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Velkommen til årets første GeoOnsdag. Denne gangen får vi foredrag fra forskningsleder i Stiftelsen NORSAR, Volker Oye, om seismisk overvåkning.
Our project partner Statkraft owns and operates several hydropower plants in Brazil and requires information about the future potential for hydropower production in this region. To provide inflow projections for the next several decades, we use climate model output in combination with a regression model that links meteorological variables such as precipitation and temperature to inflow over various catchments in the region. The relatively short time period for which observation data are available raises concerns about overfitting. We therefore explore an alternative model fitting approach that retains the original, easily interpretable regression model but estimates the regression coefficients within an artificial neural network (ANN) framework which permits spatial and temporal regularization and thus prevents overfitting. We show some examples of the inflow projections obtained with that methodology and discuss some caveats and limitations.
Doctoral candidate Daniella Marie Barna at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Flood frequency analysis at multiple durations for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
The leading conference for life sciences gather the actors who will develop a world-leading health industry in Norway.
Håkon Kristiansen (Hyllerås, UiO):Time-dependent many-body theories
Jana Legerská:
Quantum physics is becoming increasingly important as the background knowledge for the emerging quantum technologies. In the recent years, the role of quantum physics in the high school curriculum has been emphasized, too. However, the curricular documents cannot bring a complete picture of incorporating quantum physics into the school reality.
In this talk, I will present a pilot study on describing the current state of teaching quantum physics at the high schools in the Czech Republic.
I will explore what topics are typically covered in what time constraints, what are teachers' main goals in their quantum physics teaching, and how teachers feel about introducing students to quantum physics.
The workshop will feature lectures by Dr. Cina Foroutan-Nejad of Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, followed by ultra-short (five-minute) presentations by members of the UiT Department of Chemistry.
More details of the program can be found here.
This year's Darwin Day event will cover the impact of ancient DNA and the enabling technologies. Open lectures by Anders Götherström, Greger Larson, Christina Warinner, and Phil Slavin.
Daniel H. Rothman is a Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.
by Derek L. Schutt
Warner College of Natural Resources and Colorado State University (Sponsored by a Fulbright Inter-Country Grant)
Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Oslo
PhD candidate Adrián Lopez-Porras at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Adaptive Humoral Immunity in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), a Teleost Fish with Evolutionary Losses of MHCII and CD4" for the degree of PhD.
Welcome to our GEOHYD Lunch Seminar Friday 9th of February @ 12:15 in Aud. 1, Geology building or via videolink using Zoom. The seminar is held by Sergei Medvedev (VBER) and Dmitry Zastrozhnov (UiO and VBER).
Protein condensates inside human cells are liquid-like droplets composed of protein and RNA. These condensates interact with the heterogeneous, active and dense environment of the cytoplasm, crossed by various cytoskeletal filaments such as microtubules and actin. Wetting interactions with the cytoskeleton lead to stereotypical positioning of such protein droplets inside the cell. Using statistical physics approaches, we identified complementary functions of filamentous actin and microtubules: protein droplets couple to actin’s native dynamics in the cell through steric interactions leading to directional motion towards the cell center. Microtubules (and their molecular building-blocks), on the other hand, act as Pickering agents and engage in energetically favorable wetting interactions that lead to a robust localization of protein condensates in microtubule-rich regions of the cell. These interactions are non-specific and ultimately arise from different affinities (contact angles) between condensate and filament, suggesting that similar mechanisms may govern localization of other liquid-like phases within the cell.
Title: On the Impact of Ocean Heat Flux Pattern Changes on the Climate via Clouds
Speaker: Kai-Uwe Eiselt, UiT
Welcome to our dScience lunch seminar in the Science Library with Emily Burger.
Intracellular signaling in bacteria and antimicrobial resistance in a One Health Perspective
A molecular and in planta investigation of the Q-repeat of the A. thaliana transcription factor LRP1
We welcome companies and students from the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Educational Sciences to the matchmaking event. After the event, the students can apply for summer jobs in the companies.
SPARK Norway Educational Forum are monthly open meetings organized by UiO:Life Science and SPARK Norway partners.
C*-algebra seminar by Mathias Palmstrøm (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Using camera trapping to estimate small mammal abundance and activity