Trondheim Science Week

Trondheim Science Week is a conference which is held at the start/mid of March each year. This year Trondheim Science Week will be held from 12th to 14th of March. Invite your friends, family, favorite professor and other science interested, we look forward to seeing you!

Trondheim Science Week is a festival arranged by volunteering students from Linjeforeningen Delta, the student association for mathematics and physics at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Foredragsholdere 2024

Here is a list of last year's speakers. The list will change as we release new speakers and companies:

Maria Hammerstrøm

Maria Hammerstrøm has a master's degree in astrophysics from the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo. She is co-editor of the popular science journal "Astronomi" and also works with subject terminology in Norwegian for the Language Council. She has written "The little book about the universe" (2019) and regularly contributes to "Store" og "Lille" norwegian lexikon.

The Norwegian Defense Research Institute

Then it is ready to announce Realdagsdagen's first company, namely the Defense Research Institute!

It is the defense sector's own research institution where, among other things, they contribute to the defence's operational capability, the defence's long-term planning as well as to the Norwegian defense industry's competitiveness with high-tech expertise and military and political insight.

We look forward to hearing more about your work in March!

Dennis Siva Lie and Stian Sandø

This year's second speaker is Dennis and Stian! They have both previously been Newton program managers and they both work with science communication. Their main focus is to convey difficult things in a simpler way.

We look forward to hearing more about their work!

Eleonora Svanberg

We are excited to announce our next lecturer, Eleonora Svanberg! Eleonora Svanberg is a Swedish “STEM”-fluencer, who completed her BSc in Physics at Stockholm University in 2022, followed by a Master’s in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 2023. This autumn, she will start as a PhD student in string theory at the University of Oxford. Beyond academia, Eleonora is a staunch advocate for gender equality in STEM. She founded Girls in STEM, a non-profit organization inspiring young girls to pursue STEM fields. To extend her impact, Eleonora uses social media platforms to inspire and educate the youth on STEM-related topics, and have in total over 150,000 followers. She uses these platforms to talk about studying, impostor syndrome and give advice on how to start a physics career. Her contributions to academia and gender equality advocacy have garnered her prestigious awards like H.M. the Swedish King’s Compass Rose Award and Oxford Saven European Scholarship.

We are looking forward to hearing more from her!

Picture taken by Mikael Lundblad

SINTEF

We are pleased to announce that our second company is SINTEF!SINTEF is one of Europe's largest independent research institutes, and every year they carry out several thousand assignments - for small and large customers. SINTEF consists of 6 research institutes where the main areas are the sea, digital, energy, industry, society and production

We look forward to hearing about the company!

Anders Tranberg

The next speaker is Anders Tranberg!

Anders works with classical and quantum field phenomena in particle physics and cosmology. His primary focus is baryogenesis in the early universe, inflation and preheating, topological defects and the development of non-equilibrium field theory methods. He is also a professor of theoretical physics and teaches at the University of Stavanger.

We are very much looking forward to hearing his talk!

Vincent Kofman

The next lecturer that is going to do a talk at our science festival is Vincent Kofman He works with spectroscopic simulations and studies atmospheres of planets. He obtained his doctorate from the Leiden Observatory in laboratory astrophysics studying interstellar ice analogues. Kofman works for NASA and he is incorporating state-of-the-art spectroscopic databases into the Planetary Spectrum Generator to simulate exoplanet atmospheres. He is also assessing detectability of molecular species in exoplanet atmospheres using both high-resolution ground-based spectroscopy and low-resolution with upcoming space telescopes

We are very excited to hear about his work!

Petter Bergh

Then it's time to release the last speaker, and it's this year's lecturer, namely Petter Bergh! Petter is a professor of mathematics at NTNU, with a research field of algebra. He obtained a doctorate in mathematics at NTNU in 2006, then was a so-called postdoctoral fellow at Oxford and at NTNU, before being employed here. He believes he himself has the best job in the world where he gets to both research and teach students.

We are very excited to hear more about his research