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This meeting is cancelled. Please check our web page for meetings relevant for the SPARK Norway community later.
Dr. Jane Maienschein is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Maienschein is University Professor, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. She is also a Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she heads the project funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation on “Putting History and Philosophy of Science to Work with the Life Sciences.” Maienschein has served as president of the History of Science Society and of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Author of Embryos Under the Microscope and Whose View of Life?, she is also (co)editor of a dozen volumes including most recently Visions of Cell Biology and The Ark and Beyond.
Dr. Mika R?met, of PEDEGO research unit, University of Oulo, Finland, will give a talk titled, "Zebrafish as a model to study Mycobacterial infection".
Ankur Garg, PhD, will give a talk titled, "Structural and functional analysis of ribonuclease ZC3H12C mediated regulation of immune responses"
Lecture by Gabriele Iannàccaro, University of Milano-Bicocca
Cand.philol. Harald Eriksen defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Assessment for learning – investigating Norwegian Language arts teachers’ assessment practice in two schools
Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science?s meetings in the end of May.
Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science?s meetings in the end of May.
Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science?s meetings in the end of May.
Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science?s meetings in the end of May.
Melissa Lane is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. An associated faculty member in the Princeton Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy, she researches and teaches in the area of the history of political thought, with a special expertise in ancient Greek thought, and in normative political philosophy, including especially environmental ethics and politics.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Marieke Kuijjer, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. School of Public Health, will give a talk titled: "Understanding cancer using integrative network models"
Samir Okasha is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol. His research is focused around philosophy of biology, evolutionary theory, epistemology and philosophy of science.He is a winner of Lakatos Award for his book Evolution and the Levels of Selection.
The seminar is open for everyone!
From research to the regulated world – a SPARK Norway educational lecture.
Join us for the screening of Pili, a feature length drama set in rural Tanzania reflecting the life a poor, HIV-positive single mother of two children. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Sophie Harman, producer of the film and researcher in International Relations/Global Health (QMUL).
We wish you welcome to a seminar by Ray Dingledine
In connection with Ray Dingledine’s inauguration as elected member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA), we organize a seminar at which Ray will give two presentations, as introductions to informal discussions.
In this seminar drawing from a combined epidemiological and ethnographic study, Dr Freya Jephcott (Queen's College Cambridge), will unpack the consequences of involving different types of actors, both national and international, in the response to a mysterious outbreak in Ghana (2012). Come and join us for an interesting discussion!
CAN A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH ACCELERATE REDUCTION OF UNDERNUTRITION AND OBESITY?
The seminar is open to everybody and free of charge, but registration was required for lunch order. Registration is now closed, but you are welcome to join the seminar without lunch.
Tenured associate professor Richard Dawid is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Dawid is professor of philosophy of science at Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna. After some years as a phyisicist at the TU Munich and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he switched to philosophy in 2000. He worked as a philosopher of science at the University of Vienna and the MCMP Munich before coming to Stockholm in 2016.
Professor Maria Baghramian is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Baghramians main research areas are Philosophy of Language, Contemporary American Philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty and Quine), Relativism, Topics in Cognitive Science; her publications primarily focus on the topic of intractable disagreements in beliefs and values and on Neo-Pragmatism.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Jim T?rresen and Charles Martin (RITMO/IFI) will present on the topic "Time series analysis and prediction with sequence learning and recurrent neural networks (RNN)".
Leading international experts will present some of the latest research in the field of cancer genomics.
Welcome to the next Oslo University Hospital (OUH) research seminar entitled "Precision medicine in complex diseases". The seminar is open to all.