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The Kavli Prize Week 2022

The Kavli Prize Week 2022

Events at NTNU, Trondheim

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The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience – transforming our understanding of the big, the small and the complex. The prize consists of USD 1,000,000 in each of the scientific fields and is awarded every second year by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

After the Kavli Prize ceremony and lectures in Oslo, a number of the laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience travel to Trondheim and NTNU to give official prize lectures and participate in the Kavli Prize Events.


Programme Tuesday 6 September 2022

Tuesday 6 September 2022

NTNU Kveld: Presentation of the Kavli Prizes awarded in Neuroscience 2020 and 2022

  • Time: 19:00-21:00
  • Place: Dokkhuset, Trondheim

2020: The discovery of receptors for temperature and pressure, by Jonathan Whitlock

2022: Pioneering the discovery of genes underlying a range of serious brain disorders, by Maryam Ziaei


Programme Wednesday 7 September 2022

Wednesday 7 September 2022

NTNU Kveld: Presentation of the Kavli Prizes awarded in Nanoscience 2020 and 2022

  • Time:19:00–21:00
  • Place: Dokkhuset, Trondheim

2020: Transmission Electron Microscopy, by Randi Holmestad and Emil Frang Christiansen 

2022: Self Assembly of Monolayers on Solid Surfaces, by Kristofer Gunnar Paso


Programme Thursday 8 September 2022

Thursday 8 September 2022

Meet the Kavli Prize Laureates 2020 and 2022

A conversation with the Kavli Prize Nanoscience and Neuroscience Laureates


Programme NanoScience Friday 9 September 2022

Friday 9 September 2022

Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium 2022

The Kavli Laureates of 2020 and 2022 present their prize awarded research

Go to the programme: Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium

The 2020 and 2022 Kavli Laureates in Nanoscience

The Kavli Laureates in Nanoscience 2020

Awarded for sub-ångström resolution imaging and chemical analysis using electron beams.

Harald Rose, photo
Harald Rose

Ulm University and Technical University of Darmstadt
Germany
Maximilian Haider, photo
Maximilian Haider

CEOS GmbH
Austria
Knut Urban, photo
Knut Urban

Forschungszentrum Jülich
Germany
Ondrej L Krivanek, photo
Ondrej L. Krivanek
Nion Co and Arizona State University
USA, UK and Czechia

 

The Kavli Laureates in Nanoscience 2022

Awarded for self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on solid substrates: molecular coatings to control surface properties

Jacob Sagiv, photo
Jacob Sagiv
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel
Ralph G Nuzzo, photo
Ralph G. Nuzzo

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA
David L Allara, photo
David L. Allara

Pennsylvania State University
USA
(will not be in Trondheim)
George M Whitesides, photo
George M. Whitesides

Harvard University
USA
(will not be in Trondheim)

 


Programme Neuroscience Friday 9 September 2022

Friday 9 September 2022

Kavli Prize Neuroscience Symposium 2022

The Kavli Laureates of 2020 and 2022 present their prize-winning research

Go to the programme: Kavli Prize Neuroscience Symposium

The 2022 and 2022 Kavli Laureates in Neuroscience

The Kavli Laureates in Neuroscience 2020

Awarded for their transformative discovery of receptors for temperature and pressure.

David Julius, photo
David Julius

University of California, San Francisco, USA
Ardem Patapoutian, photo
Ardem Patapoutian

Scripps Research and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, Lebanon and USA

 

The Kavli Laureates in Neuroscience 2022

Awarded for pioneering the discovery of genes underlying a range of serious brain disorders.

Jean-Louis Mandel, photo
Jean-Louis Mandel

University of Strasbourgh
France
Christopher A. Walsh, photo
Christopher A. Walsh

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital
USA
Huda Y. Zoghbi, photo
Huda Y. Zoghbi
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's School
USA and Lebanon
Harry T. Orr, photo
Harry T. Orr

University of Minnesota Medical School
USA

 


Previous Kavli Prize Laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience

Previous Kavli Prize Laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience

The Kavli Prize NanoscienceThe Kavli Prize Neuroscience

Previous Kavli Prize Weeks at NTNU

2018 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

The Kavli Laureates

Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, photo.

Emmanuelle M. Charpentier has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.


Jennifer A. Doudna, photo.

Jennifer A. Doudna has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.


Virginijus Šikšnys, photo.

Virginijus Šikšnys has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.


2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

The Kavli Laureates

A. James Hudspeth, photo.

A. James Hudspeth has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.


Robert Fettiplace

Robert Fettiplace has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.


Christine Petit

Christine Petit has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.

Photo credit: Peter Bagde/Kavli Prize


Programme for the Kavli Prize Events at NTNU

Thursday, 6 September 2018

09:00-12:00: The Kavli Prize, Laureate Lectures 2018
Auditorium R1 in The Natural Science Building at Gløshaugen.

09:00: Photo session

09:45: Pro-Rector Bjarne Foss, Welcome

9:50: Ole M. Sejersted, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 

9:55: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas , Introduction of the Nanoscience prize winner, Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany

10:00: Nanoscience prize lecture: Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, CRISPR-Cas9: a transformative genome engineering technology originating from a bacterial immune system

10:15: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, Introduction of the Nanoscience prize winner, Jennifer A. Doudna

10:20: Nanoscience prize lecture: Jennifer A. Doudna, CRISPR Biology Guides the Future of Genome Editing

10:35: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, Introduction of Nanoscience prize winner, Virginijus Šikšnys, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

10:40: Nanoscience prize lecture: Virginijus Šikšnys, From antiviral defense towards genome editing

10:55: Scientific director at the Kavli Institute, NTNU, Edvard Moser, Introduction of the Neuroscience prize winner, James Hudspeth, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

11:00: Neuroscience prize lecture: James Hudspeth, How hearing happens: the ear's biological hearing aid

11:15: Professor Edvard Moser, Introduction of the Neuroscience prize winner, Robert Fettiplace, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

11:20: Neuroscience prize lecture: Robert Fettiplace, The twin roles of auditory hair cells in hearing

11:35: Professor Edvard Moser, Introducion of the Neuroscience prize winner, Christine Petit, Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, Paris, France

11:40: Neuroscience prize lecture: Christine Petit, Understanding hearing mechanisms based on genetic readout from disorders

11:55: Concluding remarks by Pro-Rector Bjarne Foss


13:30-16:30: Kavli Prize Symposium for Neuroscience

Auditorium MTA, in The Medical - Technical Research Centre (MTFS), Campus Øya    

13:30: Christian Doeller, Opening remarks

13:35: Christine Petit, The hidden face of hereditary deafness: an emerging genetic roadmap for the central auditory system?

14:15: Coffee break

14:30: A. James Hudspeth, Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by ion channels and myosin molecules in hair cells of the inner ear

15:10: Coffee break

15:30: Robert Fettiplace, The contribution of transmembrane channel-like protein (TMC1) to mechano-electrical transduction in cochlear hair cells

16:10: Round-up discussion and end of symposium


13:30-16:30: Kavli Prize Symposium on Nanoscience

Auditorium R7, Natural Sciences Building, Gløshaugen

13:30: Øyvind Gregersen, Opening Remarks

13:40: Albert Fert, Physics of condensed matter and topology: magnetic skyrmions, topological phases of matter and applications

14:30: Chris Palmstrøm, Epitaxy by Design: Epitaxial Growth of Dissimilar Materials

15:00: Coffee Break

15:20: Kristina Edström, Batteries for a Better Environment

15:50: Albert van den Berg, Labs, Cells and Organs on chip

16:20: John De Mello, Closing Remarks

2016 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

The Kavli Laureates

Calvin Quate, photo.

Calvin Quate has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.


Gerd Binnig, photo.

Gerd Binnig has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.


Christoph Gerber, photo.

Christoph Gerber has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.


2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

The Kavli Laureates

Eva Marder, photo.

Eve Marder has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.


Michael M. Merzenich, photo.

Michael M. Merzenich has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.


Carla J. Shatz, photo.

Carla J. Shatz has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.

Photo credit: Peter Bagde/Kavli Prize


Programme for the Kavli Prize Events at NTNU

Thursday 8 September 2016

09.45–12.00  The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures

09:45 Rector Gunnar Bovim, Welcome

President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Ole M. Sejerstad, Greetings From the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Nanoscience Prize Winner Calvin Quate, Short Statement Given on Behalf of Calvin Quate by Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas

Nanoscience Prize Winner Gerd Binnig, Atomic Force Microscopy for Nano-Medicine and in General for Nanotechnology

Nanoscience Prize Winner Christoph Gerber, The Impact of AFM on a Global Scale

Neuroscience Prize Winner Eve Marder, The Neuroscience of Animal Variability and Robust Behaviour in the Face of Environmental Challenge

Neroscience Prize Winner Michael M. Merzenich, Brain Plasticity-Based Therapeutics

Neuroscience Prize Winner Carla J. Shatz, New Synapses in Old Brains?

11:45, Rector Gunnar Bovim, Concluding Remarks

Download The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures (pdf)

The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures event on Facebook

 

14.00–17.00  The Kavli Prize Symposia in Nanoscience

14:00, Anne Borg, Opening Remarks

14:10, Shuji Nakamura, The Invention of Blue LED and Future Solid State Lighting

15:00, Stacey Bent, Layer-by-Layer Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Energy Applications

15:30, Coffee Break

15:50, Krijn de Jong, Nanoscale Effects in Catalysis for More Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals

16:25, Dimos Poulikakos, How to Arrest, Interrogate and Transport Viruses in Liquids, One at a Time

16:55, Erik Wahlström, Closing Remarks

Download The Kavli Prize Symposia in Nanoscience and Neuroscience (pdf)

Nanoscience at NTNU

 

14.00–17.00  The Kavli Prize Symposia in Neuroscience

14:00, Emre Yaksi, Opening Remars

14:05, Vivek Jayaraman, Dissecting the Workings of a Neural Compass

14:50, Leslie Vosshall, Building a Mosquito Sensory System to Hunt Humans

15:35, Coffee Break

16:00, Botond Roska, The First Steps in Vision: Cell Types, Circuits and Repair

16:45, Round-up Discussions

2014 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

The Kavli Laureates

Sir John B. Pendry, photo.

Sir John B. Pendry has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanooscience.


Thomas W. Ebbesen, photo.

Thomas W. Ebbesen has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.


Stefan W. Hell

Stefan W. Hell has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanooscience.


2014 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

The Kavli Laureates

Brenda Milner, photo.

Brenda Milner has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.

Photo credit: Owen Egan/McGill, University


Marcus E. Raichle, photo.

Marcus E. Raichle has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.

Photo credit: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis


John O'Keefe, photo.

John O'Keefe has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.

Photo credit: David Bishop, UCL


Programme at NTNU

Wednesday 10 September

16:00 MTFS, meeting room 5th floor at Campus Øya

Marty Saggese: SfN: Creating Compelling Value for Members… and How This Relates to Roald Amundsen?

18:30 Kavli Popular Lecture
The Students Society Building (Studentersamfundet)
Stanislas Dehaene:
The matter of education: Literacy, numeracy and the developing brain

Thursday 11 September

0915–1200 Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures
Auditorium R1, Natural Sciences Building (Realfagbygget), Gløshaugen

9:15 Welcome remarks – Rector Gunnar Bovim, NTNU

9:20 Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters – Nils Christian Stenseth, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

9:25 Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Thomas W. Ebbesen

9:30 Nanoscience prize lecture: Thomas Ebbesen: Small things – Big consequences

9:45 Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Stefan W. Hell

9:50 Nanoscience prize lecture: Stefan W. Hell: Optical microscopy: the resolution revolution

10:05 Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Sir John Pendry

10:10 Nanoscience prize lecture: Sir John Pendry: The science of invisibility

10:25 Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Brenda Milner

10:30 Neuroscience prize lecture: Brenda Milner: Memory: Looking Back and Looking Forward

10:45 Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, John O'Keefe

10:50 Neuroscience prize lecture: John O'Keefe: Spatial Cells in the Hippocampal Formation

11:05 Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Marcus E. Raichle

11:10 Neuroscience prize lecture: Marcus E. Raichle: The Brain's Dark Energy

11:25 Concluding remarks by Rector Gunnar Bovim

 

Kavli Prize Symposium in Nanoscience

Auditorium R2, Natural Sciences Building, Gløshaugen

14:00 Anne Borg, Opening of the Kavli Nanoscience Symposium

14:10 Andre Geim: Van der Waals heterostructures: Assembling designer materials from isolated atomic planes

15:00 Bo Brummerstedt Iversen: Watching nanoparticles form

15:30 Break

15:50 Molly Stevens: Designing nanomaterials for biosensing and regenerative medicine

16:25 Ke Lu: Anisotropic nanostructures in materials

 

Kavli Prize Symposium in Neuroscience

Auditorium KBA in Women- and Childrens Centre

14:00 Haim Sompolinsky: Computational Perspectives on Neural Representations

14:30 Doris Tsao: Mapping object representations

15:00 Nachum Ulanovsky: Neural codes for 2-D and 3-D space in the hippocampal formation of bats

15:30 Break

15:45 Eric Knudsen: Brain Maps Controlling Attention

16:15 Dennis O'Leary: Cortical maps: Regulation of area patterning

16:45 End of symposium

2012 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

The Kavli Laureate

Mildred S Dressenhaus, photo

Mildred S. Dresselhaus has been awarded the Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.


2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

The Kavli Laureates

Cornelia Bargmann, photo.

Cornelia Bargmann has been awarded the Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.


Winfried Denk, photo.

Winfried Denk has been awarded the Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.


Ann Martin Graybiel, photo.

Ann Martin Graybiel has been awarded the Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.

Photo credit: Knut Falch/Kavli Prize


Programme at NTNU

Wednesday 5 September

18:30–19:30 The Students Society Building (Studentersamfundet)

Public lecture – free:

Richard Morris, D. Phil, the University of Edinburgh:
The making, keeping and losing of memory

 
Thursday 6 September

10:00–12:00 The Kavli Prize Lectures
NTNU, Gløshaugen, Auditorium R1

10:15 Welcome remarks – Rector Torbjørn Digernes, NTNU

10:20 Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters – Nils Christian Stenseth, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

10:25 Arne Skjeltorp, Chairman of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, introduces the Nano prize winner, Mildred Dresselhaus

10:30 Mildred Dresselhaus: Nanoscale Phenomena (broadcasted from the University of Bergen)

11:00 Lily Jan, member of the Kavli Prize Committee, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Cornelia Bargmann

11:05 Cornelia Bargmann: Genes, neurons, and decisions: using fixed circuits to drive flexible behaviours

11:35 Charles Stevens, member of the Kavli Prize Committee, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Winfried Denk

11:40 Winfried Denk: Imaging tools to reverse engineering the brain


Kavli Symposia on Neuroscience and Nanoscience – parallel sessions

14:00–18:00

Kavli Symposium on Neuroscience

Location: Centre for Women and Children, Auditorium 1st floor
Moderators: May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

14:55 Opening remarks by Nils Christian Stenseth, president of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

15:00 Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France: How learning to read changes the brain

15:40 Coffee

15:55 Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University: Digging for genes that contribute to behavioural evolution in mammals

16:35 Catherine Dulac, Harvard University: Sex battles in the brain

 

Kavli Symposium on Nanoscience

Location: NTNU, Gløshaugen, The Natural Science Building, Auditorium R9
Moderators: Bjørn Torger Stokke, NTNU, and Thomas Tybell, NTNU

14:00 Opening remarks by Bjørn Torger Stokke, Chair of NTNU NanoLab Board

14:10 Carlos Bustamante, Univ of California, Berkeley, USA: Discrete Steps and Intersubunit Coordination in a DNA-Packaging Ring ATPase

14:45 Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore, Singapore: Electrospinning – A Means to Innovate for Funding Strapped Researchers

15:20 Coffee

15:45 Jochen Mannhart, Max Planck Stuttgart, Germany: Oxide Interfaces – A Fantastic World for Electrons; From MOSFETs to Novel Electron Systems

16:20 Milena Grifoni, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany: Spin-dependent phenomena in carbon nanotubes

16:55 Closing Remarks by Thomas Tybell, NTNU