The Science Library's first birthday!

We mark the day by hosting two workshops on teaching and communication for master and PhD students, and an open lecture:

How can I make my subject fun?

Not that science is boring -- far from it -- but is it possible really to entertain others with one's subject? Get tips and inspiration from two experts in their respective fields.

• 12.00–14.00 climate researcher and particle physicist Bjørn Hallvard Samset and stand-up comedian and conjurer Johannes Lindrupsen hold a workshop. Who knows what may come out of it? It will certainly be fun! (In Norwegian)

Place: The Science Library's teaching room in Niels Henrik Abels hus. Register for the workshop here!

 

Infographics and beautiful statistics 

We've all been there, immersed in a complicated problem or big data sets with far too many variables to keep track of. The solution may be to draw the whole thing. Infographics is all about visualising information, statistics and knowledge.

• 14.00-15.00 Stahl-Timmins will give a workshop for master and PhD students. You will be given advice on how to visualise your data sets and research questions as posters. After the workshop there will be an award for the best poster.

Place: The Science Library's teaching room in Niels Henrik Abels hus. Register for the workshop here!

 

• 15.15–16.00 Dr. Will Stahl-Timmins gives an open lecture on how to visualise complex information. Rector Ole Petter Ottersen will open the lecture.

Place: The foyer in Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus. Join the event on Facebook.

 

After working hours

After working hours we celebrate our good cooperation with the Faculty's students and staff, other friends, other guests and partners.

We host a relaxed reception in RF-kjelleren from 16.30. Simple finger-food and refreshments will be served, and you can come as you are after rigging down your stand, giving your lecture, finishing work or whatever. After the food the bar will be open all evening in RF-kjelleren, and about 18.30 the one-man band Amateur Transplants (UK) will play.

To be sure we get enough food we would like you to register for the Birthday Buffet here.

 

Open day

It will also be Open day at the University of Oslo, and thousands of secondary school students will be given information about the University, as well as tit-bits of popular science. Some of these events take place in the Science LIbrary:

• Extreme ocean waves - what does mathematics know about freak waves
• One-eyed monsters, ragged flies and some sheep: making a cancer drug
• Drought, when the rain dance fails 
• The hormone system and the nervous system 
• Google: How to get rich from an equation
• The Snåsa code: Science and alternative medicine
• Girls and science 2013: Three girls talk about what it is like to study science
• Science graduates revolutionise the health service
• Today's great questions in astronomy 
• Climate change in Norway, tsunami risk?
• Water: wet, wild, beautiful and very uncommon

Here is the whole programme for Open Day, sort by building and find "Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus" to see events in the Science Library.