Tidligere arrangementer

Kodwo Eshun (Goldsmiths, University of London) will give a guest lecture at St. John¡¯s, University of Oxford, 2. April 2025. The lecture will take place in the Auditorium at St. John¡¯s College at 5.30 pm. Musicologist Adam Harper (University of Oxford) will introduce the lecture. The lecture will be open. All are welcome to attend!

In this lecture, Dr. Lara Momesso will discuss the contradictions and tensions that have emerged in Taiwan between the ambitions to adhere to international norms and the challenges that this would pose to the country. 

Professor in the Department of Psychology and Health Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Janeen Loehr, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Ungdom scroller p? TikTok og sluker internasjonale str?mmeserier. Hvordan skal norske medier klare seg i konkurransen om de unges oppmerksomhet?

Department seminar. Jon de Quidt is a Reader at Queen Mary University of London. He will present the paper "How Much Should We Trust Observational Estimates?" (written with David Rhys Bernard, Gharad Bryan, Sylvain Chab¨¦-Ferret, Jasmin Clair Fliegner and Roland Rathelot).

Arkeologisk fredagsseminar med Anette Sand-Eriksen fra Kulturhistorisk museum, som vil presentere: "Skogsb?nder p? ?stlandet: Ny innsikt mot en dypere forst?else av de nordiske bronsealdrer".

Velkommen!

Language Trajectory Drawings as a Biographic Method in Researching S¨¢mi Language Reclamation in Families: Reflections and Experiences by Anette Briksdal

In recent years there have been numerous studies on floating films of non-Newtonian fluids due to their application to model the stability of floating ice shelves. Sayag & Worster (2019) showed theoretically that expanding cylinders of shear-thinning fluids can become non-axisymmetrical at the advancing fluid edge, driven by their non-Newtonian rheology. This instability carries over to radially spreading, thinning films of the same material when that fluid floats on a deeper bath of less viscous, but denser, Newtonian fluid.

Experimentally validating these theoretical results has, however, been challenging. Initial experimental exploration using Xanthan gum floating on a dense bath of salt solution shows dramatic non-axisymmetrical patterns. These patterns have their origin in interfacial effects, rather than Sayag & Worster's instability, with the expanding film appearing to fracture under extensional stresses at the fluid edge (Ball et al., 2022).

In this talk, I will present a new set of experiments exploring the instability, in which spreading films of aqueous suspensions of Carbopol and Xanthan gum are floated on a bath of more dense perfluorinated oil. The immiscibility between the bath and floating film prevents the failure of the material under tension and allows comparison against theoretical predictions from a shallow film model (Ball & Balmforth, 2021; Ball & Balmforth 2025).

George Cherry, Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, ITA, UiO

Department seminar. Lassi Ahlvik is a Professor in Environmental Economics at the University of Helsinki. He will present the paper "Pigouvian Income Taxation" (written with Matti Liski and Mikael M?kimattila).

M?t forfatterne av boken i paneldebatt om bokens sentrale temaer

The Departmental Seminar Series features Doctor Stuart Strange, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

In this lecture, Professor Bi-yu Chang discusses state policies and interventions in constructing ideas of identity and nationhood in Taiwan's educational system.

The Tien Mai is currently a postdoc at FHI. He has held postdoc positions in statistics at NTNU (Trondheim) and in biostatistics at UiO (OCBE). His research spans statistics and machine learning, with a particular interest in PAC-Bayesian analysis. He holds a PhD in Statistics from CREST-ENSAE-ParisTech/Paris Saclay and University College Dublin.

The African Anthropology seminar series features James Wintrup, senior researcher at the Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI)

Department seminar. Ole-Andreas Elvik N?ss is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Management Science at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He will present the paper "Never-Realized Capital Gains" (written with Lucy Msall, University of Chicago).

Arkeologisk fredagsseminar med Hege Damlien og Guro Fossum fra Kulturhistorisk museum.

PhD candidate Lasse Kr?ger Eliassen at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Unraveling the microbial eukaryotic parasites of copepods: from individual fitness costs to seasonal dynamics' for the degree of PhD.

The talk will focus on the relationship between speech production and perception in early childhood and the role of pacifiers in language development.

Michael Haahr, Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, ITA, UiO