2012 - the year of idea generation

3D printing at nanoscale, cruising on electrical roads, puching against cyber-attacts, changing the world with big data. That's just a few of the ideas that came out of the School of Electrical Engineering in 2012.

Read more in our yearbook 2012

Cash prize for polymer pioneers

Mercene Labs has won the 2013 Ingemar Croon Award from KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Greenhouse Labs. The pioneering firm founded in 2012 is behind an advanced polymer solution with great potential.

Cash prize for polymer pioneers

In Depth

Extracting the value from big data

2 500 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 – 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. That is equivalent to the memory in 57.5 billion 32GB iPads. It’s called big data for a reason, but the information content in all that data is very low. Cristian Rojas and Saikat Chatterjee want to extract the essence of the information so that we can estimate and predict the behaviour of complex systems.

Extracting the value from big data

IEA praise Swedish energy policy

Sweden was praised by the International Energy Agency at the launching of its report on Swedish energy policy. "Well done" and "continue like this" was IEA's executive director, Maria van der Hoevens main message as she presented the report at KTH.

"Why Sweden is leading country" - see Maria van der Hoeven's presentation of IEA's report

"Is Sweden on the rigtht way?" Se the panel discussion with Lennart Söder, professor in electric power systems at KTH

Research interview

Controlling the swing

Imagine you come home after a long day at work. You switch on the lights, take off your shoes and enter the kitchen. You turn on the electric kettle to make a nice cup of tea and start preparing dinner. As it is a bit chilly, you turn on the electric heater. You cannot wait to throw yourself onto the couch to watch your favourite series.

Then, suddenly, everything goes black.

Yuwa Chompoobutrgool intends to control the swing

Doctoral interview

Combining both worlds clarified the message

In her thesis Zhongwei Si proposes a generalised method to deliver clear messages in a world of wireless devices which must co-operate in order to get the message across. She has every reason to be satisfied; not only did she “produce an excellent thesis” according to her supervisor, but she and her husband have also had a son in the process. Their journey has not been without challenges, she says, “It was much harder while I was going through the process. Now I've made it.”

Combining both worlds clarified the message

Event

European conference at KTH to evaluate energy markets

How should the market be designed to take on Europe’s energy objectives in the future? Does the legislation marry up with political ambitions? Who will pay for solar power output on the grid? These are a few of the questions that Europe’s energy researchers will be discussing at the European Energy Market conference to be held at KTH in 2013.

European conference at KTH to evaluate energy markets

News

Pushing the boundaries of wireless connections with Dynamic Spectrum Access

The wireless speed we pay for today is usually pure fiction. To get your peak rate – let’s say 10 Mbit/s – you would have to be the only person on the entire network surfing the internet. So the reality of the wireless internet is one of slower and more uncertain speeds. Alexander Proutiere is figuring it out.

Pushing the boundaries of wireless connections

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