Prof. Dr. Tomaž Čater and Assistant Ivan Župič from the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, analysed the use of bibliometric methods in scientific works published in magazines pertaining to management and organisation in an article entitled Bibliometric methods in management and organisation, published in the Organizational Research Methods magazine. The purpose of the article was to create a reference and recommendations for researchers aiming to use bibliometric methods in literature reviews on management and organisation.
The Nobel Prize winner Sir Richard J. Roberts was awarded an honorary PhD of the University of Ljubljana for his successful cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, in the field of molecular medicine and biotechnology. The gala event was enriched with a lecture on genetically modified food and claiming its unsubstantiated opposition.
Assist. Dr. Marinka Žitnik and Prof. Dr. Blaž Zupan, researchers from the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, developed a computational approach to draw conclusions in a diverse data environment based on the simultaneous inflow of data matrices, noise removal and search for data samples. The article Large-scale data fusion was published in the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence magazine.
MOL Group, a leading international oil and gas company, has invited students for the 9th consecutive time to enter the international online student contests Freshhh, where students interested in the real challenges of oil and gas industry participate in three-member teams. Out of the 2210 teams from seventy countries, for the first time in the history of the competition the team of students from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, was included in the top five teams. They won the third place.
The University of Ljubljana Rectorate held the founding meeting of the University of Ljubljana global alumni and associates network (SMUL), where members adopted a memorandum of incorporation and elected management for a two-year period. SMULbrings together prominent scientists, professors and other respectable persons working in academic, research and development spheres outside Slovenia. It was established as an activity to raise the quality of study programmes and the reputation of the University of Ljubljana while strengthening international cooperation. The attending members of SMUL elected Prof. Dr. Zlatko Skrbišfrom Monash University, Australia, as their Chairman.
