News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

CGB will be taking an active role in an Astrobiology summer school addressing these issues 29 June-13 July 2009. Professor Nils-Kåre Birkeland will be one of the lecturers, lecturing on the "Genetics of thermophiles" and the "Molecular basis of the stability of biomoleculees in hot environments". Researcher Ida Helene Steen and research assistant Solveig Hoem are leading some of the lab courses... Read more

Professor Lise Øvreås is participating in a research cruise in the Lau basin, east of Fiji, where scientists are investigating extreme organisms living around the hydrothermal vents found there.

Knut Wiik Vollset had a six-month exchange in the US. He definitely recommends that other PhD students have an exchange experience.

With no less than four co-authored papers, postdoc Saket Saurabh at the Department of Informatics has set a new record in at the respected ICALP conference.

Welcome to IllustraVis09, an interdisciplinary gathering on illustrative visualization, 3rd and 4th of June 2009.

The marine microbial community contributes to almost 50% of the earth’s total carbon production and thus plays a major role in the ecology of our biosphere. But do we understand how it works? Can we predict how it will respond to changes such as those involved in climate change? Increased understanding of the earth’s geo- and bio-sphere, and its bio-geochemical cycles, particularly in marine... Read more

In occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Maths Institute in Bergen, master student challenged employees in a soccer match at Møhlenpris on may 5th 2009. And the result was a surprise for many.

Applicant counts from NUCAS (‘Samordna opptak’) show a 81% increase in the number of applicants to the Department of Informatics, compared to last year.