PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
Dr. Bjørnar Sandnes receives a grant for FriicFlow project in collaboration with PoreLab
PoreLab’s partner Dr. Bjørnar Sandnes from Swansea University, UK, receives a grant from EPSRC for his project «Frictional flow patterns shapes by viscous and capillary forces” (FriicFlow) The Project will be carried out under the direction and supervision of the principal investigator, Dr Bjornar Sandnes from the Swansea University and the collaborating party will be
INVITATION TO THE PORELAB COURSE , “EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS” (FYS 4420/FYS9420 AT UIO)
The PoreLab course on ” Experimental techniques in condensed matter physics ” will be offered in the 2019 fall semester. The course is offered for both, Ph.D. and master students. The code for the Ph.D. level is FYS9240. The master level code is FYS4420. The lectures will be held in PoreLab Oslo and PoreLab Trondheim. For more
Director of PoreLab, Alex Hansen, on NRK radio
Alex was invited to NRK radio for youth on June 19th after his talk a the NTNU Festival “the Big Challenge”. Listen him here: : https://radio.nrk.no/serie/norske-tilstander/MYNN05109819#t=29m19s – click here «NTNU-forsker lærer oss noe nytt». (in Norwegian)
Director of PoreLab, Professor Alex Hansen, speaks about Open Science at Frontiers
Alex speaks about Open Science at Frontiers. Watch him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkScXGTOOOM&t=29s The Frontiers Forum brings together 400+ top global scientists and other thought leaders. It provides a valuable opportunity for the Frontiers community to see and discuss the latest in Open Science – and the Science Unlimited event showcases inspiring developments powering our world of
Le Xu, Ph.D. defense in Oslo on June 21, 2019
On Friday, June 21, 2019, Le Xu will be defending his thesis titled “Experimental Observations of Dissolution in Fractures in Circular Geometry” for the degree of Ph.D. The defense takes place at the Physics Building, second floor west in room V232 (Lille fysiske auditorium) at 1:15 PM. The defense itself is preceded by the trial
Invitation to the PoreLab course 1, “Theory and simulation of flow in complex media” (FYS 4465/FYS 9465 at UiO and KJ 8210 at NTNU)
The PoreLab course 1 on ” Theory and simulation of flows in complex media ” will be organized during the fall semester 2019. The courses are held in Oslo at the PoreLab video communication room in the Physics Building, University of Oslo, with a video connection in Trondheim from our meeting room at our PoreLab
XXVI Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, Sitges, 27-31 May 2019
Alex, Signe and Dick were plenary speakers at the XXVI Sitges conference on Statistical Mechanics this year. Dick and Signe hold a presentation on “Hill’s Nano-thermodynamics Reproduces Gibbs’ Thermodynamics for Curved Surfaces” and Alex’ presentation was about “A Statistical Mechanics for Flow in Porous Media“.
Visit from Professor Majid Hassanizadeh, Managing Director InterPore, at PoreLab Trondheim
Professor Majid Hassanizadeh, Managing Director at InterPore and Professor of Hydrogeology at Utrecht University, is coming to PoreLab Trondheim on June 18th. He will give a total of 14 hours course speaking about “Fundamentals of multiphase flow in porous media – From the molecular scale to the REV scale – Averaging-thermodynamic approach for development of
3 open positions at PoreLab Oslo
3 positions are now opened at PoreLab – Oslo PhD in experimental porous media physics Deadline: 28 May 2019 Researcher in Porous Media Physics Deadline: 30 May 2019 Researcher position in Steady State Porous Media Flow Deadline: 30 May 2019
Xin Wang, Director of Pore-Scale Imaging Lab, China, visits PoreLab Trondheim
On Tuesday 30th April Xin Wang, Director of Pore-scale Imaging Lab, Qingdao City, China, visited PoreLab Trondheim. The purpose of the visit was to probe for possible collaborations with our laboratory. Both Wang and representatives from PoreLab had presentations of work, and Wang had a laboratory tour of our reservoir lab, the SINTEF reservoir lab
Eirik Flekkøy on the famous TV program “Brille”
Professor Eirik Grude Flekkøy was invited on April 23rd to participate to the famous Norwegian TV program, “Brille”, on TV Norge. “Brille” is a studio-based quiz program combining humor and science and presented by Harald Eia. You can watch the program under Dplay here: https://www.dplay.no/programmer/brille Eirik is interviewed during the last part of the program (scroll
Gemini article (in Norwegian): Grunnforskning kan gi bedre varsel før ras
Olav Galteland, Dick Bedeaux, Signe Kjelstrup, Bjørn Hafskjold and Alex Hansen explain how the activities at PoreLab could help with the prediction of mudslides. Read the article (in Norwegian) here
NTNU, through PoreLab and the Department of Structural Engineering, is a new partner of ERICA
We are very pleased to announce that NTNU, through PoreLab and the Department of Structural Engineering, was approved as Partner in ERICA by the EU project officer. ERICA is an MSCA ITN (MSCA-ITN-2017 – Innovative Training Networks) project funded under the programme H2020-EU.1.3.1. – Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers. ERICA is
Welcome to Salem Akarri, new PhD candidate at PoreLab Trondheim
Salem Saaed Akarri joined PoreLab Trondheim on April 1st, 2019, as PhD candidate. His PhD is related to WP6 (Microfluidics and field studies) under the Geoscience and Petroleum department of NTNU. Salem has a master’s degree in Reservoir Engineering and Petrophysics from NTNU, 2018, and a Bachelor of science from King Fahd University of Petroleum
3rd PoreLab Junior Forum
The 3rd edition of the PoreLab Junior Forum took place in the Physics Department at the University of Oslo on March 21st, 2019. Agenda is available here: Program_JF3. The day started at 12 with the lunch, followed by a social event and ended with a dinner. After the scientific part of the forum was completed, the juniors