IFT POSTEN – 21.05.2010
A Word from Head of the Department
It is a
pleasure for us to announce that Dr. Michiel Postema has accepted our offer of
a professor position in experimental acoustics. He is currently the leader of
the Emmy-Noether research group at the Ruhr- Universität Bochum in Germany. His
main interest and experience is in the field of agitating micro-bubbles and
drops in different media using sound field, and characterization of the bubbles
and/or the medium by utilizing high-speed photography. This has several
applications and Postema is especially interested in the use of this method in
medicine. In addition, he also has experience in the oil and gas industry and
is aware of the possibilities within hydro/fishery acoustics. His first day of
work at UoB is tentatively November 1st.
News
and General Information
Find external examiner for
M.Sc. degree exams!
Many of the
M.Sc. students at the department will be delivering their reports during June. The
supervisors should therefore find an external examiner and decide on a date for
examination as early as possible in order to avoid problems that might arise.
When this is done, name of the student, name of the external examiner and the
examination date should be sent to Professor Jakob J. Stamnes (Jakob.Stamnes@ift.uib.no) who is the leader of the examination committee.
First Aid Course
There are still a few available
places in the spring semester first aid course, especially the ones taught in
English. See IFT-posten week 18 for more information.
Strike among the cleaning staff
As of May
20. some of the cleaning staff at UoB went on strike. This also applies to
employees of ”Metode renhold”, the company that is responsible for the cleaning
of IFT. Practically, this will
mean that, initially, the entire 1. and 2. floors as well as the middle and
southern wings of the 3. floor will neither be cleaned nor disposed of garbage.
The rest of the 3. floor as well as 4. and 5. floors will be cleaned as usual.
The unions
stress that this is a legal labour conflict/strike and that they fully support
the striking staff. We would still like to ask everyone to take their own
precautions especially in connection with the toilets and garbage so as to
avoid dealing with unnecessarily bad hygienic conditions.
Debate on "Protection
of the civilians in todays conflicts"
Humanitarian Forum invites hereby to a debate
on the subject ”Protection of the
civilians in todays conflicts” on Friday, May 28. from 10:00 till 11:30 in
the auditorium ”Egget” at Studentsenteret (The Student Center). The president
of the Norwegian Red Cross, Sven Mollekleiv will launch the debate and the
president of the Committee of the International Red Cross, Jakob Kellenberger and
the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre are the main speakers. More information at http://www.folk.uib.no/ngfge/2010/sivile.pdf.
UoB-membership in the
Ulriken Cable Car
The welfare
committee has on behalf of UoB purchased membership in the Ulriken Cable Car :)
The Ulriken Cable Car can therefore give an offer to all employees at UoB and
their families. This is a fantastic experience for the employees, guests at UoB
and families all year round! Read more about this offer here: http://www.folk.uib.no/ngfge/2010/Ulriken.doc
The Research Department
informs
COST (Cooperation in
Science and Technology)
Seminar
room A, VilVite Friday May 28. at 14:00
Program of
the information meeting: http://wab.aksis.uib.no/wab_cost-a32-Bergen2010.pdf
Registration
until May 21. to Alois.Pichler@uni.no
More information about COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) here. Some of the areas covered by COST are:
· Materials, Physical and Nanosciences
· Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and
Technologies
· Information and Communication Technologies
PhD-news
Seminar on self-chosen topic
Tuesday 25.05.2010, at13:15 in Room 546, IFT
MSc. Dag Toppe Larsen is holding a
seminar on a self-chosen topic:
"Fusion
as energy source: Status of tokamak-experiments"
Thursday
27.05.2010,
at10:15 in Aud. 4, Realfagbygget
Msc Saeed Fallah Bolandtab’a is
holding a seminar on a self-chosen topic:
”Advances
of network modelling - with examples from physics”
Trial lecture
Tuesday 25.05.2010, at14:15 in Rom 366, IFT. Civ.eng. Leiv Anfin Drange will be holding the
following trial lecture for his PhD-degree:
"Methods for CO2-removal in gas
power plants"
All are welcome!
Staff – Vacancies at IFT
Postdoctor
in astro-particle physics, application deadline 01.07.10
https://secure.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=65929
PhD fellow
(2 vacancies) in particle physics, application deadline: 01.07.10
https://secure.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=65926
Publications
(ISI)
·
Zetenyi M, Csernai LP Freeze-out and hadronization in the
Landau hydrodynamical model PHYSICAL
REVIEW C, Volume: 81, Issue:
4, Article Number: 044908