(TCLS= Thursday Chemistry Lunch Seminar: 12.15-13 @ Tripletten
For ALL employees at the Chemistry Department!
Universitetsbiblioteket inviterer til et seminar om åpen tilgang til forskning. Regjeringens mål er at innen 2024 skal alle norske vitenskapelige artikler finansiert av offentlige midler være åpent tilgjengelige: * Vitenskapelige artikler skal gjøres åpent tilgjengelige. Forskere skal publisere i åpne tidsskrifter der det er faglig forsvarlig. * Alle vitenskapelige artikler skal deponeres i vitenarkiv, og dette vil være en forutsetning for at artiklene skal telle i den resultatbaserte finansieringen.
TID: TORSDAG 26. OKTOBER 10.00-12.00
STED: DRAGEFJELLET SKOLE (DET JURIDISKE FAKULTET), AUD. 4
Arrangementet er gratis og åpent for alle. Arrangementet vil bli strømmet, og er ikke et juksearrangement, påstås det.
The attentive eye will notice that the sitting group has disappeared from outside the Chemistry Office and that the neighboring storage room is evacuated. Despair not; on Monday the process of transforming these empty square meters into a new social arena for the department is starting up. Until this process has come to completion, Monday 10 o´clock coffee will be served at the lunch room (3065).
Here is a quiz question for a wet week-end: What is smiling, making big leaps in the corridor, and carrying 5 thick books?
The answer: A PhD student on the way to handing in a thesis for evaluation!
Installation of the new, long-heralded 600 MHz NMR-instrument has started! According to Jose, the magnet is already correctly mounted in the NNP-lab. In the picture, you can see it to the left of its big cousin, the 850 MHz instrument. 
A pump is creating the vacuum in the dewar over the weekend, and we will start cooling the magnet with liquid nitrogen and helium on Monday. After that, the exciting process of energising is starting on Wednesday, and the magnet will probably be «on field» on Friday. We are looking forward to it! Hopefully, we will not talk about Quench… Next week the last system modules will be installed: the cryo-platform, the console and the sample-jet. The system acceptance is planned by November 3rd and we are planning a grand opening on November 16!
Our old and from-time-to-time troubled 600 MHz instrument will be taken off field starting on Monday.
Many of you are aware of and shun predatory open access journals whose primary goal is to extract publication fees from academic authors. Less attention is given to predatory conferences, of low quality and set up for profit, although this is a growing market. In short, these companies issue a flow of invitations to act as speakers or chairs on a wide range of conferences. I have been invited, by the same organiser, to appear as prominent speaker on conferences devoted to specific subjects covering the full breadth of chemistry, pharmacy, nanotechnology and much of technology. The organiser in mind, conferenceseries.org (conferenceseries.net, conferenceseries.com, recently also chemistryconferences.*) tries out a new subject every month.
It gets worse. One of our colleagues recently received an invitation from this organiser, incorrectly issued in the name of one of her former associates. In this way, she was deceived into signing up for and traveling to this make-belief conference. You can read more about this in På høyden.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson «for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution». A readable account of the essence and importance of their work may be found here.
Sikresiden is a mobile-adapted website that provides information about safety and security and helps with what to do in an emergency. https://www.sikresiden.no/en
Programmet OMNIC er nå klargjort av IT-avd for installasjon på klientdriftede maskiner, og skal snart finnes på datalabene i 1. etg.
Sjekk Software Center og fyr løs.
Vibrerende helsing Egil
Early this year, the department got new instrumentation for flow chemistry. In the lunch seminar this week, Audun will give an introduction to the new technology, in his lecture over the self-chosen topic Enabling technologies: Flow Chemistry.
In more detail: The common laboratory glassware has in decades been the go-to tool for chemists, but it has restricted the way we conduct chemistry. New emerging technologies give the chemist improved control over reaction parameters. Flow chemistry enables new discoveries in multiple branches of chemistry. The basic concepts of flow chemistry and its advantages are presented. Resent developments in the field are highlighted
4D coordinates: Thursday Oct 5 at 12.15, at Tripletten (3069).