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in Geodesy Division
- Mohammad Bagherbandi
participated in training School on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA)
Modeling organized in 13-17 June, 2011 Gävle, Sweden.
- Yueming Zhao was
granted 2nd place of Young Researcher Award for his presentation:
"EKF SLAM with outlier detection" during the International
Forum-competition of Young Researchers at St. Petersburg State Mining
University April 20 - 22.
- M. Bagherbandi
successfully defended his PhD thesis on 28th of April in 2011.
- Mohammad Bagherbandi
will defend his thesis on Thursday 28th of April in 2011 at 13
o'clock. The title of the thesis is "An Isostatic Earth Crustal
Model and Its Applications". Professor Zdenek Martinec from
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies has been appointed as the
faculty opponent.
- Professor emeritus
Arne Bjerhammar peacefully passed away on February 6, 2011, at 19.15.
- Mehdi Eshagh
completed his Docent grade on 28th of October 2010.
- Lars E. Sjöberg
acted as a chair man for the 10th ABLOS conference 2010 in Monaco.
- Ramazan Alpay Abbak
joined the division of Geodesy as a visiting researcher for three
months to work on the KTH approach to geoid determination since 1st of
October 2010.
- Mohammad Bagherbandi
participated in the Nordic Geodetic Commission (NKG) General Assembly
September 27-30, 2010, Hønefoss, Norway and for presenting a paper.
- The 1st
International School on The KTH Approach to Modelling the Geoid was
held at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, on 20-24 of September
2010. The school consisted of a mixture of lectures and laboratory
work. There were 21 participants from 7 countries. A questionnaire
answered by the participants showed that the students were generally
very satisfied by the training and services provided.
- Majid Abrehdary was
admitted as a PhD student of Geodesy at KTH in September 2010. He is
appointed to work on Satellite Altimetry and the recent European Space
Agency satellite mission Cryosat-2 for studying the sea level changes
in Fennoscandia.
- The divisions of
Geodesy and Geoinformatics will be merged in a new division of Geodesy
and Geoinformatics on the first of July 2010. Professor Hans Mattsson
is appointed to act as the head of the new division.
- The new Journal of
Geodetic Science was launched on 11th of June 2010. The journal owner
is the division of Geodesy at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and
published by Versita.
- Ronald Ssengendo
from Uganda was admitted as a PhD student in the division on in 7th of
June 2010 and he is appointed to work on Geoid determination of Uganda
- The journal proposal
of division of geodesy written, by Lars E. Sjöberg and Mehdi Eshagh,
to establish a new geodetic journal was approved by Versita, a Polish
company.
- Uliana Danila got a
permanent teaching position at Karlstad University and left KTH on
14th of March 2010.
- Ilias Daras has been
awarded the Tryggve Rubin Foundation Best Student Thesis in Geodesy
for 2008-2009.
- Mehdi Eshagh
successfully defended his PhD thesis on 5th of June in 2009.
- Division of Geodesy
celebrated 25th jubilee of Lars E. Sjöberg professorship on Friday
29th of May in 2009.
- Prosper Ulotu
successfully defended his PhD thesis on 20th of May in 2009.
- Dr. Huaan Fan and
Mrs. Uliana Danila left the KTH to Kirgizistan to teach in a Kirgiz
University.
- Professor Lars E.
Sjöberg, the head of Division of Geodesy of the KTH, was invited as a
convener for the session of "local and global geoid models"
of the European Geosciences Union general assembly 2009 in Vienna. The
session was on Friday 29th of April. Dr. Ramin Kiamehr his former
student in KTH, which is now an assistant professor of Zanjan
University in Iran, was invited to be the co-convener of this session
as well.
- Mehdi Eshagh will
defend his thesis on Friday 5th of June in 2009 at 10 o'clock. The
title of the thesis is "On satellite gravity gradiometry".
Professor Zdenek Martinec from GFZ-Potsdam Institute has been
appointed as the faculty opponent.
- Prosper Ulotu will
defend his thesis on Wednesday 20th of May in 2009 at 10 o'clock. The
title of the thesis is "Geoid Model of Tanzania from sparse and
varying gravity data density by the KTH method". Professor
Hossein Nahavandchi from University of Trondheim has been appointed as
the faculty opponent.
- Geodesy division
moved to Teknikringen 72, 2nd Floor.
- The published paper
of Ramin Kiamehr was ranked the most viewed articles in Journal of
Geodesy
- Geodesy Divission
activities (2002-2006), Report prepared for the Nordic Geodetic
Commission
- KTH Faculty has
approved to extend the master programme Geodesy and Geoinformatics
into a 2-years programme from academical year 2007/2008
- Huaan Fan has
visited Technical University of Moldova on May 1-5 for participating
the Tempus project monitoring meeting
- The joined published
paper of Horemuz, M., Andersson, J. was ranked the second most viewed
article in Journal of GPS Solution.
- The joined published
papers of Ramin Kiamehr and Prof. Lars Sjöberg were ranked the most
viewed and hot articles in Journals of Geodesy and Geodynamics.
- The division is
contracted by the Swedish Road Administration to make research on
Safety on Roads.
- Huaan Fan has been
awarded honorary professor by the Kyrgyz State University of
Construction, Transportation and Architecture (KSUCTA). The award
ceremony took place in Bishkek on March 13, 2006, and broadcast by the
Kyrgyz national television. During the visit in Bishkek, he also
participated in the opening ceremony of the GIS Centre at the Kyrgyz
Agrarian University (KAU).
- On April 16-30, the
Division of Geodesy will organize an intensive training course on
modern geodetic equipment for 8 staff members of the Kyrgyz State
University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture (KSUCTA)
and the Kyrgyz Agrarian University (KAU). The course will be given at
KTH as a part of a EU-funded Tempus project
on "Education in Geodesy and Geoinformatics".
- On 8-9 March Ramin
Kiamehr was in Lantmäteriet (Swedish Surveying Organization) in Gävle.
He had a presentation titled: ''Potential of the least-squares
modification of Stokes approach in determination of the high
resolution geoid model in mountainous area, case study of Iran'' and
had a discussion with Dr. Jonas Ågren about the Nordik geoid research
project.
- On February 23 Prof.
Lars Sjöberg contributed to the planning meeting for future polar
expeditions at the Polar Secretariat.
- On February 3 Prof.
Lars Sjöberg was a member of the examination board of Sten
Bergstrand's disputation at Chalmer's University of Technology.
- Dr. Huaan Fan
attended a meeting on Erasmus Mundus programme at Karlsruhe University
of Applied Sciences, 20-22 January 2006.
- Dr. Huaan Fan has participated the Tempus project Representatives
meeting in Brussels, organized by The Euroepan Commission, 29-31
January 2006.
- Dr. Huaan Fan
visited Center for Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg within the
framework of KTH's Tempus project "Education in Geodesy and
Geoinformatics". 21-24 February 2006.
- The Division of
Geodesy, together with Division of Geoinformatics, has applied to the
KTH authority to extend the present 1.5-years master programme
"Geodesy and Geoinformatics" into a 2-years programme. If
approved, the new programme will start in the Autumn
of 2007.
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