Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The present project will meet the swedish national scientific, industrial and societal demands within high-quality material analysis by sustaining and advancing the role of the Tandem laboratory at Uppsala ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2017-12-31

This project aims at investigating plant dynamics and forest development in the past (the last 130 000 years) and using this information to assist scientists modelling geographical range shifts in response ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The proposed research is a multifaceted investigation centering on problems in homogeneous dynamics and fundamental questions about lattices. We will focus in particular on problems which hold the promise ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Atmospheric rivers are long narrow bands of large integrated water vapor transport in the troposphere. At land fall they are usually associated with extreme conditions in terms of wind and precipitation ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Oxygen is essential for the health of lake ecosystems, but global climate warming may severely deplete oxygen concentrations by increasing microbial respiration rates and stifling atmospheric exchange. ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The rich archaeological and paleoenvironmental records from the Peloponnese peninsula (Greece) are investigated to provide an integrated understanding of the role of climate and climate change for Bronze ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The research program studies contact and symplectic topology and its relations to other geometric fields, in particular to physics inspired low-dimensional topology and knot theory. The main tool is theories ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Stora områden (20%) av svensk skogsmark har artificiellt dränerats genom dikning under de senaste århundradena för att öka produktionen av timmer. När dessa diken åldras, måste dikesrensning ofta utföras ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Landscapes are multifaceted archives combining natural forming processes with cultural practises and land use strategies of past generations. The aim of the project is to explore the rich archives of the ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2019-12-31

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of global warming some 55 Ma, was triggered by multiple injections of isotopically light carbon into the atmosphere. Methane venting due to magma intrusion ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

India’s agriculture, economy, water resources and societal well-being heavily rely on the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR). But ISMR is strongly influenced by the El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

Current global warming, associated with the rapid release of CO2 by burning of fossil fuels, impacts ecosystems both on land and in the ocean, most notably in polar regions. Marine phytoplankton play a ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Deep sea sediment archives form the backbone of global palaeoclimate understanding. Such palaeoclimate reconstructions rest upon the geological law of superposition; sediment core layers become older with ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The framework of string compactifications is of undisputed importance to connect string theory to the physics of our world, and has promoted progress in fields ranging from quantum gravity and cosmology ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Extreme weather events, floods and droughts—problems that are likely to become more frequent and extreme due to climate change— inflict major losses and disproportionally affect lower income countries, ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2022-11-30

Frågeställningarna i projektet är: I vilken utsträckning förändras förekomsten av extrema händelser och omfattningen av påverkan på kustzonen i ett ändrat klimat? Fokus är på stormar, översvämningar och ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The Fukaya category is a powerful invariant of exact symplectic manifolds in the form of an A-infinity category, the objects of which consist of (a suitable class of) its Lagrangian submanifolds, while ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

There are several forms of uncertainties in the predictive modeling of glacial mass balance. One of these uncertainties is to what degree melt water will refreeze, advect latent heat into, and stay as ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

This project studies the mathematical models arising from a variety of imaging techniques. These problems are formulated mathematically as "inverse problems" where one deduces information about the differential ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Conserved quantities are important in various areas of physics, as in many cases they provide an essential characterization of a physical system. However, to define the mass, center of mass, angular and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and the quantum ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

During the past decade there has been an important development of the mathematical tools available for high-energy physics. I have participated in and contributed to this development of Generalized Complex ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

Glaciers outside the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are at present, despite their small volume (200,000 glaciers on Earth. A range of remote sensing and in situ observations of surface conditions and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This research project aims to study several related topics in higher dimensional Auslander-Reiten theory. Classical Auslander-Reiten theory is an important tool in representation theory of associative ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Hydrologisk torka kan ha allvarliga konsekvenser för naturen och samhället, bland annat för jordbruk, vatten-/energiförsörjning och ekosystem. Klimatmodeller förutsäger att extrema händelser som den europatäckande ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2013-12-31

More than thirty years ago a result derived in the context of superspace supergravity indicated that even the most promising supergravity candidate had problems when viewed as a model for quantum gravity ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2019-12-31

Ett konsortium av 8 partners kommer fokusera på att integrering av infrastrukturer och data från växthusgasmätningar inom ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System). Viss central infrastruktur används ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-09-01 till 2019-12-31

Extrema klimathändelser som värmeböljor, torkperioder och översvämningar stressar ekosystemen och påverkar deras förmåga att tillhandahålla nyckeltjänster kopplade till vattenkvalitet och nyttjande. Den ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Ocean surface waves are important for a number of reasons; they need to be well modelled for shipping and wave energy, coastal management, but they also influence mass flux (aerosols and gases) and are ...