Prof. Dr. Tomaž Prosen from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, won the European funding ERC Advanced Grant to study quantum transport, with the field of application entailing a possibility to study ballistic (ideal) transport at high temperature.
The 2016 international European Robotics Forum held in Ljubljana was attended by 760 European robotics experts, predominantly from Germany, Slovenia, England and Italy. The organiser of the 2016 European Robotics Forum, which has set new development trends in robotics, is euRobotics AISBL, an international non-profit association of all European stakeholders in robotics that is domiciled in Brussels. One of the local partners in the organisation of the event was the Laboratory of Robotics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.
Rector of the University of Ljubljana Prof. Dr. Ivan Svetlik received student athletes who participated in international university sports events in 2015. They represented the University of Ljubljana in ten different sports.
Rector of the University of Ljubljana Prof. Dr. Ivan Svetlik presented the Rector’s Award for the Best Innovation of the University of Ljubljana for 2016. The mentioned contest is an incentive for University students and employees to enter the labour market with their innovations and commercialise their ideas. The award for the best innovation went to a project entitled Piezoelectric deformable mirror1, followed by the projects Inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase for treating Alzheimer’s disease2 and SupraLac3.The authors of all three winning innovations received support for the commercialisation of their innovations and a cash prize from the Rector’s fund. The contest is held in cooperation with the Ljubljana University Incubator.
The University of Ljubljana presented possibilities to study in Ljubljana to Serbian students at the 13th international EDUfair in Belgrade. Visitors could receive all information about first- and second-cycle studies and PhD study programmes. There was also a presentation of the Slovenian Lectorate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
1 This is a thin flexible mirror with piezoelectric actuators on the back side. The shape of the mirror may be randomly changed by steering voltage on actuators. The mirror enables a double-axle tilt and simultaneous image sharpening and is distinguished for extremely fast operations and great accuracy.
2 Members of the team discovered the potential new active substances that inhibit the activity of the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), active in Alzheimer’s disease, with extreme efficiency. These active substances show the possibility of treatment in later stages of the disease as well, when the existing medications have no effect.
3 The innovation is a spherical particle of lactose that may be used as an excipient for producing solid pharmaceutical forms. It provides a simple production of spherical lactose agglomerates in the spherical crystallisation process that may be subject to industrial application. Spherical lactose agglomerates have improved physicochemical and mechanical properties and enable the production of tablets with elevated tensile strength compared to other commercially available lactose types.
