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ESOP seminar. Swati Dhingra is an Assistant Professor at LSE. She will present a paper entitled "Piggy-back exporting, intermediation, and the gains from trade to small farmers in developing economies", co-authored by Silvana Tenreyro.
The Department of Economics and BI (Norwegian Business School), are organizing a workshop on trade, growth and firm dynamics. The workshop is funded by the department's research project GLOBALPROD.
Dr. Roderic Guigò, coordinating the Bioinformatics and Genomics program of the Centre de Regualció Genòmica in Barcelona will present a lecture on his current research.
Cand.philol. Agnete Andersen Bueie defendsh er doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title:"These types of comments are helpful" - Pupils' understanding and use of teacher comments in Norwegian.
Master Solveig Roth defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title: Educational trajectories in Cultural worlds: An ethnographic study of multiethnic girls across different levels of schooling.
GIWeS is organizing a NORFACE WSF (Welfare State Futures) thematic workshop on inequality and welfare states.
Master of Laws Stian ?by Johansen at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law will be defending the thesis; The Human Rights Accountability Mechanisms of International Organizations. A Framework and Three Case Studies for the degree of Ph.D.
Jeremy Greene, Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The seminar is open for everyone!
Cand.philol. Ingvill Krogstad Svanes defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title: Teachers' instructional practices during seatwork in Norwegian language arts lessons
Noah Smith is an economist and blogger at Bloomberg View. His blog, under the name “Noahpinion” is one of the most widely read blogs on the scholarly discipline of economics in the world, and he has become something close to a blog superstar in economics. Smith has a Phd in economics from the University of Michigan, and was an assistant professor of Finance at Stony Brook University, New York.
ESOP seminar. Botond K?szegi is a Professor at the Central European University. He will present a paper entitled "Browsing versus Studying Offers", co-authored by Paul Heidhues, and Johannes Johnen.
Mag.art. Vidar Gr?tta defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:
Title:
The transformation of humanities education. The case of Norway 1960 - 2000 in a systems-theoretical perspective.
ESOP seminar. Erling Barth is a researcher at the Institute for Social Research and professor at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "Union Density, Productivity and Wages", co-authored by Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen.
It is 50 years since the first scientific articles about the lack of LCAT was published. The symposium will discuss the importance of what lecitihin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) means for the transport of cholesterol in the organism, and it will take place at the hospital where the hereditary disease LCAT deficiency was first discovered.
The meeting is open to all interested, but registration is needed
The foremost experts in the field of personalized medicine will come together with the Nordic hospital directors and medical faculty deans to explore issues such as data sharing, privacy, innovation, stakeholder engagement, and cross-border studies from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Unfortunately, this seminar has been cancelled.
ESOP seminar. Mark Bils is Hazel Fyfe Professor in Economics at the University of Rochester. He will present a paper entitled "Misallocation or Mismeasurement?", co-authored by Peter J. Klenow and Cian Ruane.
PhD Per Hetland defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Dr.Philos.
Friday 12 May 2017 at 10.15 o'clock, Lecture Hall 2, Helga Engs Building, Blindern
Title of dissertation:
Rethinking the Social Contract between Science and Society: Steps to an Ecology of Science Communication.
Ph.D. Per Hetland's disputation lasts for two days with trial lectures over self-elected and prescribed topic on Thursday 11 May at 12.15 - 15.00 and disputation on Friday 12 May at 10.15. Place: Auditorium 2, Helga Engs Building, Blindern
ESOP seminar. Wouter Dessein is the Eli Ginzberg Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School. He will present a paper entitled "Organizational Capital, Managerial Heterogeneity, and Firm Dynamics", co-authored by Andrea Prat.
Second in the Sven Furberg Seminar Series: Dr. Robin Andersson, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will present the lecture, "Characterisation of regulatory activities and active chromatin architectures from transcription initiation events."
Dr. Robin Andersson, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will present the lecture Characterisation of regulatory activities and active chromatin architectures from transcription initiation events.
Cand.theol. Ole Jakob L?land will defend his doctoral dissertation: "Pauline Refigurations. A Study in the Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Jacob Taubes and Slavoj ?i?ek" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.
John Warner, Avalon Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of American Studies and of History, Yale School of Medicine at Yale University, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium. The lecture is open for everyone.
ESOP seminar. Andreas Müller is an Associate professor at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "A theory of structural change that can fit the data", co-authored by Simon Alder and Timo Boppart.