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Master of Laws Stian ?by Johansen at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law will be defending the thesis; The Human Rights Accountability Mechanisms of International Organizations. A Framework and Three Case Studies for the degree of Ph.D.

Jeremy Greene, Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The seminar is open for everyone!

Cand.philol. Ingvill Krogstad Svanes defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title: Teachers' instructional practices during seatwork in Norwegian language arts lessons

Noah Smith is an economist and blogger at Bloomberg View. His blog, under the name ¡°Noahpinion¡± is one of the most widely read blogs on the scholarly discipline of economics in the world, and he has become something close to a blog superstar in economics. Smith has a Phd in economics from the University of Michigan, and was an assistant professor of Finance at Stony Brook University, New York. 

Mag.art. Vidar Gr?tta defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Title:

The transformation of humanities education. The case of Norway 1960 - 2000 in a systems-theoretical perspective.

It is 50 years since the first scientific articles about the lack of LCAT was published. The symposium will discuss the importance of what lecitihin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) means for the transport of cholesterol in the organism, and it will take place at the hospital where the hereditary disease LCAT deficiency was first discovered.

The meeting is open to all interested, but registration is needed

The foremost experts in the field of personalized medicine will come together with the Nordic hospital directors and medical faculty deans to explore issues such as data sharing, privacy, innovation, stakeholder engagement, and cross-border studies from an interdisciplinary perspective.

PhD Per Hetland defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Dr.Philos.

Friday 12 May 2017 at 10.15 o'clock, Lecture Hall 2, Helga Engs Building, Blindern

Title of dissertation:

Rethinking the Social Contract between Science and Society: Steps to an Ecology of Science Communication.

Ph.D. Per Hetland's disputation lasts for two days with trial lectures over self-elected and prescribed topic on Thursday 11 May at 12.15 - 15.00 and disputation on Friday 12 May at 10.15.  Place: Auditorium 2, Helga Engs Building, Blindern

Second in the Sven Furberg Seminar Series: Dr. Robin Andersson, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will present the lecture, "Characterisation of regulatory activities and active chromatin architectures from transcription initiation events."

Cand.theol. Ole Jakob L?land will defend his doctoral dissertation: "Pauline Refigurations. A Study in the Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Jacob Taubes and Slavoj ?i?ek" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.

John Warner, Avalon Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of American Studies and of History, Yale School of Medicine at Yale University, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium. The lecture is open for everyone. 

Wendy Kline, Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine at Purdue University, is visiting the Science Stuides Colloquium Series. The Seminar is open for everyone!

  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1998. She is the author of several articles and two books: Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women¡¯s Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001).

Professor Steve Bova is a Professor and Group Leader at the Prostate Cancer Research Center, Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere University Hospital in Finland.

He will give a talk titled, 'Leveraging the evolutionary history of metastatic prostate cancer'.

Jaime Castro-Mondrag¨°n is a PhD student in Bioinformatics. The title of his talk is, 'Identification of Transcription Factors related to mammalian promoters with distal functions'.

Alan Love is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. His research focuses on conceptual issues in biology.

Cand.polit. Jan Erik Dahl defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Digital annotation: An empirical and conceptual study of an emerging medium for communication and learning.

Dr. Harald Binder, Professor, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, will present the lecture: 

"Two uses of stagewise regression: from landmarking in cancer patients to deep learning for SNPs".

¨C Program 17th February 2017

For researchers at UiO and the surroundings that will be impacted by the planned life science building at UiO.

¨C Program 16th February 2017

This is the main conference day with perspectives from academia, businesses and politics. There is a reception in the Oslo City Hall in the evening.

 Eva Krick is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The seminar is open for everyone. 

Krick is guest researcher at ARENA from April 2015 to March 2017. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin.

¨C  Program 15th February 2017 ¨C Partnership4Life

This day is meant for businesses that want to partner up with academia and vice versa.

Welcome to the annual Darwin Day celebration at the university of Oslo! This open event is for everybody interested in science and history. All are welcome! Speakers: Douglas J. Futuyma, Emma Goldberg, Andrew Hendry, and Yngvild Vindenes.

Cand.polit. Fred Carlo Andersen defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

School leadership and linguistic and cultural diversity. Leadership for inclusive education in multicultural upper secondary schools.