UiO - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion

21/09/2026

Arthur Jinyue Guo will have his disputation on Tuesday, September 22, starting with trial lecture at 11:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 13:15 CEST. Read more about it here:

Master Jinyue Guo will defend his dissertation Machine Synchresis: Immersive and Embodied Audio–Video Information Retrieval for Indoor Environments for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

18/09/2026

Remember Anna-Maria's disputation today at 11:15 CEST!

11/09/2026

Anna-Maria Christodoulou will have her disputation on Friday, September 18, starting with trial lecture at 11:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 13:15 CEST. Read more about it here:

10/09/2026

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27/08/2026

Remember Sandra Solli's disputation today at 12:15 CEST!

Master of science in engineering Sandra Solli will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Psychology: Rhythm-Based Temporal Expectation: Delineating the Roles of Predictability and Periodicity for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

20/08/2026

Sandra Solli will have her disputation on Thursday, August 27, starting with trial lecture at 12:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 14:15 CEST. Read more about it here:

Master of science in engineering Sandra Solli will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Psychology: Rhythm-Based Temporal Expectation: Delineating the Roles of Predictability and Periodicity for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

19/08/2026

Remember Bálint Laczkó's disputation today at 11:15 CEST 🥳

Master Bálint Laczkó at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Instrumental Image Sonification for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

12/08/2026

Bálint Laczkó will have his disputation on Wednesday, August 19, starting with trial lecture at 11:15 CEST, followed by public defence at 13:15 CEST. Read more about it here:

Master Bálint Laczkó at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Instrumental Image Sonification for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

17/07/2026

For this summer, we would like to recommend the podcast "The Inner Life of Music"!🎧
The first two episodes are about sound-motion objects, and concert research, with conversations with RITMO's Emeritus Professor of Musicology Rolf Inge Godøy, and Researcher Simon Høffding, respectively.
Thanks to podcast host Professor Mine Doğantan-Dack!

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22/06/2026

Remember Pedro Lucas' disputation today, at 11:15 CEST!

Master Pedro Pablo Lucas Bravo at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Human-Swarm Interactive Music Systems, Exploring Collaborative Sonic Creation Between Humans and Autonomous Agents for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.