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Physics education at university level aims to equip students with the necessary skills to take diverse careers paths successfully and adapt to demands of a 21st century society rapidly and effectively. We consider that this can only be achieved by incorporating research-based education innovations that have equity, diversity and inclusion at their heart. In this talk I will present a design of interactive lectures that contribute to a more equitable, diverse and inclusive classroom environment. This goes hand in hand with the design of alternative assessments such as collaborative exams. 

Collaborative exams not only can measure the previously gained learning, but also can be an optimal opportunity to produce new learning while reducing exam anxiety. We developed an inclusive approach for collaborative exams  adjusting the design to the individual learning requirements of the students. In addition, we encouraged students to become active participants in the exam format by incorporating student-generated content.

Doctoral candidate Alexander Lobbe at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Machine Learning for the Stochastic Filtering Problem for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

 

Freysteinn Sigmundsson is a research professor at the Nordic Volcanological Center within the Institute of Earth Sciences at University of Iceland.

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Oslo

Ingeborg Gjerde (Simula Research Laboratory) presents joint work with Ridgway Scott (University of Chicago).

Abstract: Airflow around airplane wings is characterized by a wide range of flow scales, making it highly challenging to capture numerically. From a simulation viewpoint, the following questions are still being actively investigated: Why do airplanes fly? Can one reliably simulate the lift and drag of an airplane wing? In this talk, I will provide no good answers to these questions. Instead, I want to talk about some interesting results I've stumbled into tangentially, including:
- (Nonlinear) kinetic energy instability analysis, also referred to as Reynolds-Orr instability
- Slip boundary conditions and their connection to D'Alembert's paradox
- Stokes' paradox and its connection to weighted Sobolev spaces. I will show numerical results computed for flow around a cylinder, which serves as a proxy for flow around an airplane wing. In particular, I will talk about the impact of the friction boundary condition on the drag force and flow stability. Finally, I will comment on how these results might be interpreted in view of: New Theory of Flight, J. Hoffman, J. Jansson, C. Johnson (2016), Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics.

Lars Frogner, PhD fellow of Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS), University of Oslo.

The variety of sums of powers, VSP(F, r) of a homogeneous form F of rank r is the closure in the Hilbert scheme of apolar schemes of length r. A bad limit is a scheme in the closure that is not apolar to F. I will discuss examples of bad limits, including examples for quadrics found by Joachim Jelisiejew that contradicts earlier results on polar simplicies. This is report on work in progress with Jelisiejew and Schreyer and with Grzegorz and Michal Kapustka.

SPARK Norway Educational Forum are monthly open meetings organized by UiO:Life Science and SPARK Norway partners.

Vi inviterer til programkaffe

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We invite you all to program coffee

 

Velkommen til frokostmøte for voksne inspirert av boken og forestillingen "Den lille prinsen", et humanistisk storverk forkledd som en barnebok.

Doctoral candidate Åshild Telle at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Modeling cardiac mechanics on a microscale; Mechanical modeling and analysis of cardiomyocytes and cardiac micromuscles for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Tone Gregers forteller om sin metode for formidling på Formidlingsforum på MN på Realfagsbiblioteket, der du kan møte  kollegaer med interesse for formidling, for gjensidig inspirasjon og erfaringsutveksling.

In BIOS1100 we noticed that many of the errors students make are abstraction errors (not working at the correct abstraction level or translating incorrectly between levels of abstraction), and there seems to be some evidence of this in the research literature as well.

One way to approach this as an instructor (experts often unconsciously work on several levels of abstraction simultaneously) is to be explicit about which abstraction level we’re working at and when we make a switch – not only to further students’ understanding of the subject matter, but also to teach abstraction as a concept.

"Clarifying the role of ferric iron for Dissolved Natural Organic Matter ultraviolet and visible light absorbance"

Join us at the department’s research seminar on 21. November, with the timely topic Digital Twins: An Emerging Paradigm for Model-Centric Engineering, given by our colleague Einar Broch Johnsen.

Njord Seminar with talks by:

Timo Koch (Department of Mathematics, UiO): "Network models for flow and transport in porous media including exchange processes".

 

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Tromsø

Maksym Brilenkov, PhD student at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

Et faglig tilbud til alle bachelorstudenter som tar emner på Kjemisk institutt. Tilbudet er særlig relevant for deg som følger: MENA1001, KJM1101, KJM1130 og KJM2400.

Counterexamples to the integral Hodge conjecture can arise either from torsion cohomology classes (as in Atiyah's and Hirzebruch's original counterexample from 1961) or from non-torsion classes (as first seen in Kollár's counterexample from 1991). After Voisin proved the IHC for uniruled threefolds, Schreieder found a unirational fourfold where the IHC fails. His construction of a non-algebraic Hodge class relies on abstract arguments with unramified cohomology. It was an open question whether this class is of torsion type. In this talk, I want to explain a new method that gives an explicit geometric description of the unramified cohomology class appearing in his argument. In particular, this approach allows to prove that Schreieder's unirational counterexample is of torsion type.

Felleskollokvium ved Øyvind Guldbrandsen.

This year's Hassel lecture is headed by Professor Marc Fontecave.