Dr. Annalisa Pillepich, independent group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy gives a open lecture titled: Universe(s) in a box; Modeling populations of galaxies with supercomputer simulations
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Master's student: Sindri Þrastarson
Title: Harnesing solar energy in Iceland with PV panels
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Faculty: Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Advisors: Björn Marteinsson, Associate Professor and Hrund Ólöf Andradóttir,Professor, both at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Examiner: Kolbrún Reinhardsdóttir, Electrical Engineer at Efla
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Doctoraldefence from Faculty of Education and Pedagogy
Preschool teachers’ professional development through collaborative action research: Creating mutual understanding and professional language about values and values education
The opponents are: Dr. Margaret Riel Director for Center for Collaborative Action Research, Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA, and Dr. Liora Bresler, Professor at University of Illinois.
Supervisor was Dr. Jóhanna Einarsdóttir, Professor at School of Education, University of Iceland and co-supervisor Dr. Pia Williams, Professor at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. A memer in the doctoralcommittee was also dr. Anna-Maija Puroila, Senior lecturer at University of Oulu, Finland
Dr. Jónína Vala Kristinsdóttir, Professor and Head Faculty of Faculty of Education and Pedagogy, School of Education, is the master of ceremony
Title: Pattern Scheduling: A Practical Approach For Scheduling Elective Surgeries
Doctoral student: Ásgeir Örn Sigurpálsson
Doctoral committee:
Thomas Philip Rúnarsson, Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Iceland.
Rögnvaldur J. Sæmundsson, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Iceland.
Edmund K. Burke, Professor, Queen Mary University of London
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An international conference on systems thinking for Icelandic educators and students will be held at the University of Iceland 6 – 10 August; the 36th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. According to the conference organisers systems thinking is a growing and dynamic approach in pre-college education throughout the world, including the United States, Netherlands, China, Japan, and many other locations.
Conference Programme Chair Robert Eberlein said, “Our goal is to encourage Icelandic educators to consider systems thinking and to participate in the 2018 System Dynamics Society conference as attendees at a workshop or roundtable session. We are fortunate this year to have our conference in Reykjavík, where we expect to have experts of international renown sharing their research and theories.”
The EDDA Research Center in Critical Contemporary Research at the University of Iceland hosts, in cooperation with the Nordic Research Hub ReNew, an international conference—which will be held 19–20 October 2018—on emergency politics from historical and contemporary perspectives. It brings together scholars in diverse academic fields and working within different thematic and national paradigms to explore “states of exception.” The conference will take place in the Conference Hall at the National Museum of Iceland. Please find the conference program here.
Speaker: Dr. Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, Associate professor in laboratory animal science at University of Copenhagen
Title: Same-same but different? The 3Rs and Animal Welfare
Master's student: Tobias Alexander Soutar
Title: Tracing mantle degassing along the East African Rift using He and C isotopes: A geospatial approach
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Faculty: Faculty of Earth Sciences
Advisors: Sæmundur Ari Halldórsson, Research Scholar and Andri Stefánsson, Professor, both at the Faculty of Earth Sciences
Examiner: Halldór Ármannsson, Chief Geochemist at ISOR
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The doctoral defence of Guðrún Ragnarsdóttirwill be 24th April at 1 pm in the University´s Aula, main building
School leaders’ perceptions of contemporary change at the upper secondary school level in Iceland. Interaction of actors and social structures facilitating or constraining change
The oponents are: Dr. Elisabet Nihlfors, professor at Uppsala University, and Dr. Monica Johansson senior lecturer at University of Gothenburg.