Technoport

Last week the Technoport conference was held in Trondheim. It was two and a half days filled with interesting lectures, debates, mingeling and culture. The theme of the conference was Sharing possibilities, and the importance of doing just that is indeed what I was left with.
It all started with mr. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa from Japan who emphasized the importance of collaborating across different areas of science to able to find new sollutions that might help us on the way of fighting climate change. His ideas were both inspiring and educational.

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

 Due to snow in Oslo one of the politician who was going to open the session was late, but she came and held her speech. I am surprised that even thoug she was several hours late, it appeared as if she had never seen the words on the sheet of paper in front of her. As if that was not bad enough, I really wish someone could send our Minister of Education and Research a Cambridge pronunciation dictionary. ASAP!


Kristin Halvorsen as we know her...

One of most fun things to attend at this conference was when friends of mine kept lectures about there thesis:)


Tor Martin giving a speech about his lecture

 After a short break the conference continued with dinner at Lian, a really nice place outside Trondheim. Dressing up, having a nice dinner and company is not bad for a monday..=)

Lian

Live feel-good music at the dinner:) sweet!

 The next day the most interesting part was the debate, even though the panel that was put together was a bit too homogeneous to be my cup of tea.
And in the evening the highlight of the whole conference found place. I was so lucky that a professor emeritus sat down next to me. He had so much interesting things to talk about, and it is so fascinating to listen to everything he has experienced. He went from working with eletronic to physics and wave power as early as in the 70's. So he also gave an example of how fruitfull it can be to bring indeas from one science to an other. When he said he had worked with wave power I had to ask if he knew my supervisor. Indeed he did, he had even been his supervisor when he was working on his doctor degree. Once again: It's a small world we're living in!

Rita Ottervik, the mayor of Trondheim. Got to love the glas:)

The principal at NTNU holding a speech asking the new generation to clean up the mess that they had made:p

Extraordinary good company at the table:)

 The evening ended with Technoport awards were 6 awards were given in different catagories. It gave a good insight in what is happening in different areas and also that the specter is very broad. (It is way to easy to get narrow minded while studying and especially while writing on once thesis). Apart from the awards there were several musical performances. It all started with a very geeky piece of music. The composer described how he had worked when writing the piece using Newton's laws of motion and the Fibonacci numbers. Really cool, but I think one has to be a bit geeky to appreciate it.

A really cool band that combined traditional joik with jazz:) awesome!