AFC (www.afcleuven.be) heeft nog 5 plaatsen vrij vanavond (dinsdag 22 november) voor hun workshop. Inschrijven kan via workshops@afcleuven.be.  

De Bongo-bon veranderde de wereld van cadeau's. Cirque du Soleil zette de circuswereld op z'n kop. En sinds de opkomst van DELL is de computerverkoop helemaal veranderd. Dit zijn drie sterke voorbeelden van business model innovatie. Alexander Osterwalder ontwikkelde het Business Model Canvas, een tool om bedrijfsmodellen te visualiseren, kritisch te bekijken en opnieuw uit te vinden.

In deze workshop bij Flanders DC maak je kennis met hoe het model werkt. Je past het in de praktijk toe op een bestaand bedrijf. En we kijken hoe je via het business model canvas tot een creatieve, innovatieve startup kan komen.

Kortom: de perfecte workshop voor wie graag met een nieuwe blik naar bedrijven wil kijken. Of voor wie graag zelf een super-startup wil oprichten!

 Locatie: Office Flanders DC - Diestsevest 76 Leuven

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From our student consultancy project, AFC:

Vanavond hebben we nog 3 plaatsen vrij voor een brainstormsessie met Leuvense ondernemingen. Als je mensen kent die hierin geïnteresseerd zijn, kunnen deze zich altijd inschrijven door een mailtje te sturen naar workshops@afcleuven.be, waarna Jasper dit zal bevestigen.

Meer info:

Brainstormsessie Innovatie - Unizo
Dit is de tweede van de drie creativiteitssessies met allerlei bedrijfsleiders bij Unizo. Via de GPS-tool van Flanders DC ga je met een groepje brainstormen over business mogelijkheden en om pro-actief in te spelen op trends en ontwikkelingen. Dit is zeker een aanrader als je in contact wil komen met diverse ondernemingen, strategieën en visies.
Tijdstip: 20 oktober, 19-21u
Locatie: Museum M

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Hello freshmen and -women!

All of you will be starting your PhD at our faculty this year, congratulations! To welcome you to our faculty, we invite all of you to an introduction event especially for new PhD students!

Welcome event? Do you find yourself lost in the complicated buildings of our faculty or in the historic city of Leuven? Fear no more! We will give you a tour of the building in which you will discover secret rooms, hidden exits and the best way to have coffee. Afterwards we leave for the city center for a small tour past the best lunch options, ice cream parlors, coffee stops and we may or may not pass some historical buildings on our way. 


Will there be food? Yes! After the tour, we head back to the faculty buildings for a pizza evening to get to know each other a little better. 
 




And drinks? Yes! Drinks are on us (soft drinks and wine).

When? Wednesday October 12^th. The tour starts at 5pm in the main hall of the HOG (in front of the faculty library entrance). If you already know your way around the buildings and the city, then you can skip the tour and meet us at 7pm in the cafeteria for pizza!

Ok, I’m in! Where do I register? You can register in office 02.104 (close to the elevators on the second floor) with Laura Nurski. Please bring 5 euro when you register, if you want pizza afterwards. Drinks are on us!

By the way, what is Economics Doctoral Circle? Economics Doctoral Circle is a PhD student organization at the Faculty of Business and Economics. We organize several social events throughout the year, such as quizzes, BBQ’s, games night,… and we keep you informed about other interesting things that go on at the university.  

Feel free to invite your first year colleagues, it could well be that our mailing list is incomplete. We hope to see many of you there!

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The PhD society is organizing an exciting event for PhD students:

the PhD Job Fair 2011

what: PhD Job Fair, preceded by the Company presentations

where: Jubileumzaal of the University Hall in Leuven

when: October 21st, 2011 from 11:00-15:30

In the two weeks prior to the Job Fair, companies will present themselves during several information sessions, giving you the chance to get to know these companies in advance.

Company presentations:
Monday, October 3th - Wednesday October 19th, 2011

Our Gold and Platinum sponsors will present their company during an information session (Monday/Wednesday evening, 19.00 - 20.30h). The schedule for the information sessions will be available from September 2011 onwards.
PhD Job Fair:
Friday, October 21th, 2011

Over 50 companies will be present and their representatives are more than willing to provide you with all the information regarding positions available, recruitment procedures, etc. With this Job Fair, we want to provide a venue for all doctoral students and postdocs to learn about different career prospectives. Also, by organizing this Job Fair, we want to improve the employer's perception on students with a doctoral degree, thereby stimulating the careers of the qualified researchers from all kinds of diciplines.

There will be a free lunch (12:00-13:00), so save time and combine your lunch with a visit to your company of interest. All registered participants will get their lunch for free!

All information can be found here

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(in Dutch) 

B-Prepared... for the next step !
The importance of professional networks

PhD Society Leuven organiseert voor de derde keer een B-Prepared event voor doctorandi en postdocs, ter voorbereiding op hun toekomstige carrière(s). Vertegenwoordigers van Randstad en Voka zullen het belang van algemene, professionele & gespecialiseerde netwerken toelichten, en de rol ervan in onze moderne arbeidsmarkt benadrukken. De infosessie zal bovendien afgesloten worden met een 'Networking Reception'.

Datum: Maandag 12 September, 19h - 20h; incl. networking reception van 20h - 21h

Locatie: Erasmushuis, Justus-Lipsiuszaal (LETT 08.16), Blijde Inkomststraat 21

Deelname is gratis, maar registratie is vereist: registreer hier

Meer informatie is beschikbaar op de Website van PhD Society Leuven.

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Introductory course on The Optimal Design of Experiments

September 19, 20 & 21, 2011
Antwerp, Belgium

The target audience for the course is starting Ph.D. students and anyone
else who would like a primer on optimal design. Prerequisites for the course
are knowledge of basic statistics and regression analysis. Familiarity with
classical design of experiments is not required. The course is not highly
mathematical and therefore accessible to a broad audience.

The course will start with an intuitive introduction of the topic and
gradually builds up to more complicated situations. Examples for the course
will be taken from industry, marketing, chemistry, medicine, ... to show the
wide applicability of the optimal design techniques. The attention will not
be restricted to optimal design for linear regression models, but Bayesian
optimal design and minimax designs for nonlinear regression models will also
be discussed. The strengths and weaknesses of optimal design will be
illustrated, and some remedies to overcome some of the problems will be
given.

The venue for the course is in the Antwerp city center, Prinsstraat 10, room
P011. Registration for the course costs 150 euro for academics and 750 euro
for others. This fee includes course material and lunches on September 19
and 20. Registrants can arrange cheap accomodation in nearby hotels. The
Antwerp city center is easy to reach by train, and there is an hourly bus
service from and to Brussels National Airport.

For further information, please contact Peter Goos at
peter.goos@ua.ac.be


Lecturer: Peter Goos


Course contents:

In total, the course takes 2.5 days. The programme of the first 2 days is as
follows:

- Introduction to design of experiments

- Intuitive introduction to optimal design of experiments

- Optimal design for linear regression models ( first-order models,
second-order models, constrained design regions, algorithms)

- Optimal design for nonlinear regression models ( local optimal design,
Bayesian optimal design, minimax design, algorithms)

- Extensions to non-standard design problems ( blocked experiments, paired
comparison and choice experiments, experiments with hard-to-change factors
(split-plot experiments), model uncertainty)

The last half day is reserved for advanced topics like split-split-plot
designs, strip-plot designs, and computationally efficient methods for
Bayesian optimal design.

The course will take place in a computer class so that the course
participants can work on a few algorithms and examples themselves. Various
software packages are demonstrated as well.

Schedule: 19 & 20 September (9am-6pm), 21 September (9am-1pm)

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