UiO-US: Research projects

The SolarALMA project was funded with a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) and ran from September 2016 to August 2021. The aim was to utilise the first observations of the Sun with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which promises significant steps towards understanding the outer layers of the solar atmosphere with possible contributions to solving the coronal heating problem.

The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) on La Palma is the world leading facility for high resolution observations of the Sun.

Mapping the universe from the Milky Way to the Big Bang

A cross-national study of how the use of tools is situated, experienced, and legitimated in Norwegian and American university programs.

All elements in the Universe, except for the lightest ones, are made in stars.

But the heavier elements, like gold, lead and uranium, are not. How are they made?

Modern science usually provides both copious amounts of data and complicated models for the part of reality it is trying to describe. Often there is even so much data, and the models so complicated, that it becomes difficult to make full use of the data in deciding which models best describe the world around us, and finding their properties. The main goal of the GAMBIT project is to develop a software tool to help physicists do just that.

SIGNAL is a project on the legal aspects of internet security hosted at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law ( NRCCL). SIGNAL examines changes in legal frameworks for internet security by focusing on established, new and proposed legal security requirements ¨C at both international and national levels ¨C directed at critical internet infrastructure (CII) and cloud computing.

Risk of colorectal cancer in inflammatory bowel disease

¨C a multinational cohort study.

This project studies whether and how particular political institutional characteristics ¨C for example concerning the ruling party, election systems, and the protection of civil liberties ¨C affect economic policies and outcomes under different conditions. More specifically, the project analyzes how different institutions, both in democracies and dictatorships, impact on economic growth and redistributive policies, thereby addressing issues of immense importance for the welfare of citizens across the world.

The project is aimed at optimizing resource-use within preventive health services for HPV-related disease, while simultaneously ensuring that these strategies continue to maximize health by reducing morbidity and mortality.

The EPoS-project is addressing one of the most important challenges in the prevention of colorectal cancer; the surveillance of patients that have had colorectal polyps removed (polypectomy). The study is conducted by leading researchers within gastroenterology, epidemiology and biostatistics from Europe and the United States.

The ClimFun project, funded by the Research Council of Norway, will increase our understanding about how fungi respond to global change.

Green Growth based on Marine Resources: Ecological and Socio-Economic Constraints

Website: aquagenome.uio.no

Instabilities and turbulence in the polar ionosphere studied with the integrated, multi-scale 4D (3D in space and time) experimental, theoretical, and modelling approach.

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The ¡°Linking Instruction and Student Achievement¡± ¨C LISA study - investigates the impact of different models of classroom instruction on students¡¯ learning by comparing student achievement data with classroom data

The ambition of this project is to set the scene for a number of new research directions based on FEEC by giving ground-breaking contributions to its foundation. The aim is also to use FEEC as a tool, or a guideline, to extend the foundation of numerical PDE to a variety of problems for which this foundation does not exist.

Head of Project: professor Liv Duesund

This project aims to bring forth knowledge that will enrich our understanding of problems and challenges related to disruptive behavior in schools. It also aims to strengthen the link between theory and practice in teacher education in Norway and USA.

The Research Council of Norway has funded the project ¡° Vortex flows and magnetic tornadoes on the Sun and cool stars¡± for the period 2013 to 2017. The aim of the VORTEX project is the comprehensive study of vortex flows and magnetic tornadoes on the Sun and other stars.