A Word from Department Administration

This week we are introducing the IFT Alumni for which we hope many of you will join. It is an excellent opportunity to keep contact with our students upon finishing their education at our department, and it is also a great opportunity for our students to keep in touch with each other. Networking is important and alumnusnetwork is particularly useful for stimulating collective efforts between the academia and the business and the community, for mutual benefits. I therefore encourage you all to use a bit of your time to register yourselves as explained below.

Geir Anton

News and general information

IFT Alumni

This week we finally created IFT Alumni as a tool for keeping contact with the department’s students after completing their education with us, or at least to be able to follow up where they go further in their working careers. IFT Alumni is open for the current and previous students (master and PhD) and the department employees. Registration is completely voluntary, but we hope that as many students as possible will participate in this network. We have chosen two parallel solutions for this network:

· LinkedIn which is already used by many who regularly update their profiles. LinkedIn is, to put it plainly, a sort of career network or medium with some similarities to Facebook, and it can be used for for more than just IFT Alumni for those who are interested. It is easy to create user account and upload as much information as you like. After registration, you choose groups and search through ”Institutt for fysikk og teknologi, UiB”. Many of IFT’s previous students and employees are already users of LinkedIn and only need to search for this particular group. There is also a wide range of other subject and interest groups you can link yourself to.

· UiB Alumni which is UoB’s own web portal with a wide range of groups. One of these is also the group entitled ”Fysikk og teknologi” and you can register yourself by logging in with your username and password for UoB’s computer system, and then choosing ”Alumnusgrupper”, ”>Faglig” and then ”Fysikk og teknologi” and ”>Meld på". Students can do this until one year after their last exam. Our earlier students have to register manually. There are also other groups one can link oneself to.

It would be great if you use both of the tools, it doesn’t take such a long time to upload your information. Remember that e-mail address and mobile phone number are the minimum we require in order to be able to keep in touch with each other. Apart from the time required for registration and updating information, there are no costs regarding this service. The purpose of IFT Alumni is primarily to gather contact information and have it available for all who participate in it, but both in groups of UiB Alumni and LinkedIn it is also possible to initiate and participate in discussions for those who wish to do so. It is also possible to choose how many e-mails you wish to receive automatically.

We hope many of you will join. Feel free to inform the previous employees and earlier students with whom you still have contact, and ask them to spread the word further.!

Annual Christmas Party

As many of you may already have been informed, this year we would like to arrange a joint Christmas party for all employees at our department. This is mainly because we would like to stimulate more employees to join our party than was the case in previous years. As we discussed during the seminar in Voss this May, and as mentioned in our strategic plan, we do need such arenas for the employees in order to improve the social aspects of our working environment. The fact that students made up the majority on these parties over the last few years and have accounted for the large part of this arrangement, has naturally resulted in a party designed mostly by and for students and therefore not many employees wished to join. This year we intend to organize a party just for the employees (including reseaerch assistants and pensionists) and we ask all of you to prioritize this party and join in. It is important that we try to create the best possible working environment and thus try to do our jobs as best we can. This year’s Christmas party will take place on Friday, December 9, and we will give more information on registration on next Friday. Put aside your time and prioritize this occasion!

This does not mean that we do not want to be together with our Master students, we value them greatly and are grateful for their contribution to the Christmas parties of the previous years. We will therefore ask the Technical Committe to arrange a separate Christmas party for both Bachelor and Master students where we will also participate and sponsor, and where it is also possible for the employees to join.

We are aware that many of the employees and students are not very pleased with this concept, but we would like you to have and show some understanding. We will try this concept this year and we promise to evaluate the outcome with the Technical Committee in the months to come. It is also possible that we might have a party for students only, as it may later turn out.

Open lecture in PHYS 328 Selected topics in measurement science

Title: Trends in Measurement Science Research and Industrial Applications

Lecturer: Eivind Dahl
Vice President CMR Instrumentation
Christian Michelsen Research AS

Date: Wednesday 16th November 2011
Location: Room 292
Time: 12.15 – 1.30

This lecture will outline some major trends in measurement science research, the current state-of-the-art and remaining technology gaps for a range of industrial applications including petroleum (topside, subsea and downhole), fisheries/aquaculture and wind energy.

New book in physics didactics

We congratulate Stein Dankert Kolstø on his contribution to yet another new book, this time on Physics Didactics (Fysikkdidaktikk) published by Høyskoleforlaget. The authors are Carl Angell, Berit Bungum, Ellen K. Henriksen, Stein Dankert Kolstø, Jonas Persson and Reidun Renstrøm. This book offers an introduction to physics taught at schools as part of the Norwegian educational system, and is a manual for physics teachers and students preparing to become physics teachers. More information and a review are available from book’s website of the Høyskoleforlaget publishers.

PhD

Trial lectures

Civil Engineer Nils-Erik Bomark will hold a PhD trial lecture of the following title:

"How precisely can we measure time?"

Friday, 18. November 2011, at 09:15 in room 546, IFT

MSc. Alif Be vil will hold a PhD trial lecture of the following title:

“Methods for generating digital rock reconstruction"

Friday, 18. November 2011, at 11:15 in Room 4060, Realfagbygget

Cand.scient. Bartek Florzcyk Vik will hold a PhD trial lecture of the following title:

“Methods fordetecting oil leakage on the ocean surface "

Friday, 18. November 2011, at 13:15 in Room 4060, Realfagbygget

All are welcome to attend!

Staff

We would like to welcome to our department two new PhD students within the field of Physics Didactics – with a slight delay:

Nils Petter Hauan who is employed as Business-PhD at VilVite

Anders Sivle 30.03.11 who is employed at Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Publications (ISI)

· Collier Andrew B.; Gjesteland Thomas; Ostgaard Nikolai: Assessing the power law distribution of TGFs JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS Volume: 116 Article Number: A10320 DOI: 10.1029

· Juusola L.; Ostgaard N.; Tanskanen E.; et al.: Earthward plasma sheet flows during substorm phases JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS Volume: 116 Article Number: A10228 DOI: 10.1029/2011JA016852 Published: OCT 22 2011

· 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.: Limits on the production of the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C Volume: 71 Issue: 9 Article Number: 1728 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1728-9

· 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 inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C Volume: 71 Issue: 2 Article Number: 1512 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1512-2