Kommende arrangementer - Side 2

Innenfor kritisk teori har man lenge hevdet at terapeutisk kultur kun  forsterker og kanaliserer kapitalismens krav til menneskelig produktivitet og ytelse. Suvi Salmenniemi er ikke enig.

C*-algebra seminar by John Quigg (Arizona State University)

Department seminar. Magnus Irie is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University.

There are several approaches to studying configuration spaces of points on curves. Examples are the Deligne-Mumford and Hassett spaces or, in the case of points on a projective line, a straightforward GIT construction. Deligne and Mostow further investigated the situation where moduli spaces of weighted points on the projective line have ball quotient models. This leads to a finite set of configuration spaces of ordered or partially ordered points on P^1. In all of these cases, the GIT compactification and the Baily-Borel compactification of the ball quotient are isomorphic. These spaces have natural (partial) desingularizations, namely the Kirwan blow-up and the toroidal compactification. It follows from results of Gallardo-Kerr-Schaffler and Kiem-Moon that, in the case of ordered configurations, the Deligne-Mostow map lifts to an  isomorphism of these compactifications. This can fail for only partially ordered configurations. The main result of this talk is to explain a criterion exactly when these two compactifications coincide. This is also related to the Log Minimal Model Program. This is joint work with Yota Maeda.   

The African Anthropology seminar series features Miriam Waltz, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University.

Dynamic wetting phenomena are present in many everyday situations where liquids interact with surfaces. Understanding and controlling the dynamics of droplets wetting solid surfaces is important in various applications such as boiling and condensation heat transfer, printing and coating, and microfluidic processes. However, modeling their dynamics is not easy because they are multiscale systems in which the advancing or receding of a nanoscale-thick contact line is linked to the behavior of the entire millimeter-scale droplet. In the Thermal Energy Engineering lab (TEEL) at the University of Tokyo, together with the collaborators, we have been investigating the rapid spreading of droplets on solid surfaces as a model system, where the non-equilibrium nature of energy dissipation at the contact line becomes evident. On a partially wetting solid surface, when capillary forces drive droplet spreading, the advancement of the contact line is governed by viscous forces, inertial forces, or contact-line friction. Through experiments, we demonstrated that the dominant physical mechanisms can be switched by tuning droplet properties, surface microstructure [1], or applied electric field [2]. We modeled and reproduced these experiments using a phenomenological parameter that quantifies the contact-line friction coefficient and mapped a phase diagram of dominant physical factors in a dimensionless parameter space. With the knowledge, we realized anisotropic wetting and droplet transport by taking advantage of the fact that the dynamic behavior of droplets can be controlled through solid surfaces when contact line friction is dominant [3,4]. Furthermore, in our recent experiments on droplet oscillation [5] and droplet sliding [6] on solid surfaces functionalized with various self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), we observed that nanoscale surface chemistry and morphology significantly influence contact-line dynamics. This suggests that contact-line friction originates from nanoscale energy dissipation, though the dissipation mechanism remains unclear, and thus, it calls for collaboration with experts with multiscale discipline.

Velkommen til lansering av Erik Skares nye bok om palestinsk islamisme. Det blir ein presentasjon av boka etterf?lgd av ein panelsamtale med forfatteren, Hilde Henriksen Waage og Jacob H?iglit.

The first meeting of the Nordic Network for Critical Theory will be taking place at the University of Oslo on 26-27 May 2025. 

Anniina F?rkkil?, MD PhD, is an Assistant professor in translational gynecologic oncology and a Specialist in gynecology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

The title of her talk is:"Unraveling the Determinants of Spatial Tumor Ecosystems in Ovarian Cancer: Insights into Immune Interactions and Therapeutic Opportunities".

Department seminar. Nicola Lacetera is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna.

Assistant Professor at Cornell University, and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Nori Jacoby, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Christine Amadou (Universitetet i Oslo)

Department seminar. Fabrizio Zilibotti is a Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University.

Prior to his appointment at Victoria University of Wellington in February 2015, Budhi had spent nearly three years at Bank of America Corp. working as a Quant at the level of AVP. He was based mainly in Singapore with direct reporting line to the Head of Quantitative Risk Management Group at BofA HQ in Charlotte, North Carolina. He joined BofA soon after the completion of his PhD in Utrecht in January 2007. His area of research is predominantly on applied probability and stochastic systems towards applications in actuarial science, financial stochastics, optimal stopping and free-boundary problems in theoretical and applied finance, stochastic filtering and smoothing, estimation of Markov chains with covariates dependent transition intensity matrix and their general mixtures, maximum likelihood recursive estimation under incomplete information. He was a visiting scholar, among others, to NYU Stern in April-May 2025, September 2019; Mathematical Institute, University of Copenhagen in February 2020, IEOR Department of Columbia University in May 2014, DAAD visiting scholar to Mathematical Institute of Goethe University of Frankfurt in October-November 2013.

Talk by Maja Janmyr (UiO)

Nordfjordeid Summer School 2025

Join us for this year's Hal Wilhite Memorial Lecture held by Professor Alan Warde on how food habits and preferences change.

Department seminar. Gianmarco Ottaviano is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University.

Department seminar. Mikkel Mertz is a Research Economist at the ROCKWOOL foundation research unit.

Jacob Schreiber is a visiting scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology at the Vienna BioCenter.

The African Anthropology seminar series features Susan Levine, professor and Head of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.

Umberto Picchini is interested in Bayesian inference for stochastic modelling, stochastic differential equations, simulator-based methods for inference, applications in biology and medicine. He prefers music pre 2000s. He is a professor in Mathematical Statistics at Dept Mathematical Sciences in G?teborg.

Department seminar. Hans K. Hvide is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Bergen.