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24 November 2025

Meet the project - 'Mathematical Challenges in Brain Mechanics'

What if some of the most puzzling questions in neuroscience could be better understood - and eventually answered - through mathematics?

24 November 2025

Professor Hilde C. Bjørnland receives BI's Research Award 2025

She is praised for publishing outstanding research with significant societal impact.

18 november 2025

Hvorfor tjener innvandrere ofte mindre enn majoritetsbefolkningen – selv når de har lik utdanning?

Ny internasjonal studie i Nature viser hva som egentlig driver lønnsforskjeller mellom innvandrere og majoritetsbefolkningen.

18 November 2025

Former Project Leader at CAS has published New Book on Norwegian Medieval Kingship

With his new book 'Myten om den gode kongen', former CAS project leader Hans Jacob Orning enters the ongoing public conversation about Magnus VI’s Landslov.

18 November 2025

Welcoming NordIAS Fellow Oscar Winberg

This month, we are pleased to welcome Oscar Winberg through the NordIAS Visiting Fellowship Programme. Winberg joins us from the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Turku.

10 November 2025

Describing Ice from First Principles: Sigbjørn Bore Rounds Off His Stay at CAS

Physicist and former Young CAS PI Sigbjørn Bore has spent the autumn exploring one of nature’s most familiar yet least understood materials: ice. His goal? To make theory meet reality by improving how we model ice from the ground up.

28 October 2025

From Young CAS PI to Professor: Congratulations to Professor Nani Teig

Former Young CAS Grant PI Nani Teig has been appointed Professor at the University of Oslo, continuing her work on how to build more equitable education systems.

22 October 2025

“For a few months in 2018, CAS was to medieval conflict studies what Abbey Road Studios was to rock music”

A previous CAS project, 'The Nordic ‘Civil Wars’ in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective', has received high praise in a recent international review that compares the centre’s villa to the legendary Abbey Road Studios.

13 October 2025

Meet the project - 'Mixing by Interfaces: How Does Water Infiltration Control Mixing and Reaction in Soils?'

Beneath every rainfall lies a hidden world. Gaute Linga and his Young CAS team are uncovering how water’s movement through soil shapes the chemistry of the Earth itself.