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Welcome to our GEOHYD Lunch Seminar Friday 23th of October @ 12:15 in Aud 2, The Geology building. The seminar is helt by Iris Mužić, Dept. of Geosciences..

Registration Link: https://nettskjema.no/a/167852 

Abstract: Frailty is a multi-system dysregulation leading to a loss of physiological reserve known to predict dementia. However, its link with neurodegenerative alterations of the central nervous system (CNS) is not well understood at present. We investigated the association between the biomechanical response of the CNS and frailty in older adults suspected of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) presenting markers of multiple comorbid neurodegenerative pathologies, including pathologies of Alzheimer’s Disease. The biomechanical response of the CNS was characterized from phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging and intracranial pressure monitoring during a lumbar infusion test. Frailty was assessed with an index of health deficit accumulation. We found a significant association between the CNS biomechanical response and frailty, with an effect size comparable to that between frailty and age, the latter being the strongest known risk factor of frailty. The CNS biomechanical characterization may help to understand how frailty is related to neurodegeneration and detect the shift from normal to pathological brain ageing.

This talk is part of the Mechanics Lunch Seminar series. That means 20min talks plus discussion in an informal setting.

Santiago Casas, CEA Paris-Saclay

Doctoral candidate Tønnes Frostad Nygaard at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Legging it: An Evolutionary Approach to Morphological Adaptation for a Real-World Quadruped Robot  for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tatjana Bosnjak at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Regulation and functional studies of the cysteine protease legumain in bone cell biology" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Prototype development of a floating probe for measuring spacecraft charging

Doctoral candidate Alexander Moltubakk Kempton at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Digital Representations and their Mechanisms: a pluralist realist approach for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Solving High-Performance Real-time Problems With Microcontrollers (Utilizing the "Timer/Counter" peripheral to reduce complexity and cost of scientific payloads for spaceflight)

Hva skjer med jorda om solen slukner? I filmen «Sunshine» sendes et team av astronauter ut i verdensrommet med en atombombe for å få fart på vår nærmeste stjerne. Astrofysiker Maria Hammerstrøm kommer til å ta for seg solas betydning for jorden, og hva som skal til for å sende et romskip til vår nærmeste stjerne. 

Late Lunch Talk by Edda Johannesen

Test and performance of novel Super Fine-Grain scintillation Detectors as active target for future neutrino experiments

Msc. Magnus Moe Nygård at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Local and average structure in high-entropy alloys and associated metal deuterides» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Oslo

"Studying spatial trends of heavy metals in soil from a tropical region"

Welcome to our GEOHYD Lunch Seminar Friday 16th of October @ 12:15, at Dept. of Geosciences. The seminar is in Aud 2 and it is also possible to follow digitally via videolink. The speaker is Sigrid Jørgensen Bakke, Dept. of Geosciences.

Juan Garcia-Bellido, Universidade Autonoma de Madrid

Tittel: 

 Irreversible stokastiske investeringsproblemer

Evaluert i diskret tid og rom

I studie- og arbeidslivet er nysgjerrighet helt avgjørende for læring, mestring og kulturbygging. Ingen kan forvente at noen skal kunne gjøre det godt uten å få stille spørsmål. Et miljø der det er kultur for å vise nysgjerrighet- både til arbeidet og menneskene som utfører dette - vil fremme dialog og bygge sterkere relasjoner som igjen bidrar til økt trivsel og bedre mental helse.  

Dr. Juho Rousu, Professor in Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, will present the lecture "Machine Learning of Drug Combination Responses."

Speaker:  Ada Gjermundsen, MET Norway

Title:  Southern Ocean convection shutdown controls potential for long-term climate warming by greenhouse gases

October 10 is the World Mental Health Day! In relation to that, UiODoc will host two online events on Zoom in the same week focuing on mental health for PhDs and Postdocs.

First, on October 14, we'll have a talk by the senior adviser Kristine Mollø-Christensen at UiO'S Occupational Health Service. Next up, on October 16, is an interactive event with psychologist Maria Abrahamsen Østhassel, known from her social media accounts @PsyktDeg. 

God psykisk helse er ofte forbundet med gode relasjoner og gode samtaler.