PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
PoreLab publication in Nature Communications on how drainage explains soil liquefaction beyond the earthquake near-field
The article from Professor Renaud Toussaint and coworkers (Shahar Ben-Zeev, Liran Goren, Renaud Toussaint & Einat Aharonov) has been accepted in Nature Communications. Congratulations! Read the paper here: Drainage explains soil liquefaction beyond the earthquake near-field | Nature Communications A popular science article was published on this article in SCIENMAG here: New insights into soil liquefaction during earthquakes research
Reserve the day for Interpore Norway on November 9th in Oslo
InterPore Norway 2023 will be held in Oslo on the 9th of November. The workshop will be hosted by PoreLab and the University of Oslo and will take place in the Oslo Science Park (Forskningsparken) Conference Centre at the Faros Room. There are no registration fees but we have a limited capacity at the venue.
Prof. Wilhelmsen awarded with ERC grant!
Prof. Wilhelmsen, PI of Research Themes 5 and 8 in PoreLab, has just received an ERC Starting Grant for the research project InterLab: “Unravelling the fundamentals of transport across the vapor-liquid interface”. Congratulations! In the project, Wilhelmsen and his group will bring new understanding and methods to predict transport of heat and mass across vapor-liquid
PoreLab lecture with Prof. Miguel Rubi from the University of Barcelona on Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of active particles self-assembly
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prof. Miguel Rubi from the Department of Fundamental Physics at the University of Barcelona, Spain When: Friday 13 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of active particles self-assembly Abstract: We calculate the energetic cost of the formation of active particle structures. Using an approach that couples the particle dynamics
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Olivier Vincent, from the Institut Lumière Matière, France, on water and solutions in nanoporous media: capillarity, osmosis and phase change
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Olivier Vincent, Permanent Research Scientist at CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, Lyon, France When: Wednesday 11 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Water and solutions in nanoporous media: capillarity, osmosis and phase change Abstract: I will discuss a series of experiments that illustrate the rich physics of phase transitions and
Read more about a systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in membrane distillation
The paper from Kim R. Kristiansen, Øivind Wilhelmsen and Signe Kjelstrup was accepted and published under “Desalination” (Volume 567, 1 December 2023, 116927), Congratulations! Read the paper from Kim here: A systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in membrane distillation – ScienceDirect Tittle: A systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in
PoreLab lecture with Professor Bjørnar Sandnes from Swansea University on Viscously stable frictional fingers
Welcome to the next lecture in the PoreLab Lecture Series for the semester! Who: Prof. Bjørnar Sandnes from Swansea University, UK When: Wednesday 27 September at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Viscously stable frictional fingers Abstract: An invading meniscus between two fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell may bulldoze loose granular material into local compaction fronts. The flow becomes
Featured article under Physics of Fluids!
Congratulations to Reza Haghani, Hamidreza Erfani, James E. McClure and Carl Fredrik Berg! Their article on “A note on the summation relation in phase-field equations” has been selected as featured article in Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 9 Congratulations! DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0164445 Abstract: In this paper, we investigate phase-field interface capturing equations for two-fluid systems
Young CAS Projects of January 2024 – December 2025: Pushing Frontiers in Political Science and Environmental Research
It is with great enthusiasm that the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) unveils the two chosen Young CAS Principal Investigators (PIs) for the upcoming two-year term: Professor Francesca Refsum Jensenius from the University of Oslo, who offers a penetrating analysis of the democratic processes in India, and Researcher Gaute Linga from The Njord Centre, University
Save the date for Interpore 2024!
The International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) has recently wrapped up the 15th Annual Meeting, in Edinburgh, Scotland, with great success! The 16th Annual InterPore Meeting, InterPore2024, will be held in Qingdao, China, on May 13-16, 2024. Link of the conference website: www.interpore.org/2024 Satellite Short Course Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/vrLNZEU279VU2JKb9 InterPore has launched its own journal –
“Nanothermodynamics: Theory and Applications” is on Amazon!
The book “Nanothermodynamics: Theory and Applications” from Dick Bedeaux, Signe Kjelstrup and Sondre Schnell, is available on Amazon. Congratulations to the authors! Click here: This book grew out of an idea to study properties of small subsystems of a large reservoir. Observations were at the time not explainable with standard thermodynamics. But the theory of
Open PhD position at the CNRS (Strasbourg, France) in collaboration with PoreLab at UiO in physical chemistry
Offer title Physical chemistry of friction and fracture: how heat impacts mechanical instabilities About the job There is an open PhD position at the University of Strasbourg, ITES Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg, UMR7063 CNRS / University of Strasbourg / ENGEES. This thesis is fully funded by the ANR HotTips, a collaboration between the
FALL 2022/2023 COURSE: “EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN POROUS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS” (FYS 4420/FYS9420 AT UIO)
PoreLab’s course ” Experimental techniques in porous and complex systems ” is traditionally offered in the fall semester each year and the school year 2022/2023 is no exception. The course is two-tiered and both, Ph.D. and master students are encouraged to take it. The code for the Ph.D. level is FYS9240. The master level code
Open PhD position in Statistical Physics of Dispersions in Porous Media
About the job We have a vacancy for a PhD position in Soft Matter Physics at PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU. The appointments has a duration of 3 years. The PhD student should start no later than October 2023. The position is organized at the Department of Physics in close collaboration with the Center of Excellence PoreLab. Duties