Public events - Page 5

This year at the annual Kristine Bonnevie lectures, the geneticist and popular science author Steve Jones from University College London will tell you "What sex really means". Eugenie C. Scott from The National Center for Science Education will draw on her long experience in defending science education in the U.S., and explain why communicating science is so important in her lecture "Defending evolution - and some other sciences". The Kristine Bonnevie lecture on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.

Speakers: Adam Rutherford, Christina Richards, Tatum Simonson and Richard Myers

Music and popular science. Hosts: Åse Kleveland and Nils Chr. Stenseth. Tickets sold at the door for 100 NOK (NB: Cash only).

Carl Zimmer, the author of several popular science books, will talk about how the latest research has drastically changed our view of viruses

Speakers: Cori Bargmann and Carl Zimmer. The Kristine Bonnevie lecture on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.

Speaker: Steven Pinker

Speakers: Göran Arnqvist, Manfred Milinski, Jane M. Reid and Stephen M. Shuster

Speaker: Massimo Pigliucci

Speakers: Elizabeth Hadly, Richard Dawkins and Jim Al-Khalili