Events
You will here find previous and upcoming events arranged by MILEN.
Ongoing
As part of the emissions reduction strategy, the government provides support for new vehicle technologies paying attention to electric vehicles and hydrogen technology. The move from conventional combustion engines to electric or hydrogen technology, poses many questions which we will discuss in this seminar. The mini-conference is a collaboration between the MILEN research school and CenSES, CREE and HyNor Lillestrøm.
Upcoming
Thorium, a naturally-occurring radioactive metal, has been hailed as a savior of nuclear power and the solution to the world energy crisis. MILEN and SFFE invite you to a lunch seminar with Sunniva Rose, PhD in Nuclear and Energy Physics. Rose will bust some of the myths about Thorium and nuclear power in general.
Integrated assessment modeling is a type of scientific modeling that is increasingly common in the environmental sciences and environmental policy analysis. Integrated assessment models integrate knowledge from two or more domains into a single framework. Find the course description.
If you are interested in this seminar, please email the MILEN Research School Coordinator
Increased renewable energy production in the EU will mean a more unpredictable and irregular power production system, which puts increased demands for flexibility in the rest of the power system. How does Norway respond to this situation in terms of wind and solar energy production? And what is the role for the CCS industry? This mini-conference which is a collaboration between the MILEN research school and six FMEs, Solar United, NORCOWE, SUCCESS, CREE, CICEP, CenSES will discuss the role of Norway in a renewable Europe.
This mini-conference will address key policy issues in the ongoing UN climate negotiations, with a special focus on the positions of major countries and how coalition building strategies both domestically and in the climate negotiations may impact the new climate agreement.
With a point of departure in a current writing project, this workshop will take students systematically through the most problematic areas of scholarly writing. The focus is on the document level – that is, audience, core argument and structure – rather than the sentence level.
The workshop leader is Lynn P. Nygaard (PRIO).
If you are interested in this workshop, please email the MILEN Research School Coordinator
Previous
Participants will learn about the genre and how to succeed in writing good feature articles. The workshop leader, experienced journalist Ingrid Stolpestad will also provide useful tips on how to proceed to increase the chance of publication of your work.
The purpose of this media training workshop is to encourage, inspire and not least prepare PhD-students to get in touch with and communicate with the media.
The successful introduction and use of solar technology is dependent on keeping close attention to both the social and the technical issues in a coherent manner. This interdisciplinary mini-conference organized in collaboration between MILEN research school, the Solar Transitions project and Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN) seeks to approach solar energy in the North and in the South; How to make solar power supply viable in the long run and how to make the solar power systems facilitate a diversity of uses of electricity for the benefit of society?
What kind of interdisciplinarity is required for research on globalisation to be credible and authoritative, asks professor of anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen. MILEN invites you to a seminar about humanity's biggest crisis and how researchers can contribute to an original and alternative perspective on globalisation.
Agent-based modeling is a tool to understand how the dynamics of social and biological complex systems arise from the characteristics and behaviours of the agents making up these systems. The workshop is organized as an informal mini-conference where we will discuss computational experiments and empirical data into agent based models.
Curious about energy issues? You can satisfy your curiosity at the Energy Day! University of Oslo is inviting all students interested in energy to participate on March 7th in four different sessions and learn more about the dilemmas facing us.
The course introduces students to the method of ethnography used by anthropologists, and to renewable energy technology in a stand-alone, village-size electricity grid setting.
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research approaches have increasingly been recognized as essential for addressing the complexity of environmental problems. However, integrated research does not automatically result just from putting together contributions from different disciplines. This lecture, which is a collaborative effort by Davind N. Barton, NINA and Rolf Vogt, Dept of Chemistry UiO gives an introduction to how such integrated research can be generated, using mainly the Eutropia project and the field of water management as an example.
Hal Wilhite, The Centre for Development and the Environment, UiO will be holding this lecture on Inductive and deductive methodologies. The seminar is part of the research school's interdisciplinary & methodology seminar series.
Benedicte Bull, Associate Professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment, will give this lecture on how to conduct elite interviews. The seminar is part of the research school's interdisciplinary and methodology seminar series.
The purpose of trading greenhouse gas emissions is to allow for emission cuts to take place where the cost per ton of emission reduction is lowest. We will discuss ethical aspects related to implementation of emission trading systems, distribution of costs across sectors and groups, and issues related to buying credits from the Clean Development Mechanism.
Most of the discussions in climate negotiations are on equity issues. The questions in this seminar are how much emissions should we reduce and who should do it? Snorre Kverndokk, The Frisch Centre and CREE will be holding this lecture. The seminar is part of the research school's ethic seminar series.
The lecture will discuss the equity implications of the recent Doha deal (8 December 2012), its history and its future. Christina Voigt, Law UiO will be holding this lecture. The seminar is part of the research school's ethic seminar series.
With a point of departure in a current writing project, this workshop will take students systematically through the most problematic areas of scholarly writing. The focus is on the document level – that is, audience, core argument and structure – rather than the sentence level.
The workshop leader is Lynn P. Nygaard (PRIO).
If you are interested in this workshop, please email the MILEN Research School Coordinator
The MILEN International Conference 2012 is intended to provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research on the transition to low energy and low environmental impact societies. Everyone interested in energy and environmental challenges is encouraged to attend the conference.
Agent-based modeling is a tool to understand how the dynamics of social and biological complex systems arise from the characteristics and behaviours of the agents making up these systems. Students will learn how agent-based modelling can be used as a tool of research in political science, political economy and biology. Find the course description.
If you are interested in this seminar, please email the MILEN Research School Coordinator
The purpose of the workshop is to help you understand how new products make it to market and to set a few of you thinking about starting your own tech-based venture. The day is led by Dr. Jeff Skinner, Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, London Business School.
As a part of the research topic seminar 'From numbers to decisions - statistics and extreme weather' we will hold a three hour workshop on September 13th.
An extreme weather seminar organized together with Department of Geosciences and met.no. The seminar is held in connection with the 2nd Conference on Modelling Hydrology, Climate and Land Surface Processes, which is held on 13th-14th of September 2012.
If you are interested in this seminar, please email the MILEN Research School Coordinator