Guest Lectures and Seminars

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2007

• August 10. 2007: Guest Lecture
  Associate Professor Eugen Mamontov from Dept. of Physics, Faculty of Science, Gothenburg University, will deliver a lecture entitled "Analytical methods to facilitate quantitative analysis of nonlinear stochastic systems".Where: T6 MTC at 10.15.
  
• June 14. 2007: Guest Lecture
  Jeroen Wackers, MSc from Delft University, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, PhD now fulfilling at Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands, will deliver a lecture entitled "Efficient computation of steady water waves".Where: T3/T4 MTC at 13.15.
  
• June 4. 2007: Guest Lecture
  Prof. Marcelo de Almeida Santos Neves, from Laboratorio de Informatica de Graduacao, Departamento de Engenhario Naval e Oceanica - Poli Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) will deliver a lecture entitled "Parametric Rolling of Ships in Head Seas". Place: Room T3-T4 MTC at 11.15.
• April 30. 2007: Guest Lecture
  Prof. Ronald W. Yeung, from Mechanical Engineering - Fluid Mechanics and Ocean Engineering, University of California at Berkeley will give a lecture entitled "Multi-Hull Configuration Design - A Framework for Powering Minimization". Place: Room T3-T4 MTC at 12.15. You are all welcome!
• April 13. 2007: Lecture
  Prof. Arvid Næss will give the following lecture: A Monte Carlo approach for efficient estimation of extreme response statistics. Time: 14.15-15.00. Place: Room T3-T4 at the Marine Technology Centre. Presentation
  
• March 6. 2007: Mini-seminar
  A mini-seminar on high mode VIV will be arranged by CeSOS on Tuesday 6 March at the Marine Technology Centre. Kim Vandiver, MIT will be here, and also his latest PhD candidate Susan B. Swithenbank who is presently a Post.doc. at CeSOS. They will report recent results from the Miami test programme. Jie Wu (CeSOS) will report results from system identification based on data from rotating rig tests, maybe also from Hanøytangen. There will also be a presentation from Marintek based on ongoing project(s).
  

2006

• December 14-15. 2006: 2-day Seminar
  Seminar on Challenges for Wave Energy Technology, in tribute to Professor Emeritus Johannes Falnes. Read more
  
• November 17. 2006: Guest Lecture
  Visiting Prof. Ioannis K. Chatjigeorgiou from National Technical University of Athens will end his two months stay at CeSOS by giving a lecture based of his work in this period. The title of his presentation is: "Comparison of results from various numerical methods for calculation of dynamic response of catenary risers". A semi-analytical approach is compared to a new finite difference scheme and non-linear finite element analysis (RIFLEX). Time: 13.15. Place: Room T3-T4 at the Marine Technology Centre.
  
• November 2. 2006: Guest Lectures
  Guest lectures by Prof. Louis L. Whitcomb from Johns Hopkins University and Prof. Mogens Blanke from Technical University of Denmark/CeSOS.
  Lecture 1: Underwater Robotics for Oceanographic Science: Recent Advances and New Research Challenges by Prof. Louis L. Whitcomb. Time: 09.15 – 10.00 hrs. Place: Room T6 at the Marine Technology Centre.
  Lecture 2: Towards Exploring the Deepest Depths: Development of a Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle (HROV) for Oceanographic Operations to 11,000m Depth by Prof. Louis L. Whitcomb. Time: 10.15 – 11.00 hrs. Place: Room T6 at the Marine Technology Centre.
  Lecture 3: Design of fault-tolerant control systems for marine operations by Prof. Mogens Blanke. Time: 11.15 – 12.00 hrs. Place: Room T6 at the Marine Technology Centre.
  
• November 1. 2006: Guest Lecture
  Guest lectures by Dr. Steinar Berg, Principal Engineer - Structural Design Technip Offshore Norge AS.
  Lecture 1: Spar platforms in the Gulf of Mexico – design, fabrication and installation. Time:10.15-11.00. Place: Room T3-T4 at the Marine Technology Centre.
  Lecture 2: Underwater field development – design and installation. Time: 11.15-12.00. Place: Room T3-T4 at the Marine Technology Centre.
  
• October 20. 2006: Guest Lecture
  Guest lecture by Prof. Solomon Yim from University of Oregon, Corvallis, on "Stochastic response of nonlinear marine structures to narrow band excitation". Time: 14.15 hrs. Place: Room T6 at the Marine Technology Centre.
  
• October 12. 2006: Guest Lecture
  Guest lecture by visiting professor Ioannis K. Chatjigeorgiou from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Time: 13.15 hrs. Place: Meeting room T3, 2nd floor at the Marine Technology Centre. Abstract, Presentation
• October 5. 2006: Seminar
  Seminar on Ice loads on ships, Lectures by Russian scientists. Place: Conference room T3/T4 at the Marine Technology Centre, 09.00 a.m.
  Lecture 1: 09.15-10.00, Potential use of full-scale trial results in determining of ice loads on ships by Dr. Vladimir Likhomanov, Dept. of Ship Performance in Ice, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
  Lecture 2: 10.15-11.00, AARI'a approach to calculation of ice loads based on mathematical models by Nina Krupina, Dept. of Ship Performance in Ice, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
  Lecture 3: 11.15-12.00, Larger vessels for icebound shipping- design and operational challenges by Dr. Igor V. Stepanov, Chief Project Engineer (Offshore Projects), JSC Giprospetsgaz.
  Lecture 4: 13.15-14.00, Recent questions in developing ice class rules by Prof. Kaj Riska, Adjunct Professor at CeSOS. Welcome!
  
• August 28. 2006: Seminar
  Seminar on Design of marine structures against ice loads. Place: Room A1/A2 on 3rd floor in Marine Technology Centre. Time: 10.00-14.00 hrs.
  Lecture 1: ABS Ice Class Guide and related ice technology development by Dr. Ge Wang, American Bureau of Shipping, Houston.
  Lecture 2: Ice loads on offshore structures by Prof. Sveinung Løset, NTNU.
  Lecture 3: Prediction of Ice Loads on Ships by First Principles? by Prof. Kaj Riska, Helsingfors and CeSOS.
  Lecture 4: On the analysis and design of plates and stiffeners subjected to ice loading - by Prof. Jørgen Amdahl, NTNU.
  
• August 25. 2006: Guest Lecture
  Professor Armen Der Kiureghian from the University of California, Berkeley, is visiting CeSOS during week 34. On Friday 25.08, 14.15-15.00, he will present the following lecture in room T3: "Tail-equivalent linearization method for nonlinear random vibration". You are all welcome!
  
• June 29. 2006: Guest Lecture
  Presentation by our visiting PhD student Alex Alcocer, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon. Title: "Estimation of Attitude and Position from Range-Only Measurements using Geometric Descent Optimization on the Special Euclidean Group". Thursday 29th June 2006 at 14:00. Place: T6 at Marine Technology Centre
  
• June 14-15 2006: Guest Lectures
  Two guest lectures by J.J Slotine, Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, MIT. Lecture 1: "Basic Principles of Contraction Analysis" Wednesday 14th June 2006 at 12:15 Place: T3/T4 at Marine Technology Centre
  Lecture 2: "Partial Contraction and Nonlinear Synchronisation" Thursday 15th June 2006 at 12:15 Place: T3/T4 at Marine Technology Centre
  
• May 5. 2006: Guest Lectures
  By: Dr. David Pizer, University of Strathclyde. "Some theoretical and numerical perspectives of modelling wave energy absorbtion" Place: Auditorium T4 at Marinteknisk senter: from 10:30 to 11:30
  "The development of Pelamis:Past, Present and Future".
  Place: Auditorium H1, main building at NTNU Gløshaugen: from 13:15 to 14:00 The last lecture will be followed by a visit to Vannkraftlaboratoriet and the wave energy lab at Institutt for fysikk.
  
• April 28. 2006: Guest Lecture
  By: Captain Harry Verhoefen, Smedvik Offshore
  "Operational aspects of DP vessels and semisubs.
  Place: Room T1, MTS at 12:30.
• April 20. 2006: Guest Lecture
  New icebound shipping routes and the technical challenges involved.
  By: Dr. techn.Kaj Riska,ILS Oy,Former professor of Artic Maritime Technology at Helsingfors Technical University
  Place: F1/F2 behind the reception at MARINTEK
• March 28. 2006: Guest Lecture
  Viscosity Effects on Free-Surface Hydrodynamics
  By: Prof. Ronald W. Yeung, Mechanical Engineering-Ocean Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.
  Place: Auditorium T6, Marine Technology Centre
• March 29. 2006: Guest Lecture
  Interference-Resistance Theory and Its Application to Multi-Hull Configuration Design
  By: Prof. Ronald W. Yeung, Mechanical Engineering-Ocean Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.
  Place: F1-located behind the Reception at MARINTEK (top floor)

2005

• Monday Dec.19th. 2005: One Day Seminar
  Shallow Water Hydrodynamics
  Place: Auditorium T7, Marine Technology Centre
• Tuesday, 25th October 2005: Guest Lecture
  Researcher Øyvind Sætra, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T7, Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Ensemble forecasting of sea state and weather routing of ships.
• Tuesday, 11th October 2005: Guest Lecture
  Dr. Kazuhiro Iijima, Osaka University,
  Place: Auditorium T7, Marine Technology Centre
  Title: 'Structural analysis method for ships in large waves - a spin-off from VLFS studies-'.
• Monday, 3rd October 2005: Guest Lecture
  Haibo Chen, Scandpower Risk Management,
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T7, Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Human Element in Critical Marine Operations.
  Abstract (pdf)
• Friday, 16th September 2005: Guest Lecture
  Stein Haugen, Safetec,
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4, Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Introduction to Risk Analysis.
• Friday, 2nd September 2005: Guest Lecture
  Jan Mathiesen, DNV,
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4, Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Reliability of mooring system.
• Wednesday, 17th August 2005: Guest Lecture
  Dr. Fu Shixiao,
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4, Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Nonlinear Hydroelastic Analyses of Flexible Moored Structures and Floating bridges.
  Abstract
• Thursday, 11th August 2005: Guest Lecture
  Prof. H. Kawabe, Tokai University, Japan
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4, Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Probabilistic Assessment of Ultimate Hull Girder Strength in Longitudinal bending.
  Abstract (pdf)
• Tuesday, 14th June 2005: Guest Lecture
  Prof. J.-J. E. Slotine, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
  Time: 14.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T1 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Nonlinear contraction analysis: a practical alternative to Lyapunov theory in nonlinear control system design.
• Thursday, 16th June 2005: Guest Lecture
  Prof. J.-J. E. Slotine, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
  Time: 14.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T1 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Applications of contraction analysis to synchronization and modelling the brain.
  Abstract (pdf)
• Friday, 3rd June 2005: Guest Lecture
  Jinzhu Xia, Associate prof., Australian Maritime College, Ship and Platform Hydrodynamics, Australia
  Time: 14.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: A practical approach to simulate wave loads and ship motions in rough seas
• Thursday, 2nd June 2005: Guest Lecture
  Mr. Ravi Kota,
  Time: 14.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Deepwater projects in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Tuesday, 31st May 2005: Guest Lecture
  Robert E. Melcher, Univ. of Newcastle, Director at Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability, Australia
  Time: 14.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Aspects of estimation of time - dependent structural reliability
  Abstract (pdf)
• Tuesday, 31st May 2005: Guest Lecture
  Robert E. Melcher, Univ. of Newcastle, Director at Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability, Australia
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Probabilistic models for corrosion in structural reliability assessment
  Abstract (pdf)
• Thursday, 12th May 2005: Guest Lecture
  Mogens Blanke, Professor, Section of Automation at Ørsted·DTU, Technical University of Denmark
  Time: 13.15 - 14.00
  Place: Auditorium T1 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Structure-graph Approach to Diagnosis and Control Reconfiguration Design Applied to Station-keeping Control
  Abstract (pdf)
• Wednesday, 4th May 2005: Seminar
  Torkel Bjarte-Larsson, Department of Physics, NTNU
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T7 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Wave energy converters with phase control
• Wednesday, 2nd May 2005 :
  Guest Lecture in connection with PhD-course: "Hydrodynamics for Marine Structures I", Open for everybody
  Alexander Timokha, Professor from Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev
  Time: 12.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T7 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Multimodal method in sloshing
• Wednesday, 25th April 2005 :
  Guest Lecture in connection with PhD-course: "Hydrodynamics for Marine Structures I", Open for everybody
  Alexander Timokha, Professor from Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev
  Time: 12.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T7 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Multimodal method in sloshing
• Wednesday, 13th April 2005 : Guest Lecture
  Bo Cerup Simonsen, Liv Hovem and Arnstein Eknes from DNV will give a guest lecture
  Time: 10.15 - 12.00
  Place: Auditorium T6 Marine Technology Centre
  Title:
  R& D and technical consultancy services in DNV Maritime by Bo Cerup Simonsen
  Development of common structural rules for tankers by Liv Hovem
  Challenges and opportunities in arctic areas by Arnstein Eknes
• Thursday, 7th April 2005 : Guest Lecture
  Dr. Michael Steurer , Florida State Univ.
  Time: 13.15 - 14.00
  Place: Auditorium T1 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Real-Time Hardware-In-Loop Simulation Facility and Associated Research Activities at Florida State University
  Abstract
• April 4th 2005 : Guest Lecture in connection with PhD-course:
  "Hydrodynamics for Marine Structures I", Open for everybody
  Marilena Greco, PhD, INSEAN, Italy
  Time: 12.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T7 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: BEM Level Set Domain Decomposition Method
• Monday, 14th March 2005 : Guest Lecture
  Dr. Jann Peter Strand, Rolls-Royce Marine.
  Time: 14.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T1 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Marine Automation, Positioning Systems
• Monday, 7th March 2005 : Guest Lecture in connection with PhD-course:
  "Hydrodynamics for Marine Structures I", Open for everybody
  Changhong Hu, Assoc. Professor Kyushu University, Japan
  Time: 12.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T7 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: CIP method
• Tuesday, 1st March 2005 : Guest Lecture
  Philippe Maincon and Celeste Barnardo, Senior Lecturer and PhD student, respectively, at University of Stellenbosh, Dept. of Civil Engineering.
  Time: 11.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T6 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: 4 lectures on inverse FEM:
  Inverse finite element methods for the processing of measurement data.
• Wednesday, 26th January 2005 : Guest Lecture
  Professor Enrico Rizzuto, University of Genova, Italy.
  Place: Auditorium T7 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Calibration of a PSF format for the verification of the hull girder strength
• Wednesday, 26th January 2005 : Guest Lecture
  Professor Peter Friis Hansen, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.
  Time: 13.15 - 14.00
  Place: Auditorium T7 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Identification of design wave patterns for extreme responses
• Tuesday, 25th January 2005 : Guest Lecture
  Dr. Junji Sawamura, University of Tokyo, Japan.
  Time: 14.15 - 15.00
  Place: Auditorium T6, Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Multi-scale computational structural mechanics
  Abstract (pdf)
• Monday, 17th January 2005 : Guest Lecture
  Professor Masashi Kashiwagi, Kyushu University, Japan.
  Time: 13.15 - 14.00
  Place: Auditorium T3/T4 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Recent research on seakeeping problems at RIAM, Kyushu University

2004

• Wednesday, 15th December 2004 : Seminar
  Time: 10.00 - 15.15
  Place: T2, Marine Technology Center
  Title: Extreme Waves
  Program of the seminar
• Thursday, 9th December 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Mirel Nechita, PhD, Research fellow at Hiroshima University, Japan.
  Time: 11.15 - 12.00
  Place: T6, MTC
  Title: A Seakeeping Computation Method Considering Fully Nonlinear Steady Wave Field
• Thursday, 18th November 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Professor Sveinung Løset, Department of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU.
  Time: 13.15-14.00
  Place: T6, MTC
  Title: Challenges related to Exploitation of Hydrocarbons in Cold Water
• Wednesday 27th October 2004 : Guest Lectures on "Development of the radiation/diffraction code WAMIT"
  J. N. Newman, Emeritus Professor, Dept of Ocean Engineering, MIT.
  Time: 15.00-17.00
  Place: T3/T4 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: EXTENSIONS AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
  Lecture Abstract
• Tuesday 26th October 2004 : Guest Lectures on "Development of the radiation/diffraction code WAMIT"
  J. N. Newman, Emeritus Professor, Dept of Ocean Engineering, MIT.
  Time: 14.00-16.00
  Place: T2 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY, AND EARLY DEVELOPMENTS
  Lecture Abstract
• Wednesday 6th October 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Dr. Kok-Kwang Phoon, Associate Professor, Geotechnical Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore.
  Time: 15.15-16.00
  Place: T3/T4 Marine Technology Centre
  Title: Simulation using the Karhunen-Loeve expansion - some computational aspects
  Lecture Abstract
• Thursday 23th September 2004 : Guest Lecture
  prof. Michael F. Dimentberg, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mechanical Engineering Department.
  Time: 14:15 - 15:00
  Place: Bestikket - room D2.255 Marine Technology Centre Note: Room D2.255 is located in the same corridor as the storeroom for office supplies - in the bottom of the corridor
  Title: Certain Procedures for on-line vibration diagnostics of machines and/or structural components.
• Tuesday 14th September 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Jan Erik Faugstadmo, Kongsberg Maritime.
  Time: 13:15 - 14:00
  Place: Marine Technology Centre, room T4
  Title: Acoustic Positioning.
• Thursday, 9th September 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Prof. Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark, Section of Automation at Ørstedt DTU.
  Time: 9:15 - 12:00 (3x45min)
  Place: Marine Technology Centre, room T7
  Title: Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control.
  Lecture Abstract
  Handouts for the lecture
• Thursday, 2nd September 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Michael Perry,
  Time: 15:00
  Place: F1
  Title: Modified Genetic Algorithm Approach to System Identification.
  Presentation Outline in pdf
• Friday, 20th August 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Dr. Claudio De Persis, Dept. of Computer and Systems Science, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. Currently visiting : Center for Embedded Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
  Time: 11.15 - 12:15
  Place: Meeting room T2 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: Nonlinear Control via Encoded Feedback.
  Abstract in pdf
• Thursday, 19th August 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Professor Daniil Iourtchenko, University of Miami
  Time: 11.15 - 12:00
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: Optimal bounded control and relevant dynamic analysis of certain stochastic systems
  Abstract in pdf
• Wednesday, 18th August 2004 : Guest Lecture
  Professor Terje Haukaas, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver
  Time: 11.15 - 12:00
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: Application of finite Element Reliability and Sensitivity Methods to Ships and Ocean Structures.
  Abstract in pdf
• Thursday 24th June 2004 Seminar
  Professor J.-J. E. Slotine, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
  Time: 11.15 - 12:00
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: Application of contraction theory to syncronization, time delays and hybrid nonlinear systems.
  Abstract in pdf
• Thursday 17 June 2004: Seminar
  Professor Lambros Katafygiotis, Ph.D., Ass. prof. Civil Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  Time: 13.15-14.00,14.15-15.00
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: SEMINAR I: Reliability Analysis of Linear Dynamical Systems.
  SEMINAR II: Reliability Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.
  Announcement in pdf
• Monday 14 June 2004: The third guest lecture on nonlinear and stochastic vibrations
  Professor Michael F. Dimentberg,
  Time: 13.15-14.00
  Place: Meeting room T6 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: SUBHARMONIC RESPONSE OF A VIBROIMPACT SYSTEM TO NARROW - BAND RANDOM EXCITATION.
  Announcement in pdf
• Wednesday 9 June 2004: Guest Lecture
  Professor Ser Tong Queck, National University of Singapore
  Time: Wednesday 9 June at 10.15 - 11.30
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: "Local Damage Detection using Piezoelectric Actuator and Sensor". The overhead of the presentation is available in pdf format.
• Tuesday 8 June 2004: Seminar
  Professor Subbaram Naidu, Idaho State University
  Time: 13.15
  Place: Meeting room T2 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: ORDER REDUCTION IN CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN VIA SINGULAR PERTURBATIONS AND TIME SCALES
• Monday 7 June 2004: Guest Lecture
  Professor Ser Tong Queck, National University of Singapore
  The applications will include:(1)generation of non-stationary process, (2) as a signal processing technique for damage detection, and (3) as a signal processing technique for frequency determination. For the last 2 a comparison with other techniques such as Fourier and Wavelet transforms.
  The overhead of the presentation is available in pdf format.
  Time: Monday June 07 at 14.15 - 16.00
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: "Hilbert-Huang Transform - Introduction and some Applications".
• Monday 7 June 2004: Guest Lecture
  Professor Atul Kelkar, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Department of Mechanical Enginnering, Iowa State University, Ames
  Time: 11.15
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: Active noise cancellation using passivity-based control, Abstract,
• Friday 14 May 2004: Guest Lecture
  Prof. Alaa Mansour, PhD, Dr.h.c.,P.E., Professor and Chairman of the Ocean Engineering, Graduate Program, MC 1740, University of California
  Time: 11.15-12.00
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: Recent Research Topics on Stochastic Loads, Strength and Reliability
• Thursday 13 May 2004: Second lecture on Nonlinear and Stochastic Vibrations
  Professor M. Dimentberg, Mechanical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
  Time: 14.15 - 15.00
  Place: Meeting room T6, Marinteknisk Senter
  Topics will be covered: Sinusoid with random phase modulation – a model for dynamic loads in certain applications, with arbitrary bandwidth of spectral density and strongly non-Gaussian probability density. The model can be incorporated into Stochastic Differential Equations Calculus as will be illustrated through the derivation of the method of moments for systems with state-dependent white-noise excitations. Certain phenomena of parametrically excited vibrations will also be discussed.
• Friday 7 May 2004: Guest lecture on Nonlinear and Stochastic Vibrations
  Professor M. Dimentberg, Mechanical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
  Time: 10.15 - 12.00
  Place: Meeting room T6, Marinteknisk Senter
• Tuesday 4 May 2004: Guest lecture
  Dr.Ir.P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering Section
  Time: 10.15-12.00
  Place: Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
  Title: - "Probabilistic modelling and analysis of extreme wave-induced loads on vertical breakwaters, including fundamental statistical and model uncertainty".
  - "An analysis of drag forces based on L-Moments"
• Tuesday 20 April 2004: Guest lecture on "Control of oscillating mechanical systems, synchronization and chaos"
  Prof. dr. Henk Nijmeijer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics & Control Group Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
  Time: 10.15-12.00
  Place:Meeting room T3/T4 Marinteknisk Senter
• Thursday 29 January 2004: Guest Lecture on "Vibration Prediction of Deep Girder and Rectangular Tank Structures"
  Mr. Makoto Toyoda, Structure & Strengh Dept., Research Laboratory, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co.Ltd., Japan
• Thursday 15 January 2004: Guest Lecture on "Generating Exponentially Stable Oscillations in Nonlinear Systems by Feedback with Application to Walking Mechanisms"
  Professor Anton Shiriaev, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University, Sweden

2003

• Thursday 4 December 2003: Seminar on Contraction Analysis
  Dr. Jerome Jouffroy, Centre for Ships & Ocean Structures, NTNU
• Tuesday 2 December 2003: Guest Lecture on Sea State Processes
  Dr. Pierre Ailliot, IFREMER
• Tuesday 2 December 2003: Guest Lecture on Spectral Models for Waves with an Emphasis on Swell
  Dr. Michel Olagnon, IFREMER
• Monday 1 December 2003: Guest Lectures
  - Part 1. Metocean data and Ocean Engineering, General lecture oriented towards students and researchers
  - Part 2. Overview of current metocean research at IFREMER
  Dr. Michel Olagnon, IFREMER
• Wednesday 26 November 2003: Guest Lecture on Hydroelastic Analysis of a Floating Airport
  Professor Emeritus M. Ohkusu, Inst. for Appl. Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
• Friday 7 November 2003: Guest Lecture on Prediction of Operational Limits of Nonlinear Behaving Floating Objects at Sea. Dr. L. Adegeest, AMARCON BV, The Netherlands
• Thursday 6 November 2003: Probabilistic Methods in Analysis for Design and Operations Planning Involving Nonlinear Wave Excitation
  -Part 1. Third-order Volterra Modelling of Ship Responses
  Dr. L. Adegeest, AMARCON BV, The Netherlands
  -Part 2. Estimation of Volterra Transfer Functions
  Dr. Y. Birkelund, Tromsø College
• Tuesday 4 November 2003: The DERBYSHIRE Investigations / MaxWave and Survival Design
  Professor Emeritus Douglas Faulkner, Univ. of Glasgow
• Thursday 25 Sep 2003: Nonlinear Trajectory Tracking and Maneuvering Control of Marine Craft
  Professor António M. Pascoal, Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) Instituto Superior Técnico IST, Portugal
• Wednesday 24 Sep 2003: Separation Principles for Nonlinear Observer-Controller Design
  Dr. Karl-Petter W. Lindegaard, ABB Corporate Research
• Wednesday 3 Sep 2003: Some Hydrodynamic and Hydroelastic Issues for Very Large Floating Platforms
  Professor Rodney Eatock Taylor, Head, Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
• Tuesday 19 Aug 2003: Modularity, Stability and the Brain
  Professor Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Friday 20 Jun 2003: Optimal Control with State Constraints: A Unified Approach
  Dr. Martin Murillo, Idaho State University, USA
• Monday 7 April 2003: Bifurcation Analysis of Nonlinear Systems with High-Gain Feedbacks
  Dr. Fabio Celani, Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis, USA