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In this lecture, Dr. Chin-yi Lee will discuss the economic relations between mainland China and Taiwan.

The Departmental Seminar Series features Rahul Ranjan, Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice at the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh

C*-algebra seminar by Emilie Elki?r.

Anastasia Maravela (IFIKK)

We consider several situations where drops can be captured by fibrous materials, from sprays on textiles (where the droplets are much larger than the typical fiber size) to meshes placed in a flow of fog (where the droplets are smaller than the typical fiber size). This last system, often encountered in aerosol filtration, exhibits a wealth of phenomena coupling capillarity and aerodynamics. In particular, we characterize experimentally and theoretically the deposition of the mist droplets on the fibre and the flow through and around the porous mesh, that both strongly depend on the mesh porosity and fine structure (i.e. the arrangements of the fibers). We further consider the dynamics of large drops sitting on fibers when exposed to a cross-flow, in particular their interactions with their unsteady wakes.

A liquid droplet placed on a rigid, planar surface has a captivating simplicity: its surface is a spherical cap and remains in equilibrium. In this talk, I¡¯ll show that the addition of a deformable boundary leads to a range of new phenomena: evaporating droplets with an elastic skin may develop flat tops, but even without a complex rheology, reaching equilibrium can happen slowly, with the droplet¡¯s contact ageing. I will discuss two specific examples, presenting a combination of theory and experiment for each.

Speaker: Inga Haaland

Department seminar. Ruslana Datsenko is a a PhD student at the University of Oslo.

Philosophical Seminar with Andreas Dorschel

Arkeologisk fredagsseminar med Marie Dave Amundsen, tilknyttet  Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie (IAKH), samt Kulturhistorisk museum (KHM). 

Hanna Andresen presents parts of her PhD project and discusses the significance of investigating bilingual children's conceptualization.

Legitimacy, espionage, and nation branding in the Apple v. Samsung ¡°smartphone patent wars¡±. Lecture by Irina Lyan. 

The theory of flexible plates can be applied to models of floating solar panels. When wet, the structure vibrates with lower frequencies than when in vacuo.  Our study is concerned with thin rectangular porous plates with free edge conditions in three dimensions exposed to incoming waves. We develop a complete hydrodynamical theory of the wave-flexible-structure interaction including the coupled radiation-diffraction problem. The formulation leads to a set of integral equations for the potentials on the wetted side of the plate. The Green function in three dimensions is implemented along the floating geometry. We use the beam method for the displacement of the rectangular free plate. A variational equation is minimized for the solutions of the interaction problem

Jane Luu, Adjunct Professor at Centre for Planetary Habitability (PHAB) and Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

Note the non-standard start time!

 
Abstract: We consider mirror pairs of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces X and X¡¯ in toric varieties associated to dual reflexive polytopes. We will give a proof through tropical geometry that the Hodge numbers of X and X¡¯ are mirror symmetric. The proof goes by considering tropical homology, and works over the ring of integer numbers. In particular, we can use our spectral sequence with Kris Shaw to explore the connections between the topology of the real part of X and cohomological operations on X¡¯.

This is based on joint work with Diego Matessi. 

The matter of a pith helmet out of place: Reflections on an (anti-)colonial mission portrait.

Department seminar. Eduardo Perez-Richet is an Associate Professor at Sciences Po.

In this lecture, Dr. Hung-yi Chien will discuss China-Taiwan relations in a colonial perspective.

Kristin Oxley is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). In the seminar, she will present the draft of her PhD thesis.

C*-algebra seminar by Sergey Neshveyev.

Emily J. Lordi (Vanderbilt) will give a lecture about the life and work of Whitney Houston in the "Word, Sound and Power" Lecture 2024.

Gregory Fewster (MF)

Structural equation models are simultaneous equation regression models, whose variables are latent, and measured via a confirmatory factor model (that is, with measurement error and repeated measurements). When the functional form of the simultaneous equation system is unknown, it has previously been observed in simulations that factor scores inputted into non-parametric regression methods approximate the true functional form. Factor scores estimate the latent variables (per person), and several types exist. We provide a theoretical (though population-based) analysis of this procedure, and provide assumptions under which it is theoretically justified in using Bartlett factor scores, which are simple linear transformations of the data. In simulations, we compare this suggestion to an already available though understudied non-linear and computationally heavy procedure, and observe that the simple Bartlett approach appears to work better.

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