Tidligere arrangementer - Side 37

Join us for the book launch of Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution. Tine Gade (NUPI) discusses her study of the political history of Tripoli, and how it reflects upon wider national and regional dynamics of Lebanon and the Middle East, in conversation with Brynjar Lia.

Constructing fast solution schemes often involves deciding which errors are acceptable and which approximations can be made for the sake of computational efficiency. Herein, we consider a mixed formulation of Darcy flow in porous media and take the perspective that the physical law of mass conservation is significantly more important than the constitutive relationship, i.e. Darcy's law. From this point of view, we propose an inexact solution technique that nevertheless guarantees local mass conservation. The method is based on first solving the mass balance equation and then computing a solenoidal correction using the curl of a potential field. We extend the method to flows in fractured porous media and present numerical experiments that indicate the efficiency of the scheme.

Azusa Inoue, PhD candidate at Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, Japan.

By Professor Zaw Wai Soe, Myanmar Union Minister for Health and Education.
 

Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg)

Fano manifolds are complex projective manifolds having positive first Chern class. The positivity condition on the first Chern class has far reaching geometric and arithmetic implications. For instance, Fano manifolds are covered by rational curves, and families of Fano manifolds over one dimensional bases always admit holomorphic sections. In recent years, there has been some effort towards defining suitable higher analogues of the Fano condition. Higher Fano manifolds are expected to enjoy stronger versions of several of the nice properties of Fano manifolds.

In this talk, I will discuss higher Fano manifolds which are defined in terms of positivity of higher Chern characters. After a brief survey of what is currently known, I will present recent joint work with Carolina Araujo, Roya Beheshti, Kelly Jabbusch, Svetlana Makarova, Enrica Mazzon and Nivedita Viswanathan, regarding toric higher Fano manifolds. I will explain a strategy towards proving that projective spaces are the only higher Fano manifolds among smooth projective toric varieties.

Department seminar. Lutz Sager is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. He will present the paper: "Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities and House Prices" (written with Gregor Singer).

Ronny Spaans er tilsett som fyrsteamanuensis i nordisk litteratur ved ILN, UiO fr? 1. mars i ?r. 23.3. presenterer han forskninga si for oss. 

This lecture aims to introduce and discuss the important and fruitful connection between social epistemology and critical theory to understand forms of injustice.

This seminar considers the current status of gender equality in Poland, and the effects of what some call the "anti-gender movement". 

Diane Cuny (Universit¨¦ de Tours, France)

In this open lecture, Professor Daniel H. Solomon will cover current clinical controversies in gout, focusing on implications of the disease beyond the joint.

For millennia, origami and kirigami artists have used folds and cuts to create beautiful shapes from a simple sheet of paper. I will describe our recent scientific attempts to catch up with these remarkably imaginative arts phrased as inverse problems in physical geometry that aim to control the shape and rigidity of a thin surface. Using discrete operations that vary the number, size, orientation and coordination of folds and cuts, I will show how to create piecewise isometric kirigami and origami tessellations and control their local and global morphology and mechanical response, mixing experimental, computational and theoretical approaches.

Democratisation is arguably Taiwan¡¯s most significant achievement since 1945. This lecture addresses the impact of cultural democratisation by using Taiwan cinema as a case study.

Department seminar. Edwin Leuven is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Event Studies, Endogenous Fertility Timing and the Child Penalty."

Saeedeh Salimifar talks about presupposition projection:

 

Enriched enumerative geometry is a new area in which we take results in enumerative geometry over the complex numbers and refine them to give results over any base field. The "refinements" in question recover the classical results over algebraically closed fields but may also include arithmetic information about the base field. In this talk, I'll give an overview of a proof of an enriched refinement of the Yau-Zaslow formula for counting rational curves on K3 surfaces. Joint work with Jesse Pajwani.

Join us for a CIMS seminar with Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen from the University of Copenhagen, reflecting upon the cultural and historical trajectories of the Prophet. The conversation will be led by Ragnhild J. Zorgati.

Carlos Jos¨¦ D¨ªaz Baso, Postdoctoral Fellow at Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, University of Oslo.

Kristian Bj?rkdahl holder et innlegg for Forskerseminaret i tekst og retorikk basert p? et p?g?ende prosjekt om forskningskommunikasjon som profesjon.

QOMBINE seminar by Eric Bedos (UiO)

In this lecture, the German philosopher Christian Gr¨¹ny will reflect upon the concept of Performance Art, exploring its possible relevance within contemporary art and music practices.