Artikkel: The Birkeland Lecture


Hjem Om Akademiet Medlemmer Arrangementer Komiteer og utvalg Publikasjoner Eiendommer og utleie Nansenfondet Abelprisen Kavliprisen Akademiets lærerpris VISTA Senter for grunnforskning Minnetaler English About the Academy Administration The Board Academy Members Foreign Members Norwegian Members Group Leaders Publications Committee of Geomedicine The Abel Prize The Kavli Prize The Birkeland Lecture Centre for Advanced Study Nyhetsbrev Bildearkiv	The Birkeland Lecture The University of Oslo has since 1987 arranged a ”Birkeland Lecture” in cooperation with the Norwegain Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Space Centre and the Norwegian company Norsk Hydro ASA (from 2004: YARA ASA). Except for 1993 – when the lecture was given in Tokyo - the lectures have been given in Norway, most of them at the Academy in Oslo. Some years seminars have been arranged in connection with the lectures, e.g in 1993 when the lecture was part of a ”Joint Japanese-Norwegian Workshop on Arctic Research”, and in 1995 when the lecture was part of a seminar on Norwegian environmental research. Also in 2001, when professor D. Southwood from ESA gave the Birkeland Lecture, a workshop on Norwegian space research with emphasis on the Cluster programme was arranged at the University of Oslo. This cooperation with the Academy and Norsk Hydro and YARA has given the University of Oslo the opportunity to invite many outstanding scientists within the area of geophysical and space research to Oslo, areas which were central in Kristian Birkeland´s own research. To improve the experimental basis for his theory of the geomagnetic effects in the polar region, Birkeland carried out a large scale expedition in the Arctic . The expedition took place in the years 1902-03, and the map shows the position of the experimental stations which he had equipped with modern instruments. These stations were of central impor-tance for this enterprise, and he called them “The Norwegian Stations”. (Map from Birkeland´s main research contribution “The Norwegian Auroral Polaris Expeditions”, 1908).	Organizing committee Jan A. Holtet Professor Jan A. Holtet, Department of Physics, University of Oslo (chairman) Professor Alv Egeland, Department of Physics, University of Oslo Professor Reidun Sirevåg, Secretary General, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Rune Ingels, Vice President, Yara International ASA Pål Brekke, Senior Adviser, Norwegian Space Centre About the Birkeland Lecture The Birkeland Lecture is open for everybody. There is no registration. Free admission. For more information about the Birkeland Lecture: Anne-Marie Astad Information Officer The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Phone: + 47 22 12 10 92 E-mail: anne.marie.astad@dnva.no Se også.. The Birkeland Lectures
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