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The guests were welcomed by Dr. Klavdija Kutnar, Rector of UP, and Katja Kosem, President of the UP Student Council.  »Therefore, we do not fear for the future of the University of Primorska. Because every minute, hour, day, month, year, we act according to the principle “don’t ever stop wondering”, as our anthem says. This gives us […]

Candidates can apply to the call for the following mentors, in the following research fields and within the framework of the institution’s research programmes. Prof. Dr. Istvan Kovacs – research field Mathematics, research programme P1-0285 Algebra, diskretna matematika, verjetnostni račun in teorija iger, UP Andrej Marušič Institute (UP IAM), Assoc. Prof. Vita Poštuvan – research field Psychology; Psychiatry, research programme P3-0384 Živ?Živ! Raziskovanje in preprečevanje […]

This year, we will celebrate this day at UP with the presentation of the scientific monograph Symmetry in Graphs by Ted Dobson, Aleksander Malnič and Dragan Marušič, first full-length book on the major theme of symmetry in graph. It was published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press. The books within the series Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics aim […]

The Slovenian Centre for Suicide Prevention, which is part of the University of Primorska, Andrej Marušič Institute, and the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) will host the Congress in Portorož from 19 to 23 September 2023. The Slovenian Centre for Suicide Research has achieved a remarkable accomplishment in hosting such an event. This is […]

The leader of the funded project SMOOTH-MATCH: Smooth isogeometric spline spaces on multi-patch domains is Prof. Dr. Vito Vitrih, researcher, professor and Director of the Institute Andrej Marušič. In the years 2023-2026, the project will extend known results for the case of planar domains to the volumetric domains. They will consider the extension of standard triangular or […]

Last year, 10 tonnes of goods and €47,783 worth of funds were collected, and this year they are expecting an even greater need. The amount of goods collected is not important  – every donation is priceless. The following (non-perishable) goods will be collected: – food products with a longer shelf life (pasta, rice, oil, sugar, […]

The project will investigate several key problems within pure and algorithmic graph theory, with a focus on graph classes and graph width parameters, including the tree-independence number of graphs. Progress is expected to be obtained using an effective combination of various complementary concepts and techniques suitable for the study of graph classes, such as graph […]

Dean Lipovac, student of the doctoral study programme Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments UP Faculty of Mathematics, Natural sciences and Technologies (UP FAMNIT) will defend his doctoral thesis Human preference for wooden materials and their role in restorative environments, under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Michael David Burnard. The defence will take place on Friday, 11 […]

Andrés David Santamaría-Galvis, student of the doctoral study programme Mathematical Sciences at UP Faculty of Mathematics, Natural sciences and Technologies (UP FAMNIT) will defend his doctoral thesis On partitionability and shellability of relative simplicial complexes, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Russ Woodroofe. The defence will take place on Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 17:00 in Famnit-MP1 (Glagoljaška 8, […]

For the ninth year running, participants joined together to collectively cycle the circumference of the globe in the period between World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) and World Mental Health Day (10 October). This year, participants walked, ran, and cycled a phenomenal 297,852 KM to break the stigma surrounding suicide – A distance equivalent to […]

Among the newly promoted Doctors of Science is Aleksandar Tošić, assistant lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies. He defended his doctoral dissertation entitled »Tradeoffs in using blockchain technology for security, privacy, and decentralization: theoretical and empirical perspectives« under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Jernej Vičič and the co-supervision of Assist. Prof. […]

Žiga Velkavrh, a student of the doctoral study programme Mathematical Sciences at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technologies has successfully completed his study with the doctoral dissertation defence “Behavioral traits across time and countries: essays on indirect reciprocity, deception and nationality” under the supervision of Prof. Klavdija Kutnar and co-supervision of Assoc. Prof. Aljaž Ule. We […]