Increased international connection is an important measure to raise the quality of our research. The thematic area of ICT is therefore announcing a travel scholarship for a female post.doc. The scholarship is 25.000 kr and the trip must be carried out during 2007. An application may be mailed to Lena Haugen.

The closing date is 31 August.

Thursday november 30th is the official day for opening of the new HPC center at NTNU. The official opening will be held in R5 at 1300, and is the end of a seminar about HPC. Registration for participation must be done before november 24th and is done here . The program for the day is found here .

The Notur II project is a 10-year project that was established in 2005 to provide and operate the national infrastructure for computational science in Norway in the next decade. The agenda of the project is ambitious and must lead to the implementation and operation of a sustainable electronic infrastructure that can accommodate a variety of sciences that make use of computationally and data intensive applications. Read the whole article here.

Åpning av trådløse trondheim

Wireless Trondheim, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's new city-wide wireless network designed specifically for research, was inaugurated Tuesday, September 26. Now we"re limited only by the imagination and creativity of Trøndelag residents", said Torbjørn Digernes, NTNU Rector, just before Per Berge, head of the Trondheim Elders Council, and Sven Samdal, head of the Adolf Øens High School Student Council, used a hedge cutter to snip a symbolic Internet data cable. The opening makes Trondheim the only wireless city in Norway, and provides companies and researchers worldwide with a wireless network where they can test ideas and products in a substantial real world environment.

Gaute Myklebust fra Atmel

By making microchips for Sony, Dell and Nokia, the adventurous company Atmel in Trondheim has grown from zero to 250 in ten years. The company was born at the faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, NTNU, and has developted to a norwegian industrydream of the rare ones. This year the company will sell chips to the world leading electronic companies for about 1.5 billion NOK.