2010 All news
27.08 COMPLEX is organizing a mini-workshop on Complex Matter Physics at NTNU, Trondheim, September 20-21, 2010.
02.07 Nordic Network in Soft Matter Physics headed by J.O. Fossum of Complex-NTNU has been selected as a Nordic Research Network 2010-2012 by NordForsk. The network includes 12 research groups within soft condensed matter physics in four Nordic countries, involving about 85 scientists.
23.06 The Conference on Computational Physics - CCP-2010 is arranged at NTNU, Trondheim 23-26 June with two Complex group scientists - A. Hansen and E.G. Flekkøy - as chairmen and main organizers.
23.04 Kick-off meeting for a new Complex project entitled "Sorption and migration of CO2 in porous media". The project which will be running for four years, involves five new PhDs and postdocs and a total budget of about 23 MNOK. It is financed by the CLIMIT program of the Research Council of Norway.
April 2010 Elisabeth Bouchaud is visiting the Complex-NTNU group until September. She has been elected The Onsager Professor of 2010 at NTNU.
26.01 NTNU students in the Complex group "weightless above France". News in the newspaper "Adresseavisen" about one of our research projects (in Norwegian).
2009
18.12 The Complex group has been awarded a large research grant from the CLIMIT program of the Research Council of Norway. This four years grant on the project "Sorption and migration of CO2 in porous media" will allow us to extend and increase our research activities within CO2 storage and environmental technology in general, and it involves scientists at all the three Complex partner institutions.
07.12 A paper on "Quickclay and Landslides of Clayey Soils" was recently published in the Physical Review Letters by members of Complex. The publication of this paper has been highlighted by the University of Amsterdam.
04.12 The COMPLEX groups presented six talks and posters at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston this week. Nearly half of the participants from Norway came from Complex.
11.11 A team of student from the Complex group at NTNU has participated in the European Space Agency's "Fly your thesis" program and performed their study of the flow of clay nanoparticles in salty water in the ESA Microgravity Laboratory "Zero-G" inside an Airbus A300. This has been highlighted, e.g., at Norsk Romsenter (in Norwegian).
29.10 The Complex Activity Report 2009 (PDF, 18 MB) is now available. It describes all our research projects and recent publications.
16.06 The seminar yesterday in Lillehammer on Condensed Matter and Complex Systems was a success with 14 invited or contributed talks and more than 30 participants. The abstracts of the talks can be found here.
11.06 COMPLEX has been selected as a partner at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for 2011/2012. The centre will be headed by Tom Henning Johansen and the topic is Complex Matter Science.
29.05 The program for the NFS-Complex seminar in Lillehammer on June 15, 2009 is now available
13.04 Our research on the properties of clay suspensions was highlighted in Forskning.no: Leire i fritt fall
03.04 The Geilo Advanced Study Institute ("the Geilo School") with IFE as an organizer and COMPLEX as a main sponsor ended successfully today. This 20th school had about 70 participants from more than 20 countries.
12.03 COMPLEX is arranging a one-day seminar on Monday June 15 at Lillehammer SAS Hotel. The seminar is arranged in collaboration with the Condensed Matter Division of the Norwegian Physical Society as a satellite meeting to the Nanomat conference 2009.
06.03 Two articles written by Complex team members have recently been published in the prestigeous journal Physical Review Letters (no. 1, no. 2 )
01.03 One Complex member in Scientific Comittee of 14th International Clay Conference, Castellaneta M., Italy, June 14-20,
2009, and Convener of Session NM8: Self-assembly from Clay Particles:
From Nano to Macro
25.02 Funding for the project Properties of carbon cone particles and nanocarbon materials has been awarded from the Frinat program of the Research Council of Norway.
13.01 Norwegian Space Centre: Norwegian students become weightless
12.01 ESA announces that two student from Complex NTNU have been selected to perform experiments in Zero G
12.01 COMPLEX is arranging the 20th Geilo ASI school at Bardøla Hotel 23 March - 2 April 2009: Order, Robustness and Instabilities in Complex Systems
2008
12.12 Funding for the project Complex systems and soft materials has been awarded from the Frinat program of the Research Council of Norway.