14. March 2024

On the 14. March 2024, Professor Equo Kobayashi from Department of Material Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) visited NTNU, Department of Physics and Department of Material Science and Engineering, with Profs. Randi Holmestad and Knut Marthinsen, as hosts. The main purpose of the visit was primarily to sign an AGREEMENT ON STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM between School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology AND The Faculty of Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

February 7th, 2024

Professor Knut Marthinsen participated on 5-6 February at a two-day scientific discussion meeting on Sustainable metals and systems in London UK. The meeting was organised by Professor Julian M Allwood FREng, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cambridge and Professor Dierk Raabe, Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research, and gathered more than 80 experts from around the world, with physical presence or online. The meeting was hosted by the Royal Society, London, and took place in venerable and historic locations in central London, with big paintings of Sir Isac Newton, Ernest Rutherford and Stephen Hawkings on the wall.

January 25th, 2024

Dr. Håkon Wiik Ånes successfully defended his thesis January 25th 2024. Håkon has done his PhD work in the physical metallurgy group at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in a project associated to SFI PhysMet. The topic of Håkon’s presentation at the trial lecture was “Correlated multiscale 3-dimensional structure analysis with X-rays and electrons”. The trial lecture was followed by an excellent presentation of his PhD thesis “Effects of second-phase particles on texture during softening of an Al-Mn alloy investigated by correlative microscopy”.

Professor Knut Marthinsen has been the candidate’s supervisor and Professor Antonius Theodorus Johannes van Helvoort, Department of Physics, has been the candidate’s co-supervisor.