Department of Physics and Technology, UoB IFT-posten 4. March 2011

A Word from the Department Administration

Per Osland to Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

This week we would like to congratulate Per with accepting an invitation for visiting researcher stay at Swedish Collegiums for Advanced Study in Uppsala. He will be there in May and June this year.

Per has received a Senior Scholar Fellowship which is a solid recognition for high quality research. SCAS offers a lively and multi-disciplinary research environment with dialogue across scientific disciplines where the candidates have the possibility to concentrate on their own research topics.

News and General Information

Change in the programme for the BFS-day: From the smallest to the largest

As announced earlier, in partnership with the Bergen Research Foundation, IFT invites everyone to the BFS-day in the periodical room. Due to practical reasons the programme needed a few changes and is now as follows:

10.00 Welcome speech by the Head of Department Professor Geir Anton Johansen

10.05 Researcher Heidi Sandaker: Dark Matter news and plans for LHC

10.50 Invited speaker: Professor Subir Sarkar (Oxford University): Darkness visible

12.05 Pause

12.15 Rsearcher Morten Førre: Super strong laser-molecule interactions

12.45 Lunch at IFT cafeteria, Physics Show Bergen will be performing

13.30 Professor Bodil Holst: Atoms as light, archeological textiles and rock crystals: A short overview over results from my Bergen Research Foundation Project.

13.55 Head of Department Rolf Reed, Department of Biomedicine: Researcher recruitment: Challenges and Possibilities

14.10 Professor Knut Børve, Department of Chemistry, Leader of Programme Management: Nanotechnology Education at UoB

14.25 Pause

14.30 Professor Bodil Holst: The path to E-beam-lab at IFT

14.40 Professor Karl Berggren, Director of MIT Nanostructures Laboratory:
Electron-Beam Lithography: Harnessing Nature at the Nanoscale

15.10 Director Kåre Rommetveit, Bergen Research Foundation: BFS- What have we managed?

15.30 Special advisor Dag Høvik, The Norwegian Research Council

15.40 Opening of the E-beam-lab, Trond Mohn

16.00 End

Together with BFS we would like to wish everyone welcome to an exciting arrangement.

ETHICS FOR BREAKFAST

"When the premises are changed in research "

The Ethics Committee at University of Bergen invites to a morning gathering about ethics!

Time: Tuesday March 15 2011, from 08.00 to 10.00

Place: The Student Center – ”Egget”

What happens when you as a researcher have followed all ethical standards, but realize that an unforeseen event leads to the fact that your research results which may have already been published must be re-evaluated? In 2009 cancer researchers at UoB published disturbing results showing that certain stem cells could turn into cancer cells. A year after the publication routine controls at the laboratory discovered that this was because of cross-contamination at the laboratory (see På Høyden 28.8.10). In this breakfast seminar Professor Rolf Bjerkvig, one of the cancer researcher at UoB, will be visiting us. He will be telling us about the event which affected an entire research area.

It was dramatic for this research field, however, are there any research fields which consider identification and discarding of wrong data in order to ”come closer to the reality” as a natural part of scientific progress? Is making mistakes not only a “law” "lov", but also a necessary component in the development of science? Berkvig’s introduction will be followed by Professor Ragnar Fjelland who will be putting the problem ”When the premises are changed in research” into a theoretical context.

Finally the audience will be discuss the problem at hand.

Programme:

08.00 Free breakfast at the bistro

08.30 – 08.35 Welcome speech by assistant rector Berit Rokne

08.35 – 08.05 ”What happens when we collect data that oppose our own research?” by Professor Rolf Bjerkvig, Department of Biomedicine

08.05 – 09.25 "You should be more careful about the fact that you can make mistakes than about being right." (Karl Popper) by Professor Ragnar Fjelland, The Center for the Theory of Science

0925 – 1000 Debate

Registration at the latest 2 days in advance of the seminar!

Staff

Trygve Buanes Postdoc at IFT

Trygve Buanes had a researcher position at CMR and is now employed as a Postdoc at IFT for a period of 4 years. He will be working with Heidi Sandaker’s BFS-group DAMARA and will be working on, among others, dark matter at ATLAS, supervise students as well as help with initiating new projects in Astroparticle. We would like to wish Trygve welcome back to our department!

Congratulations to Linda with his PhD degree!

Chief engineer Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi held a trial lecture and defended his dissertation at NTNU on Wednesday this week. The title of his dissertation is:

“Nanoscale Analog Front-end Amplifiers for Medical Ultrasound Imaging”

We would like to congratulate Linga!

PhD-news

Defense before the summer? The last deadline for submitting dissertations.

We would like to remind once again that in case you would like to defend your dissertation before the summer, the last deadline for submission is Wednesday April 27. The advisor must then have a list of opponents ready at the time of submission. The last possible date for disputation before the summer holidays start is Thursday June 30.

The last issue of PhD-news, nr 1 2011, can now be downloaded.

IFT in the Media

Heidi Sandaker: Shooting with anti-rays, Forskning.no February 25..

Publications (ISI)

· Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastansas A, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Oie OK, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonoyan A, Ugland M et al.: Search for quark contact interactions in dijet angular distributions in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector PHYSICS LETTERS B Volume: 694 Issue: 4-5 Pages: 327-34

· 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.: Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in central Pb-Pb collisions at root(NN)-N-S=2.76 TeV PHYSICS LETTERS B Volume: 696 Issue: 4 Pages: 328-33

· Sanchez PD, Lees JP, Poireau V, Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.: Search for the rare decay B -> Kv(v)over-bar PHYSICAL REVIEW D Volume: 82 Issue: 11 Article Number: 112002

· Grzadkowski B, Osland P: Tempered two-Higgs-doublet model PHYSICAL REVIEW D Volume: 82 Issue: 12 Article Number: 125026

· Kosinski P, Simos T: Preface: APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION Volume: 217 Issue: 11 Special Issue: SI Pages: 5015-5015

· Pisarev GI, Hoffmann AC, Peng WM, Dijkstra HA: Large Eddy Simulation of the vortex end in reverse-flow centrifugal separators APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION Volume: 217 Issue: 11 Special Issue: SI Pages: 5016-5022

· Kosinski P: Explosion suppression by a cloud of particles: Numerical analysis of the initial processes APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION Volume: 217 Issue: 11 Special Issue: SI Pages: 5087-5094

· Ilea CG, Kosinski P, Hoffmann AC: Numerical study on the dynamics of a jet-vortex interaction APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION Volume: 217 Issue: 11 Special Issue: SI Pages: 5103-5112