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Doctoral candidate Harald Hovland at the Department of Geosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Field testing of infrared imaging systems

Massively parallel sequencing of enriched mitochondrial DNA in patients with clinical suspicion of mitochondrial disease.

"Bioconcentration, elimination and effects of fire foam-related poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in brown trout (Salmo trutta)"

Establishing a gene expression system to screen the effects of dietary fibers and their metabolites on selected aspects of colon cancer development

"Bioconcentration and Transcriptional Effects of Fire Foam-Related PFASs on Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)"

"Occurrence and maternal transfer of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), and their associations with thyroid hormones in hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) mother-pup pairs"

Mechanisms of increased breast cancer risk related to night shift work

"Maternal transfer and biotransformation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in hooded seal (Cystophora cristata)"

Alfons van Daele (University of Leuven, Belgium) will give a talk with title:  Constructing locally compact quantum groups from pairs of *-algebras

Abstract: Let (A,\Delta)  be a finite-dimensional Hopf *-algebra. The dual B of A is again a finite-dimensional Hopf *-algebra. The entire structure of these two Hopf *-algebras is encoded in the *-algebras A and B and the pairing between the two. We will explain how this works. This is in fact true in many more, and more general situations.  In particular, we give an example constructed from a pair of subroups H,K of a group G with the property that the map (h,k)-> hk is a bijection from HxK to G. This method is used in a joined paper with Magnus Landstad where we construct a pair of locally compact quantum groups from such pairs of subgroups of a locally compact group G.

Late Lunch Talk by Michael Garratt from the University of Reading, UK

Magnus Bjørn Drivdal at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Wave effects on the mixing and transport of particles in the ocean

Doctoral candidate Magnus Bjørn Drivdal at the Department of Geosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Challenges in regional to coastal ocean forecasting

Friday seminar by Matthew Burgess from University of California, Santa Barbara  (US)

Welcome to the GeoHyd Lunch Seminar on Friday 5 June @12:15 in AUD 1 in the Geology building.

This week, we discuss: "Age-Dependent Speciation Can Explain the Shape of Empirical Phylogenies" by Hagen et al. 2015, as a follow-up to last week's discussion.

Kai Schmidt Hoberg, DESY, Hamburg [slides]

I will review motivations for the existence of self interacting dark matter and discuss possible astrophysical observables. Self-interactions of dark matter particles can potentially lead to an observable separation between the dark matter halo and the stars of a galaxy moving through a region of large dark matter density. Such a separation has recently been observed in a galaxy falling into the core of the galaxy cluster Abell 3827. I discuss the DM self-interaction cross section needed to reproduce the observed effects.

Sharon Hook, CSIRO​, Centre for Environmental Contaminants Research, Lucas Heights, NSW​, Australia

CIME, EVOGENE & CEES Friday Seminar by Volkhard Kempf from the University Hospital Frankfurt

The research centre for dark matter, The Strategic Dark Matter Initiative - SDI, will officially be launched on Friday, and invites you all to a popular science lecture, with coffee and snacks.

Welcome to the GeoHyd Lunch Seminar on Friday 29 May @12:15 in AUD 1 in the Geology building.

Filippo Vernizzi, CEA-Saclay - Paris

This week, we continue reading about the debate at the 2014 ASN meeting: "Species Diversity Is Dynamic and Unbounded at Local and Continental Scales" by Harmon and Harrison in Am Nat.

The statistics groups at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences invite all PhD-students and postdocs within statistics in the Oslo-region as well as their teachers and supervisors to a  2-days workshop.