Kommende arrangementer

Department seminar. Aude Pommeret is a Professor at Universit¨¦ Savoie Mont Blanc and associate researcher at OFCE. She will present the paper "Fueling the energy transition with fossil (not quite) stranded assets" (written with Francesco Ricci).

Patrick R. H. Steinmetz, deputy director at the Michael Sars Centre in Bergen, will present his work: "Win some, lose some: The cellular basis of food-dependent body plasticity in a sea anemone".

Magnar Gullikstad Johnsen, director of Troms? Geophysical Observatory at UiT the Arctic University of Norway

Department seminar. Nikhil Vellodi is an Assistant Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He will present the paper "A Theory of Self-Prospection" (written with Polina Borisova).

Philosophical Seminar with Jens Timmermann

Vi lader opp til 17. mai med foredrag om Nordmandsdalen i K?benhavn!

In this talk, Pak Man Au presents his findings from his Master project on implicit bias in Norwegian educational spaces against foreign names.

The IKOS East Asia Group and the Center for Religion and Politics invite you to a joint reading seminar and lunch seminar. Our guests will be Dr. Levi McLaughlin from North Carolina State University and Dr. Erica Baffelli from University of Manchester.

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. 

Eivind Moe Hammersmark will give a trial lecture for the position of Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics. The topic will be announced.

Eivind Moe Hammersmark holder pr?veforelesning for stilling som f?rstelektor ved ?konomisk institutt. Tema kommer.

Stefan Hjort er del av NORN-prosjektet og leser Wergelands poesi i sitt avhandlingsarbeid.

The Departmental Seminar Series features Assosciate Professor Alice Wilson, School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.

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.

C*-algebra seminar by John Quigg (Arizona State University)

By Dr. Eirik Gramstad, researcher, High energy physics, UiO.

Department seminar. Magnus Irie is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University.

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.   

The African Anthropology seminar series features Miriam Waltz, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University.

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.

The first meeting of the Nordic Network for Critical Theory will be taking place at the University of Oslo on 26-27 May 2025. 

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".

Department seminar. Nicola Lacetera is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna.