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ESOP seminar. Jack Mountjoy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He will present a paper entitled "The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education", co-authored by Brent Hickman.
Welcome all to this open lecture with Professor Cybele Raver, New York University.
UiO:Life Science and vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset invite all employees at UiO to breakfast meetings 27 May, 28 May, 29 May and 5 June.
Solid research is the basis for all new innovations. However, too often data generated in academia turns out to be irreproducible by others and therefor fail in translation to new products and treatments. What does it take to achieve reproducible high quality data?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our lives. However, modern AI shows remarkable, unpredictable and mysterious non-human behaviour when replacing human activity, and this is not at all understood. Professor Anders Hansen from the University of Cambridge gives a talk on the mysteries of AI.
Professor Georgina Born (Oxford, UK) will give a seminar lecture on Time, the Social, and the Material, as they mediate musical genre.
Siv.ing. Doris Tove Kristoffersen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “On 30-day mortality as a quality indicator for hospitals. Evaluation based on a simulation study and Norwegian data.” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
ESOP seminar. Trond Vigtel is a PhD student at UiO and Ragnar Frisch Centre. He will present a paper entitled "Flexible Pensions and Labor Force Withdrawal".
Master Stephan Daus at the Centre for Educational Measurement (CEMO) defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:
Profiling and Researching TIMSS by Introducing a Content Lens on Eighth-grade Science (PARTICLES).
Professor Geoffrey Bowker, UCI-Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.
MD Trygve Thorsen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Liver Transplant in Adults Beyond Established Donor- and Recipient Criteria” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
ESOP workshop.
Master Renate Andersen at the Department of Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:
Mutual Development in Online Collaborative Processes. Three Case Studies of Artifact Co-creation at Different Levels of Participation.
Cand.med. Henrik St?r-Jensen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “New clinical perspectives in post-resuscitation care after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Bj?rn Lichtwarck at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “The development and evaluation of TIME - Targeted Interdisciplinary Model for Treatment and Evaluation of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms. An effectiveness-implementation cluster randomised hybrid trial in nursing homes” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Nathalia Zak at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “A longitudinal investigation of cortical plasticity and structure in bipolar disorder type II” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
ESOP seminar. Debraj Ray is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He will present a paper entitled "Games of love and hate", co-authored by Rajiv Vohra.
Workshop during the GLOW conference: Generative Linguistics beyond Language: Shared Modules for Rhythm, Narration and Emotion across Domains.
M.Sc. Mette T?ien at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “An exploration of how long-term preventive home visits affect older persons’ health and possibility for a good life in their own homes: Users’ and service-providers’ perspectives” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Eystein Hellstr?m Hoddevik at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Deciphering molecular interactions of AQP4 at the gliovascular interface in brain” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Zoltan Barth at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Microvascular Remodelling and Autonomic Dysregulation in Juvenile Dermatomyositis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.san. Kari Peersen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Cardiac rehabilitation, physical activity and risk factor control after coronary events: Methodological and clinical aspects” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Phil. Cynthia Khamala Wangamati at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Sexual violence against minors in Western Kenya: Community perceptions and institutional responses” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD. Andrea Solnes Miltenburg at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Quality of Maternity Care in Rural Tanzania: Understanding Local Realities and Identification of Opportunities for Improvement” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Nina Ommundsen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Geriatric assessment with intervention and postoperative complications in frail older patients with colorectal cancer” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).