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The Philosophical Seminar With Wolfgang Mann
Actor and director Tarjei Sandvik Moe will talk about his recent film about the making of a performance of Ibsen's debut play Catiline (1850).
Department seminar. Lukas Delgado-Prieto is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Eivind Moe Hammersmark is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, UiO. They will hold a presentation on "AI and the Economics Department."
Cand.med. Nina Faksv?g Caspersen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Exploring Lung Health in Metabolic Disease - the Impact of Obesity on Lung Function, Respiratory Symptoms and Diagnostic Precision in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Stine Rognstad at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Application of serum drug measurement for antihypertensive drugs in patients with uncontrolled hypertension – method development and pharmacokinetic variability” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).The defence will be conducted in Norwegian.
This seminar explores?digital disconnection and wellbeing: motivations, effects, and expressions.
Master José Gerardo Belém Teles Roque dos Reis at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Identifying microenvironmental factors required for tumour growth” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Ingrid Marie Hardang at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Iron deficiency biomarkers and hepcidin isoforms in COPD” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Thuy Mi Tran Nguyen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Long-Term Outcomes and Temporal Trends In Primary Prevention ICD Selection in Non-Ischemic Dilated and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Mary Joanne Vollmer-Sandholm at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Safeguarding Vulnerable Children: Understanding Risk Factors and Healthcare Providers' Management and Reporting of Child Maltreatment in Norway” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Marianne Fyhn, from the Department of Bioscience at UiO will be presenting her work: "Watching neurons at play during learning and memory processing".
MSc. in Economics Maren Holthe Hedne at Department of Economics will defend her thesis "Firms in a (green) transition: The effect on workers and the role of technology" for the PhD degree.
Cand.med. Nora Berz Slap? at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Relationship Between Function and Structure in the Visual and Auditory Cortices in Psychotic Disorders” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Kim Lindland at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Preclinical Development of 212Pb Antibody Therapeutics for Cavitary Cancers” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Jovana Bisevac at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The limbal stem- and lens epithelial cell involvement in anterior segment diseases and treatment” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Svend Vinje at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Scoliosis in children with cerebral palsy - A study on scoliosis development, disease progression, surgical treatment outcomes and health-related quality of life” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Kristin Elisabeth Wickstr?m at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Supervised and unsupervised modeling on routine clinical and laboratory variables for diagnosis, prognosis and subgrouping of infectious diseases” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Arun Prakash Singh presents the HindiBabyNet project.
Master of Philosophy in Peace and Conflict Studies Sverke Runde Saxegaard will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science:
Why Conflicts Recur
Master Jacopo Berneri at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation?Structured Properties and Propositions: Foundations and Applications for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Christopher Sadorge at Department of Education will be defending the thesis "Health professionals as co-designers of patient information systems: A study of collaborative knowledge work and novel demands to expertise" for the degree of PhD.
Master Henrik Gr?trud at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation An Unexpected Firewall: Explaining the Limited Spillover of Jihadist Terrorism in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)
A talk by Eiko Saeki, sociologist at Hosei University in Tokyo.?
Department seminar. Farid Toubal is Professor of Economics LEDa, University of Paris Dauphine – PSL. He will present a paper "Chinese Industrial Policy and International Spillovers: Evidence from 60,000 Chinese Policy Documents” (with Paul-Emile Bernard and Vincent V.W.D Brussee).