Horizons lecture series
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Lectures in 2025
| Date & Time (2025) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
| February 12, Egget, Studentsenteret | Darwin Day/Horizons lecture:听The search for habitable planets in other solar systems |
Lectures in 2024
| Date & Time (2024) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
| September 16th, Egget, Studentsenteret | ||
| February 12th, Egget, Studentsenteret | Darwin Day/Horizons lecture: The evolution of learning and the origins of consciousness () | Eva Jablonka |
Lectures in 2023
| Date & Time (2023) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
| April, 20th, 16.15, Egget, Studentsenteret (refreshments from 15.45) | Seabed Mining and Biodiversity Conservation in the Deep Sea: Where Science meets Policy | |
| February 13th, Egget, Studentsenteret |
Lectures in 2022
| Date & Time (2022) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
Monday 25th of听April, 16.15, in听Egget, at Studentsenteret | Yadvinder Malhi |
Lectures in 2021
None - due to COVID restrictions
Lectures in 2020
None - due to COVID restrictions
Lectures in 2019
| Date & Time (2019) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
| Wednesday 20. February at 16.00,听Auditorium 1, Realfagbygget, Allegt. 41听 | Prof. Stephanie E. Combs | |
| Tuesday 30. April at 16.00,听Egget, The Student Centre, Parkveien 1. | Prof. Rainer Helmig | |
Tuesday 3. September at 16.00, Auditorium 1, Realfagbygget. | Prof. Thomas W. Ebbesen | |
| Wednesday 18. September at 16.00, Egget, The Student Centre. | Niels Bohr, life behind the physics and war and peace | Vilhelm A. Bohr |
Thursday 14. November听at 15.45, Egget, | Probing Antarctica's glacial history听 | Professor Sydney R Hemming |
Wednesday 27. November at 15.45, Egget, | Panel debate (in Norwegian) Forskningsfrihet under press | Panel debate |
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Lectures in 2018
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| Date & Time (2018) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
| Tuesday听20. February at 16.00 at the VilVite Centre | Why is life the way it is? | Nick Lane |
| Thursday 24. May at 16.00, Egget, The Student Centre | Plasmonics: Photonic Nanoscience for Sustainability and Societal Impact | Naomi Halas |
CANCELLED Thursday 01. November, Egget, The Student Centre | River networks as ecological corridors | Andrea Rinaldo |
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Lectures in 2017
| Date & Time (2017) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
Thursday 9. February at the VilVite Centre | Thomas Ki酶rboe | |
Thursday 4. May at 16.00, in Egget, Studentsenteret | ||
Thursday 22. June at 15.00, in Egget, Studentsenteret | Daniel N. Baker | |
Friday 25. August at 14.00, in听Auditorium 1, Realfagsbygget, All茅gaten 1听 | Albert-L谩szl贸 Barab谩si | |
Tuesday 31. October at 16.00, in Auditorium 1, Realfagbygget, All茅gaten 1 |
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Lectures in 2016
More lectures to come!
| Date & Time (2016) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
Monday 15. February at 15.45 Universitetsaulaen (in Norwegian) | Nils Chr. Stenseth, Geir Atle Ersland, Bj酶rn Blomberg | |
| Tuesday 3. of May at Universitetsaulaen (in English) | Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes - the most energetic photon phenomenon in the atmosphere | Nikolai 脴stgaard |
| Thursday 9. of June in Egget, Studentsenteret | How are fearful memories stored in our brains? | Marianne Fyhn |
| Thursday听10. of听November in听Egget,听Studentsenteret | Single-cell RNA sequencing: A modern microscope | Rickard Sandberg |
| Thursday听1. of听December in听Egget,听Studentsenteret | Auditory hallucinations: To hear voices that do not exist | Kenneth Hugdahl |
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Lectures in 2015
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| Date & Time (2015) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
Thursday 12. February at 16.00听Egget, Studentsenteret | Marta Mirazon Lahr, University of Cambridge, UK听听 | |
听Thursday 16. April, at 16.00 Egget, Studentsenteret | Simon Dankel (stand in for Melina Claussnitzer) | |
听Tuesday 5. May, at 16.00 VilVite | Michael Kelly, University of Cambridge, UK | |
Thursday 28. May, at 16.00 Egget, Studentsenteret | Yuan T. Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan听 | |
Thursday 15th of October in VilVite at 16.15 | Raymond S. "Ray" Bradley | |
| Thursday 12th of November in VilVite at 15.15 | What happens in a few billionths of a billionth of a second? | Anne L'Huillier |
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Lectures in 2014
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Date & Time (2014) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
| Thursday 13. November at 16.00 at Egget, Studentsenteret | We are Made of Star Stuff | Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
| Thursday 23. Oktober at 16.00 at Egget, Studentsenteret | Unconventional Oil and Gas and its Impact on the World听 | Margot Gerritsen |
| Monday 8. September 14.00-16.00 at VilVite (in Norwegian) | Horisontdebatten 2014 - Er petroleumsforskning uetisk? | 听 |
| Tuesday 26 of August 16.00 at VilVite | Cooperation in the climate change game | Manfred Milinski |
| Thursday 15. May 2014 at 16.00, at VilVite | Where can we damage? Biodiversity conservation and challenges for the future. | Kathy Willis |
| Tuesday 20. May 2014 at 17.00, Egget Studentsenteret | The Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere | Robert M. Hazen |
| Thursday 20. February at 18.00 2014 | The evolving tree of life | Henrik Glenner and Andreas Hejnol |
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Lectures in 2013
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Date & Time (2013) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
| Monday 28th October, at 16.00, Studentsenteret, Egget | Particles and the Nature of All Things () | David Kaplan |
| Torsdag 17.听oktober 2013 p氓 VilVite, auditoriet,听kl. 15.00 | V忙r, vind og sj酶 langs norskekysten听 -听 et historisk perspektiv | Bj酶rn Gjevik, Universitetet i Oslo |
| Thursday 19th of September 2013听at 15.00 in VilVite, Auditorium | Understanding basic biology using outbred genetics | Ewan Birney (EMBL-EBI) |
| Thursday 12th of September 2013 at 16.00, Egget, Studentsenteret | Epigenetics: myths, mysteries and molecules () | Leonie Ringrose, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria |
| Wednesday 10th of April 2013 at 15.00, Egget | Professor Lawrence M. Krauss, Arizona State University, USA | |
| Thursday 21st of March 2013听at 16.00, Egget | Does the measurement device measure what it is supposed to measure?听 | Researcher Jo R酶islien, Norsk Luftambulanse and University of Oslo |
| CANCELLED! Tuesday 12th 2013 of February at 18.00, Egget | Evolution kills: The adaption of disease-causing organisms and what to do about it | Professor Andrew Read, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
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Lectures in 2012
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Date & Time (2012) | Title of lecture | Speaker |
| Monday 5th November 2012 at 18.00, Egget, Studentsenteret | 听Se kalenderoppslag | Luc Steels, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona and director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. |
| Thursday 27. september 2012 at 15.00, Egget, Studentsenteret | Innovation in Space Discoveries: Is There Life Out There? | Lynn J. Rothschild, NASA |
| Fredag 7. september 2012 kl. 11.00, Egget, Studentsenteret | First sight of the Higgs particle? | Sergio Bertolucci, CERN (erstattet av Anna Lipniacka, 幸运飞艇计划 og CERN pga Lufthansa streik) |
| Thursday 7. June 2012 at 15.00, Egget, Studentsenteret | Climate Change and Global Food Production | David Battisti, University of Washington |
| Torsdag 24. mai 2012, kl. 15.00 i Egget, Studentsenteret | Symbols and Climate: Tracing the origins of behaviourally modern Homo sapiens in southern Africa | Christopher Henshilwood, 幸运飞艇计划 og the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa |
| Mandag 19. mars 2012, kl. 10.15 Auditoriet p氓 Vilvite | The fingerprints of Vilhelm Bjerknes on modern climate science | Brian Hoskins, Imperial College |
| Torsdag 22. mars 2012 kl. 14.15, Auditoriet p氓 Vilvite | P氓 jakt etter dirigenten for klimaorkesteret - om naturlige og menneskeskapte klimaendringer | Odd Helge Otter氓, Bjerknessenteret Uni Research |
| Mandag 13. februar 2012 kl. 18.00, kinosalen Tivoli, Kvarteret | Big History Today(foredraget av Spier inngikk ogs氓 i 幸运飞艇计划s Darwindag 2012. P氓 hjemmesiden til kan du finne mer informasjon om Spier og hans bakgrunn.) | Fred Spier, University of Amsterdam听 |
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The Horizons committee
From 2019
Jarl Giske (leader)
Lise 脴vre氓s
Eystein Jansen
Helwig Hauser
Kristin Bakken
From 2018
Lise 脴vre氓s (leader)
Bodil Holst
St茅phane Rondenay
Jan Martin Nordbotten
Jens Helleland 脜dnanes
Trine Steens忙th
Gry E. Parker
From 2017
Lise 脴vre氓s (leader)
Bodil Holst
Hans Munthe-Kaas
St茅phane Rondenay
Kristin Bakken (on leave from 1. september 2017)
From 2016
Rein Aasland (leader)
Bodil Holst
Hans Munthe-Kaas
St茅phane Rondenay (from august 2016)
Kristin Bakken
2012-2015
Jan Petter Hansen (leader)
Jarl Giske
Dag Aksnes
Kristin Bakken
Horizon lecture series
This is a lecture series for staff and students of The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and for all others that are interested in major scientific questions and challenges across disciplinary borders.
From 2022 the lectures are organised in cooperation with .
From 2023 the lecture series receives economic support from听.
Interested in upcoming Horizon lectures? Send an e-mail to Kristin Bakken听to receive information by e-mail in advance of lectures or join us on .
Current听Horizons committee
Jarl Giske (leader)
Lise 脴vre氓s
Eystein Jansen
Helwig Hauser
Kristin Bakken
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