Tidligere arrangementer
Nelson Goering (University of Oslo) will talk about different theories about Indo-European accent and ablaut shifts.
Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman (Independent University, Bangladesh) will present new research on the reception on Ibsen in Bangladesh.
In this final seminar, Marie Stilling will present the draft of her PhD thesis titled “Cultivating weeds”.
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Anniina F?rkkil?, MD PhD, is an Assistant professor in translational gynecologic oncology and a Specialist in gynecology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
The title of her talk is:"Unraveling the Determinants of Spatial Tumor Ecosystems in Ovarian Cancer: Insights into Immune Interactions and Therapeutic Opportunities".
In this talk, I will present a joint work with Matilde Manzaroli. I will introduce real tori (in the greater generality) as well as real equivariant torus embeddings. Then I will describe the structure of the torus orbits. It will allow us to easily compute the Betti numbers of the real loci of smooth real equivariant torus embeddings, provided that those real loci are compact. Then I will present a canonical "foliation" of their real loci by equivariant embeddings of split tori. I will express a necessary and sufficient condition for this foliation to be given by the fibre of a fibre bundle, and explain how to reduce to this case by performing toric blow-ups.
Department seminar. Andreas Ravndal Kost?l is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, BI Norwegian Business School. He will present the paper "The Labor Supply Curve is Upward Sloping: The Labor Market Effects of Immigrant-Induced Demand Shocks” (written with Sigurd Galaasen, Joan Monras, and Jon Vogel).
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The first meeting of the Nordic Network for Critical Theory will be taking place at the University of Oslo on 26-27 May 2025.
By Dr. Steven E. Campana from Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
John Hutchinson will present work from his PhD project at the University of Surrey.
We are pleased to welcome you to to the launch of Erik Skare's new book on Palestinian Islamism. Join us for a presentation of the book, which will be followed by a panel discussion with the author and guests Hilde Henriksen Waage and Jacob H?igilt
Dynamic wetting phenomena are present in many everyday situations where liquids interact with surfaces. Understanding and controlling the dynamics of droplets wetting solid surfaces is important in various applications such as boiling and condensation heat transfer, printing and coating, and microfluidic processes. However, modeling their dynamics is not easy because they are multiscale systems in which the advancing or receding of a nanoscale-thick contact line is linked to the behavior of the entire millimeter-scale droplet. In the Thermal Energy Engineering lab (TEEL) at the University of Tokyo, together with the collaborators, we have been investigating the rapid spreading of droplets on solid surfaces as a model system, where the non-equilibrium nature of energy dissipation at the contact line becomes evident. On a partially wetting solid surface, when capillary forces drive droplet spreading, the advancement of the contact line is governed by viscous forces, inertial forces, or contact-line friction. Through experiments, we demonstrated that the dominant physical mechanisms can be switched by tuning droplet properties, surface microstructure [1], or applied electric field [2]. We modeled and reproduced these experiments using a phenomenological parameter that quantifies the contact-line friction coefficient and mapped a phase diagram of dominant physical factors in a dimensionless parameter space. With the knowledge, we realized anisotropic wetting and droplet transport by taking advantage of the fact that the dynamic behavior of droplets can be controlled through solid surfaces when contact line friction is dominant [3,4]. Furthermore, in our recent experiments on droplet oscillation [5] and droplet sliding [6] on solid surfaces functionalized with various self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), we observed that nanoscale surface chemistry and morphology significantly influence contact-line dynamics. This suggests that contact-line friction originates from nanoscale energy dissipation, though the dissipation mechanism remains unclear, and thus, it calls for collaboration with experts with multiscale discipline.
Nils-Ole Stutzer, PhD candidate at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.
The African Anthropology seminar series features Miriam Waltz, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University.
C*-seminar by Ali Miller (Southern University of Denmark).
There are several approaches to studying configuration spaces of points on curves. Examples are the Deligne-Mumford and Hassett spaces or, in the case of points on a projective line, a straightforward GIT construction. Deligne and Mostow further investigated the situation where moduli spaces of weighted points on the projective line have ball quotient models. This leads to a finite set of configuration spaces of ordered or partially ordered points on P^1. In all of these cases, the GIT compactification and the Baily-Borel compactification of the ball quotient are isomorphic. These spaces have natural (partial) desingularizations, namely the Kirwan blow-up and the toroidal compactification. It follows from results of Gallardo-Kerr-Schaffler and Kiem-Moon that, in the case of ordered configurations, the Deligne-Mostow map lifts to an isomorphism of these compactifications. This can fail for only partially ordered configurations. The main result of this talk is to explain a criterion exactly when these two compactifications coincide. This is also related to the Log Minimal Model Program. This is joint work with Yota Maeda.
Department seminar. Magnus Irie is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. He will present the paper "Innovations in Entrepreneurial Finance and Top Wealth Inequality".
By Dr. Eirik Gramstad, researcher, High energy physics, UiO.
C*-algebra seminar by John Quigg (Arizona State University)
Critical theory has long argued that therapeutic culture, whether it is the wellness wave or alternative medicine, reinforces and channels capitalism’s demands for human productivity. Suvi Salmenniemi thinks otherwise.
Innenfor kritisk teori har man lenge hevdet at terapeutisk kultur kun forsterker og kanaliserer kapitalismens krav til menneskelig produktivitet og ytelse. Suvi Salmenniemi er ikke enig.
The Departmental Seminar Series features Associate Professor Alice Wilson, School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.
Stefan Hjort er del av NORN-prosjektet og leser Wergelands poesi i sitt avhandlingsarbeid.
Eivind Moe Hammersmark will give a trial lecture entitled “Geospatial Data” for the position of Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics.
Eivind Moe Hammersmark holder pr?veforelesning med tittelen “Geospatial Data” for stilling som f?rstelektor ved ?konomisk institutt.
Emmett B. Kendall is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University (NC State). He graduated from the University of Florida (UF) with a B.S. in Mathematics and a Minor in Statistics.
His research interests include hidden Markov models, Bayesian inference, biomedical statistics, functional data analysis, multi-task learning and regression discontinuity designs.