Published 11 June 2024 The thesis in statistics is titled ”Optimization and Algorithms in Sparse Regressions: Screening Rules, Coordinate Descent, and Normalization”, but what is it about? "It is about statistical models for high-dimensional data, where the number of variables outnumber the number of observations, such as DNA microarray data where there may be hundreds of observations (patients) b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-johan-larsson - 2025-03-11

Published 12 June 2024 The new board had its first meeting on 5 June, and beyond our two external members it really is a brand new group. “We have a strong base to start from and from there we will try to be more relevant for the whole of LUSEM than ever before. For instance we have an aim set at establishing new stipends for our teachers, researchers and guest researchers besides those we already

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/presenting-our-new-partnership-board - 2025-03-11

Published 13 June 2024 The one year presidency of Simon Anderberg draws to a close and on 16 July he hands over the president’s club to Tova Mark. We had an opportunity to meet up with them both in Skånis and of course we leapt at it. Simon, how has the last year matched your expectations?I’m not sure what I expected, but we are at a good place as an organisation. We did not have any radical chang

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/one-president-another-lundaekonomerna - 2025-03-11

Published 13 June 2024 Lund University has risen to 75th place in the prestigious QS annual ranking. This is an improvement of ten spots on the previous year, placing Lund as the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. In addition, the University has been awarded the QS Sustainability Champions Award.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lund-university-climbs-global-ranking-wins-sustainability-award-0 - 2025-03-11

Published 13 June 2024 Last week our Professor in Economic History, Sylvia Schwaag Serger was appointed as new president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).With an extraordinarily strong background in research and innovation her expertise has been called upon by the European Commission, the OECD, and the World Bank to name but a few.Congrats Sylvia!Read more on IVA's homepa

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sylvia-schwaag-serger-new-president-iva-0 - 2025-03-11

Published 13 June 2024 Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/what-bear-mind-summer - 2025-03-11

Published 20 August 2024 Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) reached the Triple Crown status in 2021. This is the first reconfirmaton of the quality of the School, as both EQUIS (in May) and AMBA (in August) reaccrediated the School for another five years. Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) has now received its reaccreditation through both the Europea

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-reaffirms-its-triple-crown-accreditation - 2025-03-11

Published 22 August 2024 It is with great sadness that we today fly the flag at half-mast on the occasion of a memorial tribute to Antonio Marañon, teacher at the Department of Statistics at Lund University School of Economics and Management who passed away earlier this summer. Our thoughts are with the family and closest relatives.Det är med stor sorg vi idag flaggar på halv stång med anledning a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/flag-half-mast-today - 2025-03-11

Published 26 August 2024 Anna France and David Gardner from Leeds University Business School. Photo: Maria Johansson “External engagement is at the centre of what happens at Leeds University Business School (LUBS), be it with partner companies, NGOs or alumni. It’s a bridge between these levels and the students, researchers and teachers at our school and a high priority of our’s”, says Anna France

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/leeds-comes-lund - 2025-03-11

Published 28 August 2024 Most researchers want to do things correctly and much of the time this is straightforward: you do not need instructions in order to understand that you are to write your own text and not plagiarise others. But not all rules and processes are as obvious and some change over time.In order to make it easier for researchers to do things correctly, Lund University has produced

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-guide-makes-it-easier-researchers-do-things-correctly - 2025-03-11

Published 28 August 2024 Do you want to take your research further? Innovation developer Cecilia Jädert at LU Innovation encourages researchers to come and present their idea. Register for a workshop no later than 9 September. Also, read about the Faculty researchers who got help to start a business.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/innovation-workshop-researchers-how-think-entrepreneur-0 - 2025-03-11

Published 28 August 2024 Are you a university lecturer, teacher, student teacher, or researcher in educational science? Or just generally interested in school issues and higher education? You are warmly welcome to this fall’s Higher Seminars in Educational Science.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/discover-falls-seminars-educational-science - 2025-03-11

Published 29 August 2024 Dags för nya inspirerande och lärorika kulturhändelser för alla universitetets medarbetare. Som aviserades i våras erbjuds fyra workshoppar under hösten som en fortsättning på förra höstens stora kulturmötet på Skissernas museum.Läa mer på LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/kultursamverkan-bjuder-till-inspirerande-workshopserie - 2025-03-11

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 10 September 2024 We are pleased to announce a course organized by LUSEM in collaboration with colleagues from Hanken School of Economics in Finland. Titled Behavioral Economics of Beliefs and Misperceptions, the course will explore key topics through a series of online and hybrid lectures. The course covers field experime

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/behavioral-economics-beliefs-and-misperceptions-field-experiments-registers-and-surveys - 2025-03-11

Published 11 September 2024 After nailing his thesis “Climate, Culture, and History – Essays in Development Economics” to the wall at LUSEM, Steve Berggren-Clausen is gearing up for his defense on 4 October. You have been writing your thesis at the department of Economics and now it is on the wall just a few steps from Café Holger. Please tell us in your own words what it is about.My thesis explor

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-steve-berggren-clausen - 2025-03-11

Published 11 September 2024 On 15 April this year, digital degree certificates were introduced at the University and a considerable improvement has already been noted. It has become faster, more secure and more efficient, which has meant a reduced workload for many staff members and shorter waiting times for students.Learn more at LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/digital-degree-certificates-save-time - 2025-03-11

Published 11 September 2024 This year’s salary review date is 1 October. This is the date on which your new salary will apply and from which your new salary will be paid retroactively when the University pays the new salaries.According to the timetable drawn up by the University, which has been presented to the employee organisations, it is estimated that the new salaries will be paid out in Febru

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/salary-review-starts-soon - 2025-03-11

Published 11 September 2024 The University has started a new initiative that involves inviting its new staff from far and wide to joint activities during the year.New international staff members and their families were recently welcomed to the new academic year at an event in the Main University Building. Specially invited staff members enjoyed a get-together and refreshments with music by Albin R

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-international-staff-members-were-welcomed-new-academic-year - 2025-03-11

Published 12 September 2024 Are things the same, but different or just plain different? How do students enroll? What is it really like to be a teacher or administrator at a business school in Spain, or South Africa for that matter? With grants such as Erasmus + we actually have a chance to find out for ourselves. Would you like to see first-hand how your counterpart at another university goes abou

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/staff-exchange-see-world - 2025-03-11

Published 23 September 2024 On 27 September he will be defending his doctoral dissertation: Roots Across the Atlantic: Social Networks and Economic Outcomes from the Swedish Mass Migration to the United States, 1880–1920. But before that we wanted to get to know a little bit more about Marcos Castillo and his work ad the department of Economic History. You are about to defend your thesis, what is

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-marcos-castillo - 2025-03-11