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2016-06-03
Students from the upper secondary school Brogårdgymnasiet in Kristinehamn visited Karlstad University During friday the June 3rd second- and third year students from the Technology programme and Electricity programme at the upper secondary school Brogårdsgymnasiet visited us at the Information System department.
2016-06-03
Students from the upper secondary school Brogårdgymnasiet in Kristinehamn visited Karlstad University During friday the June 3rd second- and third year students from the Technology programme and Electricity programme at the upper secondary school Brogårdsgymnasiet visited us at the Information System department.
2016-06-03
Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer technology that allows the creation of virtual environments and simulation of the user's physical presence within these environments. It is also possible for the user to interact with the created virtual reality.
2016-06-01
Lucia Casap, presently PhD student at Academy of Economic Sciences of Moldova, and about to start as Operations Officer at the World Bank in Moldova, will speak about the educational support by World Bank in her country, and about her research on the development of an Educational Management Information System. June 1: Lucia has continued her studies on EMIS and has also continued her interviews here in Sweden.
2016-05-25
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart (Duale Hochschule Baden Württemberg in German and DHBW for short) visited us during a couple of days to discuss future Erasmus exchanges for our students studying ERP and Economy and Webb and Multimedia. On the 24th and 25th of May professors Kai Holzweißig and Thomas Kessel from DHBW visited the Information System department to get acquainted with the department before future Erasmus exchanges.
2016-05-24

New licentiate Tonje Grahn

News » 2016-05-24
The 13 May licentiate Tonje Grahn sucessfully defended her thesis in Risk- and environmental studies titled "A Nordic perspective on data availability for quantification of losses due to natural hazards". As opponent acted professor Kurt Petersen, Safety Analysis and Risk Management, at Lund University. Link to Tonjes licentiate thesis in DiVA
2016-05-24

New licentiate Tonje Grahn

News » 2016-05-24
The 13 May licentiate Tonje Grahn sucessfully defended her thesis in Risk- and environmental studies titled "A Nordic perspective on data availability for quantification of losses due to natural hazards". As opponent acted professor Kurt Petersen, Safety Analysis and Risk Management, at Lund University. Link to Tonjes licentiate thesis in DiVA
2016-05-24
You need to move your references to another program Karlstad University Library is cancelling its subscription to RefWorks for financial reasons effective January 1 2017.  No new accounts can be set up in RefWorks as of June 1 2016. Refworks user  today Please notice!
2016-05-24
You need to move your references to another program Karlstad University Library is cancelling its subscription to RefWorks for financial reasons effective January 1 2017.  No new accounts can be set up in RefWorks as of June 1 2016. Refworks user  today Please notice!
2016-05-23
On the 10 May Monika Rydstedt Nyman successfully defended her licentiate thesis titled "Learning and knowledge sharing from management of extreme weather induced impacts on the Swedish transport infrastructure - Case study of the Swedish Transport Administration". As opponent acted professor Peter Söderholm, Quality Technology and Management, Luleå University of Technology (to the right in the image) and as examinator professor Ragnar Andersson, Risk Man
2016-05-23
On the 10 May Monika Rydstedt Nyman successfully defended her licentiate thesis titled "Learning and knowledge sharing from management of extreme weather induced impacts on the Swedish transport infrastructure - Case study of the Swedish Transport Administration". As opponent acted professor Peter Söderholm, Quality Technology and Management, Luleå University of Technology (to the right in the image) and as examinator professor Ragnar Andersson, Risk Man
2016-05-06

Trial period - Web of Science

News » 2016-05-06
Extended access to Web Of Science. Until August 31 the library has trial access to seven databases. BIOSIS Citation Index Current Contents Data Citation Index(SM) Derwent Innovations Index Medline Web of Science(TM) Core Collection som innefattar Conference Proceedings Zoological Records You'll reach the databases by going to Web of Science, click on "All databases" Web of Science  
2016-05-06

Trial period - Web of Science

News » 2016-05-06
Extended access to Web Of Science. Until August 31 the library has trial access to seven databases. BIOSIS Citation Index Current Contents Data Citation Index(SM) Derwent Innovations Index Medline Web of Science(TM) Core Collection som innefattar Conference Proceedings Zoological Records You'll reach the databases by going to Web of Science, click on "All databases" Web of Science  
2016-05-04
Professor of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center, Karlstad University. April 27-29 was the second meeting of the international research network, INSR, International Network of Service Researchers, here in Karlstad. How did it go? - It went fantastic!
2016-05-04
Professor of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center, Karlstad University. April 27-29 was the second meeting of the international research network, INSR, International Network of Service Researchers, here in Karlstad. How did it go? - It went fantastic!
2016-05-03
Two PhD students and one student from Karlstad University have been to Google's 1st PhD Student Summit on Web Application Security, taking place 18-20 April 2016. At the summit, in the Google Engineering Office in Munich, Germany, the students had the opportunity to explore complex and large-scale computing challenges.
2016-05-03
Two PhD students and one student from Karlstad University have been to Google's 1st PhD Student Summit on Web Application Security, taking place 18-20 April 2016. At the summit, in the Google Engineering Office in Munich, Germany, the students had the opportunity to explore complex and large-scale computing challenges.
2016-04-29
Myra O'Regan, Dublin, gave a presentation on the prediction technique "Ensembles". Bridget Kane's colleague from Statistics at Trinity College, was over for a couple of days to familiarise herself with Karlstad University. Myra made a presentation on the Ensembles techniques for prediction and discussed its teaching.
2016-04-29
The research project Privacy & US, coordinated by Computer Science at Karlstad University has gained a new partner, the Swedish company Sentor. The aim of the project is to find new solutions to issues regarding personal data and integrity. As more and more organisations handle personal and identifiable information, it is of great importance that citizens are protected from harmful use of this information.