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Doctoral candidate Agnieszka Seremak at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Molecular Insights into Guest-Host Interactions in Zeolite and Zeotype Catalysts for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Yan Zhou at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Neuro-Symbolic Methods for Natural Language Explanations in Question Answering for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Karen Mulleners is an associate professor in the institute of mechanical engineering in the school of engineering at EPFL. She is the head of the unsteady flow diagnostics laboratory (UNFoLD). She is an experimental fluid dynamicist who focuses on unfolding the origin and development of unsteady flow separation and vortex formation. Karen studied physics in Belgium (Hasselt University, previously Limburgs Universitair Centrum) and the Netherlands (TU Eindhoven). She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from the Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany in 2010 for her work on dynamic stall on pitching airfoils that she conducted as a member of the German aerospace centre (DLR) in Göttingen. Before joining EPFL in 2016, Karen was a (non-tenure track) assistant professor at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany. 

Please visit her webpage for more details. 

Doctoral candidate Yabing Wen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Hydration, proton transport, and effects of defect interactions in acceptor-substituted BaZrO₃ for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

C*-algebra seminar by Alina Vdovina (Graduate Center and City College, the City University of New York)

Cassandra Durr is a PhD candidate at the STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training at Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses on non-linear system identification through equation discovery of physical systems, with an emphasis on epidemic modelling. Cassandra holds a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Sciences and postgraduate degrees in Mathematical Statistics, and Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence.

Doctoral candidate Johanne Thunes at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Beyond Outsourcing: A case study on digital sourcing decisions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ryan Marinelli at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Fortifying AI in Deployment Contexts for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Nordfjordeid Summer School 2026

Jonathan C. Tan, Professor, SEE, Chalmers University; Research Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Virginia.

Doctoral candidate Mouhammad Abu Rasheed at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Catalytic testing of Cu-based systems inspired by C–H oxidizing metalloenzymes" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jie Bian at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Automated Mining of Design-Decision Rationales in Internet Protocols for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Professor Anke Lindner is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on the physics of complex fluids, suspensions, active matter, and fluid–structure interactions. Her research combines innovative microfluidic experiments, microfabrication techniques, and particle-tracking methods to uncover how microscopic dynamics govern the macroscopic behavior of flowing materials. Her work has advanced our understanding of phenomena ranging from non-Newtonian fluids and rheology to bacterial suspensions, flexible fibers in flow, and active fluids.

After studying physics in Germany, she earned her PhD from the École Normale Supérieure in 2000, focusing on interfacial instabilities in complex fluids. She subsequently held positions at ESPCI Paris and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, before becoming Professor at Université Paris Cité.

Her achievements have been recognized with numerous distinctions, including an ERC Consolidator Grant, the Maurice Couette Prize of the French Society of Rheology, election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the prestigious CNRS Silver Medal. More recently, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology and serves as President of the European Society of Rheology.

To get more flavor of her research please check out her webpage. 

Erik Rosenberg, Research Associate at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester (UK)

C*-seminar by Ebrahim Samei (University of Saskatchewan).

This symposium will highlight how strengthened preclinical capabilities can fast-track clinical translation, mapping Norway’s existing strengths, identifying gaps, and defining opportunities to position the Oslo region as a leading radiopharmaceutical research hub.

The Norwegian Geophysical Society is organising its 2nd General Assembly in Oslo on 10–12 June 2026. The General Assembly 2026 is hosted in cooperation with the Department of Geosciences at the University of Oslo.

Doctoral candidate Florence Matewere at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Leveraging Mobile Technology to Strengthen Protocol Adherence in Patients Referrals: A Case of Malawi Rural Healthcare Services for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Anna Lina Petruseviciute Sjur at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis From Winds to Whirls: Dynamics that shape Arctic Ocean circulation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Talk 1: Francis Poulin, University of Waterloo
Mesoscale Air–Sea Interactions in a Western Boundary Current System

Talk 2: Caroline Katsman, Delft University of Technology
North Atlantic CLUEDO*, or how the upper and lower branches of the AMOC are connected

Doctoral candidate Scott Russpatrick at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Transformation through crisis: How digital platforms shape health information system resilience for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Pari Faraj at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Impact of pharmacogenetics and ageing on escitalopram metabolism" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Professor Christopher MacMinn is a Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and leads the Poromechanics Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that brings together engineers, physicists, mathematicians, and earth scientists. His work focuses on the mechanics of fluids and soft materials, particularly how fluids flow through and deform porous materials such as soils, biological tissues, gels, and subsurface rock formations.

Professor MacMinn earned his SB, SM, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked with Ruben Juanes on the fluid mechanics of geological carbon dioxide sequestration. He later held a postdoctoral position at Yale University where he worked with John Wettlaufer and Eric Dufresne, researching the deformation of porous and granular materials.

His research combines mathematical modeling with laboratory experiments to address challenges in energy, environmental science, soft materials, and biomedical engineering. Recent work from his group has advanced understanding of fluid-driven deformation, gas migration in soft materials, carbon storage, and multiphase flow in porous media.

To read more about him please check out his webpage.

The Bernstein–Khovanskii–Kushnirenko (BKK) theorem gives a way to count the non-zero solutions of a system of polynomial equations using geometric objects called Newton polytopes. It can be seen as a refinement of Bézout’s theorem. One particularly nice proof of this result uses ideas from tropical geometry, where complicated algebraic problems can be translated into simpler, combinatorial ones. In this talk, I will explain the BKK theorem and sketch its proof using tropical geometry. I will also describe joint work with Andrés Jaramillo Puentes, where we extend this result to more general base fields, not just algebraically closed ones. This leads to a meaningful way to count solutions in a broader setting, again using tropical methods.