Tidligere arrangementer - Side 7
Cassandra Durr is a PhD candidate at the STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training at Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses on non-linear system identification through equation discovery of physical systems, with an emphasis on epidemic modelling. Cassandra holds a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Sciences and postgraduate degrees in Mathematical Statistics, and Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence.
Nordfjordeid Summer School 2026
Jonathan C. Tan, Professor, SEE, Chalmers University; Research Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Virginia.
Professor Anke Lindner is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on the physics of complex fluids, suspensions, active matter, and fluid–structure interactions. Her research combines innovative microfluidic experiments, microfabrication techniques, and particle-tracking methods to uncover how microscopic dynamics govern the macroscopic behavior of flowing materials. Her work has advanced our understanding of phenomena ranging from non-Newtonian fluids and rheology to bacterial suspensions, flexible fibers in flow, and active fluids.
After studying physics in Germany, she earned her PhD from the École Normale Supérieure in 2000, focusing on interfacial instabilities in complex fluids. She subsequently held positions at ESPCI Paris and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, before becoming Professor at Université Paris Cité.
Her achievements have been recognized with numerous distinctions, including an ERC Consolidator Grant, the Maurice Couette Prize of the French Society of Rheology, election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the prestigious CNRS Silver Medal. More recently, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology and serves as President of the European Society of Rheology.
To get more flavor of her research please check out her webpage.
Lectures by Dr. Maëva Gabrielli, from the University of Toulouse, France, and Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich from Uppsala University, Sweden
Erik Rosenberg, Research Associate at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester (UK)
A guest lecture by Lori Talcott, 2026 Fulbright Scholar and guest researcher in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at UiO and at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Department seminar. Miren Azkarate-Askasua is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim. She will present the paper "Home Bias and the Gender Wage Gap."
The Departmental Seminar Series features Dr Sandhya I. Fuchs, Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Bristol
C*-seminar by Ebrahim Samei (University of Saskatchewan).
Sabiha Huq (BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh) will talk about her forthcoming book on Ibsen and blue humanities.
Department seminar. Alberto Ciancio is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Applied Economics at the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow. He will present the paper "Anticipating State Action: Risk Perceptions and Consumption under Immigration Enforcement."
An archaeological seminar at which Julie Lund, Professor in Archaeology at the University of Oslo, will present her latest book.
Jenny Gudmundsen and Hilde Thyness from Språkrådet (The Language Council of Norway) will present their ongoing work on the topic language and inclusion among adult immigrants.
Professor Christopher MacMinn is a Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and leads the Poromechanics Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that brings together engineers, physicists, mathematicians, and earth scientists. His work focuses on the mechanics of fluids and soft materials, particularly how fluids flow through and deform porous materials such as soils, biological tissues, gels, and subsurface rock formations.
Professor MacMinn earned his SB, SM, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked with Ruben Juanes on the fluid mechanics of geological carbon dioxide sequestration. He later held a postdoctoral position at Yale University where he worked with John Wettlaufer and Eric Dufresne, researching the deformation of porous and granular materials.
His research combines mathematical modeling with laboratory experiments to address challenges in energy, environmental science, soft materials, and biomedical engineering. Recent work from his group has advanced understanding of fluid-driven deformation, gas migration in soft materials, carbon storage, and multiphase flow in porous media.
To read more about him please check out his webpage.
Two guest lectures by Dr. Kristel Zilmer and Dr. Kristine Ødeby Haugan from the Museum of Cultural History
The Bernstein–Khovanskii–Kushnirenko (BKK) theorem gives a way to count the non-zero solutions of a system of polynomial equations using geometric objects called Newton polytopes. It can be seen as a refinement of Bézout’s theorem. One particularly nice proof of this result uses ideas from tropical geometry, where complicated algebraic problems can be translated into simpler, combinatorial ones. In this talk, I will explain the BKK theorem and sketch its proof using tropical geometry. I will also describe joint work with Andrés Jaramillo Puentes, where we extend this result to more general base fields, not just algebraically closed ones. This leads to a meaningful way to count solutions in a broader setting, again using tropical methods.
Department seminar. Kilian Rieder is a principal economist at Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Eurosystem). He will present the paper “Central Bank Communication by ??? The Economics of Monetary Policy Leaks.”
By Emeritus Professor Hamish G. Spencer from the Department of Zoology, University of Otago
A talk by Adam Yuet Chau, Professor of the Anthropology of China, University of Cambridge.
Professor of Music at Princeton University, Elizabeth Margulis, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
The historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Research director at CNRS, French National Center for Scientific Research, Paris) will present his research when he visits the TIK Centre for technology, innovation and culture on 1 June.
Department seminar. Bradley Setzler is an Associate Professor, Penn State. He will present the paper "Conduct in U.S. Labor Markets."
Professor Jacques Magnaudet is a Senior Research Scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a leading member of the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), France. His research lies at the forefront of fluid mechanics, with internationally recognized contributions to hydrodynamics, turbulence, multiphase flows, and interfacial phenomena.
Over the course of his career, Prof. Magnaudet has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of bubbles, drops, and particles in complex flows, including their interactions with turbulence, vortices, walls, stratification, and rotating environments. His work combines theoretical analysis, high-fidelity numerical simulations, and close collaborations with experimental researchers.
He is widely known for developing predictive models and computational tools for two-phase and turbulent flows, including the in-house JADIM simulation code used for direct numerical simulations of complex fluid systems.
Prof. Magnaudet’s work has had broad scientific and engineering impact, with applications ranging from nuclear safety, chemical engineering, and aerospace systems to ocean-atmosphere interactions, drag reduction, volcanology, and environmental flows. His recent studies on bubble path instabilities, stratified turbulence, and interfacial dynamics continue to shape modern research in multiphase fluid mechanics.