(TCLS= Thursday Chemistry Lunch Seminar: 12.15-13 @ Tripletten
For ALL employees at the Chemistry Department!
Summer has arrived and it is time for maintenance work on the ventilation system in the Science Building. Work will start up in the north end of the building on June 11. There will be imbalance in the in-house air pressure during service, causing some of the elevator doors to fail closing properly. Fume cupboards and hoods that are affected will be marked 2 days before the work starts. Please observe the instructions about when not to use this equipment! The work will normally take from 1-3 days per ventilation fan. Any questions should be directed to the Technical department: Svein Fosse at ph 55589393.
The pulses from an X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) offer extremely high photon density. This may be used to investigate correspondingly thin samples, such as a particle beam that is rarified to the extent the laser pulse is scattering off a single particle. The challenge is then how to learn the structure of that particle, which may be a single large molecule such as an enzyme or protein, from the scattering pattern. This is the topic of the guest lecture by Sandhya Tiwari (Riken, Kobe) presented next week on Tuesday June 11, at 11 o’clock at CBU seminar room (Høyteknologisenteret, Datablokk, 5th floor). The title of the talk is
Finding potential 3D biological shapes for a small number of XFEL diffraction patterns.
Mali applauds her students
The NanoDay is the final leg in the Nano100 introductory course in nanotechnology and, at the same time, an opportunity for all of us to get a brief overview of and tidbits from ongoing research projects in nano science at the University of Bergen.
The winners of the poster prize: Odin, Sofie and Tæraneh.
After having given oral presentations of their projects, the students presented posters of impressive quality over the same topics. Course responsible Mali has reworked the project-oriented part of the course this term, and she was thrilled to see that the poster exhibition held up the same high standard as in previous years! The posters will be on display in the corridor outside Dean’s office and Nanos´ den. If you missed the NanoDay this spring, I suggest you go and take a look there in the early fall.
NANO100 students will display their projects in an open poster session.
Date: Friday 31 May. Time: 14:15 – 15:00. Place: «vrimlearealet» 1st floor, Realfagsbygget.
This Friday May 31 the brewmasters will gather KI for a social event with homemade refreshments!
Meet in Reagensglasset @5pm.
Tomorrow morning, our research advisor, Cecilie, embarks on a one-year leave to the USA, accompanying her husband on a sabbatical leave. We wish them both a most fruitful and enjoyable stay!
The process of recruiting a new research advisor to chemistry is well on the way; meanwhile, Kristin and Knut will try to patch up as well as we can. Questions regarding external funding etc should be addressed accordingly.
For gruppe B ble det avlagt 6 stemmer. Valgt: Zeeshan Muhammad,
1. vara: Christian Sant Gjermestad,
2. vara: Beate Halsvik
3. vara: Morten Tysse
For gruppe D ble det avlagt 15 stemmer, hvorav 4 blanke. Valgt: Kristine Lauve Irgens og Jostein Rossvoll.
1. vara: Nikolai Golten Fiskeseth
2. vara: Camilla Hallanger
3. vara: Angelina Olsen
Recently employed as an industrial PhD student in marine natural product chemistry. Marie Emilie Wekre has both a bachelor- and masters degree in chemistry from the University of Bergen. The PhD project is in collaboration with Alginor ASA with financial support from NFR and has a duration of 4 years. Associate professor Monica Jordheim will be the main supervisor on the project. The project focus will be on identification and characterization of polyphenols from a marine algae, Laminaria hyperborea.
A working group appointed by NTNU, UiB, UiO and UiT has proposed a new model for the future funding of Norwegian e-infrastructure (high-performance computing and data storage facilities as well as advanced user support) for research in order to be able to meet the ever increasing demand for e-infrastructure services. The backdrop is the strongly increasing cost of this infrastructure, which at the same time has become completely indispensable in itself and as a prerequisite for much of the other advanced infrastructure that science relies on. The group has now released a draft report for which they seek input from the community. The report makes several recommendations: Norway should aim to have e-infrastructure services on level with the best of a set of international reference countries; The level of base funding for e-infrastructure services should be increased significantly, by as much as 130-190 MNOK annually; The four universities and the Research Council of Norway should significantly increase their contribution to the base funding of the e-infrastructure services; A wider range of research and higher-education institutions should contribute to the base funding of the e-infrastructure services; A more trans-disciplinary funding must be put in place for e-infrastructure services as they are used by an ever increasing number of research domains. For further information, see the commentary made by the rectors of the four universities (in Norwegian).
The coming Friday (May 24th), there will be two lectures in organic chemistry by colleagues from the University of Alicante, Spain.
At 10:15 Professor Carmen Najera will give a lecture on «1,3-Dipolar cycloadditions of azomethine ylides and nitroalkanes».
At 13:15, Professor Miguel Yus will talk about «Asymmetric synthesis with chiral N-sulfinyl imines».
Both lectures will be in room 3069. Everybody is heartly welcome.
Leiv K. Sydnes