This year, the Nordic Network for Diversity in Physics is holding its annual meeting as a one-day online event on 29th January, from 9.00 to 15.30.
Attendance is free of charge, but registration is mandatory to get access to the Zoom link and the recorded videos.

Highlights of the event:

Angela Saini’s talk. Angela Saini is a British journalist whose highly-regarded books and broadcasts on important issues around representation and discrimination in science and society have received widespread praise. She will speak on “Racism in science and society”. This is a topic that Angela researched extensively for her book Superior: The Return of Race Science.

Round-table: How to work against harassment – A discussion from a Nordic perspective. There will be reports on harassment reporting practices in academia from all the Nordic countries, and a round table discussion. Jóhanna Ella Jónsdóttir will be be the speaker for Iceland. Professor Helen Dannetun from Linköping University will moderate the discussion on „How to work against harassment – A discussion from a Nordic perspective“.

For more details about the conference, program, and the NORNDiP network visit: https://www.norndip.net
Registration at this link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/979804/registrations/66795/

Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið Háskóla Íslands stendur fyrir Vísinda- og tæknidegi VoN þann 25.október 2014.

Markmiðið með deginum er að kveikja enn frekar áhuga almennings, ekki síst barna, á vísindum og tækninýjungum ásamt því að kynna rannsóknir á sviðinu á mannamáli.

http://visindadagur.hi.is

Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS), Tölvunarfræðideild Háskólans í Reykjavík og Vísindafélag Íslendinga standa fyrir viðburði um samband lista og vísinda fimmtudaginn 21. ágúst klukkan 17:00-19:00 í stofu V1.01 í Háskólanum í Reykjavik, Menntavegi 1.

Nánari upplýsingar má finna hér http://icetcs.ru.is/crossroads-art-science/.

The 2014 annual workshop of the ESF network HoloGrav will be held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on August 18-22, 2014. The meeting will provide an overview and assessment of recent progress in applying holographic methods to various strongly coupled quantum systems. Focus topics include:

• quantum entanglement
• out of equilibrium dynamics in condensed matter and in heavy ion collisions
• explicit and spontaneous symmetry breaking in holographic models
• holography for higher spin theories
• integrability in supersymmetric gauge theories

http://www.nordita.org/holo2014/

Vikan 22. – 25. apríl 2014 verður tölfræðivika. Þessa daga verða fjórir tölfræðiviðburðir.
Allir fyrirlestrarnir verða í V-157 í VR-II.

• 22. apríl kl. 14:00. Emtiyaz Khan frá École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Machine Learning
• 23. apríl kl. 12:00. R-Ísland: Stofnfundur félags R-notenda á Íslandi
• 23. apríl kl. 13:00. Andrew Gelman frá Columbia University: Tölfræðipakkinn Stan
• 25. apríl kl. 12:00. Håvard Rue frá Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Penalising model component complexity: A principled practical approach to constructing priors

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