic CRUSH Covid - samverkan för att dämpa smittspridning i Uppsala. See the recorded talk at YouTube.

Stefan Engblom

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