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The transition away from a society and energy system that primarily rely on fossil fuels is a challenge that requires rapid changes and interventions at the local, national and international level.

We are happy to announce that the 2020 Almlöf-Gropen lecture, which had to be postponed due to the ongoing pandemic, will be given by Prof. Leticia Gonzalez, University of Vienna. The title of her lecture is Light and shadows on the quantum simulation of molecular electronic excited states. The event will also feature contributions from Abril C. Castro and Ryan Wilkins from the Hylleraas Centre.

The Information System Seminar Series features, Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion, Director of Strategy at Privacy International

Welcome to our GEOHYD Lunch Seminar Friday 28th of May @ 12:15 via videolink (Zoom). The seminar is helt by Frans-Jan Parmentier, Dept. of Geosciences.

Michele Fumagalli, Physics Department, University of Milano Bicocca.

By Michael Knapp from University of Otago, New zealand. Please be aware of the change in time.

How can knowledge about the genetic and physiological relationship between the host animal, its environment and its microbiome help develop sustainable practices in the production of animal products?

by

Davide Novella

From the University of Padova

Hosted by Razvan Caracas

Entering new dimensions of the genome

This week we discuss a paper on using hyb-seq for analysing herbarium specimens

Title: Angry weather? Attributing extreme events to climate change

Speaker:   Friederike Otto, University of Oxford

We invite you to our fifth lunch meeting this year - the May RoCS Solar/Stellar Lunch. You are invited to discuss your work with colleagues.

This topic will be presented by Bjørn Taale Sandberg / Telenor Research Director

PhD candidate Anna-Marie Winter at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Nonlinearity, irreversibility and surprise – managing Atlantic cod under climate change" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andreas Alexander at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Measuring glacial channel hydrology for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Constructive alignment of learning aims, examination and learning activities is a convincing principle for course design. However, to make a meaningful alignment, we first need to precisely define and understand these aspects in the context of a given course. For instance, if learning aims are to truly guide/define examination and learning activities, we need a rich conception of learning aims that goes well beyond the short, general and typically vague formulations provided on course web pages. As always, devil is in the details. To initiate a discussion, I will show examples of how we have tried to face the challenge of being sufficiently concrete in our approach to constructive alignment in the course IN1000 (a large introductory programming course at UiO).

C*-algebra seminar talk by Magnus Goffeng

By Eline Lorenzen from University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Oslo

Welcome to our GEOHYD Lunch Seminar Friday 21th of May @ 12:15 via videolink (Zoom). The seminar is helt by Clara Sena, Dept. of Geosciences.

Abstract: In computational mechanics, high fidelity simulations of a parameterized partial differential equation (PDE) are often computational expensive, which make them impractical for real-time predictions. Non-intrusive reduced order modelling aims to address this problem with a fast low rank approximation. This is usually done in two phases: the model is built in the offline phase and the prediction is done in the online phase. In the offline phase, data points, or so-called snapshots, are collected from simulations or measurements. The reduced basis space can then be obtained from the dataset using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition. In the online phase, the solution for a new set of parameters is obtained by first recovering the expansion coefficients for the reduced basis and then projecting them back into the uncompressed real-life space. The non-intrusive approach relies on a statistical mapping between the coefficients and the parameters. Various methods have been proposed to do so, this seminar will discuss radial basis function interpolations and dynamic mode decompositions.

This talk is part of the Mechanics Lunch Seminar series. That means 20min talks plus discussion in an informal setting.

Zoom: To obtain the Zoom meeting details please contact Timo Koch (timokoch at math.uio.no).

Friday 21.5, 1415-1500: Tor Ole Odden

Friday 28.5, 0915-1000: Kirsty Dunnett

by

Attila Balázs

From ETH, Zürich

Hosted by Ágnes Király

MSc. Julie Nitsche Kvalvik at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Design and deposition of CaMoO₄ as host for solar down - converters» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.