Dear all,

Today is Kanelbullens Dag (Cinnamon Bun Day)! And also our alumn event, starting at 15h - of course with cinnamon buns and coffee. Enjoy!

Some information about events and staff below.

- Olle defends his doctoral thesis 241011. External opponent is Jack Umenberger from Oxford University, GB Seminars by the opponent and grading committee members will be announced.

- 241024 Seminar by Kin Cheong Sou, former postdoc at the department, now assistant professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan.

- On October 28th, 13h45-15h15, the department will be subject to an external evaluation of our research program. An evaluation committee will meet with a group from the department.

- A PhD day will be arranged in November (most likely the 11th) by Yde and Anton Å.

- Research Focus Day is set to November 29th in Pepparholm, Studiecentrum LTH.

- Robotics Week will take place November 19-21 https://www.ai.lu.se/sv/evenemang/robotvecka-skolklasser-19-21-november

- Teacher’s strategic retreat 2-3 December.

- ISP meetings will be held in November-December, so please start to work on the content already now.

- Professor Bassam Bamieh will be our guest during October. Most welcome! Bassam will be in office 3156.

- During November we have the pleasure of welcoming Malena Caparroz, PhD student from University of Almeria in Spain, supervised by Kristian. Malena will be sharing offices with Martin GN (office 2151).

- Save-the-date (February 7,8 or 9, 2025) for theater in sign language with an avatar who signs in realtime. Truly amazing! AI Lund will offer free tickets to university staff later this autumn. https://www.ai.lu.se/sv/evenemang/spoket-pa-canterville Take a peek: https://vimeo.com/771158807/ad37f17981 Some videos from behind the scene: https://vimeo.com/771158807/ad37f17981 https://vimeo.com/821181285/095544bdaf?share=copy

Open calls

• EU

• MSCA COFUND 2025 opens 23 January 2025.

• The European Research Council:

• ERC Starting Grant 15 October 2024.

• ERC Consolidator Grant opens 26 september.

• ERC Synergy Grant 6 November.

• ERC Additional opportunities

• The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation:

• Postdoctoral Fellowships at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 18/10 - 15/11 2024.

• Scholarship Program for Postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Broad Institute, 18/10 - 15/11 2024.

• Postdoctoral Scholarship at Stanford University, USA, 18/10 - 15/11 2024.

• Nomination to Wallenberg Academy Fellows, 7/1-15/2 2025.

• The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund:

• Torsten and Karin Almén Foundation 1 December.

• Travel grants for young researchers.

• The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research:

• Research Institute Doctorate 29 November.

• The Swedish Research Council:

• Research Infrastructure of National Interest 4/12 2024-18/2 2025.

• WASP

• Call for Joint WASP and DDLS NESTs, October 30

• Call for WASP-WISE Pilot projects 2024, November 8

• Call for WASP-WISE NESTs 2024, December 1

• Affiliated WASP PhD student positions, opens September 16 and closes October 31

• WASP International Postdoctoral Scholarships, opens October 16 and closes November 15

Have a nice weekend!
Eva, Karl-Erik and Pontus

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Eva Westin, administrative manager
Department of Automatic Control
Faculty of Engineering
Lund University
eva.westin@control.lth.se
+46 46 222 8787