Luncheon seminar, autumn 2007

The academic year 2007/2008

The seminar features speakers who are fellows at CAS the academic year 2007/2008. It was initiated in order to present ongoing research activities at the Centre and the fellows' respective specialities. The purpose is to foster interest and communication between the groups and across the disciplinary delineations.

Time and place: Wednesdays at 12.30 in the Turret Room at CAS.

Luncheon seminar series:
autumn 2003
spring 2004
autumn 2004
spring 2005
autumn 2005
spring 2006
autumn 2006
spring 2007

Program, autumn 2007

September 12	Lecturer Olof Sundqvist: "Aspects of rulership ideology in Early Scandinavia - with particular reference to the skaldic poem Ynglingatal"
September 19	Professor Jan Fagerberg: "Schumpeter - the innovation theorist"
September 25 NB! Tuesday!	Associate Professor Cristina Chaminade: "Will China and India change the global landscape of innovation? What do we know and what are the challenges for innovation studies?"
October 3	- no seminar - (postponed to November 15th)
October 10	Senior Researcher Martin Srholec: "Analysis of innovation: Frontiers and extensions"
October 17	Professor Dick Bedeaux: "Muscle contraction and non-equilibrium thermodynamics"
October 24	Associate Professor Jon Vidar Sigurdsson: "Ideology and personal abilities of chieftains, earls and kings in the North in the Viking Age"
October 31	- no seminar -
November 7	Researcher Joanna Skórzewska: “The King is dead, long live the King - Olav Haraldsson's relics in medieval Norway”
November 14	Associate Professor Jean-Marc Simon: “Diffusion in natural science and beyond”
November 15 NB! Thursday!	Professor Henrik Koch: "The applicability of modern quantum chemistry"
November 21	Professor emeritus Anders Hultgård: “How to deal with religion: Approaches, concepts and dangers”
November 28	Research Fellow Koson Sapprasert: “Structural inertia in organizations”
December 5	Senior Researcher Magnus Gulbrandsen: "The role of basic research in innovation"
December 13 NB! Thursday!	Professor Ben Martin: “Academic misconduct in the republic of science – does self-policing work?"