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QOMBINE seminar by Roy Araiza (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Andreas Haraldsrud is going to talk about how we can use computers to widen our understanding of proteins. Note: this seminar will be held in Norwegian. 

Decay of the wood-wide web?

Abstract: The ‘wood-wide web’ holds that all trees in a forest are physically connected belowground by fungi, and that these fungi serve as passive conduits for the beneficial flow of resources and signals among the networked trees. Through these fungal networks, ‘Mother trees’ recognize and warn related seedlings of danger. Though widely appealing and massively popular, I will explain why this story does not survive scientific scrutiny.

Food will be served from 12.00 while the talk starts 12.15.

Here is some relevant reading/background information:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1
 

https://undark.org/2023/05/25/where-the-wood-wide-web-narrative-went-wrong/

Justine Karst, Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Canada

Tired of manually moving files? You want to be able to efficiently analyze data and create fancy plots? You want to learn programming but you do not know where to start? You would like to make your data analysis more reproducible? This is the course for you!

Rachael is the founder and managing director of CarbStrat.

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Tromsø

Doctoral candidate Simon Boge Brant at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Selected topics in regression with a binary outcome: Fraud detection, and applications of copulas to logistic regression for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Welcome to our GeoHyd Lunch Seminar on Friday 8th of November @ 12:15 in Aud. 1 in the Geology Building. The seminar is held by Sonia Dupuis (University of Bern).

Doctoral candidate Eirin Guldsten Robinson at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Suboptimal medication use and medication optimization in older adults - Healthcare costs and outcomes" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Thomas Nagler is a Professor of Computational Statistics \& Data Science at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, and a principal investigator at the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML).

Previously, he held positions as an assistant professor at TU Delft and Leiden University, following a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from TU Munich.

His research lies at the intersection of mathematical and computational statistics. His group develops statistical methods, establishes theoretical guarantees, and designs scalable algorithms, which are packaged into user-friendly software. He also regularly collaborates with domain experts to tackle challenges in diverse application areas.

C*-seminar by Ulrik Enstad.

Is There a Relationship Between Excitation-Inhibition Balance and Mismatch Negativity in Healthy People? An EEG-Based Study

The goal of the seminar is to drive the discussion on a participatory and collaborative transition of the smart grid.

Title: BLOM (Bergen Ocean Layered Model) updates

Speaker: Mats Bentsen, UiB

Join the dScience lunch seminar, featuring Sondre Wold, as he explores the intriguing challenges of compositional generalisation in language models. Despite their remarkable capabilities, large language models often falter on simple tasks, exposing limitations in their ability to understand and combine basic elements into complex structures. Sondre will delve into his research and recent international work, shedding light on where these models fall short and discussing potential strategies for improvement.

The GeoLearning Forum 2024 will be arranged in Tromsø, hosted by iEarth/Institutt for geovitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø. The theme of this year's forum is: EDUCATION IN CHANGE

Håkon Hoel got his PhD in Numerical Analysis from KTH Stockholm in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor in Computational Mathematics at the University of Oslo. His main research interests are Monte Carlo methods and numerical methods for stochastic differential equations and data assimilation. 

Doctoral candidate Bjørn L. Aarseth at the Department of Technology Systems, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, will be defending the thesis:

"Field characterization and production data timeseries analysis for performance evaluation of photovoltaic power plants"

Phylogeny of the Rove Beetle Genus Bledius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

A spatial journey into the immune system of the fish branchial cavity

Abstract: The constant exposure of the fish branchial cavity to aquatic pathogens causes local mucosal immune responses to be extremely important for their survival. Whereas the organization of the fish mucosal immune system has been perceived as lacking complexity, the recent discoveries of new immune structures within the branchial cavity of the zebrafish show that the reality is more sophisticated than thoughts.

Curious about the impact of PhD and early career researchers from a Norwegian Research Centre on Zero Emission Energy Systems for Transport? Please join us for an open meeting the day before the FME MoZEES Final Conference.