Week 34 - University of Bergen

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Week 34, 2014
Head of department has a few thoughts for you!
Unfortunately, the weather in Bergen as it has returned to its
usual. Thus we have the joy of noticing that the department
activities are also back to their usual pace. Fadderuke and semester start are far behind us, and the usual lectures are again
in full swing.
Next Thursday there will be an interesting lecture in the Horizon series - Cooperation in the Climate Change Game. I hope
many of you have the chance to join this lecture.
Otherwise, I would like to encourage students and employees
to send their contributions to the Photo of the Week section.
This is a nice opportunity to get a glimpse of the activities taking place at our department which otherwise you would perhaps never stumble across. This week’s contribution covers
categories such as physics, biology, engineering and the art of
picture taking in a groundbreaking manner, but contributions
covering fewer categories will also be appreciated.
Have a great weekend,
Øyvind
Photo of the Week:
Microscopic image of Haematococcus pluvialis, a green algae which lives
in fresh water. The algae in the picture are colour coded for fluorescence life time. The photo was sold at the Alversund gallery, a curious proof that one has managed to produce research and art simultaneously. The picture
was taken by Arne Skodvin Kristoffersen.
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Invitation to "HES at the Lab” in the fall 2014
The Health, Environment, Safety (HES) section of the Staff and Organization Department and Property Department
of University of Bergen (UoB) invite the employees to a programme entitled HES at the lab. The prioritized audiences for this programme are all personnel working in laboratories. The newly employed are particularly encouraged to participate in these courses. Some of the courses are also of interest to the PhD and Master students. The
programme consists of eight half or whole day courses, and application deadline is September 10 th . Read more
here if this sounds interesting to you (Norwegian only).
Announcement of project funds for higher education
collaboration with North America 2014
SIU has now announced project funds for Norwegian institutions of higher education which wish to increase collaboration with institutions in the USA and Canada. These project funds are a measure proposed by the Norwegian
Ministry of Science as a strategy for higher educational collaboration with North America (2012-2015) and shall
contribute to an increased number of institutional partnerships, increased educational collaboration and increased
student mobility between Norway and North America. The emphasis in the announcement is placed on collaboration with the work market. An important requirement is that all applications should include an element of cooperation with the work market. Application deadlines are 16th and 26th of September (Norwegian only).
Announcement of scholarships for Erasmus, Organizing Mobility (OM) + employee mobility 2014/2015
The University of Bergen has received mobility funds via the Erasmus programme. The programme includes scholarships for the employees (employee exchange), in addition to student scholarships. Employee exchange covers all
types of studies, including technical, administrative and academic employees. In addition, one can apply for the
Organizing Mobility-funds in order to cover the costs of promoting student mobility in Erasmus programme. Application deadline for employee exchange funds is September 15th, while applications for the OM-funds are being
processed continuously.
PhD - Trial Lecture
Siv.ing. Simen Heldevik will hold the following PhD trial lecture:
Sound quality and recording media for music – what is the difference between LP, CD and MP3?
Time: Thursday, August 28th, 2014, at 13:15
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Current Welfare Offers from the UoB
Dear employees,
Rector Dag Rune Olsen and acting University Director
Kjell Bernstrøm invite to a festive theatre performance
"HELLEMYRSFOLKET" at Den Nationale Scene, on Thursday, September 18th , at 19:00. From 19:00 - 19:30 there
will be a welcoming speech by the head of the theatre
and our rector. Gunnar Staalesen tells us a bit about
the evening’s theatre piece. The piece shown is written
by Amalie Skram – a musical, dramatized by Gunnar
Staalesen and with music composed by Julian Berntzen.
2 tickets each. The drawing out of tickets will occur after
the application deadline for participating in this theatre
lottery, August 29th . Right after the drawing out of tickets, you will be informed by an e-mail whether you won
the tickets or not.
New application period for cabins at Ustaoset late fall
2014:
It is now open for a new round of electronic applications
for renting U-heimen, Ottesheimen and Butten cabins at
Ustaoset for the period between October 12th 2014 January 4th 2015. You should use UoB’s electronic system for renting out cabins by logging in with your UoB
user name and password. If it is your first time application for renting the cabins, you need to submit also
some personal information, eg. Billing address. All applications have to be registered in the electronic system
for renting out cabins in order to join the lottery for cabin renting. Application form and information about the
cabins: http://link.uib.no/2qeff
Log in with your UoB user name and password.
In order to participate, sign up here:
https://skjema.app.uib.no/teater
Best regards,
Dag Rune Olsen and Kjell Bernstrøm
Application deadline is September 15th , drawing out the
names of the winners takes place on September 16th
2014.
Best regards,
Property Department
An assemblage of the most gifted minds in
the world were all posed the following question: “What is 2 + 2 ?” The engineer whips
out his calculator, taps away at it for a while
and finally announces “3.99″. The physicist
consults his technical references, sets up the
problem on his computer, and announces “it
lies between 3.98 and 4.02″. The mathematician cogitates for a while, oblivious to the
rest of the world, then announces: “I don’t
know what the answer is, but I can prove an
answer exists!”. The philosopher strokes his
chin for several days, finally asking: “But
what do you mean by 2 + 2?” Finally the accountant closes all the doors and windows,
looks around carefully then asks “What do
you want the answer to be?”
H-bar
H-bar is open every Friday
from 19.00 - 01.00.
On Tuesdays, every evennumbered week, there are organized pub-lectures at H-bar.
More info at H-bar’s facebook page.
H-bar is run by IFT’s Fagutvalget, and is primarily
aimed at department’s students – but employees
are also welcome!
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Postdoctor of the Week
Name: José Carlos Reyes Guerrero
Supervisors: Lars Egil Helseth (UiB) and Tomasz Ciamulski (WiSub AS)
You have probably spotted him walking down the corridors of the Physics
department, always with a boyish smile and glimmer in his eyes, always
looking for a pleasant exchange of words. "Warrior King" José Carlos enjoys his days in Norway.
José Carlos was born in the province of Córdoba and grew up in a small
and charming town called Aguilar de la Frontera in the south part of
Spain. Upon finishing high-school in his hometown, he completed a master’s degree in telecommunications and electronics in the city of Seville.
He took his PhD at the University of Cádiz, where he focused on wireless
signal propagation modelling and communications. In March 2014 he
moved to Bergen, in order to work as a PostDoc researcher at IFT. His
research project is on communication technology underwater, primarily
with focus on electromagnetic propagation and wireless communication
subsea at microwave frequencies. His research position is partly financed
by UoB, and partly by WiSub AS, a young Bergen-based company conducting an R&D project entitled “microwavebased communication for high performance wet-mate subsea connectors”. The project is supported by Research
Council of Norway, as part of Petromaks2.
While José Carlos was doing his PhD, he got the chance to go on research stays to, among others, the University of
Santiago in Chile, the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and the NTNU in Trondheim. During those periods, he developed one new social passion, which is travelling and meeting locals all over the world. Nowadays, he likes to hang
out with Norwegians, although he claims that it is not easy to get to know them in the beginning: - it requires time
and patience, but when a Norwegian becomes
your friend, he/she will definitely be a great and
honest friend of you. It works very different in
Spain, I really love the Norwegian way.
José Carlos loves the working environment at UoB,
and he loves Bergen both as a city and a sociocultural meeting point. In his free time, he is very
much outdoors with new friends and acquaintances; he walks up the hills and forests, fishes, swims,
jogs, cycles, and plays football. Sometimes, he
takes the opportunity to discover the fjords and
mountains outside Bergen region, and he is also
taking classes in Norwegian language. This fall he
is learning to dance salsa, as well as cross-country
skiing. Now he is having so much fun here in Norway that he would very much like to stay longer.
May 2014, Temperature: 38 degrees; at the main door at one of the
José Carlos has two younger brothers. The youngmost popular events in Córdoba: “La Feria de Córdoba!”
est of them, Francisco, just finished his degree in
aeronautical engineering in Madrid, and the other one, Leonardo, lives in Manchester and works as a Mathematics
teacher at a high-school. His parents still live in his hometown Aguilar de la Frontera, in the province of Córdoba, in
the autonomous region of Andalucía in southern Spain. Andalucía comes from the Arabic name Al-Andalus, which
means the land of the vandals. The Vandal King Geiserik is best known for plundering Rome in 455 a.d, and the
Vandals greatly contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. Guerrero also means ”warrior”, while Reyes may
mean “kings” (plural) or “royal”. Carrying this in mind, you can ask him if there’s a deeper meaning behind his parents’ choice on his name the next time you encounter him walking down the corridor at the Department.
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Publications:
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Buanes, T.; Dale, O.; Eigen, G.; Kastanas, A.; Liebig, W.; Lipniacka, A.; Rosendahl, P. L.;
Sandaker, H.; Sjursen, T. B.; Stugu, B.; Ugland, M.; et al.: Search for dark matter in
events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at root s=8
TeV with the ATLAS detector PHYSICAL REVIEW D Volume: 90 Issue: 1
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Altinpinar, S.; Djuvsland, O.; Fehlker, D.; Haaland, O.; Huang, M.; Lien, J.; Loenne, P. I.;
Nystran, J.; Rehman, A.; Rohrich, D.; Skjerdal, K.; Ullaland, K.; Wagner, B.; Yang, S.; et
al.: Centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of J/Psi suppression in
Pb-Pb collisions at root(NN)-N-S=2.76TeV PHYSICS LETTERS B Volume: 734 Pages: 314327
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Buanes, T.; Dale, O.; Eigen, G.; Kastanas, A.; Liebig, W.; Lipniacka, A.; Rosendahl, P. L.;
Sandaker, H.; Sjursen, T. B.; Stugu, B.; Ugland, M.; et al.: Measurement of the lowmass Drell-Yan differential cross section at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Issue: 6 Article Number: 112
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Oksavik, K.; et al.: Day-night coupling by a localized flow channel visualized by polar
cap patch propagation GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Volume: 41 Issue: 11 Pages:
3701-3709
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Vafaei, M. T.; Kvamme, B.; Chejara, A.; Jemai, K (Jemai, K.: Simulation of Hydrate Dynamics in Reservoirs SPE JOURNAL Volume: 19 Issue: 2 Pages: 215-226
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Brattekas, B.; Haugen, A.; Graue, A.; et al.: Gel Dehydration by Spontaneous Imbibition
of Brine From Aged Polymer Gel SPE JOURNAL Volume: 19 Issue: 1 Pages: 122-134
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