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• #### A Bivariate Analysis of the Homogeneous Plane-Wave Assumption in Magnetotelluric Theory ﻿

(Master thesis, 2015)
The magnetotelluric method is an electromagnetic induction method used to image subsurface resistivity. It utilizes Earths' natural time-varying electromagnetic field as a source. The fields propagating into the subsurface ...
• #### A bridge between statistical learning and agent based modelling in stock market predictions ﻿

(Master thesis, 2016)
The research related to agent based modelling and statistical learning has increased in the recent years, as alternatives to main stream econometrics. This project combines the three for constructing and evaluating a ...
• #### A comparison of Gravity Wave Parameters derived from the Analysis of a Three-Field Photometer with Imagers ﻿

(Master thesis, 2015)
A method for preprocessing and analysing a few select fields in airglow intensity images from an all-sky imager was developed and utilized. Waves detected with a three-field analysis were compared with those waves ...
• #### A comparison of two parallel solution schemes for the advection-diffusion equation - Velocity guided random walk of paticles vs finite volume discretization on Cartesian grid ﻿

(Master thesis, 2017)
In this thesis two methods for solving the diffusion-advection equation was implemented using MPI. The two methods was a velocity guided random walk of particles and solving the advection-diffusion equation on a grid. Both ...
• #### A Model for the Mixing of Black Carbon Aerosols and Mineral Dust Particles in the Atmosphere ﻿

(Master thesis, 2016)
The process when freshly emitted black carbon particles are forming clusters and the mixing of these black carbon clusters and mineral dust particles has been simulated for a two-dimensional system. This has been done by ...
• #### A Monte Carlo Study of the Criticality of the 3D XY Model ﻿

(Master thesis, 2015)
In this master thesis the criticality of the 3D XY model with cubic anisotropy has been examined by the means of Monte Carlo simulation. The 3D XY model is a special case of the $O(n)$ spin-vector model which describe ...
• #### A Soft-Limit Theorem for the On-Shell Scattering Amplitudes Describing Processes Involving Massive Nambu-Goldstone Bosons ﻿

(Master thesis, 2017)
In this thesis we consider systems where both Lorentz invariance and a continuous symmetry group G is explicitly broken by coupling a chemical potential µ to one of the generators Q of G. In such systems it is well known ...
• #### A Spectroscopic Study of in situ Magnetic Doping of Novel Layered Materials for Spintronics ﻿

(Master thesis, 2016)
MoS2 is a layered material in the family of the transition metal dicalchogenides (TMDCs), which hosts interesting spin physics. Even though the TMDCs are nonmagnetic in their bulk form, a local breaking of inversion symmetry ...
• #### A Theoretic Study of β'' Misfits and Strain in Al-Mg-Si Alloys - A Cluster-Based Approach Combining Density Functional Theory and Linear Elasticity ﻿

(Master thesis, 2018)
Heat treatable aluminium alloys of the 6xxx series are important for many industrial applications in the modern world. They contain small amounts of the alloying elements magnesium and silicon, which cluster together to ...
• #### Active matter - Collective Motion due to Quincke Rotation ﻿

(Master thesis, 2015)
his thesis investigates Quincke induced collective motion. It is mostly a qualitative study, but it attempts to connect Quincke induced collective motion to the field of active matter as a whole. The thesis has two objectives. ...
• #### All-optical Magnetisation Switching in Two-dimensional Metallic Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Systems ﻿

(Master thesis, 2018)
Motivated by recent experimental and theoretical work on ultrafast optical switching of magnetic order in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials, we study the influence of polarised light on the spin polarisation ...
• #### An X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy study of DySx created by depositing Dy on MoS2 - For application in spintronics ﻿

(Master thesis, 2017)
There are many interesting materials under research for spintronics today, including the Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDCs). They are particularly interesting because they collectively host materials which are ...
• #### Analysis and Simulation of Intermediate Band Solar Cells ﻿

(Master thesis, 2015)
Intermediate band solar cells (IBSC) is a technology that promises higher efficiency solar cells with comparatively simpler structure than the currently best performing solar cells on the market. In this work, different ...
• #### Analysis of The Norwegian Veterinary Institute's Model for Salmon Lice Abundance Prediction ﻿

(Master thesis, 2018)
Empirical studies have found that lice from salmon farms are a main source of infection of wild salmonids. Due to Norway s responsibility to conserve wild stocks of salmon, Veterinærinstituttet has created a statistical ...
• #### Analytic Study of Ultracold, Synthetically Spin–Orbit Coupled, Weakly Interacting, Two-Component Bose Gases Residing on Bravais Lattices ﻿

(Master thesis, 2018)
In this Master's thesis, the behavior of ultracold, synthetically spin orbit coupled, weakly interacting, two-component Bose gases residing on Bravais lattices, is explored analytically. In particular, utilizing a mean ...
• #### Andreev bound states in Josephson junctions: unconventional pairing symmetries in weak magnetic field and strong-field formalism ﻿

(Master thesis, 2017)
The supercurrent in the normal region of a superconductor - normal metal - superconductor structure (SNS), when exposed to an external magnetic field, is studied. The current is found via the energy levels of the Andreev ...
• #### Application of the Linear Eddy Model - A Study of Differential Diffusion in Turbulent Hydrogen-Rich Jets ﻿

(Master thesis, 2018)
Differential diffusion effects in turbulent reactive and non-reactive problems based on hydrogen-rich fuels are not yet fully investigated. Through use of a Fortran implementa-tion of the Linear Eddy Model (LEM) ...
• #### Applying generative adversarial networks for anomaly detection in hyperspectral remote sensing imagery ﻿

(Master thesis, 2018)
Automatic anomaly detection has previously been implemented on hyperspectral images by use of different statistical methods with good results. We apply a machine learning method using generative adversarial networks (GAN) ...
• #### Approximating Haze in Reflection - Approximate expressions for two-dimensional randomly rough surfaces ﻿

(Master thesis, 2015)
We give a definition of haze in reflection from two-dimensional surfaces and study this quantity for Gaussian randomly rough surfaces. A simplified model of light scattering, assuming a scalar incident plane wave, the ...
• #### Atomic force microscopy and variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry of oxidising GaAs substrates for intermediate band solar cells ﻿

(Master thesis, 2018)
The AFM images of the substrate sample revealed pits all over the sample surface that were tens of nanometers deep. The geometry of the pits on the surface seemed to be affected by the geometry of the AFM probe tip, ...