The Kavli Prize Week
Kavli Prize Week 2026
NTNU, Trondheim
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Nanoscience: Laureates and Symposium Programme
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Neuroscience: Laureates and Symposium Programme
The Kavli Prize is a partnership between The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Kavli Foundation (US) and The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
The Kavli Prize honors scientists for groundbreaking research 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 scientific field and is awarded every second year by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
Following the Kavli Prize ceremony and lectures in Oslo, several of the laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience travel to Trondheim and NTNU to give official prize lectures and participate in Kavli Prize events.
The 2026 Kavli Prize Laureates:
Major discoveries about the universe, materials and the brain.
Programme for the NTNU Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium
- Time: Thursday 3 September 2026, 10.00–16.10
- Venue: Auditorium R5, Natural Science Building, Campus Gløshaugen (view in MazeMap)
Please note that the programme may be subject to change.
10.00 Rector Tor Grande, NTNU
Welcome to NTNU and to the NTNU Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium 2026
10.10 Lectures by the Kavli Laureates in Nanoscience
Laureate Eva Y. Andrei, Rutgers University
From Suspended Graphene to the Magic Angle: The Origins of Twistronics
Laureate Allan H. MacDonald, The University of Texas at Austin
The Quantum Theory of Matter: From Electrons in Crystals to Moiré Materials
Laureate Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Magic-Angle Graphene: The Twist and Shout of Quantum Materials
12.00 Lunch (by invitation only)
13.15 Jens-Petter Andreassen, Dean and Chairman of NTNU NanoLab, NTNU
Welcome
13.20 Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology
Artificial atoms based on superconducting circuits
13.55 Asle Sudbø, NTNU
Higher-Order Fermionic Correlations and Superconductivity
14.20 Coffee break
14.40 Sol H. Jacobsen, NTNU
Controlling Superconductivity with Proximity Effects and Geometric Curvature
15.00 Johann Riemensberger, NTNU
Nonlinear Integrated Photonics for Optical Parametric Amplifiers and Quantum Light Sources
15.20 Ingrid Gullikstad Hallsteinsen, NTNU
Quasi Van-der Waals Interfaces for Future Electronics
15.40 Barbara Pacáková, NTNU
Beyond Soil: Clay Minerals as Functional Low-Dimensional Materials
16.00 Closing remarks
2026 Kavli Prize Laureates in Neuroscience
Programme for the NTNU Kavli Prize Neuroscience Symposium
- Time: Thursday 3 September 2026, 10.00–15.00
- Venue: Auditorium MTA, Fred Kavli Building, Campus Øya (view in MazeMap)
The programme will be available soon.