Events

Marco Hufnagel, DESY Hamburg

_{Weekly Theory Seminar.}

Doctoral candidate Vegard Skiftestad Olsen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Functional Properties and Band Gap Engineering of ZnO-GaN Alloys"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Closed for the public!

Vegard Skiftestad Olsen at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

"White LEDs for illumination"

Closed for the public!

By Professor In-Hwan Lee

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Doctoral candidate Ingrid Digernes at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Mapping the vessel architecture of brain cancer by advanced perfusion MRI"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ingrid Digernes at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

"New insights in penumbra visualization in acute ischemic stroke"

Camilo Garcia Cely, DESY Hamburg

_{Weekly Theory Seminar.}

Computer science was originally invented as a tool to support learning in other disciplines, including engineering and economics. Today, most of computer science education is aimed at preparing future software developers. How do we broaden the appeal of and access to computer science education, to something closer to what the inventors of the field had in mind?

Abstract:

In 1823 Niels Henrik Abel published a paper with title "Oplösning af et par opgaver ved hjelp af bestemte integraler," (Solution of a couple of problems by means of definite integrals), Magazin for Naturviden-skaberne, Aargang I, Bind 2, Christiania, which did not appear in French translation until 1881. Here he presented a complete framework for fractional-order calculus with appropriate notation for non-integer-order integration and differentiation. This seems to have been unknown until discussed in Podlubny, Magin, Trymorush, "Niels Henrik Abel and the birth of fractional calculus," Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, pp. 1068-1075, 2017.

I will give an introduction to non-integer order calculus and Abel's derivation of it. This will be done by going through his 1823 paper showing how he assumes a generalization of both Cauchy's formula for repeated integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus. In addition I will show how fractional calculus can be used to derive fractional-order partial differential wave equations. They have solutions with power-law attenuation which matches measurements in the complex media of medical ultrasound and elastography as well as in sediment acoustics and seismics.

Practical work like laboratory work and fieldwork is integrated parts of many science educational programmes. However what do students learn through practical work?, and is it the same in different types of practical work?

Welcome to a company presentation by two former master students of the CS program now working at S & T - with many interesting  job possibilities for everybody who loves Computational Science. 

The ScienceAtHome group at Aarhus University has developed a number of games and tools for quantum-physics-based citizen science and education. One of these tools, Quantum Composer, allows students and researchers to explore quantum mechanics in one dimension.

Jan Myrheim, NTNU Trondheim

_{Weekly Theory Seminar.}

We have developed a framework to describe the modeling process in physics laboratory activities.

Doctoral candidate Sigvald Marholm at the Department Of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

The Unstructured Particle-In-Cell Method with Applications for Objects in Ionospheric Plasmas

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Sigvald Marholm at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

“Challenges of large-scale kinetic plasma simulations”​

This talk investigates what it means to learn computer science content, how we might better support computer science learning, and how we might better understand what learners know.

Jörn Kersten, UiB Bergen

_{Weekly Theory Seminar.}

Liliana Velasco-Sevilla, UiB Bergen

_{Weekly Theory Seminar.}

Doctoral candidate Magdalena Kersting at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

“General Relativity in Secondary School - Research-Based Development of Learning Resources and Analyses of Students’ Conceptual Understanding Using the Model of Educational Reconstruction”

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Magdalena Kersting at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

"Quantum mechanics from a discipline and secondary school perspective: the didactic transposition and its research-informed methods”

"Classical Molecular Dynamics using Neural Network Representations of Potential Energy Surfaces"