Events - Page 6

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.

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.

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".

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

Joanna Dziadkowiec at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

 " The DLVO theory and application to colloid and surface science"

MSc Audun Skaugen at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"A unified perspective on two-dimensional quantum turbulence and plasticity"

for the degree of PhD

Doctoral candidate Master in Physics Audun Skaugen at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

" Do the Navier-Stokes equations allow for the emergence of singular flow structures in a finite amount of time?"

Doctoral candidate Frank Guldstrand at the Department of Geosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Caldera Collapse