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Prof. Tor Helleseth had his 70th birthday celebrated at the international workshop MMC during Sept. 3 - 8 and at the Vilvite center on his birthday, Nov. 22.
Be present, use the study halls, and remember: the only thing that limits you is your own imagination!
"Our results surpassed all expectations. Of course for Garbage Collectors, who were only minutes away from 3rd place and a place in the international finals, but also for our two recruitment teams, both of which made a fantastic effort and got great results."
We consider this new project a fantastic opportunity to continue contributing high-quality visualization research to the medical field here in Bergen. Based on ten years of fruitful research, we see great benefits in cooperating interdisciplinarily to solve challenging problems that require the integration of multiple, complementary competences.
She’s both a groundbreaking computer scientist and an excellent teacher; and now she’s awarded the Teaching Prize at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Last weekend, NCPC, the Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest, was held, and students from informatics did well! In the student class (ICPC eligible) UiB became the best Norwegian university with 5 of the top 6 places.
Meet our PhD candidate, Sergej Stoppel, who teach computers to understand what you want to do. How about having a robot draw your portrait for example?
- I think it's really nice to study informatics in Bergen. We have a very good study environment. There is always a possibility to get help from both lecturers and fellow students, no matter what it should be! It's a good environment for learning here, and everyone helps everyone learn new things.
- I really enjoy working here with the people in the visualization group, and also the opportunities for collaborating with other scientists. Besides work, I think the city of Bergen is really amazing. Both my partner and I love the nature that the surroundings of Bergen have to offer, and the large metal community here as well.
- The position offered by UiB was perfectly catered to my research interests, and the project allowed for progression in an exciting direction that would be of personal appeal. Not to mention the opportunity to work at a great institute situated in such a picturesque city!
This is a message to new students from our (very own) professor Fredrik Manne, who was recently appointed outstanding lecturer. Well deserved for a professor with 20 years of experience, who is passionate about his field and is loved by his students. The man who walks into the auditorium with anticipation, loves teaching and puts his students first. This is what we call excellent teaching!
On June 26th the Research Council of Norway announced its continued funding to ELIXIR Norway - and 18 other infrastructure funding proposals submitted October 2016
Professor Michael Hesse commitment to space physics honoured by NASA.
Watch our new ELIXIR profile video to get an overview about ELIXIR. In it, Niklas Blomberg (ELIXIR Director), Ewan Birney (EMBL-EBI), Alfonso Valencia (ELIXIR Spain) and others explain what ELIXIR is and what it does, and Olav Lanes, Head of R&D at ArticZymes, explains why public data are so vital for innovation.
Advanced visualization is exploring new paths to reveal the function and structure of relevant natural phenomena or other artifacts of interest. Medicine, geoscience, and engineering are just three selected areas where new visualization research is needed. 3D Visualization World interviewed Dr. Helwig Hauser, professor in visualization at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen... Read more
Team from UiB won norwegian championship in programming.
Three students from the Department of Informatics, all master students in Algorithms, won the programming contest IDI Open 2014.

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