SEAS Annual Meeting 2024

SEAS Annual Meeting 2024, 28 - 31st October

Come and meet our current 35 SEAS fellows during 4 days of open poster sessions and lunches

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We are kicking off this year's event on 28th October, with an open afternoon of keynotes, pitches and posters from our current 35 SEAS fellows. During the following days we invite everyone interested to come and mingle with our fellows during open poster sessions at the UiB Learning Arena in Nygårdsgaten 5 (lunch will be included).

The open sessions are Monday 16.00-18.00 (with oral presentations), and poster-lunch sessions 12.00-13.00 during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. See details below.

If you would like food/drinks during any open session, please register here.

Monday 28th October

There may be minor adjustments in the program. Read about the Keynotes here.

Time	Name of session	Chair/responsible
14:00-16:00	Set up posters and practice presentations	SEAS fellows	Closed
16:00-16:30	Open session: Mingling, light snacks and posters in Nygårdsgaten 5	Free of charge - but please register if you want snacks	OPEN
16:30 -(appr.)18:00	Open session: Presentations by SEAS postdoctoral fellows	In storsalen in Nygårdsgaten 5	OPEN
Welcome (10 min)	Opening welcome by the Dean at the Faculty of Science and Technology, host faculty of the SEAS office	Gunn Mangerud	OPEN
Keynote (10 min)	Dance, my greens! Unravelling the response of macroalgae in a changing climate	Juan Manuel Valero Rodríguez	OPEN
Keynote (10 min)	Data from the depths: how past fish bones can inform marine sustainability	Asia Victoria Alsgaard	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	How can nanotechnology solve biofouling issues for marine sensors?	Bichitra Nanda Sahoo	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	Revealing volcanic evolution of Mid-Ocean Ridges through seafloor morphology	Morgane Le Saout	OPEN
Keynote (10 min)	Identifying the difficult to identify	Paul Dees	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	Working hours and their impact on health and safety of maritime workers	Israel Paul Nyarubeli	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	AI monitoring of life on the seabed	Chloe Game	OPEN
Keynote (10 min)	Decoding Host-Pathogen Interactions in Lumpfish: A Path Towards Effective Vaccine Development	Shreesha Sadashiva Rao	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	The Ocean’s time capsule: lessons for a warmer future	Frida Snilstveit Hoem	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	Nanotechnology approaches to tackling biofouling in the marine environment	Paul Thomas	OPEN
Keynote (10 min)	Geometric Deep Learning for Smart Shipping - Graph Neural Network for short-long-term weather forecasting	Samaneh Abolpour Mofrad	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	Can a ship at sea be safely controlled from shore?	Amit Sharma	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	How do marine parasites pick their host?	Zoran Sargac	OPEN
Keynote (10 min)	Our fjord futures: conceptualizing climate impacts on fjords	João Bettencourt	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	Ice sheets and sea level	Konstanze Haubner	OPEN
Pitch (3 min)	Could the filament be the weak point of the salmon louse?	Virginie Comorge	OPEN

Tuesday 29th October

Wednesday 30th October

Thursday 31st October

Come and join us!

The SEAS annual meeting runs from Mon 28th Oct - Thurs 31st Oct 2024, in Nygårdsgaen 5.

There are open lunches each day where you can meet the fellows and chat to them about their work - and grab a bite of lunch too!

The open sessions are Monday 16.00-18.00 (with oral presentations), and poster-lunch sessions 12.00-13.00 during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

EU COFUND

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034309.

SEAS annual gathering kicks off with a variety of keynotes from SEAS fellows

SEAS fellows span a variety of scientific fields from geology and biology to informatics and law. Some of this variety will also be evident on Monday 28. October, with keynotes and pitches from selected SEAS fellows including topics like «Deep Learning for Smart Shipping» and «the response of...

SEAS fellows

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28.10.2024

Time	Name of session	Chair/responsible
09:15 - 10:15	AI workshop - finding knowledge gaps	Hiwa Målen	Closed
10:15 - 10:30	coffee break
10:30 - 11:30	AI workshop - finding knowledge gaps	Hiwa Målen	Closed
11:30 - 12:00	lunch and mingling for fellows	SEAS fellows
12:00 - 13:00	OPEN POSTER-LUNCH SESSION Session is open to all - OPEN and free of charge - but please register if you want lunch	All SEAS fellows	OPEN
13:00 - 14:00	HR - leadership	Ole Christian Laukli; Elisabeth Nesheim	Closed
14:00 - 14:30	coffee break
14:30 - 15:30	HR - leadership	Ole Christian Laukli; Elisabeth Nesheim	Closed

Time	Name of session	Chair/responsible
09:15 - 10:00	SEAS conversations: reflecting on core ideas and the experience of being a SEAS-fellow	Thomas Völker; Aiste Klimasauskaite; Ed Nedelciu	Closed
10:00 - 10:15	coffee break
10:15 - 11:00	SEAS conversations: reflecting on core ideas and the experience of being a SEAS-fellow	Thomas Völker; Aiste Klimasauskaite; Ed Nedelciu	Closed
11:00 - 11:30	Quick intro: International/cross-sectorial externships - possibilities	Erik Sandquist, FIA	Closed
11:30 - 12:00	lunch and mingling for fellows	SEAS fellows
12:00 - 13:00	OPEN POSTER-LUNCH SESSION Session is open to all - OPEN and free of charge - but please register if you want lunch	All SEAS fellows	OPEN
13:00 - 14:00	Building interdisciplinary groups	Roger Strand & Anne Blanchard	Closed
14:00 - 14:15	coffee break
14:15 - 15:15	Building interdisciplinary groups	Roger Strand & Anne Blanchard	Closed

Time	Name of session	Chair/responsible
09:15 - 10:00	Library services	Caroline Armitage	Closed
10:00 - 10:15	coffee break
10:15 - 11:00	Library services	Caroline Armitage	Closed
11:00 - 11:30	Quick intro: UiB ERCs, proposal support etc	Katie Anders	Closed
11:30 - 12:00	lunch and mingling for fellows	SEAS fellows
12:00 - 13:00	OPEN POSTER-LUNCH SESSION Session is open to all - OPEN and free of charge - but please register if you want lunch	All SEAS fellows	OPEN
13:00 - 14:00	Planning the next step: from Publication to Solution	Yves Aubert	Closed
14:00 - 14:30	Wrapping up	SEAS	Closed
14:30	END	Remove posters etc