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Join the dScience lunch seminar at the Science Library with Magnus Li and Alexander Kempton as they explain why public sector digitalisation often falls short. They will discuss how viewing digitalisation as just a technical issue leads to failed IT projects and offer new ways to approach the complex challenges of organisational improvement. Both speakers bring extensive experience in public sector digitalisation.

As part of the CBA site-visit, there will be lectures open for all.

Get insight into best practice for choosing the right preclinical model systems and how to do proper documentation of the studies. What are the common pitfalls? What are the dos and don'ts?

Tore Klungland

_{Weekly Theory Seminar.}

Professor Michael Welzl (ND) will present a talk titled -"Cat-eating immigrants ruin the climate by watching NetFlix": An overview of nonsense, truth, and possible research directions.

Kjetil Lysne Voje is Associate Professor at the Natural History Museum, UiO.

Professor Gaute Einevoll has over many years developed a very successful and popular research and educational program on Computational Neuroscience. 

Nicholas Karlsen, a former CS master student, now works with the Norwegian Tax administration developing and working on AI and machine learning algorithms. 

Eleonora Secchi is the group leader of the BioMatter Microfluidics Group at ETH Zurich

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Oslo

By Arne Jacobs, School of Biodiversity, One Health, and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow

Doctoral candidate Andreas Haraldsrud at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Thinking Through a Computer – Simulations, Models and Representations in Chemistry" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Dag Kristian Sannes at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Exploring Pt-UiO-67 Catalysts for CO2 Valorisation: Synthesis, Characterisation and Testing" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Welcome to our GeoHyd Lunch Seminar on Friday 18th of October @ 12:15 in Aud. 1 in the Geology Building. The seminar is held by Akhilesh Sivaraman Nair (University of Oslo).

Swimming microorganisms and artificial microswimmers use environmental cues to influence their dynamics, helping them to improve transport, reach specific flow regions, or avoid harmful conditions. Although plankton navigate turbulent flows in nature, it is poorly understood how they do so efficiently. By combining Reinforcement Learning with analytical perturbation theory, we investigate how microswimmers can sense environmental signals and adjust a few control parameters to navigate turbulent flows. This approach helps identify effective navigation strategies for various tasks. We illustrate this with two key tasks: avoiding high-strain regions and navigating against gravity, both essential for plankton in the ocean.
 

Doctoral candidate Athar Mahdieh at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocarriers for Drug and Gene Delivery to Cancer Cells" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Comparing nematode and flatworm biodiversity and sand quality in natural and artificial urban beaches

Welcome to the annual Data Science Day, where we bring together the data science community for a productive mix of networking, learning, and entertainment.

The ability to code is important for developing logical reasoning and literacy skills. To foster interest in coding among youth, considerable efforts have been invested in creating engaging tools and activities, with Scratch emerging as a prominent initiative.

This visual coding platform is designed to enhance creativity and motivate students to engage with computing. However, meaningfully integrating Scratch into educational contexts poses challenges. This presentation explores seven design principles for coding, drawing on Resnick's concept of tinkering, self-determination theory, and the documented need for guided instruction. A case study in mathematics reveals how students' interest in both coding and math waned due to the neglect of key design principles.

The focus then shifts to laboratory work in science education. By referring to these principles, it is proposed that virtual lab exercises can become more inquiry-based by allowing students to design their own virtual prototypes in Scratch, calibrating them through practical laboratory experiences. This combination holds the potential to create meaningful and engaging learning experiences in both coding and science education.

There is a large body of work from the learning sciences providing us with insights into how people learn; and from Discipline Based Education Research (DBER) we know what discipline-specific difficulties students face. However, it is quite surprising that relatively little of this understanding has made its way into the design of science and engineering curricula offered at most colleges and universities.

This presentation will focus on the need for evidence-based curriculum transformations, the research findings that can guide them, and how we might assess the results of these transformations.

An approach to systemic reform that focuses on helping students use their knowledge in scientifically meaningful ways, will be discussed. Examples of such curriculum reform efforts “Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything” (CLUE) and a subsequent organic chemistry version (OCLUE), will be presented, along with the evidence to support how these transformations impact student learning and course culture.

Implications for systemic reform will also be discussed.

Title: Convective instability, upwelling and mixing efficiency measurements in an abyssal canyon

Speaker: Matthew Alford, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Restricted Boltzmann Machine and Ground State Energy for Selected Hamiltonians

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01665-7