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Joakim Bergli (Physics, UiO): Introduction to quantum error correction

Henning Vinjusveen Myhrehagen: 

As of 2023, Norway has implemented a new science curriculum which explicitly includes programming as a part of education in science and mathematics. However, the curriculum documents do not provide clear-cut guidelines on how and to what extent programming should be used for science learning, and it is also unclear how far teachers have come with their implementation of programming in education.

To understand the effects of the new curriculum, we have surveyed Norwegian upper secondary science teachers to find out what affordances they see with the use of programming, and what challenges they are experiencing. 

Line Gaard Pedersen will defend her thesis “Nuclear structure along the Z = 28 and Z = 50 shells — Shell evolution and shape coexistence in ^74,76,78Cu and ¹²⁶Sn” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Prasanta Gorai, Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

A Pilot Feasibility Study of Opioid Withdrawal in Patients with Chronic Back Pain

The evolution of commensalism in Passer sparrows

Human activity has altered the evolutionary trajectories and ecological circumstances of nearly every species on Earth. What can this tell us about the processes of adaptation and speciation? Can we take advantage of the human impacts on species as means to study evolution and its intersection with ecology? This is the driving aim of my research group, where we use Passer sparrows as a model system. We are focusing on a number of topics including understanding the evolutionary causes and consequences of human-commensalism, repeated adaptation to environmental changes in introduced populations and convergent adaptation to human environments across all bird species. We do this using a multidisciplinary approach including genomics, phylogenetics and ecological analyses. 

Welcome to our weekly lunch seminar held in the dScience lounge with Ana Ozaki.

Welcome to all students at the Department of Geosciences to the Geoscience Career Day on Thursday 22 February! The program for the day is now ready.

Halvor Melkild, FI

_{Weekly Theory Seminar.}

C*-algebra seminar by Corey Jones (North Carolina State University)

Morten Hjorth-Jensen (Physics, UiO): Parametric Matrix Models and Machine Learning

Jelena Popovic-Neuber is an Associate Professor in Battery Technology at the Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger. 

Abbas Tariverdi will defend his thesis “Modeling and Control of a Continuum Manipulator for Clinical Automation” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Title: Volcanoes, climate and society

Speaker: Ulf Büntgen, University of Cambridge

Welcome to our GEOHYD Lunch Seminar Friday 16th of February @ 12:15 in Aud. 1, Geology building or via videolink using Zoom. The seminar is held by Karianne S. Lilleøren (UiO).

Controlling the spontaneous ruptures of nanoscale liquid thin films is crucial to various applications such as solar cell manufacturing. Over the past few decades, theoretical work based on the long-wave theory of thin liquid films has successfully identified a critical film height, below which the surface nanowaves become linearly unstable, leading to spontaneous rupture. This dewetting in the ‘spinodal regime’ has been repeatedly confirmed in experiments using atomic force microscopy on polymer films. However, ruptures are also observed for thicker films (linearly stable) in a different manner. It is believed that the random (Brownian) movement of particles is the cause of dewetting in this ‘thermal regime’ but the theoretical framework predicting the rupture is missing. In this talk, we present a theory to account for the rupture of a two dimensional linearly stable thin film by utilizing fluctuating hydrodynamics and rare events theory. By modelling the film dynamics with the stochastic thin-film equation (STF) and solving it numerically, we observe rupture in the linearly stable thermal regime and record the average waiting time for rupture. We show that the STF can be rearranged into the form of a gradient flow, which allows us to apply Kramer’s law from the rare events theory to obtain a theoretical prediction of the average waiting time. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are also performed and we find good agreements between the numerics, the prediction, and the MD.

Farbod Hassani, Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy research group, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre organsises structured writing sessions for PhDs and Postdocs.

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The Section 4 seminar for the Spring 2024 will be held Thursdays 14:15–15:00 in room 1020

Title: Solar Radiation Modification – natural analogues using the UKESM1 climate model

Speaker: Jim Haywood, University of Exeter and Met Office UK

Combination of 212Pb-NG001 with bromodomain inhibitors for metastatic prostate cancer treatment in vitro

Welcome to our weekly lunch seminar held in the dScience lounge with Tero Aittokallio.