Fourth Conference of Nordic Network for Diversity in Physics

Session

Session 1

18 Aug 2022, 13:15

Veröld: VHV-023 (University of Iceland)

6. Key note: How to tackle resistance against gender equality in a hostile environment

Prof. Beata Bielska (Nicolaus Copernincus University in Toruń, PL)

18/08/2022, 13:15

I will analyze the struggle with gender equality resistance from the perspective of social movements studies, specifically as a reaction to a feminist social change. As a feminist and a queer activist, I will also present examples of tackling this resistance in a hostile Polish context. Drawing from personal experience and scientific literature, I will suggest some strategies we could use to...

10. Climate change: from physics to social and behavioural sciences

Katja Anniina Lauri (University of Helsinki)

18/08/2022, 14:15

Talk

11. The physics of Space Weather

Emiliya Yordanova (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala)

18/08/2022, 14:45

Talk

Space weather chain consist of many components connecting phenomena from the Sun which propagate in the interplanetary and near-Earth’ space with the ground. Forecasting the potential space weather hazards has become vital in our everyday life because today we are completely dependent on undisrupted operations of human technology in orbit and on the ground. Each component of space weather has...