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A WORD FROM THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Innovation is a concept which may involve a lot of different things, but
for us working at the university it primarily means research-driven
innovation. Natural sciences research and innovation have always been going
hand in hand and have resulted in a number of products, methods and technologies.
There lies an exciting reciprocity there, perhaps especially in the field of
physics, since the subject itself is highly dependent on technology for getting
the answers to the big questions, and the subject itself contributes to new
front technology. Sometimes these things are planned, other times they are
not. What lies at the base is our own competence, but at times it may also
involve the researchers’ network and contacts with other subject areas and businesses,
which are equally important for an innovation to be born. Next Friday we would
like to invite you to the premiere of a movie which shows the diversity of
innovation – with Professor Emeritus Erling
Hammer as leading role. He started his professional career as an electrician,
but then he took a degree and acquired top skills withing
the field of technical cybernetics, electro-magnetism and measurement science.
The application of his research has been diverse and span from medical technology
to industrial measurement systems, the field in which he is still active. The movie was made by Univisjon at
the initiative and with the support from the Department of Physics and
Technology, Bergen Teknologioverføring and SFI Michelsensenteret. Come and join us this Friday at 14:00
in auditorium B at the Audietoriefløyen and be
inspired! Have a great weekend, NEWS AND gENERAL informaTIon
Open seminars spring 2012
This semester, open
seminars will be a mixture of great, all-inclusive scientific questions. What
is new this year is that the faculty will start a series of faculty seminars
(at the level of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) per semester with
Jan Petter Hansen of the IFT joining forces and
planning the programmes with Jarl Giske of BIO and Olav Eldholm. Their
programme is aimed at making the MN-joined seminars
a part of IFT open seminar activities, as well as of all other MN departments
open seminars. So this will be a new meeting point between us and all other
related departments. This also means that throughout this semester not all of
the open seminars would be taking place on Fridays, and we hope that
faculty seminars will find a fixed time which is identical
to IFT’s fixed open seminar schedule. This means that we might have to drop
the Fridays, but we will see in due time. The following seminars
are announced for spring 2012: ·
Friday, 27. January: ”Diversity in research and innovation” Premiere
of the movie about Erling Hammer’s career ·
Monday, 13. February: MN-joined,
Fred Spier, "Big History", preliminary information ·
Friday, 17.
February: "BTO - examples of commercialization of physics
and other research" ·
Friday, 30. March: "Fukushima - one year after the
disaster" - cooperation with Energiforum ·
Friday, 13. April: John Briggs, "The Origin of Time" ·
We will also aim at organizing a lecture on Higgs-mechanism (which is
now being observed). All of the lectures will
be greatly advertised as it had always been the case.
If you have any other suggestions for a suitable lecture, please do let us
know – preferably as a spoken suggestion delivered to room 219. The
local seminar committee is now, due to Per Osland’s
sabbatical, has been dwindled down to an autocracy. An interesting research
assistant /post-doc is therefore wanted and highly welcome to our IFT-committee
and should feel free to contact Jan Petter. An update on the work on the
new network
Upon reading this, many
of you may have noticed that the work on the new network
are already in motion. The ceiling plates in all the corridors (of the
north wing) have been taken down and stored away until they will be mounted
again at the end of the project in June. At the same time, the ceiling will be
cleaned. Men’s toilets in the 5th
floor will be closed from 23. January for about 4 weeks. When the ceiling plates
have been taken down, this may affect the air quality and temperature at some
places, but it is difficult to predict the actual size of this disadvantage. We
hope and believe that it will not be any worse than what we can tolerate and
that we will be able to stand it for a limited period! Nomination of candidates to the
Christie Prize 2012
In relation to the annual Christie conference, the University of Bergen
awards the «Christie Prize». The deadline for nominations of potential
candidates is 1. February 2012. Read more on nominations and the statute on conference
webpage. PhD
Defence
Semester registration
All of the UoB’s PhD-candidates
should register themselves once each six months and confirm whether they are
active in their research education. With this kind of PhD –registration,
the PhD.-candidates get an overview over their own individual plan for research
education and an opportunity to sign up for research courses at UoB in relation to their registering. The registration takes place via StudentWeb where you as a
candidate can have an overview over your own individual PhD contract, research
training and progress of your research education. The deadline for semester registration for
spring 2012 is 1. February. The PhD-panel
This week the PhD-panel of the MatNat-faculty
had its first meeting in this year. At this meeting they elected the new
leader and deputy leader of the committee. PhD-panel is the contact point between the
faculty and the PhD-students, and takes up the issues that are of general
interest for all candidates at our faculty, and has been asked to issue a
statement when some important issues are to be addressed by the research
education committee. Since it is the faculty that is responsibility for admission
and follow-up of PhD-education, there are many issues on the committee’s agenda which are of great importance for PhD-students. The
committee shall in the beginning be comprised of two students from each faculty department, although at the moment it
is not fully numbered. Committee members today include: · Ragnhild Schrøder Hansen (IFT, leader) · Puja Gupta (MBI, deputy leader ·
Ole-Johan Juvik (KJ, representative in Faculty Committee) · Christoffer Bartz-Johannessen (MAT) · Bjørnar Jensen (IFT) · Kajsa Parding (GFI) · Johannes Rack (MBI) · Jord DeBoer (GEO) · Kirsten Møller (GEO) · Mohsen Toorani (II) In case PhD-students or other at the IFT have some suggestion on the
issues this committee should take up, please contact one of the two
representatives from IFT. IFT iN
THE media
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hydrothermal synthesis MATERIALS LETTERS Volume: 66 Issue: 1
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