Annual PhD-seminar

0800-0805 Opening remarks: Jarle Berntsen. 

Chair: Dag Tjøstheim

0805-0820 Geir Drage Berentsen: Local Gaussian correlation and tests of independence

0820-0835 Øystein Haaland:  Estimation of population sizes from close kin

0835-0850 Tore Selland Kleppe: Efficient Importance Sampling

0850-0905 Abul Fahimuddin: 4D Seismic History Matching Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF): Real Field Applications & Challenges  

0905-0915 Coffee break

Chair: Ivar Aavatsmark

0915-0930 Alfatih Ali:  Numerical modelling of organic waste dispersion from a marine fish farm

0930-0945 Shaaban Bakr: An approximate hybrid method for electromagnetic scattering from an underground target: Range of validity and computational complexity

0945-1000 Ferenc Bartha: Rigorous computations and Automatic differentiation in a nutshell

1000-1015 Hilde Kristine Hvidevold:  Design of experiments and in-situ observations to reduce uncertainties in models and optimizing monitoring requirements

1015-1030 Alexander Lundervold: Sage: Open Source Math Software

1030-1040 Coffee break

1040-1055   Morten Nome: Interpolation

1055-1110 Tor Harald Sandve:   Heat and mass transport in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)

1110-1125 Andreas Sandvin:  Multiscale methods for reservoir simulation

1125-1140 Inge Skjælaaen:   Mathematical modelling of microbial induced processes in oil reservoirs

1140-1155     Jan Ole Skogestad: Multiscale Methods for Flow in Porous Media

1155-1215      Lunch break (bring your own lunch)

Chair: Irina Markina

1215-1230 Huiyan Xue:  Volume preserving splitting methods for divergence free polynomial vector fields 

1230-1255 Andrey Kovalenko: Error estimate for the ensemble Kalman filter update step

1255-1310 Mauricio Godoy:  Everyone can park a car (with proof)

1310-1325 Erlend Grong:  Why it only matters what you're rolling on, not what you're rolling in

1325-1340 Henning Lohne:  Combinatorics, geometry and algebra

1340-1350 Coffee break  

1350-1405 Martin Stolz: Homotopies

1405-1420 Torleif Veen: Homotopy groups and Spectral Sequences

1420-1435 Nils Henry Rasmussen:   Different ways to construct maps of minimal degree from projective curves onto the projective line -- a geometrical approach

1435-1450 Jan Magnus Økland:   The decomposition theorem

1450   Closing remarks by Jarle Berntsen.

1455 Pizza and refreshments