Welcome to our 5th Annual Sustainability Seminar!
Participation is free, and registration is now closed.
Programme
Monday 11th of May
9:00 - Arrival and registration
9:30 - Welcome! | Øystein Prytz, Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
9:45 - Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy and Environmental Applications | Petra Agota Szilagyi, Professor at the Department of Chemistry
10:15 - Break
10:30 - Optimising Energy Systems vs. Optimising Society: Where Do Workers Fit? | Helena Seibicke, Researcher at ARENA Centre for European Studies, the Faculty of Social Sciences
11:00 - The Application of Photoelectrochemistry in Solar Fuel Production and Organic Synthesis | Chang-Ming Jiang, Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
11:30 - Lunch
12:30 - Project presentations
- Making Climate Health Data Actionable: Monitoring Food Security through DHIS2 in Malawi | Yamikani Daniel Jamison Phiri
Glacier Thickness, Thermal Regime, and Human Error Estimation from Ground-Penetrating Radar of 25 Svalbard Glaciers | Erik Schytt Mannerfelt- Electron-Magnon Interactions and Transport | Alv Skarpeid
- Hydrogen Production from Air | Muhammad Salman
- The Mesh around the Metronome: Perineuronal Nets and the Aging Brain | Sverre Gødem
- Science Education within Interdisciplinary Environmental and Sustainability Education: A Two-Way Relationship | Marthe Arntzen
- Revealing the Structure and Function of a Novel Trivalent Spider Toxin | Robin Aasegg Araya
- Pandemics, Particles, and Parameter Spaces | Ida-Marie Fauske Johansson
- Developing a Framework for Estimating Species Turnover Using Species-Specific Co-occurrences | Marianne Strand Torvanger
14:15 - Poster session with refreshments | The best poster will be awarded a grant of 20 000 NOK to be used for conference travel and participation.
16:00 - Downtime. There is a wellness facility with a heated indoor pool and sauna with a panoramic view. The entrance price for the wellness facility is NOK 125 per person.
19:00 - Aperitif, dinner and announcement of the winner of the poster competition
Tuesday 12th of May
9:30 - Polycrisis, Total Preparedness, and Global Sustainability – What’s at Stake? | Helge Jordheim, Centre Director at the Centre for Global Sustainability
9:45 - Debate: Sustainability Research Today. Moderator: Magali Courtade.
- Helge Jordheim, Centre Director at the Centre for Global Sustainability
- Petra Agota Szilagyi, Professor at the Department of Chemistry
- Marianne Zeyringer, Professor at the Department of Technology Systems
- Gina Aakre, Editor-in-Chief of Titan.uio.no, our news magazine for science and technology
10:30 - Break
10:45 - Green Informatics Network | Ana Ozaki Rivera Castillo, Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics
11:00 - Project presentations
- A Comparison of Different Image Analysis Techniques for Mapping Spatiotemporal pH and Carbon Dissolution in Density-Driven Convection of CO₂ in Water | Yao Xu
- How History and Environment Drive Genetic Structure in Wood-Decay Fungi | Dabao Sun Lü
- Alloyed Noble-Metal Nanoparticles as Sustainable Catalysts: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application | Walace Peterle Soares Kierulf-Vieira
11:30 - Lunch
12:30 - Project presentations continue
- The Challenging Black Shales of the Oslo Region | Sigbjørn Økland
- Fluid Mechanics of Droplet Flow on Complex Fibers in Fog Nets | Amalie Eveline Hermundstad
- The Molecular Lens: New Frontiers in Oslofjord Biodiversity and Food Web Analyses | Even Werner & Eivind Stensrud
- Precipitation Change in Response to Treeline Shifts | Gunnar Thorsen Liahjell
- A Digital Twin of the Oslo Fjord | Riccardo Sieve & Lars Willas Dreyer
13:35 - Closing remarks