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ESOP seminar. Mark Bils is Hazel Fyfe Professor in Economics at the University of Rochester. He will present a paper entitled "Misallocation or Mismeasurement?", co-authored by Peter J. Klenow and Cian Ruane.

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

ESOP seminar. Wouter Dessein is the Eli Ginzberg Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School. He will present a paper entitled "Organizational Capital, Managerial Heterogeneity, and Firm Dynamics", co-authored by Andrea Prat.

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."

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. 

ESOP seminar. Andreas M¨¹ller is an Associate professor at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "A theory of structural change that can fit the data", co-authored by Simon Alder and Timo Boppart.

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).

ESOP seminar. Volker Nocke is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. He will present a paper entitled "Multiproduct-Firm Oligopoly: An Aggregative Games Approach", co-authored by Nicolas Schutz.

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.

ESOP seminar. Anna Tompsett is an Assistant Professor at Stockholm University. She will present a paper entitled "Community Participation in Decision-Making Evidence from an experiment in safe drinking water provision in Bangladesh", co-authored by Malgosia Madajewicz, and Ahasan Habib.

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".

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.

ESOP seminar. Jaroslav Borovi?ka is an Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University. He will present a paper entitled "Identifying ambiguity shocks in business cycle models using survey data", co-authored by Anmol Bhandri and Paul Ho.

Guri Ros¨¦n organises a workshop that aims to analyse how the processes of parliamentarisation and politicization affect the EU's external relations. 

ESOP seminar. Rohini Pande is the Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She will present a paper entitled "E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India", co-authored by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Clement Imbert, and Santhosh Mathew.

ESOP seminar. Manudeep Bhuller is an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "Incarceration, recidivism and employment".

¨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.