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Jason Brennan, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Term Associate Professor at Georgetown University, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series (in cooperation with Department of Political Science, UiO). He specializes in politics, philosophy, and economics.
The seminar is open for everyone!
IOB hosts a mini-seminar on molecular changes in aging with two invited speakers from the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen.
Odd O. Aalen's contributions in fundamental concepts, methods, theories and instruments to modern statistical science during his long career are highly valued. He has been a key person in establishing biostatistics as a strong research field in Norway. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, colleagues, friends, collaborators, supporters and admirers wish to celebrate Odd with a symposium in his honour. The symposium will take place on the 11th and 12th of October, 2017, at the University of Oslo.
The talks will cover current topics in survival analysis, causal inference and infectious disease modelling.
Welcome to the next Oslo University Hospital (OUH) Research Seminar: "Individualised Cancer Treatment"
Michail Sitkovsky, Professor and Director of the New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute at the Northeastern University College of Science, Boston, USA, will give a guest lecture titled, 'Anti-Hypoxia/HIF-1alpha and anti-A2A-Adenosinergic Co-adjuvants to enable the rejection of the most therapy-resistant tumors'
Paula Linnea B?ckdén at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law will be defending the thesis The Contract of Carriage - multimodal transports and unimodal regulations for the degree of Ph.D.
Algae can be used to make foods, medicines and energy. What role can researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and investors play in bringing ideas to the market?
Dr. Christopher Yau, Reader in Computational Biology based in the Centre for Computational Biology at the University of Birmingham will give a lecture titled, "Probabilistic modelling approach for pseudotime estimation in single cells and populations."
Professor Banu Subramaniam is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Subramaniam is a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Subramaniam won the 2016 Ludwik Fleck Prize for the book “Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity".
The lecture is open for everyone!
Cand.polit. Inga Staal Jenset defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title:
Practice-Based Teacher Education Coursework: An Examination of the Extent and Characteristics of How Teacher Education Coursework Is Grounded in Practice Across Six Teacher Education Programs in Finland, Norway and California, US.
Cand.polit. Hilde Christine Hofslundsengen defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title:
The meaning of children's invented writing in preschool. A quasi-experimental intervention study.
Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells – iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells – iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
'Exploring and exploiting the constraints of local signaling', by Professor John D. Scott
Professor and Director Sylvia Richardson will receive the Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo. She will hold an open Lecture on A personal view of statistics as a tool for discovery in the health Sciences. Welcome!
Morten Schak Nielsen, of Copenhagen University, will give a lecture titled, 'Connexin 43 gap junctions at the nexus of cardiac activation'.
Tor Egil F?rland, Professor of History at the Department of Archaeology, conservation and history, University of Oslo, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The Lecture is open for everyone!
Dr. Roderic Guigò, coordinating the Bioinformatics and Genomics program of the Centre de Regualció Genòmica in Barcelona will present a lecture on his current research.
Cand.philol. Agnete Andersen Bueie defendsh er doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title:"These types of comments are helpful" - Pupils' understanding and use of teacher comments in Norwegian.
Master Solveig Roth defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title: Educational trajectories in Cultural worlds: An ethnographic study of multiethnic girls across different levels of schooling.
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.