The Kavli Prize Week
Kavli Prize Week 2026
28 August – 3 September
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 (Norwegian SciTech News 11 June 2026)
2026 Kavli Prize Laureates in Nanoscience
Committee Chair for the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience: Mari-Ann Einarsrud, NTNU.
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)
For practical reasons we kindly ask the participants at the Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium 2026 to register:
Registration The Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium 2026
10.00 Tor Grande, Rector, NTNU
Welcome to NTNU and to the NTNU Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium 2026
10.10 Lectures by the Kavli Laureates in Nanoscience
Laureate Professor Eva Y. Andrei, Rutgers University
From Suspended Graphene to the Magic Angle: The Origins of Twistronics
Laureate Professor Allan H. MacDonald, The University of Texas at Austin
The Quantum Theory of Matter: From Electrons in Crystals to Moiré Materials
Laureate Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Magic-Angle Graphene: The Twist and Shout of Quantum Materials
12.10 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
Committee Chair for the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience: Edvard Moser, NTNU.
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)
After the programme, there will be an animal facility tour for the Kavli Prize Laureates and invited guests.
10.00 Toril A. Nagelhus Hernes, Pro-Rector for Research and Innovation, NTNU
Opening remarks
10.05 Edvard Moser, Scientific Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (KISN) and Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience 2026
Introduces the 2026 Kavli Prize Laureates
10.15 Laureate Professor Oswald Steward
mRNA Localization and Local Translation at Synapses: A Mechanism Enabling Repair and Plasticity of Synaptic Connections over the Lifespan
10.55 Coffee break
11.15 Laureate Professor Christine Holt
Remote Control: How Local Translation Sculpts and Sustains the Wiring of the Brain
11.55 Lunch on the 5th floor, Fred Kavli Building
13.00 Laureate Professor Erin Schuman
The Central Dogma De-centralized: Localized Messages and Machines Control Protein Synthesis at the Synapse
13.40 Coffee break
14.00 Laureate Professor Kelsey Martin
One Nucleus, Thousands of Synapses: A Cell Biology of Memory
14.45 Bjarne Foss, Managing Director of KISN
Concluding remarks
15.00 Animal facility tour for Kavli Prize Laureates and invited guests