Previous events - Page 18

Speaker: Magne Thoresen, Professor, Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE), Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo.

Speaker: Michael G. Schimek, Professor, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria.

Georgina Mace: "How should we value nature in a human-dominated world?". James Wilsdon: "The science and art of scientific advice"

Speaker: Richard Cook, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Speaker: Tormod ?dn?y, Associate Professor, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Speaker: Sander Greenland, Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology and Statistics Departments, University of California, Los Angeles.

Speaker: ?rnulf Borgan, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo.

Speaker: Andrea Riebler, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Speaker: Ole Klungs?yr, Researcher, Oslo University Hospital.

Speaker: ?ystein S?rensen, Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo.

The author, philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci will give a lecture on: "The relationship between science and philosophy". Hopi Hoekstra from Harvard University will tell us about: "Digging for genes that affect behavior". The Kristine Bonnevie lectures on evolutionary biology is part of the University¡¯s annual celebration.

Speaker: John L. Hopper, Professor & Director, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Austraila.

Speaker: Ragnhild S?rum Falk, Researcher, Oslo University Hospital.

Speaker: Odd O. Aalen, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo.

Speaker: Philip Hougaard, Biometrics, Lundbeck.

Speaker: Valeria Vitelli, postdoc, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo.

Speaker: Nils Lid Hjort, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo.

Speaker: John P. Buonaccorsi, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Speaker: Siri Eldevik H?berg, Senior advisor, Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

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.

Speaker: Bjørn Heine Strand, Senior Researcher, Department of Health Statistics, Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Speaker: Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.

Speaker: Tron Anders Moger, Associate Professor, Department of Health Management and Health Economics and Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo

Speakers: Matthew Sperrin and Thomas Jaki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University.