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CeSOS News
2007
- October 1 : CeSOS Employment: Unique opportunities for research about Ships and Ocean Structures - for PhD or Postdoctoral Fellows, Visiting Professors and Researchers. CeSOS would like to invite applications for:
- CoE1/07: Visiting professor or researcher positions – with a duration of 2 months or more (up to one year)
- CoE2/07: Postdoctor or researcher positions – with a duration of 1 to 2 years (up to 10 positions)
- CoE3/07: PhD fellowships – with a duration of 3 years (up to 8 positions). Read more
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| Chinese delegation visiting CeSOS facilities |
- August 20: A Chinese delegation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University visits CeSOS to strengthen international cooperation. Read more (in Norwegian)
- May 30: Dr. Øyvind Notland Smogeli received the ExxonMobil prize. Read more (in Norwegian)
- May 25: Professor Torgeir Moan talks about Safety at Sea in an interview with Gemini Magazine. Read more (in Norwegian)
- March 21: The journal "Kapital" ranks professors in Norway. Read more (in Norwegian)
- March 22: CeSOS Annual Report for 2006 is now available on-line. Read
more
- March 21: The journal "Kapital" ranks professors in Norway. Read more (in Norwegian)
- March 16 : CeSOS Employment: Unique opportunities for research about Ships and Ocean Structures - for PhD or Postdoctoral Fellows, Visiting Professors and Researchers. CeSOS would like to invite applications for:
- CoE1/07: Visiting professor or researcher positions – with a duration of 2 months or more (up to one year)
- CoE2/07: Postdoctor or researcher positions – with a duration of 1 to 2 years (up to 10 positions)
- CoE3/07: PhD fellowships – with a duration of 3 years (up to 8 positions). Read more
- January 19: Prof. Emeritus and CeSOS researcher Johannes Falnes talks about the Norwegian wave energy industry in an interview with "Dag og Tid". Read more (in Norwegian)
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| Øyving N. Smogeli receiving the Tekna prize |
- January 05: Dr. Øyvind Notland Smogeli received the Norwegian Society of Chartered Technical and Scientific Professionals (Tekna) and NTNU's prize "Young researcher 2006" for outstanding research. Read more (in Norwegian)
2006
- December 15: The Board of Directors of the Research Council of Norway decided to prolong the activities in our centre for 5 years, to year 2012. Congratulations to you all!.
- November 29: Prof. Torgeir Moan gave a keynote talk at the SOBENA 2006 conference in Rio de Janeiro on November 29 and received the SOBENA International Award which was presented for the first time.
- November 03: Disputation at the Dept. of Marine Technology: Øyvind Notland Smogeli will make public defence of his doctoral thesis entitled "Control of Marine Propellers: from Normal to Extreme Conditions". Read more
- October 20: Disputation at the Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics: Ivar-Andre Flakstad Ihle will make public defence of his doctoral thesis entitled "Coordinated Control of Marine Craft". Read more (in Norwegian)
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| Professor Moan receiving the PSA Award |
- August 24: Professor Torgeir Moan is the first person to receive the PSA Award (Petroleum Safety Authority Award). Prof Moan has worked to reduce major accident risks for many years and he has contributed to the design of safer structures on the Norwegian continental shelf and elsewhere in the world. Read more
- August 24: Disputation at the Dept. of Structural Engineering: Anna Olsen will make public defence of her doctoral thesis entitled "Time-Variant Reliability of Dynamic Systems by Importance Sampling and Probabilistic Analysis of Ice Loads". Read more
- July 03: CeSOS' research activities are mentioned in NTNU's brochure for 2006. This brochure presents various activities within research, education, innovation and dissemination over the past year. Read more
- June 19: The article "Maritime research finds new applications" has been published in the last edition of DNV Forum and it focuses on the Centre's work and achievements. Read more
- June 16: The Research Council of Norway announced the establishment of 14 Centres of Research-based Innovation. SINTEF Fishery and Aquaculture hosts one of these centres, CREATE. CeSOS is a research partner of CREATE. Read more
- May 30: Professor Torgeir Moan received the ISOPE JS. Chung Award during the ISOPE Conference in San Francisco, which was attended by over 600 participants. Get the ISOPE Award Lecture here.
- April 26: Professor Asgeir J. Sørensen and Øyvind
Smogeli explain their work on propeller anti-spin control in severe sea states
in GEMINI : 2/2006, in an article (in Norwegian): ”Mindre slit for propellen”.
Read more
The Magazine will be available on April 26.
- April 1: CeSOS annual report for 2005 is now available
(April 1st). We note that CeSOS contributed 2 new books and 9 book chapters.
34 Journal Papers and 88 Conference Papers were published. 9 keynote lectures
at major conferences were delivered by key persons in CeSOS. Read
more
- March 30: The first doctoral thesis this year by PhD students
in CeSOS was successfully presented and defended by Xinying Zhu on March 30.The
thesis is entitled: Application of CIP Method to Strongly Nonlinear Wave-Body
Interaction Problems.
- March 13: Professor Johannes Falnes, "the grand old man”
of wave energy conversion and CeSOS researcher, was interviewed by Andreas
Bratland on March 13. 2006 on the NRK-P2 radio programme ”Verdt å
Vite Spesial”. They presented a special documentary on Wave-energy conversion.
Also another pioneer in this field, Stephen Salter from The University of
Edinburgh, participated in this program.
- March 06: NTNU`s internal newspaper - Universitetsavisa
has focused on internationalisation,also in an interview, Professor Torgeir
Moan points to internationalisation as one of many policy instruments to maintain
high quality research at NTNU
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| Professor Odd Faltinsen with his
new book "Hydrodynamics of High-speed Marine Vessels" |
February: Professor Odd Faltinsen's (picture) new book
"Hydrodynamics of High-speed Marine Vessels" on Cambridge University
Press is available in bookstores. See
publisher.
- February 16-17: HyMarCS
Workshop, Oppdal Norway
- Professor Torgeir Moan received the ”Best Paper in SIE Award for 2005” for
his paper on Reliability-based management of inspection, maintenance and repair
of offshore structures in J. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering.
2005
- December: Trong Dong Nguyen was awarded the “KKCNN
C.K. Choi Award for outstanding young researchers in 2005” for the paper
on Hybrid Controller for Dynamic Positioning from Calm to Extreme Seas - Experiments
with a Model Ship, which was co-authored with A. J. Sørensen and S.
T. Quek and was presented at The 18th KKCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering
in December in Kaohsiung,Taiwan.
- July: Postdoc at CeSOS Tristan Perez has published a book on Ship Motion Control
at Springer Verlag. Read more
- July 25: The seminar on tensegrity structures, which took
place at the Centre on June 2005, has recently received public attention at
the local newspaper "Adresseavisen". NTNU
and Sintef`s magazine GEMINI also has a short piece about "Tensegrity" in
their 2005/2006 number.
- May 20: Roger Skjetne recieved the Exxon Mobil Award for
the best applied PHD thesis at NTNU in 2005 on May 20th 2005.
- May 9: Bjørn Abrahamsen, 4th year student associated with
CeSOS, got the Shell Award on May 9th 2005. Read
more
- March 20: Roger Skjetne received the Exxon Mobil Award
for the best applied PhD thesis at NTNU for 2005. This is the second Exxon
Mobil prize awarded to CeSOS PhD students in CeSOS’ short history. Read
more
2004
- October 21: Professor Torgeir Moan got ASME's Calvin W.
Rice Award 2004, read about it here.Congratulations
to our visiting professor Changhong Hu with Landrini
award.
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Last revised: 01 October 2007.
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