Vikingskipet, Hamar
16.–20. April, 2014
Meet the University of Oslo on Friday and Saturday!
 
Photo by UiO

Meet the University of Oslo on Friday and Saturday!

University of Oslo is back at The Gathering, and as usual they contribute with lots of awesome seminars. Check the list here!
Lectures and seminars
The schedule of talks for Friday and Saturday is ready! Students and faculty from the University of Oslo give popular science talks that make you smarter. Come and hear about Minecraft, reverse-engineering, Autodesk Inventor, Rubik's cube, Kerbal Space Program, Arduino, and Japanese. All lectures are in the auditorium.
 
You also don't want to miss the talks from the main stage.

Friday at 15:30 on the stage: OMG NUKULAR ATOMZ RADIATION MELTDOWN!!!1
Sunniva Rose (rosablogger og kjernefysiker) snakker om atomer og stråling og ulykker og atomkrig og mutanter sånn.

Saturday at 13:15 on the stage: Conways Game of Life
Roger Antonsen (senior lecturer and logician) talks about Conway's Game of Life - two-dimentional cellular automata!

Here is the schedule for the auditorium.
 
Experiments in Minecraft
Friday and Saturday at 12:00
How can you combine Arduino and Minecraft such that you can control real things from the game? In this talk we will show how to do these thing. We will also write of a little plugin in a scripting language. The talk is given by Lars Erik Realfsen.

Intro to reverse-engineering
Friday and Saturday at 13:00
A short introduksjon to how to reverse engineere simple programs written in C. For this we will use standard linux tools like 'strings', 'readelf' and 'objump'. We will also go through simple use of the debugger gdb. The talk is given by Aleksi Luukkonen.

Autodesk Inventor
Friday and Saturday at 14:00
Short introduction to Autodesk Inventor, how to do the most basic stuff and start with some larger projects. The talk is given by Nikolas Papaoiaunnou.

Learn Rubik's cube
Friday at 15:00
This is a beginners course in Rubik's Cube. We will learn a few simple steips that may be combined into a method for solving the cube. This method is a simple layer-by-layer method, which means that may be gradually expanded intto a full Fridrich method, which the best speedcubers in the world uses. The talk is given by Marie Lilleborge.

What you want to know about Rubik's Cube
Saturday at 15:00
How does a Rubik's Cube work? What are this rules and patterns? Roger and Marie will show you a lot about puzzles like the Rubik's Cube. The talk is given by Marie Lilleborge and Roger Antonsen.

Kerbal Space Program
Friday and Saturday at 16:00
Basic space ship building in the space simulator game Kerbal Space Program! Virtual explosions guaranteed. The talk is given by Vegard Lillevoll.

Intro to Arduino
Friday and Saturday at 17:00
Hacking of everyday stuff! Here we show how to make a lamp you can turn on and off by email, robots that follow lines on the floor and other fun things you can do with Arduino. If you don't know what an Arduino is, you will miss something cool! The talk is given by Lars Erik Realfsen.

Intro to Japanese
Friday at 19:30
A simple introduction to Japanese. The talk is given by Petter Nordal.