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Knowledge gaps, competing theories, and shifting information make science communication a challenge. Who controls the flow of information – and misinformation? This event will explore the complex process of communicating science in times of uncertainty, including how to navigate the nuances of scientific uncertainty and methodological limitations, communicate effectively, and build trust with the public. Our speakers and panelists will present both historical and contemporary examples, and share their views of the role of science communication now and in the future.
Welcome to our weekly lunch seminar held in the dScience lounge area! This event is open to PhD candidates and postdocs.
We have the pleasure of hosting Professor Jelena Popovic-Neuber from the Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger on Thursday, 9 March.
Effects of combined predation risk and copper exposure on reproduction in a coastal copepod
Estimates of environmental extremes are needed for a multitude of applications. For example, buildings, roads, bridges and dams must be designed to withstand extreme precipitation and flooding events of a certain size. Obtaining such estimates requires a combination of statistical theory and environmental process understanding to overcome data deficiencies: data on extremes are by definition sparse and regulations often require estimates for events that have yet to be observed. We will present approaches to obtain consistent estimates across spatial locations and accumulation periods, and discuss a few open questions on this topic.
Welcome to nex seminar of the semester, where we will host a talk by Laura Valencia (Doctoral Research Fellow, Lefevre-Nilsson Group, FYSCELL, IBV)
Update: This event is unfortunately cancelled. The General Assembly will be held digitally, with only invited attendees.
We welcome you all to the CENSSS General Assembly for 2023! The open session after lunch is open for all interested parties!
Open session with talks by Eörs Szathmáry, Joana C. Xavier, and Steve Crossan.
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Doctoral candidate Kamer Vishi at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Security and Privacy in User Authentication: Aspects of Fusion, Machine Learning, and Privacy in Biometric Authentication for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
Ben Zwickl from Rochester Institute of Technology is back an even week:
This is an in-progress project, and I’m looking forward to an interactive discussion with lots of questions and feedback!
Our team has conducted 16 interviews with scientists from chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics. Each interview delves into important tasks that incorporate computation as part of doing research and/or teaching.
Joanna Dziadkowieck, Postdoc Njord, UiO and
Paiman Shafabakhsh, Phd Njord, UiO
Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Tromsø
PhD candidate Lisa Schroer at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The Histidine Methyltransferase Universe: Characterization of METTL9 and CARNMT1 – Two Novel Protein Histidine Methyltransferases" for the degree of PhD.
Welcome to our GEOHYD Lunch Seminar Friday 3rd of March @ 12:15 in Aud. 2, Geology building or via videolink using Zoom. The seminar is helt by Federico Covi, GeoHyd, UiO.
OceanSun’s floating solar island consists of a hydro elastic membrane attached to a flexible torus, providing a more cost-efficient alternative with natural cooling of the panels leading to increased efficiency. The current research focuses on the seakeeping characteristics of OceanSun’s FSPV concept specifically. Wave induced loads are of particular interest, as the feasibility of offshore installation strongly depends on environmental loads. Important responses of the membrane based FSPV are identified by the development of a global model based on linear potential flow theory, and linearly pre-tensioned membrane motions. Based on theory formulated by Grøn (2022), a modal analysis is used to describe the vertical displacement of the membrane-floater system. A numerical implementation of the theory in WAMIT is compared to experimental results from model-scaled tests.
PhD candidate Lane Atmore at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Tracing the Early Origins of the Atlantic Herring Trade Using Ancient DNA" for the degree of PhD.
Felleskollokvium by prof. Erik Adli, Dept. of Physics, UiO
This event has been postponed. New date will be released.
SPARK Norway Educational Forum are monthly open meetings organized by UiO:Life Science and SPARK Norway partners.
QOMBINE seminar talks by Delphine Martres (University of Oslo) and Alexander Müller-Hermes (University of Oslo)
Nakajima quiver varieties are a class of combinatorially defined moduli spaces generalising the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane, defined with the aid of a quiver Q (directed graph) and a fixed framing dimension vector f. In the 90s Nakajima used the cohomology of these varieties (in fixed cohomological degrees, and for fixed f) to construct irreducible lowest weight representations of the Kac-Moody Lie algebras associated to the underlying graph of Q. Since the action is via geometric correspondences, the entire cohomology of these quiver varieties forms a module for the same Kac-Moody Lie algebras, suggesting the question: what is the decomposition of the entire cohomology into irreducible lowest weight representations?
In this talk I will explain that this question is somehow not the right one. I will introduce the BPS Lie algebra associated to Q, a generalised Kac-Moody Lie algebra associated to Q, which contains the usual one as its cohomological degree zero piece. The entire cohomology of the sum of Nakajima quiver varieties for fixed Q and f turns out to have an elegant decomposition into irreducible lowest weight modules for this Lie algebra, with lowest weight spaces isomorphic to the intersection cohomology of certain singular Nakajima quiver varieties. This is joint work with Lucien Hennecart and Sebastian Schlegel Mejia.
MHCI variability and fitness in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Henning V. Myhrehagen, Karl Henrik Fredly, and Hannah Christine Sabo are working on separate research projects in Tor Ole Odden’s research group at CCSE. Their projects address computation/programming in different parts of physics education. Here are the abstracts of the three lightning talks they will give:
Join us at the department’s research seminar on 27. February, with the talk Language models under the hood, given by our Associate professor Andrey Kutuzov from the Language Technology Group
Anne Imig holds a master’s degree in environmental engineering. In 2019 she started her PhD studies at the Technical University of Munich which she is currently finishing.