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Doctoral candidate Jakob Schreiner at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Patient Specific Computational Models of the Brain and Electroconvulsive Therapy for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Elisa Cazzador at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Topics in the geometry of spaces of symmetric tensors for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Abstract: Because of their huge compressibility difference with their surrounding media, air bubbles in water have a special relationship with acoustic waves: they are sub-wavelength resonators. In this presentation, I will show that this characteristic has great implications for both the surrounding fluid, because of the steady streaming effect, but also for the acoustic waves.

This talk is part of the Mechanics Lunch Seminar series. Bring-your-own-lunch and lots of questions.

Doctoral candidate Andrea Raffo at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Mathematical methods for geometry reconstruction and shape analysis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Kine Onsum Moseid ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen The dim and distant past: Constraining aerosol forcing history in the 20th century for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

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

A large long-necked plesiosaur from the Late Jurassic Agardhfjellet Formation of central Spitsbergen, Norway

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

Brendan Dyck (University of British Columbia): Unravelling 150 myr of metamorphism and deformation along the Great Slave Lake Shear Zone

Title: Two topics: On the bias of LWP adjustment estimated from satellite data / Long-term AOD from sunshine duration measurements

Speaker: Antti Arola, Finnish Meteorological Institute

Welcome to our weekly lunch seminar held in the dScience lounge area! This event is open to PhD candidates and postdocs.

We introduce SMARTboost (boosting of symmetric smooth additive regression trees), a machine learning model capable of fitting complex functions in high dimensions, yet designed for good performance in small n and low signal-to-noise environments. SMARTboost inherits many of the qualities that have made boosted trees the most widely used machine learning tool for tabular data; it automatically adjusts model complexity, handles continuous and discrete features, can capture nonlinear functions in high dimensions without overfitting, performs variable selection, and can handle highly non-Gaussian features. The combination of smooth symmetric trees and of carefully designed Bayesian priors gives SMARTboost an edge (in comparison with a state-of-the-art tool like XGBoost) in most settings with continuous and mixed discrete-continuous features. Unlike other tree-based methods, it can also compute marginal effects.

Research Seminar Series features, Wanda Orlikowski, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management, US.

Programming is a useful tool in several disciplines, but teaching programming in a disciplinary context can be quite different than teaching programming for computer scientists. How can we motivate students with different backgrounds to make sure that programming is perceived as relevant? And how does this affect what the students learn? We will talk about how we can teach programming for biologists, chemists, teachers and high school students, and what this teaching implies.

Er du usikker på hvilket masterstudium du vil søke på, eller bare har lyst til å høre litt mer om masterprogrammene som tilbys ved Matematisk institutt? Vi inviterer til informasjonsmøter for våre masterprogrammer!

Norway-Japan symposium on theoretical and experimental chemistry of complex systems

Business Mindset – Unlocking your potential as an innovator

Nå er det på tide å stryke forkleet og børste støv av kjevla. Bli med på årets søteste og mest nerdete kakebakekonkurranse. Bak alene, utfordre din nemesis eller bestekompis for en bake-off, eller allier dere som et super-team!

Njord Seminar with talks by

Thomas Combriat (University of Oslo): "Cells on the move - Tickling biology with ultrasonic waves"

and

Andreas Grøvan Aspaas (University of Oslo): "What causes transient deformations in the Åknes landslide, Norway?"

MSc. Frøydis Sved Skottvoll at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending her thesis «Liver organoids, mass spectrometry and separation science» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Oslo

Doctoral candidate Mihaela-Alexandra Puica at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Advances in Wind Power Modeling: Merging Research and Market Experience for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.