Nobel Calling 2024
Stockholm University organizes activities connected to the Nobel Prize in collaboration with the Nobel Prize Museum. This event is called Nobel Calling and will in 2024 take place 4-14 October. This year you can, among other things, visit the lab studying ancient DNA and listen to researchers talking about cracking codes in science and how AI influence climate.
Nobel Calling – open events in the spirit of Nobel
At the beginning of October, the eyes of the world are directed towards Stockholm when this year's Nobel laureates is announced. During Nobel Calling, you meet researchers, Nobel laureates, academy members and many more when the Nobel Prize Museum together with Stockholm University and other actors organize activities. During the 2024 Nobel Calling, Stockholm University offers open lectures, panel discussions, lab visits and a competition in social media.
Stockholm University's activities during Nobel Calling
Visit the sound laboratories
Visit researchers in experimental psychology at Gösta Ekman's laboratories at Stockholm University. Among other things, the researchers study unconscious learning and the brain's information processing when localizing sounds.
Date: October 7 at 2 pm (English) at 5 pm (Swedish)
Date: October 8 at 2 pm (English) at 5 pm (Swedish)
Location: The Laboratory for Perception Research and Psychophysics at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University
Registration is required. (The event is currently fully booked but please try to register later if there will be additional spaces.)
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Visit the lab mapping ancient DNA
Visit the scientists working to study ancient DNA from animals, humans and sediments. The researchers study, among other things, the DNA of million-year-old mammoths and have mapped migration patterns in the Nordics during the Stone Age and the Viking Age.
Date: 9 October, 2 pm (Swedish) and 5 pm (English)
Date: October 10, 2 pm (English) and 5 pm (Swedish)
Location: Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm University
Registration is required. (The event is currently fully booked but please try to register later if there will be additional spaces.)
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Panel discussion: Cracking codes
A panel discussion with researchers from Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Collage of Technology about cracking codes in research and the fascination for scientific challenges
Date: Monday 7 October
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
Location: The Nobel Prize Museum
(This event is only in Swedish)
Registration is required. (The event is currently fully booked but please try to register later if there will be additional spaces.)
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When AI meets the climate crisis – threat or opportunity?
Lecture with Victor Galaz, docent at the Stockholm Resilience Center who soon will publish a book on AI linked to climate and environment.
Date: Tuesday, October 8
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
Location: The Nobel Prize Museum
(This event is only in Swedish)
Registration is required.
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Reflections about this year´s Nobel prize in literature
An open conversation with professors Carin Franzén and Adnan Mahmutovic on this year's announcement.
Date: Thursday 10 October
Time: 12.45 – 13.15
Location: University Library, Frescati
(This event is only in Swedish)
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All activities are free to participate in, but registration may be required.
For more information about activities in Stockholm during Nobel Calling visit the website of the Nobel Prize Museum.
Lecture: The Prize in Economic Sciences 2024
The Royal Academy of Sciences organizes together with Stockholm University and the National Economic Association an open lecture about this year's recipients of the Economics Prize.
Date: Tuesday 15 October 2024
Time: 12.00 – 13.00
Location: Lecture hall 3, Södra huset, Frescati
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Material from previous years
- Nobel Walk at Stockholm University Olof Somell from the Nobel Prize Museum visits places at Frescati connected to the Nobel Prize.
- Quantum mechanics is a beautiful thing and it is mind expanding (lecture)
- Bert Bolin—founder of the climate panel and world-leading scientist (slideshow)
- Svante Arrhenius – Sweden's first Nobel Laureate (slideshow)
- How are Nobel Laureates chosen? (conversation at Stockholm University)
Lectures in Swedish
Last updated: October 9, 2024
Source: Communications Office (PP)