BMC Seminar - Serum protein signatures in Alzheimer’s disease
10. October 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00
Árnagarður
room 201
BMC Seminar Thursday 10th of October at 12:00 in Árnagarður, room 201
Speaker: Dr. Valborg Guðmundsdóttir, research specialist at Health Science Institution, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Heart Association
Title: Serum proteomics reveal APOE-ε4-dependent and APOE-ε4-independent protein signatures in Alzheimer’s disease
MENNTAKVIKA Conference
26. September 2024 - 9:00 to 27. September 2024 - 17:00
MENNTAKVIKA takes place on September 26 - 27, 2024.
The annual conference of the University of Iceland's School of Education, Menntakvika, presents and communicates the latest researches and findings in education and related fields.
The annual conference of the University of Iceland's School of Education, Menntakvika, presents and communicates the latest researches and findings in education and related fields.
The theme of Menntakvika 2024 is The future of education in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), and includes 210 talks and 55 seminars.
The conference is an important forum for experts, academics and people working in the field to learn from each other, share knowledge and promote cooperation in the field of educational sciences.
PhD students from Aurora universities completed course in scientific outreach
12/06/2023 - 09:54
Almost 30 PhD students from Aurora universities attended a course on scientific outreach last week at the University of Iceland. They learned about the potential benefits of sharing research with the public in different ways and also took part in a competition to design the best research presentation.
The four-day course was entitled "PhD Impact, the Aurora Master Class on Public Outreach for Doctoral Candidates". It was attended by students from a diverse range of subjects and 8 different Aurora universities, including the University of Iceland. The course was designed to train these future scientists to effectively communicate their research and findings to the public. Academics are increasingly expected not just to conduct research and teach students, but also to share their research findings with the public in an accessible way and use their expertise to contribute to public debate.
Professional identity among early-career social workers
31. August 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
Stapi
Professional identity among early-career social workers, Job Challenges and Time Management Coping Strategies.
Discussing innovative and novel cardioprotective therapies
05/09/2023 - 14:21
Around 50 research scientist and specialists in the field of cardiovascular disease attend a conference on campus from 6 to 8 September where they will discuss new ways to reduce the impact of these diseases on the heart. Academics at the University of Iceland organise the conference and give talks.
The conference is under the auspices of the research project IMproving Preclinical Assessment of Cardioprotective Therapies" (IMPACT), supported by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). COST supports European collaboration in science, innovation and technology in order to build bridges between researchers and industry, thus facilitating the development of new solutions benefitting society at large.
Is sexual violence different? Perceptions of exceptionalism
28. September 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
Veröld - Hús Vigdísar
VHV-007
Lecture organized by the Institute of International Affairs, Institute of Administrative Studies and Politics, Department of Political Science.
Lecturer: Anne-Kathrin Kreft.
Media reports, policy discourses but also academic studies frequently depict sexual violations as an exceptional form of political violence. In particular in global efforts to “stop rape in war,” sexual violence is portrayed in ways that suggests it stands out from other violence in its egregiousness.
Indeed, prior research has shown that both international actors and western publics are more likely to support intervention in armed conflicts in response to sexual violence, regardless of overall conflict intensity. What role perceptions of violence itself play in such processes, and whether people indeed attribute exceptionalism to sexual violence within a typology of violence remain unanswered questions, however.
Midway evaluation in Physics -Swetha Suresh Babu
29. December 2022 - 11:00 to 13:00
VR-II
Room 156
Title: Modeling of high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharges with tungsten target
Doctoral candidate: Swetha Suresh Babu
Doctoral committee:
Jón Tómas Guðmundsson, Professor at the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland
Snorri Þ. Ingvarsson, Professor at the Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland
Daniel Lundin, Associate Professor at Linköping University, Sweden
Abstract
Spoiler Alert: What Cybersecurity Might Look, Feel, and Smell Like in 2032
13. April 2022 - 15:00 to 30. April 2022 - 18:00
Gróska
Open Area - Ground Floor
Title of Exhibition: Spoiler Alert: What Cybersecurity Might Look, Feel, and Smell Like in 2032
Take a walk around Reykjavik ten years from now, and interact with the everyday objects you might find there. Explore what "cybersecurity" may mean for a world in which these objects exist.
Will you encounter something that surprises you? Alarms you? Will you find something you wish was available today?
There are no easy answers, just many different versions of the kind of future we might build. With an exhibit on the ground floor of Gróska, we invite you to consider which of these worlds you would want to make more likely to happen, and which less.
The exhibit was created by the students of the University of Iceland course "Ethnographic Approaches to Cybersecurity", taught by Meghan McGrath as part of the Fulbright-NSF Grant in Cyber-Security and Critical Infrastructure.
Loss-framed incentives and employee (mis-)behavior
11. March 2022 - 11:00 to 12:00
Oddi
Room 312
Loss-framed incentives have received a lot of attention in behavioral economics. In contrast to traditional gain-framed incentive schemes where employees receive a reward upon achieving a pre-specified target, loss-framed incentive schemes entail an upfront payment to employees, which they lose if they fail to reach the target. Several experiments have shown that loss-framed incentives lead to greater effort provision than their gain-framed equivalents both in the lab and in the field – so why don't we see them used more often in real organizations? We explore this puzzle in a laboratory experiment where participants can respond to incentives along three dimensions: effort provision, theft and voluntary provision of help.