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

MSc. Lluís Artús Suàrez at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Computational study on the deaminative hydrogenation of amides catalyzed by base metal complexes» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Every second Tuesday, CBA staff gather for lunch and a talk. On May 18th, the talk will be given by postdoctoral fellow Andrea Popp. The talk is called "Tracing surface water-groundwater interactions in alpine and subarctic environments".

May12 is a joyful opportunity for the mathematical community to celebrate women in mathematics. The celebration takes place every year, all around the world. Please join us!

After having taught computing in a mathematical setting for many years, I have collected a number of observations and hypotheses about how students develop their understanding. In particular I have seen many examples of how computing triggers understanding of mathematical concepts. Some of these are quite standard, eg.  numerical integration as a tool to extend the understanding of the definition of the integral. In this talk I will discuss some fairly obvious examples of this kind, but I will focus on some less obvious examples. Hopefully, this will illustrate that computing can be integrated fruitfully with mathematics in areas far beyond what we do today.

C*-algebra seminar talk by Ulrich Pennig

M.sc. Manish Shrestha by the Department of Technology Systems will be defending his thesis: 

LightSC: A light-weight security classification methodology to design and evaluate security of IoT systems

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Late Lunch Talk by José Cerca

Learn Design Thinking methodology and how you can utilize it in bringing forth solutions for healthcare challenges? Master's and PhD students affiliated with Centre for Digital Life Norway through research projects in the centre or the research school are eligible to apply to get a place on this online course.

Jay Fineberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): How Friction Starts: Nucleation fronts initiate frictional motion

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Oslo

Welcome to our GEOHYD Lunch Seminar Friday 7th of May @ 12:15 via videolink (Zoom). The seminar is helt by Andrea Popp, Dept. of Geosciences.

Abstract: Graphics processing units, or GPUs, offer significantly increased performance for some scientific computing workloads. But in the case of finite element simulations on unstructured meshes, the benefits of using GPUs are still the subject of an ongoing discussion for which there is no clear conclusion. We describe our work on improving the GPU acceleration of a finite element solver framework called FEniCS, where code is automatically generated for the user from a high-level description of their finite element problem. We use automated code generation to offload the assembly of linear systems to a GPU, while taking care that data transfers between CPU and GPU do not become a performance bottleneck. We provide examples to show that GPUs and automated code generation can be used to accelerate finite element solvers. Even though more work is needed to find efficient GPU-based linear solvers, our improvements to FEniCS can be used as a starting point for exploring the potential of GPU acceleration for finite element simulations.

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).

Mingle meeting at ITA with updates and quiz.

Flashing Large Mammals: Quantifying the effect of white LED flash on camera trapping detection rates

by

Philippe Steer

From the University of Rennes

Hosted by Sebastian Gac

Ecological effects of low calcium on the White-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

Open innovation and bioinformatics – from biological insights to algorithmic solutions. For researchers who are developing bioinformatics solutions. 

The Information System Seminar Series features, M. Lynne Markus, Professor, Information and Process Management, Bentley University,  Massachusetts USA  

Every second Tuesday, CBA staff gather for lunch and a talk. On May 4th, the talk will be given by postdoctoral fellow Manjana Milkoreit from the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. 

Title: Time is of the Essence - Investigating beliefs about the future among climate change negotiators

Stefanos Papanikolaou (National Center for Nuclear Research, Poland): From statistical features to mechanical yielding in digital image correlation and surface strain maps

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Tromsø

Doctoral candidate Håvard Tveit Ihle at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Bayesian Data Analysis for Intensity Mapping and CMB Experiments" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

How can we use computational models to understand how microbes work together in their natural habitats, and is it possible to design and control synthetic communities for application in industrial biotechnology?