March 2012:
Book release, "Mytene som skapte Norge" (The myths that created Norway)
CAS' Scientific Director Gro Steinsland has just released a new book, "Mytene som skapte Norge - Myter og makt fra vikingtid til middelalder" (The myths that created Norway - Myths and power from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages).
Read more
Article in Dagbladet
Book review in Klassekampen
(Congratulations Gro!!)
February 2012:
Award winning CAS Fellows
Jon Otto Fossum and Yuri Galperin have been recognized as Outstanding Referees by The American Chemical Society and The American Physical Society.
Wilson Ortiz was awarded first prize in the 2011 Brazilian contest “Photography – Science and Arts”.
Congratulations to all of you!
Desember 16th 2011:
UiT research prize awarded to Laura Janda
CAS group leader Laura Janda has been awarded the 2011 research prize from the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Tromsø.
Janda was nominated jointly by CASTL and the Departement of Language and Linguistic; see here for an excerpt of the nomination letter.
Congratulations!
November 2011:
Prestigious Russian prize awarded to CAS fellow
CAS fellow Vladimir Plungian has been awarded the prize "Enlightner" 2011 (in the category of the humanities), for his book "Why are languages so different?". The book is about languages, linguistic diversity and some basic findings of contemporary linguistics. It is written in Russian and intended for the general audience (including children).
Congratulations!
November 2011:
Vacant position at CAS
1 August 2012 Professor Gro Steinsland will be leaving her position as Scientific Director at CAS to return to the University of Oslo. The Centre is now seeking her replacement.
Application deadline: 1 December 2011
November 2011:
GLIMT 2011
The CAS newsletter GLIMT 2011 is now available.
As of 2011 the newsletter is a web publication only and is presented in Norwegian.
Previous newsletters are available in both English and Norwegian editions (see archive).
November 14th, 2011:
CAS projects 2014/2015
In November 2011 The Centre for Advanced Study requested proposals for projects and group leaders for the academic year 2014/2015. From among the proposals, the Board will select a number of candidates who will be invited to submit more detailed descriptions of their projects for further evaluation.
The Board will make its final decision in June 2012, giving the invited groups two years to finalise the details of the plans for their work at the Centre.
October 2011:
First prize in the Brazilian contest “Photography – Science and Arts” awarded to CAS fellow
CAS fellow Wilson Ortiz has been awarded first prize for his picture "Visualizing Magnetic Fields in Superconductors".
Congratulations!
The picture is a magneto-optical image of magnetic flux penetrating into a superconducting film of Nb, patterned with a square lattice of antidots (square holes) with nanosize dimensions (nanosized holes are not directly visible). Each white trace of the «Christmas Trees» results from an avalanche of magnetic flux, which invades the sample enormously fast.
Award winning photos
June 17th, 2011:
UiO's Research Prize 2011 to CAS group leader
CAS group leader Professor Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen has been honoured with the University of Oslo's Research Prize for 2011.
Congratulations!
Read more (in Norwegian)
Article in UNIFORUM (in Norwegian)
June 2011:
The Board of Directors at CAS has selected the following three programs for the academic year 2013/2014:
- The Ecology of Food Perception,
Professors Gro V. Amdam and Bjørg T. Egelandsdal, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)
- Reading and interpreting runic inscriptions: the theory and method of runology,
Professor James E. Knirk, University of Oslo
- Globalization and the possibility of transnational actors - The case of trade unions,
Professor Knut Kjeldstadli, University of Oslo
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May 2011:
Book on "Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages"
A book on "Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages", edited by CAS' Scientific Director Gro Steinsland et al. is now published at Brill. This collaborative work was initiated at the Centre during the stay of Gro Steinsland's group in 2007/2008.
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May 2011:
Årsmelding 2010
The CAS annual report, Årsmelding 2010 is now available (web only; in Norwegian). The included final reports from the CAS research groups are presented in English
CAS Annual Reports
May 3rd, 2011:
Fridtjof Nansen Award
The 2011 Fridtjof Nansen Award for outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences has been given to former CAS group leader Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson for his work on Philosophy in Antiquity.
Congratulations!
Read more (in Norwegian)
March 20th 2011:
Nature Geoscience paper by CAS Fellow
New publication by CAS scientist Clint Conrad in the prestigious Nature Geoscience.
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March 11th 2011:
André Dumont Medal to Trond Torsvik
Professor Trond H. Torsvik has been awarded the André Dumont Medal (2012) by the Belgian Geological Society. This medal is given to outstanding non-Belgian geologists for their scientific life-time achievements in geology. Congratulations, Trond!
January 12th 2011:
Interview
of Trond Torsvik at the NRK P2 radio programme "Verdt å vite", January 12th 2011.
Web radio (in Norwegian)
December 20th, 2010:
Advanced Grants from the ERC
CAS group leader Trond Torsvik is one of seven Norwegian researchers who is now awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
Also last year's CAS group leader, Andreas Føllesdal, is among the recipients.
Congratulations!
Read more (in Norwegian)
October 8th 2010:
CAS in the media
Article on Hanne Haavind and Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen's project by Kilden, the information centre for gender research in Norway.
Read more (in Norwegian)
September 7th 2010:
CAS in the media
Article on Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen's project by the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo
Read more (in Norwegian)
August 2010:
Paper on "nature-inspired fuel cells"
A paper on nature-inspired fuel cells, by Signe Kjelstrup, Marc-Olivier Coppens, Jon Pharaoh and Peter Pfeifer is now published in the ACS Journal Energy and Fuels. This collaborative work was initiated at the Centre during the stay of Signe Kjelstrup's group in 2007/2008, and has been getting fast attention at many forums, such as the Green Car Congress, New Scientist and Inhabitat.
Read more
May 22nd 2010:
CAS in the media
Interview of Andreas Føllesdal, in the newspaper Klassekampen, May 22nd 2010.
Read more (in Norwegian)
May 12th 2010:
CAS in the media
Debate article by CAS' Scientific Director, Gro Steinsland, in the newspaper Aftenposten about how public research funding is put to effective and constructive use at the Centre.
May 1st 2010:
New member of staff at CAS
On May 1st, Rune Flaten took over the position as Higher Executive Officer at CAS, succeeding Trude Gran Peters.
March 11th 2010:
Interview
of Bård Stokke at the NRK P1 radio programme "Norgesglasset", March 11th.
Web radio (in Norwegian)
March 8th 2010:
CAS in the media
Interview of CAS' Scientific Director, Gro Steinsland, at the NRK P2 radio programme "Sånn er livet", March 8th.
Web radio (in Norwegian)
March 7th 2010:
Book review
Review of the essay collection by Turid Karlsen Seim and Jorunn Økland (eds.), Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity, originated from the joint work of the CAS research group led by Karlsen Seim in 2006/2007.
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March 2010:
CAS in the media
"Cultivating the crème de la crème of basic research", Article on CAS, The Research Council of Norway.
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March 2010:
CAS in the media
"Surviving as a cuckoo" - Articles in the newsletter of The Research Council of Norway, Bladet Forskning, no 1, 10.
Read more (in Norwegian)
Also posted at forskning.no
January 22nd 2010:
Kosovo's independence declaration
"Kosovo opp til doms" - Article by Professor Geir Ulfstein, in the newspaper Morgenbladet.
Read more (in Norwegian)
January 2010:
New CAS Publication:
Transference. Interdisciplinary Communications 2008/2009
This Internet publication is based on a series of internal lectures given by fellows of the Centre in the academic year of 2008/2009.
Read more
January 2010:
New Secretary General of the Academy
December 3rd 2009 Øivind Andersen was elected as the new Secretary General of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He took up this position January 1st 2010. Øivind Andersen will still participate in the activities at CAS, but will no longer act as co-leader for the group Ethics in Antiquity: The Quest for the Good Life.
Read more (in Norwegian)
December 24th 2009:
CAS in the media
"Julefortelling i runer" - Article by the Scientific Director of CAS, Professor Gro Steinsland, in the newspaper Aftenposten.
Read more (pdf; in Norwegian)
October 14th 2009:
CAS in the media
"CAS - a research paradise in Oslo" - Article by Martin Toft in Uniforum, newsletter of The University in Oslo.
Read more (in Norwegian)
October 2nd 2009:
CAS in the media
Article by forskning.no on the the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK. Gro Steinsland comments on the conditions for basic research in Norway.
Read more (in Norwegian)
August 18th 2009:
CAS in the media
The Research Council of Norway posted an article on the Start-up conference of Professors Andreas Føllesdal and Geir Ulfstein, Aug 18-20, "Should States Ratify Human Rights Conventions?"
Read more (in Norwegian)
August 1st 2009:
New scientific director at CAS
On August 1st 2009, Gro Steinsland took over as scientific director at CAS, succeeding Willy Østreng. Steinsland is one of Norway’s foremost experts on pre-Christian religion, the Viking Era and the Nordic Middle Ages. In 2007/2008, she headed the CAS research project "The Power of the Ruler and the Ideology of Rulership in Nordic Culture 800-1200"
March 6th 2009:
has been awarded The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters’ prize for young researchers in natural sciences (I.K. Lykke’s award) for his original and groundbreaking work.
Read more (in Norwegian only)
December 13th 2007:
defended his dissertation Sources and Impacts of R&D and Innovation in the Norwegian Innovation System: Firm, Sectorial and Policy Perspectives for the degree of PhD.
Read more (in Norwegian)
December 7th 2007:
defended her dissertation for the degree of doctor artium.
Lied was a fellow at CAS in 2006/2007 in Professor Turid Karlsen Seim's group Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Taxonomies and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity.
June 8th 2007:
defended his dissertation There is a Rebirth and an Image of Rebirth for the degree of doctor artium.
Read more (in Norwegian)
March 23rd 2007:
defended his dissertation Four Essays on Marital Dissolution for the degree of PhD.
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March 3rd 2007:
defended her dissertation Writing as Negotiation: A Narrative Analysis of Nakagami Kenji’s “Kiseki” for the degree of doctor artium. Anne Helene Thelle was a fellow at CAS in 2005/2006 in Professor Jakob Lothe's group Narrative Theory and Analysis.
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January 19th 2007:
Book of the year, 2006
The book Tidsvitner - Fortellinger fra Auschwitz og Sachsenhausen by eds. Jakob Lothe and Anette Storeide was elected "Book of the year, 2006" by the readers of the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet.
Read more (in Norwegian)
September 15th 2006:
defended his dissertation "Marriage decisions in a peasant society" for the degree of doctor artium.
Read more (in Norwegian):
UiO / forskning.no
September 14th 2006:
Book launching - reports from Auschwitz og Sachsenhausen.
The editors Jakob Lothe and Anette Storeide presented their book "Tidsvitner - Fortellinger fra Auschwitz og Sachsenhausen" as part of their research project here at CAS in 2005/2006.
Read more (in Norwegian)
