Events

Eijsink is a visiting scholar at Njord and a PhD candidate at MARUM Research Faculty, Universität Bremen.

Njord's associate professor, Jessica McBeck, will present findings from a recently accepted article.

Björn Birnir is Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science at UCSB, USA.

David Grégoire is full professor in mechanics at the Laboratory of complex fluids and their reservoirs at Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour and IUF Junior Chair in the Mechanics and Physics of Porous media.

A Njord/PoreLab Seminar. 

Benoit Coasne is a CNRS Research director at Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, University Grenoble Alpes. He has done a lot of work on porous media and molecular simulation.

As part of her PhD, Marthe Grønlie Guren will do a presentation on a review of molecular dynamics simulations. 

Liquefaction is a serious earthquake hazard. Under shaking, naturally saturated granular media (soils, fault gouge) that usually supports shear stress like a solid, may start to flow like a fluid. This phenomena is not well understood nor predicted. Einat Aharonov will present a numerical study of such a system and explain some of the physics controlling it.

Doctoral candidate Arianne Juliette Petley-Ragan at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis: Earthquakes and Metamorphism in the Lower Crust, for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Le Xu at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Experimental Observations of Dissolution in Fractures in Circular Geometry"

for the degree of PhD

The EarthFlows Meeting is an annual event on its 5^th edition, and part of a strategic research initiative for cross-disciplinary research at the University of Oslo, Norway. This year's seminar will be held in Oslo between 19^th and 20^th of June 2019.

Ass. prof. Ian Bourg from Princeton University will be visiting us on June 17th, to give a seminar on: "Clay, water, and salt: Controls on the hydrology and mechanics of fine-grained soils and sedimentary rocks".

Earthquakes in the lower continental crust

Xiaojiao Zheng at the Department of Geosciences will defend the thesis:

"Reaction-induced Fracturing in Confined Systems"

for the degree of PhD.

Jesús Rodríguez Sánchez at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Experimental study of brittle or ductile behaviour of mineral cements"

for the degree of PhD

Lei Li at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Nanoconfined Calcite Growth in situ. Microfluidic Channel, Growth rims, Cavity, Crystallation pressure and Disjoining pressure”

for the degree of PhD

By Professor Eirik Grude Flekkøy, PoreLab, UiO

Patrick Huber from Hamburg University of Technology will give a talk on the topic: "Soft Matter in Nanoporous Media: From Nanoscale Physics to Metamaterials' Science".

Lisa De Ruiter at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Rock cementation by magnesium silicate hydrate

Seminary by Luiz Morales

There will be an kick-off meeting for the EarthFlows research group the 14th of February. All participants in the EarthFlows research group and other invited guests are welcome.

Faban Barras will be visiting us from Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He will be giving a presentation with the title "Onset of sliding along frictional interfaces: From microcontacts rejuvenation to the energetics of earthquake rupture"

Danny Caballero is from Michigan State University, and is also affiliated with CCSE at UiO. His talk will be on the integration of numerical computation in physics education.

Joanna Dziadkowiec at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Interactions between Confined Calcite Surfaces in Aqueous Solutions. A surface forces apparatus study."

for the degree of PhD