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Word from the Head of Department
Exciting Lecture: What happened to Thorium as
an energy source?
There are many people who have now
been asking this question as Thorium and accelerator based reactor technology
(ADSR) were constantly mentioned in the newspapers and the media a few years
ago while we do not hear much about them anymore.
Actually
the answer is that a lot has been happening related to this issue, but it did
not receive much attention in the Norwegian media. Also in the UK, a technical
report, in which the role of Thorium-driven ADSR is discussed as a future
alternative to conventional nuclear power, was published. See
TelegraphÕs report
for details. Furthermore, Aker Solutions started collaborating
with Professor Carlo Rubbia, who is the creator of this concept, on possible
commercializing.
Do you want
to know more? Come and listen to our active Professor Emeritus Egil Lillest¿lÕs lecture on Tuesday November 9 at 15:00 in the
periodical room at the Department of Physics and Technology (3. floor in the
middle wing).
News and General Information
TEKNA Vest and NTVA are
inviting to an open meeting in Bergen
o Egil Lillest¿l, Professor Emeritus, Department
of Physics and Technology, UoB:
ÓThe Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation (power
cables, TV, cellular phones etc.)Ó
SEMINAR: Research Groups Crossing - I
Place and
time: hbar, ground floor IFT, Allegt. 55 - December 17th,
14.15-16.30
Purpose and
program: To bring together researchers and students of two distant research
groups and discuss current topics and search for common ground:
14.15-14.35
Dag Aksnes, BIO ÒCells eating ionsÓ
14.35-14.55 B¿rge Hamre, IFT ÒIce
cold opticsÓ
14.55-15.15 Break & Refreshments
15.15-15.35 ¯yvind Fiksen, BIO ÒOptical
marine ecologyÓ
15.35-15.55 Ladislav Kocbach, IFT ÒThe image of the atom during 100 yearsÓ
15.55-16.30 Perspectives and discussion
17.00-20.00 Social gathering at Wesselstuen
The meeting
is open for group members of the modelling groups at BIO and the Optics
and Atomic Physics group at IFT, and to other students and employees at UiB to
the extent that space permits. Please register your attendance to ¯yvind Frette
or ¯yvind Fiksen within Saturday, December 11th.
There is no entry fee to the hbar seminar.
Nordic Energy Research Launches new funding
programme: Sustainable Energy Systems 2050
Nordic Energy Research launches a
new research call on Sustainable Energy Systems worth 100 million NOK. The aim
is to develop integrated solutions between Renewables, Low-Carbon Transport and
Grids & Markets. Nordic research consortia are invited to submit pre-proposals
before December 16th 2010. For further information about the call, information
meeting registration and information about the match-making exercise, please
visit the website.
In order to
fulfill fire requirements, the Property Department will start replacing the
fire resistant doors in the staircase in the north wing of the Department of
Physics and Technology. All office doors and doors of the adjacent corridors
will be replaced. This will lead to some noise and disadvantages for those of
you who have offices facing the staircase. Here you can read the letter from the Property Department for more
information.
Staff
On November 1, our new colleague
Michiel Postema had his first official working day as Professor in experimental
acoustics. We would like to wish Michiel a warm welcome to the Department of
Physics and Technology!
Earlier Michiel
was the leader of an Emmy-Noether research group at the Ruhr-UniversitŠt Bochum
in Germany. His main interest and experience is within the area of agitating
micro-bubbles and drops in various media with sound fields, and characterizing
the bubbles or the media by using high-speed photography. This has a variety of
applications and Michiel is especially interested in using this method within
medicine. He also has experience related to oil and gas and predicts
application areas of this method within hydro/fishery acoustics.
In the
first few years, MichielÕs professorship is sponsored by MedViz
(50%), Michelsensenteret (30%) and Havforskningsinstituttet (20%), and we would hereby like to
thank for important support and hope to achieve strengthened
collaboration.
M.Sc. News
Final M.Sc. Presentation at the department Thursday November 11.
2010 at 13:15, room 292
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Candidate |
Field – Thesis Title |
Advisor |
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Maren Andrea Dahl |
Process
Technology – Multiphase Systems: ÒNew
experimental techniques to study the adhesion to
various solid surfaces of hydrate-relevant droplets and particlesÓ |
Alex C.
Hoffmann |
PhD News
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MSc. Karl
Magnus Laundal is defending his PhD dissertation: Auroral Imaging as a Tracer of
Global Magnetospheric Dynamics Friday,
12.11.10 at 13:15 in Auditorium 2, Realfagbygget: All are
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Publications (ISI)
A little curiosity today: The ATLAS-collaboration is behind the first article in todayÕs list. It contains no less than 3172 authors!
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Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG,
Kastansas A, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Oie OK, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B,
Tonoyan A, Uglan d M, et al. Search for New Particles in Two-Jet Final States in 7 TeV Proton-Proton
Collisions with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 105 Issue: 16
Article Number: 161801
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Forre,
M; Selsto, S; Nepstad, R Nonsequential
Two-Photon Double Ionization of Atoms: Identifying the Mechanism PHYSICAL
REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 105 Issue: 16 Article Number: 163001
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Eigen
G, Stugu B, Sun L et. al: Search for b
-> u transitions in B- -> DK- and D*K- decays PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume: 82 Issue: 7 Article Number: 072006
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Alme
J, Bablok S, Bolgen R, Fehlker D, Larsen DT, Munkejord M, Rohrich D, Richter M
Ullaland K et. al: The ALICE TPC, a large
3-dimensional tracking device with fast readout for ultra-high multiplicity
events NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION
A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT Volume: 622
Issue: 1 Pages: 316-367
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Alme
J, Bablok S, Djuvsland O, Fehlker D, Haaland O, Huang M, Kanaki K, Klovning A,
Larsen DT, Liu L, Munkejord M, Nystrand J, Ovrebekk G, Pommeresche B, Richter M
Skjerdal K, Ullaland K, Wagner B et. al: Transverse
momentum spectra of charged particles in proton-proton collisions at root s=900
GeV with ALICE at the LHC, PHYSICS LETTERS B Volume: 693 Issue: 2 Pages:
53-68 Published: 2010