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NEWS ARCHIVE
Upcoming conference [10 September 2007]
On October 18-20, CMA is hosting the 2nd Nordic Optimization Symposium. Read more.
Open Position: One PhD grant available [31 August 2007]
Through our cooperation with SINTEF, we hereby invite applications for a PhD grant. Read more here (English) or here (Norwegian).
Simulating the quantum computer [14 June 2007]
This topic has been studied by CMA's Eirik Ovrum in his thesis, very recently defended for the Ph.D.-degree. At forskning.no, the leading online distributor of research news in Norway, this work is presented in an extensive article. You can read the article here (in Norwegian). The paper, to which the article refers, can be found here.
Innovations in Mathematical Finance - third announcement [25 May 2007]
On June 25 - July 1, 2007, CMA will host this official AMaMeF workshop, which will be held at Hotel Alexandra, Loen. Information and registration here.
Three PhD defenses coming up [25 May 2007]
On June 1, Eirik Ovrum will publically defend his thesis "Entanglement and quantum simulators". Read more.
On June 4, Paul C. Kettler is up for the defense of his thesis "Investigations into dependency between financial Lévy processes using copula methods". Read more.
On June 6, Martin Groth holds the defense of his thesis "Topics in computational finance: The Barndorff-Nielsen & Shepard Stochastic volatility model". Read more.
Open positions: 4 Postdocs and 2 PhD [9 May 2007]
CMA is pleased to invite applications for up to 4 new postdoctoral positions and 2 PhD scholarships. Closing date for applications: 29 May 2007. Read more
Defence of thesis [7 May 2007]
On May 15, Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen will publically defend his thesis, entitled " Some problems in computational geometry related to intrinsic properties of curves and surfaces " for the Ph.D.-degree. Read more here.
The 2006 Annual Report [30 Mar 2007]
Full report (pdf, 6MB) can be downloaded here.
A CMA mini workshop: Industrial Geometry [2 Mar 2007]
On March 20, Dr. Thomas Grandine from Boeing, Seattle, is visiting CMA. His talks should have a broad appeal to several groups at the CMA, so we set up a mini workshop that also includes a presentation by CMA's own Ewald Quak. Read more here.
Two PhD defenses in March [23 Feb 2007]
On March 5, Knut Waagan will publically defend his thesis "Numerical methods for first order hyperbolic evolution equations". Read more.
On March ??, Paul C. Kettler is up for the defense of his thesis "Investigations into dependency between financial Lévy processes using copula methods". Read more.
Innovations in Mathematical Finance - second announcement [24 Jan 2007]
On June 25 - July 1, 2007, CMA will host this official AMaMeF workshop, which will be held at Hotel Alexandra, Loen. Information and registration here.
A CMA workshop coming up [24 Jan 2007]
On Feb 15+16 CMA will host a workshop entitled:
Interplay between representation of geometry and numerical solution of partial differential equations.
Read more here.
CMA granted five new years [Last update 19 Dec 2006]
Following the evaluation of an international scientific committee, the Research Council of Norway has today decided that CMA will be prolongated as a Centre of Excellence from 2008-2013. The committee's overall conclusion reads:
The CMA has the potential to become, in fact it already is, a dynamo for computational mathematics and modeling in Northern Europe and a highly visible player globally. Overall evaluation: Exceptionally Good.
Here you can read/download the committee's report.
The CMA prize established :-) [19 Dec 2006]
In his speech during the pre-christmas dinner at CMA, Ragnar Winther presented the winners of the first CMA prize. Statutes do not exist (yet), but the intention is to honor a person or a group who "contributes something extra".
The winners of the 2006 CMA prize are Knut Mørken and Morten Hjorth-Jensen for their extraordinary and long-lasting efforts on the teaching project "Computers in Science Education", a project that is now gaining considerable impact and recognition, as well as adding new and important dimensions to the activity of CMA.
Defence of thesis [11 Dec 2006]
On December 14, Pål Hermunn Johansen will publically defend his thesis, entitled "Topics in algebraic geometry and geometric modeling" for the Ph.D.-degree. Read more here.
New seminar series: Computers in Science Education [14 Nov 2006]
CMA will host a a new series of seminars, aimed at all those who are interested in teaching (models) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The seminar will be held approx. every second month, first time: Thursday Nov. 23, 16.00. Read more here (NB in Norwegian)
Workshop: GPU as a Computational Resource [7 Nov 2006]
As a part of the Strategic Institute Program "Graphics cards as a high-end computational resource", a workshop is organized on December 12th 2005 at CMA. Read more.
Defence of thesis [5 Oct 2006]
On October 10, Jostein Natvig will publically defend his thesis, entitled "High-resolution methods for conservation laws in the geosciences " for the Ph.D.-degree. Read more here.
Innovations in Mathematical Finance - first announcement [5 Oct 2006]
On June 25 - July 1, 2007, CMA will host this official AMaMeF workshop, which will be held at Hotel Alexandra, Loen. A first announcement, incl. a registration form is available here.
Nordic PhD workshop [2 Oct 2006]
After two years in Lund and last year in Uppsala this Swedish happening is expanding to Norway. Swedish and Norwegian Ph.D. student working in the field of Mathematical Finance, are invited to come and present their research in an informal context. Read more here.
Open positions: 1-2 Postdoc positions [30 Aug 2006]
CMA is pleased to invite applications for 1-2 new postdoctoral positions. Read more here (English) and here (Norwegian). Closing date for applications: 29 September 2006.
Open positions: 1-2 PhD grants available [30 Aug 2006]
The positions are tied to an eVITA-project, granted by the Research Council of Norway, entitled "MATMED - Mathematical and computational methods for co-registering multi-modal medical images". The full announcement text can be found here (English), and here (Norwegian). Closing date for applications: 15 September 2006.
Hans Kristian Eriksen receives H. M. King Harald's Gold Medal [29 Aug 2006]
CMA member Hans Kristian Eriksen has been awarded this traditional and prestigeous prize, which is annually presented to the author of last year's best PhD-theses at UiO. Read more in a press release here (in Norwegian).
Next CMA workshop [22 Aug 2006]
On September 29, CMA is co-organizer of the "13th Workshop in Mathematics and Economics". This year's topic: "Mathematical Finance and Insurance". Read more here.
A CMA conference [6 June 2006]
CMA invites all who are interested to our conference "Trends in Mathematics for Applications" on June 19-20. The topics will cover examples from several areas within our research plan, and speakers include both international experts and local representatives. Read more here.
3-4 new PhD positions announced [15 May 2006]
CMA is pleased to invite applications for 3-4 open PhD positions. Closing date for applications: June 8, 2006. Read more here. (Norwegian announcements here).
The 2005 Annual Report [2 Apr 2006]
The 2005 Annual Report of CMA is now available. Please download full version here (pdf, 820KB, 68 pages). For printed copies, please contact us (see the left margin).
Did you know that ... [11 Mar. 2006]
... in 2005, CMA members published 107 papers in refereed journals and gave 128 invited talks around the world. We had more than 200 international guests and arranged or co-arranged 32 international conferences/workshops. The complete 2005 details are all provided on our website. Click yourself around.
CMA Workshop coming up [11 Mar. 2006]
On March 29, CMA will host the workshop: Mathematical Finance for Electrcity and Related Markets. Read more here.
New Lecture Series, Spring 06 [11 Jan. 2006]
Adjunct professor at CMA, Knut Aase from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) in Bergen, will give a lecture series on "Economics of Uncertainy" during the spring semester of 2006. Read more here.
Defence of thesis [15 Dec. 2005]
On December 20, Hans Kristian Eriksen will publically defend his thesis, entitled "Practical analysis of current and future CMB experiments" for the Ph.D.-degree. Read more here.
CMA-guest Tarmo Soomere chosen 'Person-of-the-Year' in his home country, Estonia [9 Dec. 2005]
Prof. Dr. Tarmo Soomere from CENS, Estonia, who is currently visiting CMA through the CENS-CMA program, is presented as the 2005 winner by the newspaper "Postimees" ("The Postman"). Former winners include sportsmen, mountain climbers, songwriters, and soldiers. And now a true scientist!
Specializing in surface wave research, he is cited for correctly predicting the extent and effects of a devastating storm with subsequent flooding in January 2005 after the failure of the national routine warning system to issue a realistic marine forecast. He warned the media and public about it, and not the least he was able to explain later on - in a language that could be understood by the public - what happened and why. See www.postimees.ee (Issue Dec. 8) for extensive coverage.
CMA Workshops coming up [1 Dec. 2005]
Information on the next two CMA workshops:
New regular courses at CMA, Spring 06 [23 Nov. 2005]
In addition to the seminar series that CMA run, we will also host two new regular master/PhD courses in the spring semester 2006. Read more about
Open positions [2 November 2005, updated 9 November 2005]
Three - 3 - open positions are now available for applications at CMA. Our host, Dept. of mathematics has announced one, and the other two are tied to the research projects of Kenneth Karlsen and Snorre Christiansen respectively. Closure date for applications: 29 November and 1 December 2005. Read the different announcements from here.
Geir Ellingsrud elected Rector of UiO [30 September 2005]
Principal investigator and former deputy manager at CMA, Professor Geir Ellingsrud, was on september 29 elected the new Rector of the University of Oslo 2006-2009. The CMA community hereby congratulate! Read about the exciting election process in Uniforum
Boris Gudiksen wins Swedish research prize [2 September 2005]
CMA-affiliated postdoc Boris Gudiksen (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics) has been awarded the "Science Price" in 2005 by the Swedish Association of Scientists for having produced the best Ph.D. thesis in physics at a Swedish university in 2004. The title of his thesis was "The Coronal Heating Problem". Read more about his work from here.
Four more workshops in September [2 September 2005, updated September 9]
September is an active month at the CMA. Here is information about the workshops this month:
Snorre H. Christiansen to be granted the EURYI-Award [2 August 2005, updated 3 August 2005]
We are deeply proud to present CMA-postdoc Snorre Christiansen as one of the winners of this year's EURYI-grants, as announced by the European Science Foundation (www.esf.org/euryi) . The competition is extremely hard, and Snorre is the first and only Norwegian winner ever, all research areas included. CONGRATULATIONS, SNORRE!
This has caused considerable media attention.
Upcoming conferences at CMA [17 June 2005]
New information and details are posted on the webpages of the following
conferences at CMA this summer / early fall:
Upcoming conferences at CMA
[26 May 2005]
New information and details are posted on the webpages of the following
conferences at CMA this summer:
International conference celebrating
Prof. Bernt Øksendal 60th Anniversary [3
May 2005]
On April 10, 2005, Bernt Øksendal turned sixty, and his close
colleagues wish to honor him with this scientific conference to
celebrate the occasion. Read more here.
Open positions: 2 PhD and 1
Postdoc [27 April 2005]
See full announcement here.
(Norwegian announcements here)
Closing date for applications: 24
May 2005
Launch of new EU-project: Official
opening seminar and announcing open visitor positions [25
April 2005]
Together with an Estonian "Centre of Excellence", the
"Centre for Nonlinear Studies" (CENS) in Tallinn (see
http://cens.ioc.ee/
) CMA will run a "Transfer of Knowledge" project within
EU's FP6. The project aims at exchanging researchers. CMA will receive
several Estonian guest researchers in the next 4 years. For the
opposite way, visiting positions at CENS are announced for researchers
from all over Europe. An official web-site for the project, which
incepts on May 1, is not yet ready. But the first announcement for
visiting positions at CENS can
be found here.
Furthermore an official opening seminar takes place at CMA on May
24-25 with participants from both CENS and CMA. Read more here.
Defence of thesis [25
April 2005]
On April 29, Thilo Meyer-Brandis will publically
defend his thesis, entitled "White noise and stochastic
calculus for Levy processes with applications to finance"
for the Dr.Scient.-degree. Read more here.
The 2004 Annual Report [
6 Apr 2005]
The 2004 Annual Report of CMA is now available. Please download
full
version here (pdf, 2MB, 64 pages). For printed copies, please
contact us (see the left margin).
Int. conference on Image Processing
[18 March 2005]
One of the major events this year at the
CMA will be the international conference on "PDE-based Image
Processing and Related Inverse Problems" on August 8-12. For
information and registration, follow this
link.
The CMA seminar 2005:
[7 March 2005]
We are pleased to re-announce the CMA Tuesday
seminar series! We intensify the focus on general topics of broad
interest among the CMA (or closely related) research fields. Read
more.
Workshop 2: [18
February 2005]
On March 8-9, less than a week after the
first, we already present the next workshop, this time on Iterative
Methods for Elliptic Eigenproblems. Keynote speaker will
be Professor Klaus Neymeyr from University of Rostock, Germany.
Read
more.
Open positions: 1-2 postdoc
positions [ 8 February 2005]
We hereby invite applications for 1-2 postdoc positions at CMA.
Full announcement text can be found here.
Norwegian text here.
Closing date for applications: 1 April, 2005.
Lecture Series [5
January 2005]
Starting on January 17 and each Monday and
Friday forward, Bernt Øksendal will teach the course "Stochastic
Calculus for Jump Diffusions and Applications", based on the
recent book: B.Øksendal and A.Sulem: “Applied Stochastic
Control of Jump Diffusions”, Universitext, Springer 2004.
Read more.
Workshop [20
December 2004]
On March 3-4, 2005, CMA will host an international workshop on Recent
Advances in Nonlinear PDEs. Some preliminary information,
included keynote speakers, may be found here.
First call: The 2005 Abel Symposium
[12 November 2004]
CMA has been given the privilege of hosting and organizing the second
Abel Symposium July 29 - August 4, 2005. The stochastic analysis
group is responsible, and the symposium is devoted to Kiyosi Itô's
work and its further developments and applications. An initial web
presentation of the event, including an electronic registration
form, can be found here.
Workshop: Subdivision Curves
and Surfaces [2 November 2004]
On December 2-3 this year's workshop number 10 is arranged at CMA.
This workshop is devoted to subdivision curves and surfaces which
are generalizations of the well-known spline representation of curve
and surface models. Read more here.
Workshop: GPU as a computational
resource [12 October 2004]
In cooperation with our industrial partner, SINTEF, we hereby announce
yet another workshop at CMA this autumn, on November 10-11. This
time the emphasis is put on the graphics coprosessor in a computer,
utilizing it's computational forces. Read more here.
Electricity Market Industry
Day [8 October 2004]
CMA is pleased to welcome those who are interested, to a one-day
upgrading event on recent research within stochastic analysis for
modeling and valuation of the electricity market. Information and
electronic enrolment here.
Contact cma-info@cma.uio.no
if you want printed brochures sent to you.
Workshop: Mathematical Finance
and its Copulas [20 September
2004]
This event, also known as "the 11th Workshop on Mathematics
and Economics" takes place at CMA on Friday Oct 15. Read more
here.
Defences of theses [
15 September 2004]
During the next few days, two of CMA´s PhD-students will publically
defend their theses for the Dr.Scient.-degree:
- On Thursday Sep 16, Alberto Lanconelli will
defend his thesis: "White Noise Analysis and Stochastic
Differential Equations".
- On Friday Sep 24, Martin Reimers will defend
his thesis: "Topics in Mesh-based Modeling".
The CMA seminar series [
31 August 2004]
Again, for the fourth consecutive semester, the CMA invites everyone
who is interested to participate on our weekly CMA seminar, presenting
research results and challenges from the broad diversity of the
CMA research plan. Read
more.
Workshop: Multiscale Modeling
[ 31 August 2004]
A three-day intensive event with several internationally recognized
key note speakers takes place at CMA on October 18-20. The workshop
is coorganized by SINTEF
Applied Mathematics , CIPR,
Bergen and CMA. Read more about program, speakers, registration
etc here.
Lecture Series on Large Deviation
Theory [ 12 August 2004]
Professor Tusheng Zhang from the University of Manchester, U.K.,
recently employed as Professor II at CMA, will this autumn give
a course on large deviation theory. Read
more.
2 PhD-positions [
10 August 2004]
CMA hereby invite applications for 2 PhD-positions.
For more information, see the announcement here.
(Norwegian announcement here.)
Closing date for applications: 7 September
2004.
Workshop, first announcement
[ 25 June 2004]
CMA, in cooperation with SINTEF
Applied Mathematics and CIPR,
Bergen, will on Oct 18-20 arrange the workshop "Multiscale
modeling, and applications in fluid flow and material science".
Read
more.
CMA-professor granted prestigeous
award [ 21 June 2004]
Professor Kenneth Hvistendahl Karlsen, recently employed in a full
time CMA professorship, was on June 18 appointed with an "Elite
Award to Young Researchers (YFF)", as announced by the Research
Council of Norway. Read more about the winners here.
We congratulate!
Available PhD-position [
7 June 2004]
The Department of Informatics has now announced one PhD-position,
primarily available for CMA-applicants. Full announcement text (only
in Norwegian) can be found here.
Closing date for applications: 25
June , 2004.
Workshops in June [27
May 2004]
At CMA we will arrange two more workshops in early June. The first
is arranged on June 7-8 and is devoted to the Camassa-Holm and other
nonlinear dispersive equations - read more here.
The second is a one-day event on Mathematical Aspects of the Schroedinger
Equation. Read more here.
Defence of thesis [26
May 2004]
On May 27, Trond Brenna will publically defend
his thesis, entitled "Data Reduction on Cubical and Spherical
Domains Using High Dimensional Tensor Splines" for the
Dr.Scient.-degree. Read more here.
Available PhD-position in mathematics
[ 14 Apr 2004]
The Department of Mathematics has now announced one PhD-position
in mathematics, also available for CMA-applicants. Full announcement
text (only in Norwegian) can be found here.
Closing date for applications: 11
May, 2004.
A CMA Workshop: Nonlinear PDEs
- Theory, Numerics, and Applications [
13 Apr 2004]
Again CMA is pleased to invite all who are interested to a two-day´s
workshop, the third workshop of this kind in the spring 2004. The
event takes place on April 26-27. Read more here.
The 2003 Annual Report [
30 Mar 2004]
The 2003 Annual Report of CMA is now available. Please download
full
version here (pdf, 980K, 40 pages). For printed copies, please
contact us (see the left margin).
Open Positions: 1-2 postdoc
positions [ 30 Mar 2004]
We hereby invite applications for 1-2 postdoc positions at CMA.
Full announcement text can be found here.
Norwegian text here.
Closing date for applications: 1 June, 2004.
Defences of theses [
23 Mar 2004]
During week 14, two of CMA´s PhD-students will publically
defend their theses for the Dr.Scient.-degree:
- On Wednesday March 31, Njål Foldnes will
defend his thesis: "Polyhedra and Algorithms for some
Knapsack Problems and Hop-constrained Paths". More detailed
information here.
- On Thursday April 1, Truls Flatberg will defend
his thesis: "Majorization and optimization related to
graphs and (0,1)-matrices". More detailed information
here.
Special announcement; Guest
Lecture [5 Mar 2004]
We explicitly recommend the CMA Guest Lecture on March 15. Professor
Thomas Russell is currently Program Director in the Division of
Mathematical Sciences of National Science Foundation, USA. His talk
has the title "Recent Growth of Mathematics Funding at the
U.S. National Science Foundation". Read
more.
Workshop 2: Computational Finance
and Physics [ 2 Mar 2004]
The second CMA workshop in March will focus on computational methods
and their analysis for problems arising in finance and physics,
and particularily on various types of Monte Carlo methods. The workshop
takes place at CMA on March 22-23. Read
more.
Workshop 1: Computational advances
in the nuclear many-body problem [
10 Febr. 2004]
In CMA, we have already arranged several workshops with international
participation, focusing different aspects of our research
plan. The next workshop is entitled: "Computational in
the nuclear many-body problem" and takes place at CMA on March
11-13. Read
more.
New visualization lab in operation
[ 29. Jan. 2004]
The CMA visualisation lab is now in operation in B912. There are
five computers with high-end graphics cards. These are for use by
members of the CMA, and their students.
CMA sponsor of www.matematikk.org
[ 27. Jan. 2004]
CMA has recently entered a five-year sponsor-agreement with the
council that runs this national net-resource for children, youths,
teachers, and parents. We hereby encourage you to visit www.matematikk.org
(only in Norwegian).
1-2 PhD positions
[ 23. Jan. 2004]
There are now announced 1-2 open positions
for PhD students at the centre. For more information see the announcement
here.
(Norwegian announcements here)
Closing date for applications: 17
Feb. 2004.
The 2004 seminar and lecture
series [ 6. Jan. 2004]
In the spring semester 2004, CMA offers several new seminar and
lecture series. Themes are Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory, Non-Standard
Analysis, Symplectic Geometry, and recent results on the Navier-Stokes
Equations. We also maintain our main CMA seminar series as well
as the series of Guest Lectures. Read more here.
Open Position [
24. Nov. 2003]
The position as adviser / senior adviser in CMA is now available
for applications. Norwegian announcement can be found here.
Closing date for applications is Dec. 9, 2003.
Workshop in CMA: Computational
methods for the time-dependent Schroedinger equation [
5. Nov. 2003]
In CMA, we have already arranged several workshops focusing different
aspects of our research
plan. The next workshop is entitled: "Computational methods
for the time-dependent Schroedinger equation" and takes place
at CMA on Nov. 17-18. Read
more.
Workshop in CMA: Computational
methods in astrophysical problems [
21. oct. 2003]
In CMA, we have already arranged several workshops with international
participation, focusing different aspects of our research
plan. The next workshop is entitled: "Computational methods
in astrophysical problems" and takes place at CMA on Nov.3-4.
Read more.
Symposium on the Mathematics
of Finance [ 19 Sep. 2003]
CMA is co-organizer and sponsor of this arrangement in Livingstone,
Zambia from 8-12 Dec. 2003. Information on program, registration
and other details here.
The weekly seminar [
9 Sep. 2003]
Again we invite all who are interested to our weekly CMA-seminar
series on Tuesdays. The seminar is intended for a rather broad audience
with interests in mathematics and its applications. The activity
of the seminar aims at keeping a balance between theory, computation,
and applications. The seminar brings speakers from inside and outside
of the centre, raising issues and exchanging ideas on topics of
current interest. Read more about the fall
2003 seminar here.
A CMA workshop: Level Set Methods
[ 4 Sep. 2003]
CMA hereby invite all who are interested
to a workshop on "Level Set Methods and Applications".
The event takes place on Sep. 9-10, and the main
invited speaker is Professor Richard Tsai from Princeton University.
Read more here.
Industrial conferenceday [16
July 2003]
As an extension of the official Kick-off conference, CMA and its
main industrial partner, SINTEF Applied Mathematics, will on 3 September
arrange a conference with industrial perspectives of the CMA activities.
Norwegian announcement here.
Full Professorship available
[ 16 June 2003 ]
We hereby invite applications for a full
position as Professor at CMA. See the full announcement with all
details and instructions here.
Closing date
for applications: 15 July.
1-2 PhD- and 1-2 Postdoc positions
There are now announced 2-4 open positions
for PhD students and Posdocs at the centre. For more information
see the announcement here.
(Norwegian announcements here)
Closing date for applications: 1 July 2003
Open Position [
13 May 2003]
We have now released the announcement of a position as ´scientific
programmer´ in CMA. Read more here.
See Norwegian announcement here.
Closing date for applications: 3 June.
The CMA kick-off conference [
28 April 2003]
We hereby announce the main on-campus event of the 2003 CMA activity
- the official opening conference! For detailed information, program,
and online registration, please visit the kick-off
conference pages here. Download conference poster here.
Registration deadline postponed until August
15!
CMA hosts Arctic workshop [
26 March 2003]
The Arctic Workshop on Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance
will be held at the Rica Ishavshotell in Tromsø in the period
August 5-10, 2003. Read more here.
A poster can be found here.
The weekly seminar [
10 March 2003]
We arrange a weekly seminar focusing the variety of the different
research fields within the centre. The seminar is intended for a
rather broad audience with interests in mathematics and its applications.
The activity of the seminar aims at keeping a balance between theory,
computation, and applications. The seminar brings speakers from
inside and outside of the centre, raising issues and exchanging
ideas on topics of current interest. Read more about the spring
2003 seminar here.
We have started ... [
10. March 2003 ]
The Centre of Mathematics for Applications
is running as of 1 March. We will soon announce the coming events
on these pages.
Open Positions [
1. January 2003 ]
There are now announced 4 open positions
for PhD students and Post-Docs at the centre. For more information
see the announcement here.
Closing date for applications: 4 February.
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