Spring Party

On 22 February we had a great party in the UNIK auditorium. The guests participated in many different activities, including Chinese chess (not checkers), x-box gaming (mostly Burnout 3), dancing, and of course food (pizza), snacks and drink. Some of us even went to Oslo afterwards to continue the party at Olympen. We hope to see you all again at future events!

Some photos were taken during the party. If someone thinks some photos are inappropriate, please email us, and we will remove them. They can be found here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/webmaster.unikum/SpringParty2008

Holmenkollen relay race: team disposition

Updated: 8 May 2008

Here is the team disposition for the Holmenkollen relay race, together with the length, approximate terrain and starting place for each stage.
We might still have use for som reserves, so if you want to join the team, please e-mail me at jakob (at UNIK (topdomain: no)).

1.	Erlend	1100 m	up-down	St. Hanshaugen
2.	Bjørnar	1100 m	down-up	Louisesgate
3.	Anders	620 m	flat	Wolffs gate
4.	Bjørn	1700 m	mixed	Wilh. Færdens vei
5.	Jakob	1035 m	rooler coaster	Forskningsparken
6.	Håkon	1300 m	up	Vindern
7.	Roar	1790 m	up	Slemdal
8.	Morten	1800 m	down	Besserud
9.	Karen	650 m	down (slightly)	Gressbanen
10.	Hans J.	2480 m	down	Holmendammen
11.	Elin	1220 m	down (slightly)	Frognerparken
12.	Kristin	390 m	flat	Nordraaksgate
13.	Kjetil	1330 m	mostly flat	Arno Bergs pl.
14.	Joakim	860 m	slightly up-down	Josefines gate
15.	Vidar	600 m	down (slightly)	Maratonporten

Hemsedal 2008

The annual Hemsedal ski trip was held 1-3 February. This year 12 happy skiers made their way to the greatest slopes in Norway. There was plenty of snow and not too much wind, so everybody got a great skiing experience. Despite some off pist skiing and descending down difficult slopes with plenty of moguls, nobody was injured! Hemsedal did not disappoint when it came to nightlife either. The after ski was full of festive people, and later on the night club was full av eager dancers. There was also time for boardgames and relaxing.

These two gentlemen and the photgrapher are very happy that they succeeded in taking the last lift of the day to get one final run.

A pro telemark skier in action!

Dancing in Hemsedal.

A surprising happening occured Friday night when there was a water leak in one of our two appartments. In the appartment above, some strangers from Bergen had left the tap running in the bathroom. This led to a small flood in their appartment, but all the water eventually found its way through the ceiling and into one of our appartments. Water dripped from everywhere! This woke us up in the middle of the night, and we had to contact the ski resort administration to get into the above appartment and stop the leak. The strangers did not want to open when we knocked on their door. Luckily it was solved in the end.

Presentation of PhD projects

What research is done at UniK?
At the Kjeller institutes there are a lot of exciting research projects. In the midst of this is UniK with research areas that draw on the best expertise in the Kjeller area. But what is done and by whom?

Wednesday 13 February 09.30 - 12.00 and during the lunch afterwards you can learn about some of the projects the PhD students are working on.
Maybe there is expertise you need in your project?

Programme and information about registration:
http://wiki.unik.no/index.php/Unik/PhDcolloq