Department of Physics and Technology IFT-posten 30. September 2011

A Word from Department Administration

I would like to encourage you all this Friday to read yesterday’s fantastic article in Bergens Tidende – written by one of the Bachelor students in physics, Thea K. Årrestad, check out the link below. Something to think about for both physicists and other natural scientists!

Have a great weekend
Geir Anton

News and general information

Tekna invites to a lunch seminar

• Wednesday, 26. October at 12:15
• Egil Lillestøl: Energy for the future

In the later years, he had been focusing on global energy issues and a possible solution to the global energy problems in the form of an accelerator-driven nuclear reactor based on Thorium. This involvement has led to much debate and media coverage for Lillestøl, with heavy discussions pro et contra possibilities for nuclear power in Norway. More information internally at Mi side.

SIU-conference on Education and Work Life: : The Values of International Cooperation

SIU invites you to a conference in Oslo on 10. November 2011 on work market’s competence requirements, the possible responses from the educational systems – and in what ways the informatization may contribute to an increased and improved cooperation between educational institutions and the work life.

Conference on Research University and the global challenges

· Time: 29. November 2011, from 09:00 – 15:30

· Place: Egget in Student Centre of the UoB

Would you like to join us in the discussion on future global challenges and how we should overcome these with new knowledge? In connection with this year being the Year of Knowledge, the University of Bergen, in cooperation with Education and Knowledge Ministry, invites you to the national conference on the role of basic research in our continually more globalized world.

The conference perspectives are: "The importance of free basic science in meeting the global challenges – how can Norway become a pioneering country in providing good conditions for free and basic science?"

Conference will be opened by the Research and Higher Education Minister, Tora Aasland, and there will otherwise be lectures by the leading national and international researchers, including Geoffrey Boulton and Merle Jacob among others.

The conference will present good examples of basic research which played an important role in meeting and overcoming the global challenges. In addition, the participants, contributors and a self-elected panel be invited to draft a proposal on what the universities should and can contribute with the new science in the creation of our common future.

More information on programme, registration and Year of Knowledge.

Another jubilee in the field of nuclear physics

This time we are happy to wish Professor emeritus and former rector of UoB, Arnfinn Graue all the best for his 85^th birthday which he celebrated on October 1!

Staff

New employee Kjetil Haukalid has been employed as research assistant in electromagnetic measurement technology for the next three years, starting with 19. September. Welcome to the department, Kjetil!

PhD

Forthcoming disputations
	Engineer Thomas Reisinger will hold a PhD disputation of the following title: Free-standing, axially-symmetric diffraction gratings for neutral matter-waves: experiments and fabrication Tuesday, 4. October 2011 at 09:15 in Auditorium 2 in Realfagbygget
	Civil engineer Åge Oterhals will hold a PhD disputation of the following title: Decontamination of persistent organic pollutants in fishmeal and fish oil. Process optimization and modeling Friday, 7. October 2011, at 10:15 in Auditorium 2 in Realfagbygget

IFT in the media

· Thea K. Årrestad: Vis oss fysikkens skjønnhet Bergens Tidende, 29. September.

· Jan Petter Hansen: Hvilke spørsmål er store? Bergens Tidende, 25. September.

· Dieter Röhrich and Jan S. Vaagen Vitenskapshistorier: Atomkjernen er 100 år På Høyden, 26. September.

Publications (ISI)

· Grov A.; Opsvik H. E. Z.; Eckhoff R. K.: Effects of significant damage of flame gap surfaces in flameproof electrical apparatus on flame gap efficiency JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES Volume: 24 Issue: 5 Pages: 552-557 DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2010.12.006

· ATLAS Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Oye OK, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross-section at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Volume: 2 Article Number: 463 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1472

· Simonsen S. I.; Kocbach L.; Hansen J. P. Long-range interactions and state characteristics of interacting Rydberg atoms JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS Volume: 44 Issue: 16 Article Number: 165001 DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/44/16/165001