Tidligere arrangementer - Side 94

Marit Sandstad, Postodoctoral fellow NORDITA

ESOP invites to a public lecture with professor Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University. Sachs is a leading scholar in sustainable development and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

By Fabienne Krauer from Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland

Timo Koski (Dept. of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) will give a seminar in the lunch area, 8th floor Niels Henrik Abels hus at 14:15.

ESOP seminar. Geoffrey Heal is the Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University. He will present a paper entitled "Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations", written jointly with Jisung Park. 

Jack Carlyle, Postdoc , ITA

A Scandinavian Gathering Around Remarkable Discrete Mathematics

Abstract: The talk will be on positive linear maps of the n x n matrices into itself, a topic which has become quite popular in quantum information theory.  The maps closest to physics are the completely positive ones. I?ll discuss an approximation by a completely positive map to a positive map via the trace , called the ¡°structural physical approximation¡±, the SPA of the map. Much of the talk will circle around a counter example  to a conjecture on the SPA.

Sofia Tirabassi (UiB), gives the Seminar in Algebra and Algebraic Geometry:

Title: Characterization of product of theta divisors

Abstract: This is a joint work with Z. Jiang and M. Lahoz. We give a new cohomological characterization of product of theta divisors in principally polarized abelian varieties and we completely classify n-varieities with of maximal albanese dimension and with irregularity 2n-1 and euler characteristic 1, extending lower dimensional results of Hacon--Pardini. I will do my best to keep the first hour enjoyable and entertaining also for graduate students with background in algebraic geometry (and related areas).

Anders Holmberg (Statistics Norway, SSB) will give a seminar in the lunch area, 8th floor Niels Henrik Abels hus at 14:15.

ESOP seminar. Toke Aidt is a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He will present a paper entitled "The social dynamics of riots: Evidence from the Captain Swing Riots 1830-31".

By Martijn van de Pol & Callum Lawson

Karl Ove Moene, Professor - Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance

Abstract: In the classification program for C*-algebras some of the usual assumptions put on the algebras are that they are simple or have at most have finitely many ideals. We often also want algebras that have real rank 0. In this talk we will discuss how to classify certain graph algebras with uncountably many ideals and without real rank 0. There will be examples and applications. Joint work with S. Eilers, G. Restorff, and E. Ruiz

Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Post Doc, Station Biologique,  Roscoff, France

ESOP seminar. Vincent Somville is a senior researcher at the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI). He will present a paper entitled "Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India", written jointly with Lore Vandewalle.

By Mike Benton (Note the time and venue!)

Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor - Department of Psychology

J?rgen Vold Rennemo (Oxford) gives the Seminar in Algebra and Algebraic Geometry:

K3 surfaces seminar: The moduli spaces of polarized K3 surfaces

Abstract: There are many interesting examples of groups acting on trees, arising in various fields (e.g. combinatorial group theory, number theory, geometry). When a group acts on a tree, it necessarily also acts on the boundary of the tree, a (totally disconnected) compact Hausdorff space.  The C*-algebras obtained from the crossed product construction include many fundamental examples.  I will describe methods for analyzing such crossed products, developed in joint work with Nathan Brownlowe, Alex Mundey, David Pask and Anne Thomas.

Manuela Zucknick (Dept. of Biostatistics, UiO) will give a seminar in the lunch area, 8th floor Niels Henrik Abels hus at 14:15.

ESOP seminar. Paolo Piacquadio is Assistant Professor of Economics at UiO. He will present the paper "A Fairness Justification of Utilitarianism".

Aimee A. Norton, Stanford University

Ricardo Gafeira (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)