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Welcome to GeoHyd Lunch Seminar Friday October 25.

Tiago Pereira, postdoktor, Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk

Mikael Fortelius is visiting this week, so we will discuss a ruminant paper by Heywood (Bio. J Linn. Soc. 99:657-672)

This week we will read about variation in human skull fossils and its connection with species diversity in early Homos (A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo - Science 2013), and to add to that, another small perspective paper on hybridization in archaic humans (Did the Denisovans Cross Wallace's Line? - Science 2013), which will surely provide plenty of material for a very interesting discussion. All from the latest issue of Science.

Paul Krühner (University of Oslo) holder et seminar med tittelen: On uniqueness of Markov processes described by a symbol.

Late lunch talk by Silva Uusi-Heikkilä

We will discuss quality control! The following paper will be a starting point for our discussion: Guo et al. 2013 Three stage quality control strategies for DNA resequencing data (Briefings in Bioinformatics 2013: online early)

Edmund Henden, Professor, Centre for the Study of Professions, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

In the Macroevolution and Red Queen Journal Club we will stick with the topic of punctuated equilibrium for one more week and we will read Pennell et al.'s recent paper 'Is there room for punctuated equilibrium in macroevolution'?

Guest lecture by professor Philippe Rasoanaivo, Madagascar.

Guest lecture by professor Haruki Yamada, Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, The Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan.

Open seminar on “Thermoelectric power generators” by Prof. Anke Weidenkaff

View the program (pdf).

With among others David Sloan Wilson and Dag O. Hessen

Friday seminar by Julian Catchen

Welcome to GeoHyd Lunch Seminar Friday October 11.

Olivier Galland, Senior Researcher at PGP (Physics of Geological Processes, at the University of Oslo

This week we will meet and discuss two papers: one by The Heliconius Genome Consortium entitled: "Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species" and another by Durand et al. entitled "Testing for Ancient Admixture between Closely Related Populations".     

Bas Jordans (UiO) will give a talk with title: Real dimensional spaces in noncommutative geometry

Abstract:

In noncommutative geometry geometric spaces are given by spectral triples. In this talk we consider a generalisation of these spectral triples to semifinite spectral triples. In analogy to the classical case it is possible to construct the product of two semifinite spectral triples. We will construct this product and derive properties thereof. Also we will describe for each z\in(0,\infty) a semifinite spectral triple which can be considered as having dimension z. As an application these "z-dimensional" semifinite triples will be used for two regularisation methods in physics.

Dr. Ujjwal Koley from University of Würzburg, is going to talk about Operator splitting methods for Korteweg de-Vries (KdV) equation

Welcome to GeoHyd Lunch Seminar Friday October 4.

This Friday we will discuss a new review paper by Vermeij on his "Escalation" theory, which he sees as the viable alternative to the Red Queen hypothesis. The paper is a long verbal argument, but gives some context to the points made about the Red Queen in the recent paper by Vermeij & Roopnarine in Paleobiology.