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We are inviting Master's students from partner universities with a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science to join us for this international event!

Students from partner institutions are free of charge!

Students who are not from a partner university have to pay a tuition fee in the amount of 350€ (for both weeks).

All students have to bear the costs for housing and travelling costs, lunches are not included. For application please write an e-mail to international@fh-hagenberg.at - you will then receive a registration link.

Application deadline is May 20. In addition to lectures, workshops and laboratory tutorials, our programme will include site visits and two days filled with social and cultural activities.

These activities has already been supported by the construction of the most advanced testing polygon for autonomous vehicles in Central Europe, which is located in Zalaegerszeg near the Austrian and Slovenian borders and funded by Hungarian Government. Cross-border tripartite cooperation in this area is very unique, thus the Minister of Transport of the Republic of Hungary has also highlighted the important role of the three universities in Budapest, Graz and Maribor in the implementation of this new type of mobility in the region and in the whole Europe. The venue was attended by the Vice-rector Prof. dr. Niko Samec, Dr. Miran Rodič, Mladen Kraljić and Darja Kukovič.

In parallel, the University of Maribor has successfully applied the university network for Avtonomuos vehicles in the CEEPUS program (program for Central and Eastern European University Study), which marks the beginning of the implementation of the trilateral agreement between the universities BME Budapest, TU Graz and the University of Maribor. The network cosists of 14 university partners from 10 countries and numerous economic partners from the same countries.

New season in student competition in group of three is about to begin - Univerzitetni programerski maraton (UPM, university programming marathon). For the title of UPM champion, students from three Slovenian universities compete: Maribor, Ljubljana and Primorska. The best team from Maribor will also attend regional ACM competition in Prague (Czech Republic). Successful R-IT students are also excused on part of study obligations. Group of up to three students are solving problems on single computer. The winer is a group that solves the most problems in the shortest time. You can choose from different programming languages (C++, Java, Python, C#). In a case that you are alone or you are in short of candidate, came and we will help you with that. For more info and to apply: http://tekmovanja.acm.si/upm

Jaroslav Porubän is Associate professor and the Head of Department of Computers and Informatics, Technical university of Košice, Slovakia. He received his MSc. in Computer Science in 2000 and his PhD. in Computer Science in 2004. Since 2003 he is the member of the Department of Computers and Informatics at Technical University of Košice. Currently the main subject of his research is computer language engineering concentrating on design and implementation of domain specific languages, computer language composition and evolution.

The visit is part of the project "Integration of visiting foreign experts and higher education lecturers into the teaching process as the pillar of quality development of the internationalization process at the University of Maribor", which is co-funded by the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport."

Programme:

In computer science, evolutionary computation is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution by simulating selection, crossover and mutation. These algorithms are part of artificial intelligence, which are blooming nowadays. At the event we will discuss challenges of evolutionary computations, which researchers are facing.

PROGRAMME
10.10 - 10.15: Introduction
10.15 - 10.40: prof. dr. Janez Brest – Introduction to evolutionary computations
10.40 - 11.05: prof. dr. Janez Brest – Challenges in single-criteria optimization
11.05 - 11.30: Miha Ravber – Challenges in multi-criteria optimization
11.30 - 12.00: prof. dr. Marjan Mernik – Search space exploration and exploitation with evolutionary algorithms
12.00 - 13.00: Discussion

You are kindly invited!

Head of the Institutute of Computer Science
prof. dr. Marjan Mernik

More info: https://feri.um.si/zaposlitve/you-got-an-innovative-business-idea/

The main purpose of the ERC is to fund excellent researchers and their research teams to carry out research, which should lead to the progress of existing knowledge and to the setting of clear objectives for fundamental research in Europe, where the sole criterion for granting financial resources is scientific excellence. The aim of the ERC is to improve career opportunities and the independence of researchers in their early career stages.

ERC calls according to target groups are:

• Starting Grant - for researchers at the beginning of the career (2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD)
• Consolidator Grant - to consolidate the independent career of a researcher (7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD)
• Advanced Grant - for active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years

The event will be held in the G2-P1 Alfa lecture hall.

Agenda:

9.30 – Purpose of the event and presentation of guests (Prof. Dr. Marjan Mernik)

9.40 – Presentation of the ERC program

• The purpose of the program and funding opportunities (Dr. Martin Penny)
• Support of Slovenian NCO (Dr. Andreja Umek Venturini)

13.00 – Open discussion with potential ERC applicants (exclusively for target groups)

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Applications for ACM Competition UPM 2018 (University Program Marathon) are collected until December 5, 2017 at marjan.horvat@um.si (Subject: Application for UPM 2018). Learn more about the UPM contest at http://tekmovanja.acm.si/upm and in the attached file.

On the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list are only three researchers from Slovenia, all from University of Maribor. Besides prof. dr. Marjan Mernik the highly cited researchers are also prof. dr. Željko Knez and prof. dr. Mojca Škerget, both from Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. To learn more about 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list visit https://clarivate.com/hcr/ or check the video below to take an inside look at the data and analysis behind Highly Cited Researchers and hear from the Highly Cited Researchers themselves on what it means to be highly cited and the impact it can have on them and their institution.