Events

Neal Iverson (Iowa State University): A slip law for glaciers

It would be a mistake to assume that students have learned the thing you just presented to them. Formative assessment is thus concerned with informing both the teacher and the student about how much students understand about a topic, and discover any misunderstandings.

Elsa Bayart (ENS de Lyon): Solid friction: heterogeneities and rupture arrest

Jonathan Bamber (University of Bristol): A Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling approach to solve for sea level, global mass movement and solid Earth deformation simultaneously

Ramin Aghababaei (Aarhus University): Micromechanics of surface asperities fracture during sliding contact

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

"Uncertainty quantification for nuclear level densities and γ-ray strength functions from the Oslo method and beyond"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Anne Pluymaker (U Delft): Fluid-limestone interactions: a rock mechanics approach

The seminar will be in Norwegian: "Vi presenterer en modell for kompetanseheving i realfaglig programmering for lærere. Modellen tar for seg opplæring i programmering på fagenes premisser, og vi ser på hvordan en slik modell kan brukes for lærere i høyere utdanning."

Most of you have now spent the last three semesters working on one of the biggest projects of your life so far: your master thesis project. In collaboration with KURT, we want to give you the chance to join a workshop that will give you a space to learn how to create your master thesis.

Åke Fagereng (Cardiff University): Effects of heterogeneity on fault slip behaviour

Suzanne Hangx (Utrecht University): The importance of understanding fluid-rock interactions for geo-energy storage and production: learnings from CO2 storage

Computational thinking are by some defined as the capability to resolve problems algorithmically and logically, including skills related to representing, organizing and identifying patterns in data. This may be seen as leaning in a direction of discrete and observable processes. The Norwegian translation to "algoritmisk tenkning" can be read even clearer in the direction of defining explicit, deterministic instructions to achieve a well understood outcome. At the same time, computational thinking is not only promoted as a means to allow the development of concrete code/algorithms, but also as a way of thinking constructively about phenomena in a variety of fields. And it is clearly not the case that all phenomena in nature and society only involve discrete, directly observed entities - to the contrary, many relations and processes we may be interested in are continuous and probabilistic in their nature, where we have to constructively relate to risks, uncertainties and underlying patterns. An interesting question is whether the ability to devise algorithms to solve well defined problems and the ability to relate constructively to questions in an uncertain world should be seen as two aspects of the same skillset, or as separate skills that are cultivated through separate learning experiences.

Seth Saltiel (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory): How can subglacial seismicity constrain bed conditions and mechanics?: experimental exploration of ice slip on soft beds

Marie Violay (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne): Mechanical behavior of fluid-induced earthquakes

Pascal Lacroix (ISTerre): Life and death of slow-moving landslides

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

“Active and passive Brownian particles in complex environments”

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ymir Kalmann Frodason at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Hybrid functional investigations of point defects in ZnO and β-Ga₂O₃"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lucia Crespo Campo at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Investigating the γ decay of Ni isotopes and its applications to nuclear astrophysics"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jian Bin Ben Chen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Instability and Beam-Beam Study for Multi-TeV PWFA e⁺e^- and γγ Linear Colliders"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.