For the second year running, Computer Science at Karlstad University organized a workshop for external input on the research environment. Computer Science staff presented the research environment to an International Advisory Board (IAB) that gave feedback on the development of the research group.
In 2014, Computer Science was established as one of the two excellent research groups at Karlstad University.
2019-06-20
Mobile broadband gives 30% lower performance than normal broadband. This is shown in a new study presented by Karlstad researcher Mohammad Rajiullah at The Web Conference 2019, a top-ranked (A*) conference held on the 13th –17th May in San Francisco, USA.
Smartphones and mobile broadband have revolutionised web use.
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PAULA HOLST
ERASMUS+ INTERNSHIP SPRING 2017
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
REGION VÄRMLAND EUROPEAN OFFICE
"LITTLE DID I KNOW WHEN I ACCEPTED AN INTERNSHIP THIS TIME LAST YEAR THAT I WOULD LATER MOVE TO BRUSSELS FULL-TIME!”
In the spring of 2017, I carried out my practical placement at Region Värmland’s European Office. I studied the political science master programme at Karlstad University and chose to complete my programme with international placement.
As a young university, we wish to preserve a long-standing academic tradition of ceremonies dating back to the Middle Ages, while commemorating our own history and identity.
Digital Well Arena is a collaborative initiative on digital solutions for a healthier life, between the public sector, academia, civil society, entrepreneurs and business in Värmland. Recently, a workshop was held to make an inventory of the needs for digitalisation in the healthcare sector, what problems society and individuals would benefit from having solved.
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 Ma
Inauguration of the AT-LAB - regional additive manufacturing laboratory was held at Karlstad University 5 april 2018.
Agenda:
- Welcome
- Presentation of AT-LAB (Project leader Pavel Krakhmalev, KaU)
- Presentation from Region Värmland (Anders Olsson, Region Värmland)
- Launch the laboratory (Professor Kjell Magnusson, Dean HNT, KaU)
- Mingle and open discussion until 15:00 – 15:30
Pavel Krakhmalev, professor Karlstad University
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pavel.krakhmalev@kau.se
This subproject, "Migration and Transformation of Powerful Knowledge", addresses one of the major social issues of today - migration and cultural encounters. Like the other subprojects in ROSE, this project centres on practice-oriented matters.
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I allt från modevärldens nostalgitrender till politiska retrotopier vänds blicken numera mot historien snarare än mot framtiden. När det inte längre är möjligt att ens skönja en ljusnande framtid bortom klimathot och pandemier blir istället det förflutna något eftersträvansvärt. Historien blir något att återvända till och rentav återskapa efter eget skön.
There was strong demand for places at the 11th International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity held in Karlstad, Sweden last month thanks to recent changes in EU data protection regulations and the emergence of smart Big Data.
Around 90 people attended the interdisciplinary program, which ran from 21-26 August, focusing on data protection and information privacy from technical, legal, ethical, HCI and industrial perspectives.
Thirty-five PhD students prese
2020-01-15
Working together with other researchers in a cross-country collaboration makes you more open to develop new ideas and look at things from another angle, says Swedish researcher Annika Fredén, currently working at the University of Montreal.
Annika Fredén is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Karlstad University, and also Principal Investigator in the program WASP-HS.
2022-12-20
During 2022, our new Geomedia research centre got off to a flying start. One way of summarizing our achievements, is to revisit what was written about Geomedia during the year. The below examples represent the interdisciplinary scope and quality of our research.
2025-06-05
After three years of preparation, the international conference combining ECHA and IGMCG will finally take place during Midsummer week. The conference is held at Sundsta-Älvkullegymnasiet in Karlstad and brings together participants from around the world to explore inclusive education for gifted children.
ECHA and IGMCG usually organise their own separate conferences on a rotating basis.
Here are the answers to the most common questions about exchange studies.
How do I get in contact with the International Office?You are welcome to come and meet us at our visiting times at the International Office (Building 1B) on Thursdays between 13:00 and 14:30.
Western music history has largely favoured male artists, while women and non-binary performers and composers have largely been excluded from history writing. This has contributed to musical canons where important voices are missing.How may canonical traditions in music be challenged and expanded, from a gender perspective?
Gothic fiction has become increasingly pervasive and popular and invaded all cultural registers – popular, high brow, children’s and young adult fiction – in the Nordic countries in the last few decades. Contemporary Nordic Gothic has been well received and acclaimed by both critics and audiences, nationally as well as internationally.
Welcome to Gifted education: Inclusion and sustainability. 4th thematic European Council for High Ability (ECHA) conference on inclusion and sustainability.
The 14th International group for Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness conference
At this conference, we bring together participants with an interest in inclusive education of highly able children and students.
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RESPONSE (Demand-Responsive Transport to ensure accessibility, availability and reliability of rural public transport) is an initiative run by the public transport sector aimed at developing and coordinating existing publicly funded transport services.
Most public transport services, including medical transport, outside urban areas are still focused on providing local, analog and time-bound bus services.
Welcome to QUIS13 - The 13th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management June 10-13 in Karlstad, Sweden!
Registration
Online registration will close May 31.
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If you have questions regarding your registration, please contact the conference administration
E-mail konferens@kau.se
Phone +46 54 700 18 06
Program
We will start with a reception on Monday evening and sessions and social programs will continue until Thursday lunch.
2017-02-27
CTFblogg / Bo Edvardsson
In an article in Journal of Service Research (2015) with the title: “Service Research Priorities in a Rapidly Changing Context” Ostrom et al. outline key research priorities. The aim was to identify research topics that have the potential to advance the service field and provide significant benefits for customers, organizations, and society in general.
The introduction of new technologies such as machine learning and big data analytics requires new skills in employees and often new ways of working. It also enables new business models, such as MaaS (Manufacturing as a Service), which builds on lean principles and the adaptive smart factories of the future.
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Located at the crossroad of transforming welfare histories, neoliberal biopolitics and everyday forms of life, this panel will put a spotlight on questions of wellbeing, health and liveability from a feminist and gendered lens.
