The focus in the workshop will on the development and use of teaching and learning resources in science education and the design of learning environments. The workshop is the final event in the NorSEd network, and will be a source of inspiration and ideas for bringing research and development in these areas of science education further in a Nordic setting. NorSEd provides financial support for travel and accommodation for participants.

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Here they met with the Japanese collaborators in the project, professors from University of Toyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology and the RIKEN-RAL Muon facility. The meeting was held in the mountain area Tateyama, 2500 meters above sea level, close to Toyama.

They also had a meeting with the Dean of the faculty, Dr. Yuukou Horita. His field was within informatics, and he could tell that he had been in Trondheim at a conference on information technology last year.

The bilateral project is an industry-oriented knowledge building project with user involvement (NFR project 193619) where the support from Hydro is 20%.

Two PhD students, Takeshi Saito and Sigurd Wenner are educated within the project which will end next year.

Purpose of the bilateral project

Norwegian-Japanese Al-Mg-Si Alloy Precipitation Project

The primary objective is to identify impact of selected trace elements on precipitation and study vacancies in relation to trace elements in Al-Mg-Si alloys. This will be done in a bilateral Norwegian-Japanese research collaboration between Norway (NTNU, SINTEF, Hydro Aluminum) and Japan (University of Toyama, Tokyo institute of Technology).

Building up competence to understand these fundamental issues will be of general importance for the light metals community and can assist Hydro in increasing the quality and reduce the energy consumption in their future Aluminum products.

Publisher's description

This book is about the work of 10 great scientists; who they were and are, their personal background and how they achieved their outstanding results and took their prominent place in science history. We follow one of physics and science history's most enigmatic phenomena, superconductivity, through 100 years, from its discovery in 1911 to the present, not as a history book in the usual sense, but through close ups of the leading characters and their role in that story, the Nobel laureates, who were still among us in the years 2001-2004 when the main round of interviews was carried out. Since then two of them already passed away.

Abstract

Physics is a science which aims at answering the big mysteries in Nature. Physicists have always been attracted by the greatest challenges. But sometimes even the most demanding problems reveal themselves little by little. On the 8th of April 1911 a discovery was made through an apparently simple experiment in a glass flask of very special design in a physics laboratory in Leiden, Holland. The experiment set in motion a series of events with few parallels in the history of science. But physics was far from ready for the advent of superconductivity, the enigmatic phenomenon which Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and his student Gilles Holst had just observed. Today, more than a hundred years later, after great scientific research efforts and big investments, and after many impressive scientific and technical breakthroughs, a cloud of mystery still hovers over aspects of superconductivity. Nature continues to play her elusive game with the best minds of physics.

The book and the author

• Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers (Springer)
• The author (Springer)
• Kristian Fossheim, Professor (em), Department of Physics (NTNU)
• Kristian Fossheim, Praeses at Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS), (Board DKNVS)
• Personal homepage: Kristian Fossheim