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Research Group meeting

The first group meeting for this academic year took place on the 5th of November at 09:00. Meeting as a group leads to more collaboration among the group members, learn to work as a team, and plan social activities. These group meetings will take place twice a month and are informal gatherings to discuss research results, problems and ideas. The members will also present techniques that will be useful to the entire group, and other people's work (paper discussion).

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