News

Here, we publish articles about the Centre and its activities, as well as interviews with our scholars about their time at CAS and the progress and results of their research.

22 September 2020

‘In real life, almost nothing is linear’

The 2022/23 CAS project Representation Theory – Combinatorial Aspects and Applications will deal with problems that are both linked to physical applications as well as questions more intrinsic to the nature of mathematics.

21 September 2020

Modern and medieval wars compared in new book

The “new wars” are actually very old, Hans Jacob Orning and Øyvind Østerud argue in their newly published book, Wars without State.

14 September 2020

Why do Indigenous people have high risk of severe influenza?

‘The influenza pandemics of 1918 and 2009, as well as the ongoing COVID-19, show that Indigenous people have extremely high risk of severe disease outcomes, but the reasons for this vulnerability are unclear’, future CAS project leader Svenn-Erik Mamelund says.

10 September 2020

Is the world becoming more peaceful?

We asked Senior Researcher at PRIO, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, and Professor of Statistics and Data Analysis at UiO, Nils Lid Hjort, what their project Stability and Change is about.

08 September 2020

Announcing the CAS projects 2022/23: from influenza to peace-and-conflict, and algebra

For the first time, two of the project leaders come from our newest member institutions: OsloMet and PRIO. One of the projects is hyper-relevant for the Corona situation. These projects were elected to come to CAS in 2022/23

04 September 2020

Awarded ERC Starting Grant: ‘I developed as a researcher at CAS’

Kjetil Lysne Voje, a fellow at the 2019/20 CAS project "Evolvability: A New and Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?", was awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant.