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FROM THE HEAD OF
DEPARTMENT
It is a pleasure to
report that the faculty board yesterday accepted our recommendation and employed
two associate professors in reservoir physics, read more about it below. This
is a very welcome pulling of our ranks within a group with large project
portfolio, many students and a great potential. The decision is, however,
historical since the faculty board for the first time employed an associate
professor to a permanent position with permanent external financing. This is
a win-win situation, since we at the Physics department (and the faculty in
general), both directly and via ripple effect, will in such a way strengthen
our field of action, while at the same time ConocoPhillips and Statoil (and others)
get access to more results and higher skills via research and candidates.
These requirements were the latest news presented in Dagsrevyen yesterday evening. Have a nice weekend, News and general information
New:
Horizons
All are welcome to the
faculty’s new lecture series called Horisonter (Horizons). The first lecturer
will be Fred Spier who is
Senior lecturer in Big History at the University ofi Amsterdam, with the following lecture:
Monday, February 13,
at 18:00 in Tivoli, cinema hall at Kvarteret, Olav Kyrresgate 49. Free entrance. The lecture will be presented in
English. This presentation will
begin with a short overview of big history. This will be followed by
mentioning a few major current big history trends worldwide, including active
interest from major global players such as Bill Gates and Al Gore. The final
portion of the presentation will be devoted to discussing current theoretical
developments which help to elucidate big history,
and thus may lead to formulating a historical theory of everything. The lecture is a part of
Darwin Day 2012 in Bergen organized
by the Department of Biology. Registration in Cristin
Open
meeting at the Norwegian Technical Science Academy
NTVA invites to a meeting in Bergen where our
dean Dag Rune Olsen will be giving a lecture:: Tuesday, February 21. at
19:00, Nansensenteret at Marineholmen, Thormøhlens gate 47. After the
meeting, fish soup will be served followed by a social gathering.
The
price is 100 NOK per person. Registration within 15:00 on
Thursday, February 16. Registration
is required only for those who would like to join the dinner. Call for papers 7th European Conference on Gender Equality
in Higher Education
Gender Equality in a Changing Academic World. We welcome
participants to present papers that reflect upon frameworks and conditions
outside and within academia and their importance for gender equality in
research and education. The conference will focus on gender equality in a
changing academic world against the backdrop of the current financial crisis
in Europe and beyond. Suggested
topics: • The
financial crisis in the world and changing conditions for research and higher
education. How will it affect gender equality in academia? • Autonomy
reforms in higher education and gender equality • Gender
mainstreaming in universities: challenges and successes • Assessing
the impact of gender equality interventions and measures • Gender
equality and the challenge of intersectionality • Men,
masculinities and gender equality in academia • Excellence
and research policy in relation to equality and diversity • Open
track The
participants are kindly asked to indicate the topic their paper addresses. Based
on the incoming papers the Conference Board will set up panels and parallel
sessions. An international advisory board will assess the incoming abstracts.
Please
send abstracts of no more than 300 words as an email attachment before February 15th
2012. Title your email and the abstract as follows: abstract-yourlastname
(for example: abstract-smith). STAFF
It is a pleasure to wish Martin Fernø and
Geir Ersland welcome to our department as assoc. profs. in
reservoir physics. Both of them are employed as postdoctoral research
associates at our department and most of you know them already. Both of them
are employed on the same terms as other scientific employees. However, the
department will be financing one position with external funds and the other
with external bridging funds for 5 years.
PhD
Defence
before the summer?
The deadline for thesis submission at the
department is Wednesday, April 25, in case the candidate wishes to defend
his/her thesis before the summer holidays. At the time of submission, the
main advisor must be able to propose opponents. The last possible defence
date before the summer holidays is Friday, June 29. Trial lectureEngineer Sabrina Eder will be giving the following trial lecture for
the PhD-degree:
Friday, February 17 at 12:15 in room 546, Department
of Physics and Technology Funding
for doctoral training activities
Candidates
accepted to the PhD-study at the Department of Physics and Technology may apply
for funding for research education activities. The applicants must be
registered as PhD-student the present semester in order to apply. Applicants
without any external economical support (Quota, University scholarships,
Self-financing PhD-students) will be prioritized. Funding for the following
activities can be applied for: A) Research stay at a foreign University or
research institution B) Participation at advanced courses, workshops,
symposia, conferences etc (we don't cover the conference fee) C) Purchase of training/teaching at the Ph.D.-level D) Participation in courses/subjects/field courses
resulting in credits and that are part of the individual study. E) Research courses in science subjects. The doctoral
training activity must be completed within 01.09.2012. Download the application form and send the application to Kristine
Indahl Helle (room 348) by the deadline, which is 24.02.12. M.Sc.
Final M.Sc. PresentationsØystein B. Strand will be having a
presentation to obtain the M.Sc. degree in physics – Measurement
science and instrumentation:
Friday, February 17 at 09:15 in room 546,
Allégaten 55. The thesis advisors are Bodil Holst, IFT and Alexandre Micoulet Application
deadline for travel- and seminar support for M.Sc. students, spring 2012
Have you been or are you planning to travel for field work, conference/seminar in 2012? You may then apply
for financial support (max. 7500,- NOK during the
entire M.Sc. study). See more information and download the
application form. The travel must take place between December 1. 2011 and September 1. 2012. Completed
application forms can be submitted to one of our study consultants at the
department within Tuesday, February 21. IFT iN THE media
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, Oye OK, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen
TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Measurement
of the isolated diphoton cross section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with
the ATLAS detector PHYSICAL REVIEW D Volume: 85 Issue: 1 Article Number:
012003 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.012003 o 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.:
Search for new phenomena with
the monojet and missing transverse momentum signature using the ATLAS
detector in root s=7 TeV proton-proton collisions PHYSICS LETTERS B Volume: 705
Issue: 4 Pages: 294-312 DOI:
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.006 |
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