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Friday seminar by Maria Fossheim
Cand.pharm. Bjørn Oddvar Strøm ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Nuclear receptor NGFI-B: Functional aspects and role in neuronal cell death.
Federico Urban, University of British Colombia, Canada and ITA
John Hosking, CMA, holder et seminar med tittelen: On the realization of jump-diffusion processes
Late lunch talk by Jan Yde Polulsen (UiB)
Håkon Skogsrud, Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, UiO
Magnus Dahler Norling will give a second talk on the topic of inverse semigroup C*-algebras associated with left cancellative semigroups.
Speaker: Steven Pinker
Salah Mohammed, Uni. Southern Illinois (USA), holder et seminar med tittelen: Linear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Peter Friis-Hansen, Det Norske Veritas, skal snakke om
Structuring complex systems using Bayesian network
Friday seminar by Erling Olaf Koppang
Speaker: Pierre-Marie (PiM) Lefeuvre
Title: Topographic analysis in the Sikkim Himalayas: Debris-covered vs Debris-free Glaciers
Carolina von Essen: Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg. Germany.
Magnus Dahler Norling will give a talk with title "Inverse semigroup C*-algebras associated with left cancellative semigroups".
Abstract: To each discrete left cancellative semigroup S one may associate a certain inverse semigroup I_l(S), often called the left inverse hull of S. We show how the full and the reduced C*-algebras of I_l(S) are related to the full and the reduced semigroup C*-algebras for S recently introduced by Xin Li, and give conditions ensuring that these algebras are isomorphic. Our picture provides an enhanced understanding of Li's algebras.
Lateral-torsional buckling of elastic structures under combined loading will be considered in this seminar. This problem has been first reported in the habilitation thesis of Prandtl dated 1899. Closed-form solutions based on Bessel's functions are available for some specific types of loading. However, numerical methods such as the Finite Element Methods (FEM) or other approximate methods are needed in the general case. More generally, approximation of the buckling curve (limit of the stable domain in the loading parameters space) is investigated from the stationary property of the Rayleigh’s quotient. The approximation is then compared to a numerical approach, namely the iterative method of Vianello and Stodola. Closed-form solutions give upper bounds with relative error less than 0.2%. It is shown that the stable domain of the loading parameter space is convex. The Papkovitch–Schaefer theorem proven in 1934 is extended for this specific problem, despite the nonlinear dependence of the equilibrium equations on the loading parameters for the one-dimensional system. The boundary of the stable domain is clearly nonlinear, but this nonlinearity is weak. It is shown that Dunkerley’s lower bound is relevant for the two structural cases considered, and the maximum relative error induced by such a lower bound is lower than 2%. Prandtl's linear approximation is then validated approximately one century later the pioneer works of Prandtl devoted to elastic instability.
Noël Challamel is Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering (LIMATB), University of South-Brittany, Lorient, France, and Marie Curie fellow at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Matthijs Pronk, TU Delft (NL), holder et seminar med tittelen: Malliavin calculus in UMD Banach spaces
Journal Club: Epigenetics forum on Furrow et al. (2011)
Speaker: Tobias Hipp
Title: Permafrost in vertical Jotunheimen - A short story about big walls, frozen rock and society
Gregal Vissers, Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, UiO
The fundamental mechanisms of plasticity in inorganic glasses are distinctly different from those in crystalline metals. Whereas dislocations and their mobility require plasticity in metals, mechanisms responsible for permanent deformation in glasses are to be looked at the atomistic scale. The lecture will deal with this and will involve topics such as for instance constitutive material laws, plasticity theory, dislocation theory, computational mechanics, multiscale analysis, finite element methods, crack modelling, etc.
Vincent Keryvin is professor at Department of Materials Engineering (LIMATB), University of South-Brittany, Lorient, France.
Simen Rustad (UiO) will give a talk with title "Construction of Bost-Connes type systems for function fields".
Abstract: I will try to indicate how Benoit Jacob's construction of a Bost-Connes type system for function fields fits into a more general framework.
Journal club: Evolutionary ecology forum
Friday seminar by Jon Slate
Jan-Erik Solheim, Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, UiO
Bora Yalkinoglu will give a talk entitled: Introduction to p-adic Bost-Connes systems.
Abstract: In this talk we want to give a gentle introduction into the recently emerging theory of p-adic Bost-Connes systems. In the first part of the talk, after reviewing the necessary background from p-adic analysis and number theory, we will explain recent work of Connes and Consani on certain p-adic representations of the classical BC-system. In the second part of the talk we will discuss recent work on generalizations of the work of Connes and Consani and, further, point out several open problems for further research.