Category: Past events

Julemøte Bergen: Utvikling og bruk av nye bærekraftige bioressurser

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NTVA i samarbeid med UiB, Tekna Bergen og Academia Europaea inviterer til fagmøte i Bergen, tirsdag 22. november kl. 19:00 på Høgskulen på Vestlandet. Dr. Ernst Hevrøy (Mowi Feed) og Dr. Tor Andreas Samuelsen (Nofima AS) skal snakke om utvikling og bruk av nye bærekraftige bioressurser, med det norske fiskefôret som eksempel.

Mer informasjon og påmelding hos NTVA.

Neuro-SysMed lecture

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Foredrag om forskningssenteret Neuro-SysMed

Neuro-SysMeds målsetting er å levere forskning på internasjonalt nivå innen diagnostikk og behandling av alvorlige sykdommer som påvirker sentralnervesystemet. Tekna, NTVA og Academia Europaea inviterer medlemmer og andre interesserte til et foredrag med Charalampos Tzoulis, nevrolog og visedirektør i Neuro-SysMed.

Foredrag 4. oktober 2022 kl. 19 – 20.30, Høgskulen på Vestlandet

Les omtalen på UiBs nettsider her. 

Påmelding på Teknas nettsider her.

Guest lecture by Professor Sierd Cloetingh

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European cooperation in science, innovation and policy advice.

 

Welcome to a guest lecture by Professor Sierd Cloetingh: Perspectives on European cooperation in science, innovation and policy advice.

The lecture on September 6th at 13.30, at Studentsenteret in Bergen (physical meeting only) will last for approximately 45 minutes and will be followed by a short coffee/tea break, shorter comments/perspectives and a discussion.

Shorter comments/perspectives by:

  • Professor emeritus Matthias Kaiser (Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, SVT)
    More systematic science advice is badly needed
  • Researcher Scott Bremer (SVT)
    Chained up: when representations of science-policy become problematic
  • Professor Jeroen P. van der Sluijs (SVT)
    Science, innovation and the precautionary principle (presentation based on this report)

Discussion moderated by Professor Eystein Jansen, Scientific Director of Academia Europaea Bergen Knowledge Hub

Sierd Cloetingh

Sierd Cloetingh is Utrecht University Distinguished Professor.

His research field is Earth Sciences.

He published more than 360 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has been promotor of close to 80 PhD students.

He has amongst other engagements served as President of the Academia Europaea, Member and Interim-Chair of the Board of SAPEA (Scientific Advice for Policy by European Academies), President of the Association for European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST), Membership of the Scientific Council (2009-2015) and Vice-President of the European Research Council (ERC), President of the European Geophysical Society (1998-2000), President of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP), Distinguished Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW, 2006-2015), Editor-in-Chief of the international journal “Global and Planetary Change” and Chairman of the TOPO-EUROPE collaborative research program.

He was distinguished in 2005 as Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur and in 2014 as Knight of the Royal Order of the Netherlands Lion for his contributions to science and European scientific cooperation in research and education.

More details about the event here.

Lecture by László Lovász – Graphs and Geometry

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In this lecture Professor László Lovász, Abel Prize Winner in 2021, will survey some forms of interplay between graph algorithms and geometry: algorithms for perfect graphs, maximum cut, connectivity, bandwidth.

The lecture: Graphs and Geometry

To represent a graph by a nice geometric picture is a natural goal in itself, but in addition it is an important tool in the study of  various graph properties and in the design of graph algorithms. We survey some forms of this interplay between graph algorithms and geometry: algorithms for perfect graphs, maximum cut, connectivity, bandwidth.

Everybody is welcome!

The lecture starts at 14.00, on Tuesday 31st of May 2022 in VilVite – Nash Auditorium, Thormøhlens gate 51.

Professor László Lovász

A brilliant mathematician since he was a teenager, László Lovász more than delivered on his early promise. Born in 1948 in Budapest, Hungary, he has also served his community as a writer of books, noted for their clarity and accessibility, as an inspirational lecturer, and as a leader, spending a term as president of the International Mathematical Union (2007-2010).

In the 1970s graph theory became one of the first areas of pure mathematics able to illuminate the new field of computational complexity. Lovasz later said that he was very lucky to experience one of those periods when mathematics was developing completely together with an application area. In addition to his work on the foundational underpinning of computer science, Lovász has also devised powerful algorithms with wide-ranging applications, such as the LLL algorithm, which has had remarkable applications in areas including number theory, cryptography and mobile computing.

In addition to recieving the Abel Prize in 2021 together with Avi Widgerson, Lovász has won many awards including the 1999 Wolf Prize, the 1999 Knuth Prize, the 2001 Gödel Prize and the 2010 Kyoto Prize.