Abels Tårn Live

Friday 31 May 2024 12:15-13:15,
Universitetsbiblioteket, campus Ullandhaug.

NRK P2's popular science flagship is coming to Stavanger university library.

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Welcome to the recording of the radio program Abel's Tower. Host Torkild Jemterud will bring three experts from various fields who will answer listeners' questions about how the world actually works.  

We will serve coffee and some snacks. 

Language: Norwegian.

The experts in the panel are:  

  • Molecular Biologist Sigrid Bratlie 

Educated at the University of Glasgow and holds a PhD in molecular biology from the Institute for Cancer Research at the Radium Hospital in Oslo. Brattlie was awarded H.M. The King's Gold Medal for her PhD work. Today, she works as a project manager for genetic technology at NCE Heidner and as a special advisor at the Norwegian Cancer Society.

  • Physicist Vegard Undheim 

PhD candidate in physics at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Stavanger.

  • Media Scholar Lars Nyre 

Professor of media studies at the University of Bergen and adjunct professor in media studies at the University of Stavanger. Nyre has researched the role of media and technological development, and is focused on the interaction between technology and society.

Lars Nyre
Sigrid Bratlie 
Vegard Undheim