Department of Physics and Technology IFT-posten 27. August 2010

A Word From the Head of the Department

We have finally started a new semester and it is a pleasure to welcome everyone after a hopefully good vacation with a lot of time for other activities than science. A special welcome goes to all of the new employees, and the new students.

55 B.Sc. students in physics and 50 in petroleum – and process technology were admitted to the department this fall. The clear increase in the number of physics students is gratifying and shows that the disciplinary sciences are still popular among young people. For petroleum- and process technology this year’s result is also good, but admittedly a bit lower than previous years and more in line with the number of available places in the B.Sc. program.

A total of 43 M.Sc. students were admitted to the department in the fall semester, this is more or less in line with the admittance to the M.Sc. programs in the recent years. 173 M.Sc. were admitted to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in total. This shows that we admit a high percentage of M.Sc. students at our department.

Otherwise we are once again looking forward to an article in one of the prestigious journals, Science.

We would like to congratulate Christian Bergfjord and Bodil Holst for Comment on "30,000-Year-Old Wild Flax Fibers".

News and General Information

i New EU-announcements – informative meeting 7. September

EU has published more than 50 new calls and the Department of Research UoB and NFR have organized an informative meeting at Vilvite 7. September 10.00-16.00 where you can meet NFR’s EU experts. For more information and registration follow the link above.

i New edition of FunderFinder from The Department of Research

A new edition of FunderFinder, information with announcements, deadlines and relevant links are published. The schedules are tight, but spare at least some time to go through the overview and evaluate whether there is anything interesting for yourselves and your collaborators. The Department of Research will be helpful with providing more information and answers to your questions.

i The Technology Building

Most of you have probably read På Høyden’s article about the Technology Building. The Ministry of Education has given UoB the permission to enter into agreements for long term lease. This means that one can finally continue with planning and engineering. We are happy that our Dean Dag Rune Olsen has got a central role in this process.

The Network at the Department

The computer network in Bjørn Trumphys building is according to the IT-department one of the most outdated at the entire UoB. We are therefore planning, together with the IT- department and the Property Division, to install a completely new network. Kjetil Ullaland will be the department’s contact person during this work.

Video conference equipment

We are also planning to purchase mobile video conference equipment for the department which will be used for meetings and teaching. For the time being we are waiting for the IT-department to finish their negotiations. If anyone has important suggestions and thoughts related to this issue, it is important to forward this to the IT-department before we ask for tender and order the equipment.

Staff

There is a lot of news regarding the staff at the department. We must of course begin with a huge thanks to Solfrid Sture for her long (4 years) and good work at our department. With mixed feelings we have to let a so accomplished, effective and humorous colleague leave us. But we choose to rejoice with Solfrid and wish her all the good as the leader of Economy Administration at the Department of Biology. Solfrid has her last working day at IFT on this Tuesday. We will definitely miss her from time to time during the transition phase.

Harald Godø Gjerdahl is employed as a senior consultant of economy effective as of 23. August and in other words, will take over after Solfrid. Harald is telling a little bit more about himself: As of first of September I am taking over Solfrid’s position, and will be responsible for the tasks related to economy at IFT. I am originally from Mandal, and I have my MBA from NHH. In addition I also have a Bachelor’s degree in Sports and Outdoors Activities from the University College of Volda. My spare time is characterized by three activities; football, mountain tours and Christian work. I am very proud of having cycled Lindesnes- Nordkapp, walked pilgrims way Oslo- Hjerkinn and that I will be the camp leader of 300 youngsters during KRIK Challenge in Voss from 11. to 13. February 2011. On Saturday 21. August I got married to Kjersti, and we are looking forward to the things Bergen and the surrounding areas can offer us. Many southern Norwegians think mostly about rain when they hear the word Bergen, but we will not care much about the rain as long as the 7 mountains and the city’s nice atmosphere do not disappear. I am looking forward to finally getting started with my work, and hope that the rest of the department will welcome me just as the administration has already done.

During the transition phase, Jannike Tertnæs from Adecco will also help Harald.

As of 1. September Hanne Israelsen will take a break as the educational consultant at the department in order to fill in a similar and temporary position at the Department of Geosciences. She will have some new tasks in her new position. We hope that Hanne will come back to our department with new experiences when she will no longer need to be in the temporary position in March 2011. We wish Hanne good luck in realfagbygget. The substitute for Hanne will be Kristine Indahl Helle to whom we would like to wish welcome.

Beate Krøvel Humberset is temporarily employed as a senior consultant effective as of 16. August. Her tasks will be related to educational administration (25%) and project management in TeknoVest (75%). Here are a few words from Beate about herself: I grew up in Sunnmøre, more specifically Ørsta, and am 26 years old. I moved to Bergen six years ago in order to study physics. An interesting M.Sc. project which was about comparing global satellite pictures of northern lights and southern lights brought with it two exciting years in the space physics division. After completing my M.Sc. in physics I went on with studying practical pedagogic during which I got to teach in both secondary school and high school. During my education I have, in the last three years, worked as a host at Vilvite - Bergen science center. This is a rewarding work which simply is about inspiring pupils and families who visit the center.

Bjørnar Jensen is employed as a research assistant in process technology for a period of 3 years effective as of June 15.

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Brant E. Carlson is employed as a postdoc. in space physics for a period of 2 years as of August 16.

Master- and PhD-news

The last issue of PhD-news is ready for downloading.

MSc Dag Toppe Larsen will be defending the following dissertation for his PhD degree:

Monitoring and calibration of the ALICE time projection chamber

Tuesday 31.08.10 at 09.00 in Auditorium 2, Realfagbygget

Welcome to the premises well before the defense!

The new M.Sc. students who were admitted in the fall semester (sorted according to their fields):

Acoustics:

· Vatnehol, Sindre Nordlund

Nano physics:

· Bolstad, Thomas Myking

· Vial, Alexander

Measurement science and instrumentation:

· Hjelmeland, Rolf Krogh,

Optics and atomic physics:

· Simonsen, Aleksander Skjerlie

Particle physics:

· Haarr, Anders

· Pettersen, Helge Egil Seime

· Zalieckas, Justas

· Inam, Muhammed S.

Space physics:

· Bjoland, Lindis Merete

· Johnsen, Christine Smith

· Reistad, Jone Peter

Theoretical physics and energy physics:

· Inderhaug, Jonas Haaskjold

· Skålvik, Astrid Marie

Reservoir physics:

· Christophersen, Anders

· Follesø, Håvard Nakken

· Fosse, Eirik

· Haugen, Malin

· Kvinge, Glenn-Andre Dåtland

· Lien, Andreas

· Skagseth, Torstein Fjelltveit

· Skibenes, Ane Tingvold

· Tveit, Jørn-Anders F

Reservoir geology:

· Halkjelsvik, Malene Eikås

· Rismyhr, Bjarte

Reservoir chemistry:

· Løkkevik, Aina Marie

· Riisøen, Solveig

Multiphase systems:

· Benserud, Morten

· Christiansen, Ellinor Arguilla

· Hernandez Rubio, Diego Armando

· Leirvåg, Line Kristin

· Skorpen, Åshild

· Vestvik, Anders,

Separation:

· Larsen, Fredrik

· Opstvedt, Line Karstad

Safety technologies:

· Flø, Katrine

· Johansen, David René Ursin

· Kolstad, Einar Arthur

· Larsen, Ingrid Anette Bogsnes

· Olsen, Kjetil Lien

· Pedersen, Natalja

· Ringdal, Linn

· Sellevold, Tor Ivar

· Steiner, Marianne Winnes

· Svendsen, Kasper

· Sønnesyn, Karoline

· Wangsholm, Erlend

Four M.Sc. students have defended their theses during this:

Candidate	Field – Thesis Title	Supervisor
Eirik Bøhn Kvernevik	Physics – Theoretical physics and energy physics: ” Challenges related to storage and transfer of solar energy with a case study on long distance power transfer”	Jan S. Vaagen
Martin Møller Greve	Physics – Measurement science and instrumentation: “Testing nano-structured Fresnel zoneplates for neutral helium microscopy on a molecular-beam ultra-high-vacuum apparatus”	Bodil Holst
Jostein Sæterstøl	Physics – Measurement science and instrumentation: ” Characterization of Scintillation Crystals for Positron Emission Tomography”	Renate Grüner
Richard Olsen	Physics – Particle physics: “Extended Supersymmetry and Superfields”	Per Osland

Publications (ISI)

· Observation of the rare decay B-0 -> K-S(0) K-+/-pi(-/+)
Sanchez PD, Lees JP, Poireau V, …. Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D   Volume: 82   Issue: 3 Article Number: 031101

· Solving a Deconvolution Problem in Photon Spectrometry
Aleksandrov D, Alme J, Basmanov V, et al.
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT   Volume: 620   Issue: 2-3   Pages: 526-533

· Interhemispheric observations of emerging polar cap asymmetries
Laundal KM, Ostgaard N, Snekvik K, et al.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS   Volume: 115 Article Number: A07230

· Study of the interactions of pions in the CALICE silicon-tungsten calorimeter prototype
Adloff C, Karyotakis Y, Repond J, …. Eigen G, et al.
JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION   Volume: 5 Article Number: P05007

· Construction and commissioning of the CALICE analog hadron calorimeter prototype
Adloff C, Karyotakis Y, Repond J, …. Buanes T, Eigen G et al.
JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION   Volume: 5 Article Number: P05004

· In-Situ Phase Pressures and Fluid Saturation Dynamics Measured in Waterfloods at Various Wettability Conditions
Brautaset A, Ersland G, Graue A
SPE RESERVOIR EVALUATION & ENGINEERING   Volume: 13   Issue: 3   Pages: 465-472

· Measurements of Charged Current Lepton Universality and vertical bar V-us vertical bar Using Tau Lepton Decays to e(-)(nu)over-bar(e)nu(tau), mu(-)(nu)over-bar(mu)nu(tau), pi(-)nu(tau), and K-nu(tau)
Aubert B, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, …. Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS   Volume: 105   Issue: 5 Article Number: 051602

· B-meson decays to eta ' rho, eta ' f(0), and eta ' K*
Sanchez PD, Lees JP, Poireau V, …. Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D   Volume: 82   Issue: 1 Article Number: 011502

· A spatially explicit model for tropical tree diversity patterns
Horvat S, Derzsi A, Neda Z et al.
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY   Volume: 265   Issue: 4   Pages: 517-523

· Computation of spectroscopic factors with the coupled-cluster method
Jensen O, Hagen G, Papenbrock T, Dean DJ, Vaagen JS
PHYSICAL REVIEW C   Volume: 82   Issue: 1 Article Number: 014310

· Conjugate ground and multisatellite observations of compression-related EMIC Pc1 waves and associated proton precipitation
Usanova ME, Mann IR, Kale ZC, Sandanger, M, Soraas, F et al.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS   Volume: 115 Article Number: A07208

· Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton-proton collisions at root s=0.9 and 2.36 TeV with ALICE at LHC
Aamodt K, Abel N, Abeysekara U, Alme J, Bablok S, Djuvsland O, Fehlker D, Haaland O, Huang M, Kanaki K, Klovning A, Larsen DT, Liu L, Nystrand J, Ovrebekk G, Pommeresch B, Richter M, Skjerdal K, Ullaland K, Wagner B, et al.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C   Volume: 68   Issue: 1-2   Pages: 89-108

· ReaxFF-molecular dynamics simulations of non-oxidative and non-catalyzed thermal decomposition of methane at high temperatures
Lummen N
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS   Volume: 12   Issue: 28   Pages: 7883-7893

· A general method for focusing of waves using phase and amplitude compensation
Helseth LE
JOURNAL OF OPTICS   Volume: 12   Issue: 3 Article Number: 035705

· Population Balance Model for Nucleation, Growth, Aggregation, and Breakage of Hydrate Particles in Turbulent Flow
Balakin BV, Hoffmann AC, Kosinski P
AICHE JOURNAL   Volume: 56   Issue: 8   Pages: 2052-2062

· Evidence for the decay X(3872) -> J/psi omega
Sanchez PD, Lees JP, Poireau V, …. Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D   Volume: 82   Issue: 1 Article Number: 011101

· Optical properties of mixed phase boundary layer clouds observed from a tethered balloon platform in the Arctic
Sikand M, Koskulics J, Stamnes K, Hamre B, Stamnes JJ et al.
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER   Volume: 111   Issue: 12-13   Pages: 1921-1930

· Matching stages of heavy-ion collision models
Cheng Y, Csernai LP, Magas VK, et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW C   Volume: 81   Issue: 6 Article Number: 064910

· ALICE TPC commissioning results
Larsen DT ALICE TPC Collaboration
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT   Volume: 617   Issue: 1-3   Pages: 35-39

· Transport, chemical and electrochemical processes in a planar solid oxide fuel cell: Detailed three-dimensional modeling
Ho TX, Kosinski P, Hoffmann AC, Vik A
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES   Volume: 195   Issue: 19   Pages: 6764-6773

· On arc-polarized structures in the solar wind
Sonnerup BUO, Haaland SE, Paschmann G
ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE   Volume: 28   Issue: 6   Pages: 1229-1248

· Search for CP violation using T-odd correlations in D-0 -> K+K-pi(+)pi(-) decays
Sanchez PD, Lees JP, Poireau V, …. Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D   Volume: 81   Issue: 11 Article Number: 111103

· Solar wind propagation delay: Comment on "Minimum variance analysis-based propagation of the solar wind observations: Application to real-time global magnetohydrodynamic simulations" by A. Pulkkinen and L. Raststatter
Haaland S, Munteanu C, Mailyan B
SPACE WEATHER-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   Volume: 8 Article Number: S06005

· Comment on "30,000-Year-Old Wild Flax Fibers"
Bergfjord C, Karg S, Rast-Eicher A, Holst B et al.
SCIENCE   Volume: 328   Issue: 5986   DOI: 10.1126/science.1186345

· Under which conditions is quantum Brownian motion observable in a microscope?
Helseth LE
PHYSICS LETTERS A   Volume: 374   Issue: 28   Pages: 2801-2804

· Wettability Impacts on Oil Displacement in Large Fractured Carbonate Blocks
Haugen A, Ferno MA, Bull O, Graue A
ENERGY & FUELS   Volume: 24   Pages: 3020-3027

· Modeling of a short-path distillation process to remove persistent organic pollutants in fish oil based on process parameters and quantitative structure properties relationships
Oterhals A, Kvamme B, Berntssen MHG
CHEMOSPHERE   Volume: 80   Issue: 2   Pages: 83-92

· Limits on tau lepton-flavor violating decays into three charged leptons
Lees JP, Poireau V, Prencipe E, …. Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D   Volume: 81   Issue: 11 Article Number: 111101

· Numerical study of two-photon ionization of helium using an ab initio numerical framework
Nepstad R, Birkeland T, Forre M
PHYSICAL REVIEW A   Volume: 81   Issue: 6 Article Number: 063402

· Study of the dependence of direct soft photon production on the jet characteristics in hadronic Z (0) decays
Abdallah J, Abreu P, Adam W, …. Eigen G, Stugu B et al.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C   Volume: 67   Issue: 3-4   Pages: 343-366

· Observation of the chi(c2)(2P) meson in the reaction gamma gamma -> D(D)over-bar at BABAR
Aubert B, Karyotakis Y, Lees JP, …. Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D   Volume: 81   Issue: 9 Article Number: 09200