Modeling of Initial Mold Filling in Teeming Process Considering a Trumpet

The KTH Energy Platform put the university’s research breadth on display in March at the annual Nordic Energy Outlook conference in Gothenburg. Staged by the Swedish Energy Agency, the conference brought together producers, consumers, regulators and academics for three days of exhibitions and presentations. 

The Erling-Persson Family Foundation has donated SEK 22 million ($3.2 million) to help KTH expand research into medical imaging physics and computed tomography. The new funding will allow important new diagnostic tools to move out of the laboratory and into medical clinics. 

“With our new technology, fewer children will develop cancer due to CAT scan radiation,” says Professor Mats Danielsson of the KTH School of Engineering Sciences.

At the AlbaNova Colloquium, Sir Anthony Leggett, the 2003 Nobel Physics Prize winner, talks about the science of quantum mechanics, looking at how research into the very strange behaviour of atomic particles is beginning to deliver new technologies — even before the fundamental principles are fully understood.

Sir Anthony's lecture delved into the mysterious phenomenon known as entanglement, where the act of observing one atom changes the state of an entangled atom regardless of distance and without any passage of time. 

Married in January, Stefano Bonetti and his wife, anthropologist Karin Båge, are preparing to move from Stockholm to California, where Stefano will begin a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University studying the smallest and fastest magnetic phenomena known to science.

KTH is home to a new research project in droplet microfluidics and nanowire technology, aiming to develop techniques for rapid detection of cancer cells circulating in patients’ blood. The team has set an ambitious target of a clinical sensitivity of one cancer cell per millilitre of blood.

KTH has been selected to anchor the new Swedish Centre for Smart Grids and Energy Storage (SweGRIDS), bringing academia together with industry and public utilities to tackle the European Union’s ambitious targets for improved energy efficiency. Some one hundred scientists will work on development of electric power grids that respond intelligently to consumer and supplier behaviour.

A University of California Professor, the 1997 Nobel Physics Prize winner and President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Energy paid a visit to KTH on December 8 — all in one person. Spending an afternoon on campus, Dr. Steven Chu delivered a scientific address and met students in a lab at the AlbaNova Centre for Physics, Astronomy and Biotechnology.

Arun Venkatamaran’s degree project on insulation for electrical transformers spans a range of fields, from computer simulations and design to construction and electrical power.

Researchers from KTH’s Microsystem Technology Lab are working with colleagues at Karolinska Hospital to develop and test a nanotechnology capsule for precise delivery of stem cell medicine. The aim is to fight the most common type of childhood cancer—without the unpleasant side effects of traditional chemotherapy.