Previous events - Page 20
Cand.med. Stian E. Sven?y at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Hip Fracture: Complications and Consequences” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Junyi Yang at Department of Education will be defending the thesis “Nurturing Home Language in Dual Language Learners: A Multi-Method Study on Home Literacy and Family Interactions of Chinese Children in Norway” for the degree of PhD.
Join us for a CIMS lecture by historian Andrew Simon from Dartmouth College, USA.
Henning Trüper (IFIKK, UiO/ZfL, Berlin) presents research from his ERC-project "Archipelagic Imperatives: Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800"
M.Sc. Nadia Skauli at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Factors regulating the expression and perivascular localization of Aquaporin-4 and its isoforms” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Corina Mommaerts is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She will be presenting the paper: “Hiring Subsidies for the Disadvantaged: Evidence from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit” (written with Manisha Jain and Jeffrey Weaver).
Cand.med. Helle Herrman at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Deep brain stimulation to the anterior thalamic nuclei in refractory epilepsy. A double-blinded, prospective, randomized study on effect and safety” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Robert Northcott is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London.
Master Birgitte Pranger?d Haanshuus at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation Old Hate in New Media: Understandings of Antisemitism and Boundary-Making in the Norwegian Digital Public Sphere for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Tanja Knaus is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation.
Denes Hnisz, group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, will come to present his research at NCMM. The title of his talk is "Transcriptional condensates in health and disease".
MD Gunnar Wik at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “A life to live” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Ingar Stene at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation What was the Anthropocene? Early Modern Histories of Social, Cultural and Natural Entanglements in Scandinavia and Europe for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Department seminar. Ross T. Milton is an Assistant Professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He will be presenting the paper: "The Volatility Penalty: Income Aggregation and Tax Policy" (written with Corina Mommaerts).
In this talk, Christopher S. Wood (NYU) seeks to locate impressionism within a wider horizon of self-taught or DIY artistic practices
MD Saraswati Dhungana at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Childhood trauma, quality of life and resilience in trauma-related disorders: a study of psychiatric outpatients in Nepal” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Faith Chesire at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Development and evaluation of the Informed Health Choices secondary school intervention for improving critical thinking about health among students in Kenya: Digital education resources for teaching secondary school students critical thinking abouth health claims, evidence and choices” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. in Biotechnology Kristin Hovden Aaen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Next-generation human albumin fusion proteins engineered for enhanced plasma half-life and therapeutic efficacy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master in Advanced Clinical Nursing Kristin Alm-Kruse at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Using the Norwegian Cardiac Arrest Registry for studies of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Assessing data quality, treatment outcomes and healthcare use” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master of Research in Political Economy Sonja Kovacevic at Department of Economics will defend the thesis "Empirical Perspectives on Public Policy and Redistribution" for the PhD degree.
Andriana Domouzi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Spencer Hazel reports on work with the Voice-based Conversational User Interface (CUI or VUI) of the healthcare start-up Ufonia, showing how the recent adoption of Large Language Model (LLM) technology has opened up further opportunities to leverage Conversation Analysis and Applied Linguistics to help train CUIs in recipient design for L2 users
MPH Shreeshti Uchai at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Adiposity measures and pre-frailty/frailty among community-dwelling older adults: The Troms? Study 1994–2016” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Phil. in Economics Lars Thorvaldsen at Department of Economics will defend the thesis "Essays on Firm Tax" for the Ph.D degree.
Master Jenny Gudmundsen at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Learning-by-talking in a video-mediated environment. A conversation analytic study of second language interactions at a digital language café for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).