Friday talk at IE - Kunnskapsbasen
Friday talk at IE
For employees and students at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.
We would like to welcome employees and students at the faculty to weekly webinars! The purpose of this webinar series is to stimulate academic and free discussions on important topics in research, innovation and education, and also to provide a team- and culture-building arena at the IE Faculty.
- When: Fridays 08.30-09.00 (with some exceptions).
- Where: Teams
Invitations to the talks are sent through Outlook. Links to the webinars are also found in the Innsida post about each talk.
We encourage all the departments at the faculty to report contributions (topic, speaker and time) to the Arrangement Committee.
Upcoming events
2024
Dept. of Electronic Systems:
20/1 | ||
13/1 | ||
6/1 |
Previous events
2023
1/12 | From all of us to all of NTNU: AI from IE | Ingrid Schjølberg, Dean at the IE Faculty |
Dept. of Computer Science: Everything everywhere all at once using zeros and ones
17/11 | There are limits to growth! Size and energy are the limits for computing | Gunnar Tufte, Dept. of Computer Science |
10/11 | Sustainability Competencies: What’s new for IT education? | Rune Hjelsvold, Dept. of Computer Science |
3/11 | The Health Platform: Lessons learned from a large IT project in trouble | Dag Svanæs, Dept. of Computer Science |
Dept. of ICT and Natural Sciences: Autonomous ships, biomechanics, and digital twins
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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27/10 | On the conceptualization and implementation of urban digital twins: The NorDark-DT case | Ricardo Torres, Dept. of ICT and Natural Sciences |
20/10 | Robotics for evaluating surgical methods and treatment in orthopedics | Aleksander Skrede, Dept. of ICT and Natural Sciences |
6/10 | Promoting critical thinking among Computer Science students by the use of AI Tools in coding | Arne Styve, Dept. of ICT and Natural Sciences |
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences: Making sense of the world through mathematics and statistics
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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29/9 | Top-down and bottom-up: how the measure-prone can meet the principle-driven | Mats Ehrnström, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences |
22/9 | Making predictions from genomic data - statistical modeling in ecology and evolution | Stefanie Muff, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences |
15/9 | Cryptography and legal aspects - what happens when security fails | Kristian Gjøsteen, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences |
Theme: Can we have the AI cake and eat it too? A look at different aspects of the recent development.
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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9/6 | AI for good | John Krogstie, NTNU Digital and Dept. of Computer Science |
2/6 | Big tech and large language models (ChatGPT) - ethical and social perspectives: Is it the same old story or something new happening? | Dag Hareide |
26/5 | Doom, Gloom and Foom: reasons for hope in the face of a possible AI apocalypse | Ainar Miyata, OsloMet |
5/5 | Large language models at NorwAI | Benjamin Kille, Department of Computer Science and SFI NorwAI |
Theme: Move over AI! The creative energy of student innovators running on caffeine and pizza cannot be replaced. How do we sustain student innovation (besides buying coffee and pizza)?
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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28/4 | TALKFEST: What do our students need to learn about innovation? Conversation between Monica Rolfsen, Tormod Njølstad and Markus Löschenbrand. Q&A, discussion, and comments from the audience. | Monica Rolfsen, Faculty of Economics and Management, Tormod Njølstad, Dept. of Electronic Systems and Markus Löschenbrand, Versiro and former PhD candidate at IE |
21/4 | Shaping the future of spaceflight as a student at NTNU | Ulrik Falk-Petersen and Jarle Steinberg, Orbit NTNU |
14/4 | Entrepreneurial students – who are they and why should we care? | Roger Sørheim, Dept. of Industrial Economics and Technology Management and NTNU School of Entrepreneurship |
Theme: Russian roulette? Turkish pepper? Spanish inquisition? We take a closer look at security in Europe.
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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17/3 | Privacy and security aspects in decentralized IoT and wireless systems | Stefan Werner, Dept. of Electronic Systems |
3/3 | Academic traditions meet security concerns in Europe: from open, to guarded, to closing gates around international cooperation | Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr, Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt (NUPI) |
17/2 | Geography, maps, and borders. Some historical perspectives on creation of the European nation-states. | Karl Erik Haug, Dept. of Modern History and Society |
10/2 | Fibre optic sensing and security issues | Martin Landrø, Dept. of Electronic Systems and Centre for Geophysical Forecasting |
Theme: Consequences of Autonomous Ships? Surely, Castaway and Mutiny at sea as fiction genres are dead in the water?
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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27/1 | Autonomy on Trondheimsfjorden | Edmund Førland Brekke, Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics |
20/1 | Kamikaze kayaking in the path of a driverless passenger ferry prototype | Ole Andreas Alsos, Dept. of Design |
13/1 | Robotic autonomy in the wild: Let robots go anywhere | Konstantinos Alexis, Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics |
2022
Theme: Evolution in a nutshell: from natural stupidity to artificial intelligence?
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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16/12 | Looking into the crystal ball of 2023 | Ingrid Schjølberg, Dean at the IE faculty |
9/12 | TALKFEST: Quantum computing: Benefits, threats and hypes. Conversation between Bor de Kock and Danilo Gligoroski. Q&A, discussion, and comments from the audience. | Bor de Kock, Dept. of Information Security and Communication Technology, Danilo Gligoroski, Dept. of Information Security and Communication Technology |
2/12 | The emergence of AI-assisted conformity in our online world | Keith Downing, Dept. of Computer Science |
25/11 | Training and Practicing Cybersecurity made available: experience in researching and building a cyber range | Basel Katt, Dept. of Information Security and Communication Technology |
18/11 | The latest from camp AI | Inga Strümke, Dept. of Computer Science |
11/11 | It started with Amanda - early online detection of cyber grooming | Patrick Bours, Dept. of Information Security and Communication Technology |
4/11 | AI for Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity for AI | Sokratis Katsikas, Dept. of Information Security and Communication Technology |
21/10 | AI in Healthcare - an interdisciplinary journey | Kerstin Bach, Dept. of Computer Science |
7/10 | Smart houses in the power system: how smart is it to be smart? (insights from two years of hands-on experiments) | Sebastien Gros, Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics |
Theme: Finally, everyone is talking about electricity. IE joins the discussion.
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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30/9 | TALKFEST: Much more nuclear fission power - necessary for the green transition or an existential threat to humankind? Conversation between Jonas Nøland and Ole-Morten Midtgård. Q&A, discussion, and comments from the audience. | Jonas Nøland, Dept. of Electric Power Engineering, Ole-Morten Midtgård, IE Faculty |
23/9 | We must charge trucks, cars, ships, and airplanes: How do we get sufficient batteries and plugs? | Anngjerd Pleym, Dept. of Electric Power Engineering |
16/9 | Is Smart Grid the solution to ensure the security of electricity supply? | Gerd Kjølle, SINTEF/ FME CINELDI |
9/9 | Why is the electricity so expensive and what can we do about it? | Magnus Korpås, Dept. of Electric Power Engineering |
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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10/6 | Go for IT | Birgit R. Krogstie, Director SFU Excited |
3/6 | Ethical dilemmas in artificial intelligence | Trym Holter, Director AI-Lab |
20/5 | NTNU Digital - status and future plans | John Krogstie, Director NTNU Digital |
13/5 | Clean Aviation | Jonas K. Nøland, Coordinator Clean Aviation |
29/4 | Strategy sustainability IE 2022-2025 | Ole-Morten Midtgård, Vice-Dean Sustainability and Innovation |
The format is as following
- 15-20 minutes talk, 10-15 minutes for questions/discussions
- Presentations in English, no recording, no distribution of presentations
- The speaker is introduced by a member of the Arrangement Committee
The contributions
- Low threshold and the possibility to reuse presentations
- Relevant and interesting research, projects and innovations
- Talks on challenges and future research (e.g. sustainability, digitalization, innovation and interdisciplinarity)
Arrangement committee
- Prof. Ole-Morten Midtgård (Vice-Dean Sustainability and Innovation)
- Berit Myhre (Senior adviser Dean's staff)