Events

The scientific program will include invited talks, selected oral contributions from submitted abstracts, and poster presentations, covering the following topics:

• Nuclear level density
• Gamma-ray strength function
• Phase transitions in mesoscopic systems
• Applications in astrophysics and reactor physics
• Other related topics

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.

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.

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

         "Searching for new forces of Nature

  New neutral gauge bosons in dimuon final states with                            the ATLAS detector at the LHC"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Marianne Etzelmüller Bathen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Point defects in silicon carbide for quantum technologies: Identification, tuning and control"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Sohail Musa Mahmood at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

“Exploring Single Event Effects in the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) SAMPA chip”

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Marte Julie Sætra at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Computational modeling of ion concentration dynamics and metabolic oxygen consumption in brain tissue" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate John Mark Aiken at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Understanding University Student Pathways Towards Graduation with Machine Learning and Institutional Data" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Kristin Jensen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Iterative reconstruction in CT imaging; Image quality and radiation doses" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Anna Kristine Fæhn Follestad at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Forecasting Space Weather Effects on GNSS Systems" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

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

"Revealing the Origin of electrically-active Defects in β-Ga₂O₃ and r-TiO₂ "

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Umair Najeeb Mughal at the Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Study of a novel atmospheric icing monitor"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

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

“Fundamental investigations of hydrogen embrittlement by using electron microscopy”

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

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

"Characterization and functionalization of self-assembled nanostructures"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Torunn Kjeldstad at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

"Plasmonic nanoparticles"

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

"Charged dihadron azimuthal correlations in pp and Pb-Pb collisions, measured with the ALICE detector"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Olja Dordic at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

"The mass-radius relation of neutron stars - old and new measurements and the connection to the EOS of dense matter"

Recording of the trial lecture will be published here two days before the disputation.

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.

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

"White LEDs for illumination"

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.