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Welcome to our digital event during Oslo Life Science Conference.

InLifeScience is the annual conference for industrial life sciences. The conference highlights the potential for life sciences in Norway, how innovation is realized from pre-commercial to upscaling. What challenges characterize the different steps - and what kind of support you can get in each step.

How do we find our way back to contact with nature? And what answers about ourselves can we find in it?

Infection has characterized the everyday life lately. How did people view contagious diseases before? How does contagion occur? Do we have reason to fear it? What does the future hold?

What is today's gene therapy and what possibilities are there in the future?

Due to the COVID-situation this event has been cancelled. You can stream last years ABINO-event here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl4vukjCtb4_JSh_bKgtChQ

At this seminar PhD students, postdocs and Master´s students in life sciences at UiO and NMBU heard inspirational talks from people who have made careers outside academia. And got advice on how to build their own careers.

LMI and partners welcome you to join this day with presentations and discussions from the Norwegian life science ecosystem and industry leaders from Global Pharma.

For boys in upper secondary schools.

"The Lapse of time" oratorio of excerpts from Charles Darwin "On the Origin of Species" composed by Bjørn Morten Christophersen will take place in Frogner kirke.

At the main event we discussed how to prepare for the next pandemic. What does it take to prevent a global pandemic? How should the authorities handle pandemics in the future? In what way can research and innovation contribute to preparedness and prevention of the next pandemic? 

C*-algebra seminar talk by Johannes Christensen (KU Leuven)

With Christine Wergeland Sørbye and Idar Kreutzer.

The reception in Oslo City Hall is unfortunately cancelled due to the corona situation.

Njord Seminar with Salima Rafai (Université Grenoble Alpes): "Flowing Active Suspensions: plankton as a model active particle"

Abstract: Gravitational settling of a droplet in air onto a soft substrate is a ubiquitous event relevant to many natural processes and engineering applications. We study this phenomenon by developing a three-phase lubrication model of droplet settling onto a solid substrate coated by a thin, soft compressible layer of elastic material. By combining scaling analysis, analytical methods and numerical simulations we elucidate how the resulting droplet dynamics is affected by the soft layer. We discuss extensions to droplet settlings onto thin viscous liquid films and elastic sheets. Our results provide new insight into the coupled interactions between droplets and solids coated by a thin film of a soft material.

Talk can be followed online on Zoom as well as in person. Please contact "timokoch at uio.no" for the Zoom link. This talk is part of the Mechanics Lunch Seminar series. Bring-your-own-lunch and lots of questions.

Mathew Galloway, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

Open lectures by Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany) and Anna Wargelius (Institute of Marine Research, Norway). Darwin Day is an international recognition of science and humanity, held in memory of Charles Darwin.

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre arranges joint, structured “Shut Up & Write” sessions.

MSc. Jakob Stensgaard Diget at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending his thesis «In Pursuit of Well-Defined Organic Polymers - Controlled Synthesis and Accurate Characterization» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Maintenance plays a crucial role in ships and especially in the vital electric propulsion system. Intelligent predictive maintenance idealistically aims at preventing system failures and minimizing needless repairs, i.e., predicting failure likelihood and time to failure while providing the crew explainable predictions and recommending the best action for timely intervention. This presentation will cover a relevant work in collaboration with Sensor Systems in BigInsight, particularly a paper published under https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2022.3144177. The failure prediction approach is driven by event logs, which include warnings, alarms, and operational information that describe all the happenings onboard the ship. The failure prediction objective is turned into classification and regression tasks; however, the training data pose three challenges. The events are irregular textual messages. The training data samples are not labelled. The datasets are extremely imbalanced, due to sparse failure events and multiple failure modes. The problem is casted into a weakly supervised machine learning framework. In a multiple instance learning process, the ungiven data labels are learned recursively while fitting the model parameters using deterministic annealing. The overall approach was tested on real ship data, and it successively forecasted few propulsion failures with explainable causes.

Research Seminar Series features, Matthew Jones, Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK

Monday 7th February Mikolaj Szydlarski will give a talk at the "Waiting for Pint of Science - Polish edition" on "Understanding the Sun. Numerical models of our local star".

Monday 7th February Agata Krzesińska will give a talk  at the "Waiting for Pint of Science - Polish edition" on "Norwegian meteorites – how to find them and why to study".