Events - Page 21

Faban Barras will be visiting us from Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He will be giving a presentation with the title "Onset of sliding along frictional interfaces: From microcontacts rejuvenation to the energetics of earthquake rupture"

Danny Caballero is from Michigan State University, and is also affiliated with CCSE at UiO. His talk will be on the integration of numerical computation in physics education.

By Prof. Stephanie C. Werner, Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), UiO

The OSCAR detector array, a national infrastructure at the cyclotron laboratory, will be officially opened January 31 by the Minister of Research and Higher Education.

Joanna Dziadkowiec at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Interactions between Confined Calcite Surfaces in Aqueous Solutions. A surface forces apparatus study."

for the degree of PhD

Joanna Dziadkowiec at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

 " The DLVO theory and application to colloid and surface science"

Luisa Cifarelli

University of Bologna and INFN, Italy

"Enrico Fermi" Historical Museum of Physics and Centre for Study and Research – Centro Fermi, Rome, Italy

Carl Andreas Lindstrøm at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Emittance growth and preservation in a plasma-based linear collider"

for the degree of PhD

Carl Andreas Lindstrøm at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

" The physics of geomagnetic storms and substorms in the Earth magnetotail and the relation to solar events, the aurora and communication systems"

Azadeh Abravan at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Normal tissue evaluation in lung cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy and erlotinib therapy using FDG-PET/CT and blood biomarkers"

for the degree of PhD

Asbjørn Ulvestad at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Performance and Characteristics of Silicon Nitride as a Convertible Alloy Anode Material for Li-ion Batteries"

for the degree of PhD

Doctoral candidate Azadeh Abravan at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

" Identification of image and blood based biomarkers in lung cancer"

Doctoral candidate Asbjørn Ulvestad at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

" Solid-state batteries: Challenges and opportunities"

MSc Thomas Håbu Qureishy at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Magneto-optical imaging of advanced superconductors"

for the degree of PhD

Doctoral candidate MSc Thomas Håbu Qureishy at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

"Spintronics: On the road to a new Technology"

It is time to fasten your seat belt and get ready for a brief introduction to aircraft flight!

By airline captain Stig Patey, Norwegian Air Shuttle

Doctoral candidate Lukáš Malina at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Novel beam-based correction and stabilisation methods for particle accelerators"

for the degree of PhD

Doctoral candidate Lukáš Malina at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

"Cosmic accelerators and galactic synchrotron radiation"

Lund, Sweden, will soon host two of the most advanced particle accelerators for photon and neutron science, MAX IV - an electron synchrotron, and the European Spallation Source - a high power proton linac. This double seminar (25 + 25 min) will give an overview of both facilities, covering the complementarity of the two facilities as well as the accelerator science challenges. The seminar is suited for students as well as staff. 

Doctoral candidate Parampreet Singh Walia at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"“Phenomenology of Thermally produced Dark matter”

for the degree of PhD

Doctoral candidate Parampreet Singh Walia at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic:

" The Higgs particle"

Siv.ing. Cecilie Skjold Granerød at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Measuring optical properties on a nanoscale: a STEM-EELS study of ZnO"

for the degree of PhD