Kommande disputationer

Sep292020 DoktorsavhandlingAssessment of cavitation erosion risk based on single-fluid simulation of cavitating flowsCavitation erosion is material loss due to the repetitive collapse of cavities near the surface. This phenomenon is one of the limiting factors in the design of high-performance marine propulsors as it restricts their reliability and increases the... Författare: Mohammad Hossein Arabnejad Khanouki. Opponent: Ing Romuald Skoda,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.   10:00  Onlinelänk Assessment of cavitation erosion risk based on single-fluid simulation of cavitating flowsCavitation erosion is material loss due to the repetitive collapse of cavities near the surface. This phenomenon is one of the limiting factors in ... Författare: Mohammad Hossein Arabnejad Khanouki. Opponent: Ing Romuald Skoda,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.   10:00  Onlinelänk Sep292020 DoktorsavhandlingMultipoint Okounkov bodies, strong topology of ω-plurisubharmonic functions and Kähler-Einstein metrics with prescribed singularitiesThe most classical topic in Kähler Geometry is the study of Kähler-Einstein metrics as solution of complex Monge-Ampère equations. This thesis principally regards the investigation of a strong topology for ω-plurisubharmonic functions on a fixed c... Författare: Antonio Trusiani. Opponent: Slawomir Kolodziej, Jagiellonian University, Poland.   10:15  Plats: Euler Room, Chalmers tvärgata 3, Göteborg. Multipoint Okounkov bodies, strong topology of ω-plurisubharmonic functions and Kähler-Einstein metrics with prescribed singularitiesThe most classical topic in Kähler Geometry is the study of Kähler-Einstein metrics as solution of complex Monge-Ampère equations. This thesis prin... Författare: Antonio Trusiani. Opponent: Slawomir Kolodziej, Jagiellonian University, Poland.   10:15  Plats: Euler Room, Chalmers tvärgata 3, Göteborg. Sep292020 DoktorsavhandlingAirborne Wind Energy - To fly or not to fly?This thesis investigates crosswind Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWESs) in terms of power production and potential role in future electricity generation systems. The perspective ranges from the small scale, modelling AWE as a single system, to the... Författare: Elena Malz. Opponent: Dr. Roland Schmehl, TU Delft, The Nethlerlands.   13:00  Plats: ONLINE. Onlinelänk Airborne Wind Energy - To fly or not to fly?This thesis investigates crosswind Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWESs) in terms of power production and potential role in future electricity gener... Författare: Elena Malz. Opponent: Dr. Roland Schmehl, TU Delft, The Nethlerlands.   13:00  Plats: ONLINE. Onlinelänk Sep292020 DoktorsavhandlingSuperinductance and fluctuating two-level systems: Loss and noise in disordered and non-disordered superconducting quantum devicesIn this thesis, we first demonstrate that a disordered superconductor with high kinetic inductance can realise a microwave low-loss, non-dissipative circuit element with impedance greater than the quantum resistance. This element, known as a super... Författare: David Niepce. Opponent: Prof. Martin Weides, University of Glasgow.   13:00  Plats: Kollektorn, MC2, Kemivägen 9, Chalmers.. Superinductance and fluctuating two-level systems: Loss and noise in disordered and non-disordered superconducting quantum devicesIn this thesis, we first demonstrate that a disordered superconductor with high kinetic inductance can realise a microwave low-loss, non-dissipativ... Författare: David Niepce. Opponent: Prof. Martin Weides, University of Glasgow.   13:00  Plats: Kollektorn, MC2, Kemivägen 9, Chalmers.. Okt012020 DoktorsavhandlingCharacterization of respiratory physiology in Lactococcus lactis for high-yield production of high-performance starter culturesFermented food products are consumed world-wide, every day, and the demand is growing as intake increases. Lactococcus lactis is a lactic acid bacterium commonly used as a starter culture to produce fermented dairy products. The quality o... Författare: Anna Johanson. Opponent: Professor Bas Teusink, System Biology Lab, AIMMS,Vrije Universitet Amsterdam, The Netherlands.   09:00  Plats: Lecture hall HA1, Hörsalsvägen 4, Chemistry building and via Zoom (Chalmers, Johanneberg campus). Please contact Gunilla Bankel gunilla.bankel@chalmers.se to obtain password for online participation.. Onlinelänk Characterization of respiratory physiology in Lactococcus lactis for high-yield production of high-performance starter culturesFermented food products are consumed world-wide, every day, and the demand is growing as intake increases. Lactococcus lactis is a lactic ... Författare: Anna Johanson. Opponent: Professor Bas Teusink, System Biology Lab, AIMMS,Vrije Universitet Amsterdam, The Netherlands.   09:00  Plats: Lecture hall HA1, Hörsalsvägen 4, Chemistry building and via Zoom (Chalmers, Johanneberg campus). Please contact Gunilla Bankel gunilla.bankel@chalmers.se to obtain password for online participation.. Onlinelänk Okt022020 DoktorsavhandlingSintering of water-atomized iron and low-alloyed steel powderIron and steel powder grades are extensively used in the powder metallurgy (PM) industry for manufacturing of ferrous structural components, with a major customer in the automotive industry. The powder grades are predominantly manufactured by wate... Författare: Johan Wendel. Opponent: Univ. Prof. Dr. José M. Torralba, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.   09:00  Plats: Virtual Development Laboratory. Onlinelänk Sintering of water-atomized iron and low-alloyed steel powderIron and steel powder grades are extensively used in the powder metallurgy (PM) industry for manufacturing of ferrous structural components, with a... Författare: Johan Wendel. Opponent: Univ. Prof. Dr. José M. Torralba, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.   09:00  Plats: Virtual Development Laboratory. Onlinelänk Okt022020 DoktorsavhandlingFuel-efficient driving strategiesThis thesis is concerned with fuel-efficient driving strategies for vehicles driving on roads with varying topography, as well as estimation of road grade and vehicle mass for vehicles utilizing such strategies. A framework referred to as speed pr... Författare: Sina Torabi. Opponent: Dr. Mirjana Ivanović, Department of Mathematics and Informatics Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.   10:00  Fuel-efficient driving strategiesThis thesis is concerned with fuel-efficient driving strategies for vehicles driving on roads with varying topography, as well as estimation of roa... Författare: Sina Torabi. Opponent: Dr. Mirjana Ivanović, Department of Mathematics and Informatics Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.   10:00  Okt022020 DoktorsavhandlingMathematical Modelling of Cell Migration and PolarizationCell migration plays a fundamental role in both development and disease. It is a complex process during which cells interact with one another and with their local environment. Mathematical modelling offers tools to investigate such processes and c... Författare: Adam Malik. Opponent: Prof. Helen Byrne, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. .   10:00  Plats: Pascal. Onlinelänk Mathematical Modelling of Cell Migration and PolarizationCell migration plays a fundamental role in both development and disease. It is a complex process during which cells interact with one another and w... Författare: Adam Malik. Opponent: Prof. Helen Byrne, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. .   10:00  Plats: Pascal. Onlinelänk Okt062020 DoktorsavhandlingAssessing Mineral Resource Scarcity in a Circular Economy ContextDue to humanity’s dependence on metal resources there are growing concerns regarding impacts related to their potential scarcity, both for current and future generations. The vision of a more circular economy suggests that extending the functional... Författare: Hampus André. Opponent: Professor Jo Dewulf, Ghent University.   10:00  Plats: Vasa B. Onlinelänk Assessing Mineral Resource Scarcity in a Circular Economy ContextDue to humanity’s dependence on metal resources there are growing concerns regarding impacts related to their potential scarcity, both for current ... Författare: Hampus André. Opponent: Professor Jo Dewulf, Ghent University.   10:00  Plats: Vasa B. Onlinelänk Okt072020 DoktorsavhandlingLong-Term Localization for Self-Driving CarsLong-term localization is hard due to changing conditions, while relative localization within time sequences is much easier. To achieve long-term localization in a sequential setting, such as, for self-driving cars, relative localization shoul... Författare: Erik Stenborg. Opponent: Jan-Michael Frahm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.   14:00  Onlinelänk Long-Term Localization for Self-Driving CarsLong-term localization is hard due to changing conditions, while relative localization within time sequences is much easier. To achieve long-te... Författare: Erik Stenborg. Opponent: Jan-Michael Frahm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.   14:00  Onlinelänk Okt082020 DoktorsavhandlingHardware-Aware Algorithm Designs for Efficient Parallel and Distributed ProcessingThe introduction and widespread adoption of the Internet of Things, together with emerging new industrial applications, bring new requirements in data processing. Specifically, the need for timely processing of data that arrives at high rates crea... Författare: Charalampos Stylianopoulos. Opponent: Angelos Bilas, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete & FORTH, Greece.   10:00  Plats: online & Room 8103, EDIT Building, Hörsalsvägen 11. Onlinelänk Hardware-Aware Algorithm Designs for Efficient Parallel and Distributed ProcessingThe introduction and widespread adoption of the Internet of Things, together with emerging new industrial applications, bring new requirements in d... Författare: Charalampos Stylianopoulos. Opponent: Angelos Bilas, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete & FORTH, Greece.   10:00  Plats: online & Room 8103, EDIT Building, Hörsalsvägen 11. Onlinelänk Okt092020 DoktorsavhandlingConstructing Social Procurement: An Institutional Perspective on Working with Employment Requirements Private and public organisations are increasingly using their purchasing power to mitigate societal issues and create social value. This is called social procurement. Due to problems such as segregation, unemployment, and social exclusion, social ... Författare: Daniella Troje. Opponent: Dr. Ani Raiden, Department of Human Resource Management, Nottingham Trent University, UK.   13:15  Plats: Vasa B, Vera Sandbergs allé 8, samt via Zoom - Länk: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/66436098250 Lösenord: 633181. Onlinelänk Constructing Social Procurement: An Institutional Perspective on Working with Employment Requirements Private and public organisations are increasingly using their purchasing power to mitigate societal issues and create social value. This is called ... Författare: Daniella Troje. Opponent: Dr. Ani Raiden, Department of Human Resource Management, Nottingham Trent University, UK.   13:15  Plats: Vasa B, Vera Sandbergs allé 8, samt via Zoom - Länk: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/66436098250 Lösenord: 633181. Onlinelänk Okt162020 DoktorsavhandlingResource efficient products in a circular economy – The case of consumables. From environmental and resource assessment to design guidelines The circular economy (CE) is a concept to challenge the unsustainable production, consumption, and waste management of products, through the recirculation of resources and products through various means while reducing environmental impact. Within ... Författare: Siri Willskytt. Opponent: Ole-Jørgen Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.   10:00  Plats: Vasa B. Onlinelänk Resource efficient products in a circular economy – The case of consumables. From environmental and resource assessment to design guidelines The circular economy (CE) is a concept to challenge the unsustainable production, consumption, and waste management of products, through the recirc... Författare: Siri Willskytt. Opponent: Ole-Jørgen Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.   10:00  Plats: Vasa B. Onlinelänk Okt162020 DoktorsavhandlingStrategies to Mitigate the Degradation of Stainless-Steel Interconnects Used in Solid Oxide Fuel CellsInterconnects are a vital part of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), where they electrically connect individual cells to form a fuel cell stack. They are a main contributor to the overall stack cost and the limited life-time of fuel cells, and, theref... Författare: Claudia Goebel. Opponent: Professor Sebastian Chevalier, University of Burgundy, France..   10:00  Plats: HA1, Hörsalsvägen 4, Chalmers.. Strategies to Mitigate the Degradation of Stainless-Steel Interconnects Used in Solid Oxide Fuel CellsInterconnects are a vital part of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), where they electrically connect individual cells to form a fuel cell stack. They a... Författare: Claudia Goebel. Opponent: Professor Sebastian Chevalier, University of Burgundy, France..   10:00  Plats: HA1, Hörsalsvägen 4, Chalmers.. Okt222020 DoktorsavhandlingPhase-field modeling of stress-induced precipitation and kinetics in engineering metalsThe formation of brittle compounds in metals operating in corrosive environments can be a tremendous source of embrittlement for industrial structures and such phenomenon is commonly enhanced in presence of stresses. To study this type of microstr... Författare: Claudio Nigro. Opponent: Professor Reinhart Pippan, Austrian Academy of Science, Austria.   09:00  Plats: VDL (Virtual Development Laboratory), Chalmers Tvärgata 4C, Gothenburg, Sweden. Phase-field modeling of stress-induced precipitation and kinetics in engineering metalsThe formation of brittle compounds in metals operating in corrosive environments can be a tremendous source of embrittlement for industrial structu... Författare: Claudio Nigro. Opponent: Professor Reinhart Pippan, Austrian Academy of Science, Austria.   09:00  Plats: VDL (Virtual Development Laboratory), Chalmers Tvärgata 4C, Gothenburg, Sweden. Okt232020 DoktorsavhandlingOperando Single Particle Catalysis - Combining a Nanoreactor and Plasmonic NanospectroscopyHeterogeneous catalysis is an important cornerstone of modern society with strong ties to the development of sustainable sources of energy and products. Catalysts are typically realized as supported metal nanoparticles that offer active sites that... Författare: David Albinsson. Opponent: Prof. Jeroen van Bokhoven , Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Schweiz.   10:00  Plats: FB-Salen, Fysikgården 4. Operando Single Particle Catalysis - Combining a Nanoreactor and Plasmonic NanospectroscopyHeterogeneous catalysis is an important cornerstone of modern society with strong ties to the development of sustainable sources of energy and prod... Författare: David Albinsson. Opponent: Prof. Jeroen van Bokhoven , Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Schweiz.   10:00  Plats: FB-Salen, Fysikgården 4. Okt232020 DoktorsavhandlingWeldability of Cast Superalloys - Effect of homogenization heat treatments on hot cracking susceptibility of cast Alloy 718, ATI® 718Plus®, and Haynes® 282®Precipitation hardened Ni- and Ni–Fe-based superalloys are used in high-temperature sections of aero engines owing to their superior mechanical properties compared to those of the other alloys. However, their better mechanical performance is accom... Författare: Sukhdeep Singh. Opponent: Associate Prof. Carl Cross, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.   15:00  Plats: VDL. Onlinelänk Weldability of Cast Superalloys - Effect of homogenization heat treatments on hot cracking susceptibility of cast Alloy 718, ATI® 718Plus®, and Haynes® 282®Precipitation hardened Ni- and Ni–Fe-based superalloys are used in high-temperature sections of aero engines owing to their superior mechanical pro... Författare: Sukhdeep Singh. Opponent: Associate Prof. Carl Cross, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.   15:00  Plats: VDL. Onlinelänk Okt262020 DoktorsavhandlingMagnetic fields around massive protostars as traced by masers and dust emissionIt is not fully clear how the magnetic field acts during the first stages of star formation. A possible way to clarify its role is to observe the polarized light coming from masers and thermal dust emission. By measuring linear polarization angles... Författare: Daria Dall` Olio. Opponent: Prof. Anuj Sarma, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, DePaul University, Chicago, USA.   13:00  Plats: Stora mötesrummet, Horsalsvägen 11. Onlinelänk Magnetic fields around massive protostars as traced by masers and dust emissionIt is not fully clear how the magnetic field acts during the first stages of star formation. A possible way to clarify its role is to observe the p... Författare: Daria Dall` Olio. Opponent: Prof. Anuj Sarma, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, DePaul University, Chicago, USA.   13:00  Plats: Stora mötesrummet, Horsalsvägen 11. Onlinelänk Okt292020 DoktorsavhandlingDeformation and Fatigue Behaviour of Aluminium Alloys for High Specific Power IC Engine ApplicationsThe development towards higher specific power and lower displacement engines in recent years has placed increasingly high thermal loads on the internal combustion engine materials. Further, the advent of hybrid power trains placing higher demands ... Författare: Elanghovan Natesan. Opponent: Dr. Svjetlana Stekovic, Linköping University, Sweden.   09:00  Plats: Virtual Development Laboratory (VDL). Deformation and Fatigue Behaviour of Aluminium Alloys for High Specific Power IC Engine ApplicationsThe development towards higher specific power and lower displacement engines in recent years has placed increasingly high thermal loads on the inte... Författare: Elanghovan Natesan. Opponent: Dr. Svjetlana Stekovic, Linköping University, Sweden.   09:00  Plats: Virtual Development Laboratory (VDL). Nov062020 DoktorsavhandlingEnabling Solutions for Integration and Interconnectivity in Millimeter-wave and Terahertz SystemsRecently, Terahertz (THz) systems have witnessed increasing attention due to the continuous need for high data rate transmission which is mainly driven by next-generation telecommunication and imaging systems. In that regard, the THz range emerged... Författare: Ahmed Adel Hassona. Opponent: Assoc. Professor: Tom Johansen, Technical University of Denmark.   10:00  Plats: Kollektorn, Kemivägen 9, Göteborg, Sweden. Onlinelänk Enabling Solutions for Integration and Interconnectivity in Millimeter-wave and Terahertz SystemsRecently, Terahertz (THz) systems have witnessed increasing attention due to the continuous need for high data rate transmission which is mainly dr... Författare: Ahmed Adel Hassona. Opponent: Assoc. Professor: Tom Johansen, Technical University of Denmark.   10:00  Plats: Kollektorn, Kemivägen 9, Göteborg, Sweden. Onlinelänk