Kavli Prize Week: September 3-6, 2012
HELD PRIMARILY IN OSLO, NORWAY, Kavli Prize Week is a series of events and dialogues on science, including the Kavli Prize Ceremony held in honor of the 2012 Kavli Prize Laureates. The week also includes the Kavli Prize Science Forum, a new biennial international forum meeting to facilitate high-level, global discussion of major topics on science and science policy, and the Kavli Prize Symposia.
Additional information is available at www.kavliprize.no.
Monday, September 3 (All times CEST)
9:30 am – 2:00 pm: The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures
Location: University of Oslo, Blindern Campus
The 2012 Kavli Prize Science Forum will be webacst live from the Gamle Festsal at the University of Oslo, Norway. Click image for program details. (Scanpix)
3:30 pm – 6:00 pm: The Kavli Prize Science Forum - "Science and Global Health: The Role of Basic Science" Location: Gamle festsal
Opening address:
- Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
Panelists:
- Rita Colwell, Former Director, National Science Foundation, US
- Alice Dautry, President, Institut Pasteur, France
- Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine, US
- Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Chairman, Health and Global Policy Institute, Japan
Moderator:
- Pallab Ghosh, BBC News, UK
Tuesday, September 4 (All times CEST)
His Majesty King Harald of Norway presents the 2010 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. (Credit: Scanpix)
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm: The Kavli Prize Award Ceremony
Location: Oslo Concert Hall
Masters of Ceremony: Alan Alda and Åse Kleveland
7:00 pm: The Kavli Prize Banquet
Location: Oslo City Hall (By invitation only)
Wednesday, September 5 (All times CEST)
10:00 am - 1:00 pm: The Kavli Prize Popular Science Lectures
Location: University Aula, Karl Johansgate
Participants:
9:40 - 10:30: Lisa Randall, Harvard University, US
10:35 - 11:25: May-Britt Moser, NTNU, Norway
11:30 - 12:30: Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures, US
12:30 - 1:30: René Redzepi, NOMA and Lars Williams, Nordic Food Lab
Thursday, September 6 (All times CEST)
10:00 am – 4:00 pm: The Kavli Prize Symposia in Nanoscience and Neuroscience
Location: University of Bergen
NANOSCIENCE
- Leo Kouwenhoven, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires) - Roeland Nolte, University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mastering Molecular Matter - Design and Synthesis of Bio-inspired Catalysts and Materials - Geoffrey A. Ozin, University of Toronto, Canada
Green Nanochemistry - Serge Haroche, Collège de France, France
Juggling with photons and real or artificial atoms in cavities
NEUROSCIENCE
- Chiara Cirelli, University of Wisconsin, US
Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis - Michael Meaney, A*STAR, Singapore & McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Parental regulation of the structure and function of the genome in the offspring - Michael E. Greenberg, Harvard University, US
Signaling Networks that Regulate Synapse Development and Cognitive Function - Erin M. Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt aM, Germany
Local Control at Synapses
10:00 am – 4:00 pm: The Kavli Prize Symposium and Public Program in Nanoscience and Neuroscience
Location: Trondheim, NTNU
PUBLIC LECTURE
Richard Morris, D. Phil, the University of Edinburgh: "The Making, Keeping and Losing of Memory"
NANOSCIENCE
- Jochen Mannhart, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Carlos Bustamante, UC Berkeley, US
- Milena Grifoni, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore, Singapore
NEUROSCIENCE
- Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University, US - ''Digging for genes that contribute to behavioral evolution in mammals''
- Catherine Dulac, Harvard University US - ''Sex battles in the brain''
Complete program information for NTNU
10:00 am – 4:00 pm: The Kavli Prize Symposium in Astrophysics
Location: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo
- Juri Toomre, University of Colorado at Boulder, US
Touching the inside of a convecting star and its magnetic dynamo - Francois Forget, CNRS at Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France
The planet Mars through time - Natalie Batalha, NASA Ames Research Center, US
Finding the Next Earth - Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Water in space: from interstellar clouds to planets - Robert Williams, Space Telescope Science Institute, US
The Scientific Legacy of Hubble Space Telescope - Scott Dodelson, University of Chicago, US
The Dark Sector vs. Modified Gravity
Please register for the Astrophysics symposium by August 25th to trine.gerlyng@dnva.no. The symposium is free of charge and open to everybody. NB! available seats are limited and may be fully booked before the deadline expires.