Fredag 9. november 2012

From the head of department

This Friday I will dedicate a line to our canteen and encourage all of the people from our department to stop by and visit it regularly. This is important for the cohesion at our department, as well as giving Tran the best terms for continuing the business. She has always had a lot of assistance and help from her late husband Vu who died last week. So, perhaps you too can drop by a few days a week and enjoy a meal together with your colleagues and students?

Have a great weekend,
Geir Anton

News and general information

The Meltzerfond and Universitetsfond – the first deadline is December 1

Application database for the Meltzerfond and the Universitetsfond is now partly opened.

• Meltzerfond gives out funds for research prizes, travel stipends for researchers, and project stipends to students and PhD-candidates. Due to poor returns in the fond’s investments this year, it will not be possible to apply for research projects this time.
• Universitetsfond gives out funds for projects for mediation and publishing of research results, as well as to the holding of scientific conferences and workshops.

The application for these funds should be done electonically, read here for Meltzerfond and here for Universitetsfond. Application deadline is December 1 for all except researchers who apply for Meltzerfond – in their case, the application deadline this year is extended to December 31.

The Meltzerfond gives out annually the prize for younger researchers and for groundbreaking research mediation. Professors and department heads at UoB can suggest candidates for the Meltzerfond prizes. Well-grounded suggestions on potential prize-candidates should be sent to the fond within December 1. For more information and answers to the frequently asked questions on prizes and methods for nominating the candidates, read here for guidelines and here for the checklist for suggestions. For additional questions contact Bente Krossøy (55582023) at the university director’s office.

Planning of a proton therapy center in Norway

As many of you already know, the government intends to allocate in its state budget 15 million kroner to Helse Vest which will lead the work with planning a Norwegian center for particle therapy, check out the press release from the Ministry of Health and Care. They are working on setting up a committee for drafting of reports, and IFT will most likely also be represented.

At the same time, Dieter Röhrich will also participate in one of the three working groups organized by The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) which will prepare an information leaflet with a working title "Nuclear Physics in Medicine". Dieter is part of the working group for hadron therapy.

Open lecture in PHYS 328 Selected topics in measurement science

Technology director Magne Husebø from CMR will hold a lecture in PHYS 328 which is open for all who are interested:

• Oil and gas measurement technology gaps as per OG21 2012 strategy
• Wednesday, November 14, from 12:15-13:30 in room 292, IFT.

OG21 is a Task Force established by the Norwegian Oil and Energy Department, assisting the petroleum industry in establishing a national technology strategy for added value and competitive advantage in the oil and gas industry. In 2012 OG21 released four new strategy documents in the following areas:

· TTA1: Energy efficient and environmentally sustainable technologies

· TTA2: Exploration and IOR

· TTA3: Cost-efficient drilling and intervention

· TTA4: Future technologies for production, processing and transport.

All four strategy documents include technology gap descriptions relating to measurement technology.  The lecture will focus on describing the strategic measurement technology gaps and give information on current status for research and development in selected areas, flow assurance, environment and integrity monitoring in particular.

Application for parking spaces in Dokkeveien for 2013

For 2013, we also intend to rent out parking spaces in UoB’s parking lot in Dokkeveien. Those of you who wish to apply for renting out a parking space in 2013 should send their applications to Eiendomsavdelingen latest by 20. November 2012 by using an individual application form. The forms can be obtained from Eiendomsavdelingen’s weboages. More information on renting parking spaces can be found in a letter from Eiendomsavdelingen.

STAFF

Last Friday we had the great joy of welcoming 5 new colleagues joining our department. Some of them have already been with us for several years, but have now gotten their permanent positions:

	Nicola Pacifico has been hired as research assistant (NFR) in experimental particle physics for 3 years starting with 01.10.2012.
	Taddeo Ssenyonga has been hired as postdoc (NFR) in optics for 2 years and 4 months starting from 01.11.2012
	Georgi Genov got a permanent position as senior engineer at IFT from 8. October 2012. He has been temporarily employed at our department and has worked with ASIM-project for almost 2 years. Georgi has a master degree in nuclear physics, astronomy and molecular biology. In addition, he has a PhD in natural sciences from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Since 1999, he has worked in nuclear power industry, automation- and offshore industry in engineer/management positions. During this period, he has also worked as researcher at different universities and research organizations across Europe.
	Kristine Indahl Helle received a permanent position as executive (studies administration and finance) starting from 1. October 2012. Since 13. August 2010, she has been employed as a substitute student consultant, first for Hanne Israelsen and then for Terje Finnekås. She has a master in experimental particle physics (UoB) and has worked as group leader for calculation workshop in electromagnetism for almost one year.
	Jan Halvard Valderhaug has been given a permanent position as executive consultant (finance) from 1. October 2012, after having worked as a substitute in the same position since 3. September 2012. He has a master degree in economics and administration from NHH, a teaching degree from Høgskolen in Volda and has also spent one semester in Mexico as part of his studies of Spanish language and Latin American culture.

PhD

Trial Lecture

M.Phil. Alexander Vereshagin will hold a PhD trial lecture by the following title:

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012

Monday, November 12, at 13:15 in room 546, IFT

Seminar on a self-chosen topic

MSc. Stian Astad Sørngård will hold a seminar on a self-chosen topic entitled:

• Physics and applications of carbon nanotubes

Wednesday, November 14, at 13:15 in room 366, IFT

STUDENTS

SPE European regional student paper contest 2013

The Society of Petroleum Engineers is pleased to announce that the 2013 European Regional Student Paper Contest is being held in conjunction with:

· Offshore Mediterranean Conference

· 21-22^nd March 2013 Ravenna, Italy

Submit your abstract now! The contest will be divided into three divisions – Undergraduate, Masters and PhD Division. The winners of each division will be invited to take part in the SPE International Student Paper Contest at the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA in October 2013.

To obtain an entry form for this contest please email nbaines@spe.org - please note when submitting your entry form you will also be required to submit a 300 word abstract. The deadline for abstract submissions is 11:59pm 1st January 2013. Any abstracts received after this point will not be included. For more information please email nbaines@spe.org

h-bar

H-bar is open each Friday from 19:00-01:00.

H-bar is run by department’s Fagutvalget and is primarily aimed at department’s students – but employees are also very welcome!

Final MSc presentations

Paul Tenfjord will hold his master thesis presentation in the field of Integrated lector education – space physics entitled:

• Energy Transfer and Flow in the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System: A New Coupling Function

Tuesday, November 13, at 14:15 in room 546, Allégaten 55 / IFT. Veileder har vært Nikolai Østgaard.

Publications registered in ISI Web of Science

o ATLAS Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Underlying event characteristics and their dependence on jet size of charged-particle jet events in pp collisions at root(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector PHYSICAL REVIEW D Volume: 86 Issue: 7 Article Number: 072004 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.072004

o Kristoffersen, Arne S.; Svensen, Oyvind; Ssebiyonga, Nicolausi; Erga, R.; Stamnes, Jakob J.; Frette, Oyvind: Chlorophyll a and NADPH Fluorescence Lifetimes in the Microalgae Haematococcus pluvialis (Chlorophyceae) under Normal and Astaxanthin-Accumulating Conditions APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY Volume: 66 Issue: 10 Pages: 1216-1225 DOI: 10.1366/12-06634

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