Kavli News

01/11/2013

KIPAC Director Roger Blandford Awarded 2013 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal for Astronomy

The Royal Astronomical Society has announced that Roger Blandford, KIPAC director, has been awarded the society's  2013 Gold Medal for Astronomy.

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12/17/2012

The Many Maps of the Brain

Your brain has at least four different senses of location – and perhaps as many as 10. And each is different, according to new research from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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12/17/2012

KISN DIrectors Win Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has awarded the 13th Perl-UNC Neuroscience prize jointly to Edvard and May-Britt Moserdirector and co-director, respectively, of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and they jointly lead the Centre for the Biology of Memory at NTNU.

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12/16/2012

KITP's Polchinksi One of Three Recipients of the 2013 Physics Frontier Prize

Joseph Polchinski, a permanent member of UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and professor of physics at UCSB, has been named one of three recipients of the 2013 Physics Frontier Prize from the Milner Foundation.

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12/15/2012

Investment of 51 Million Euro for Nanoscience in Delft and Leiden

With an amount of 51 million -- one of the largest ever Dutch investments in fundamental science -- scientists of TU Delft and Leiden University will be embarking on the research programme ‘NanoFront’

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