The Kavli Prize events program

A varied program of events for the Kavli Prize week in early September is beginning to shape up. New additions to the program will be added as they are confirmed. The Kavli Prize Award Ceremony will take place on September 7, at Oslo Concert Hall. But the Kavli Prize celebrations in Norway will start already the previous day with a series of public lectures and symposia and continue througout the week with events both in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø.

Kavli Prize announcement

The names of the 2010 Kavli Prize Laureates will be announced by the President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Nils Christian Stenseth, on June 3, in Oslo, Norway. The announcement will be transmitted live to the World Science Festival, New York where it will be part of the opening event.

Selection of Kavli Prize Laureates 2010

The Kavli Prize committees have now started on the process of selecting the winners of the prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. The three selection committees meet at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters during October. The nanoscience committee (picture) had their first meeting on the 2nd and 3rd of October.

Kavli Lecture: From Neural Circuits to Nanocrystals

In these inaugural Kavli Lectures in Washington, D.C., two of the 2008 Kavli Prize laureates, Louis E. Brus and Sten Grillner, will take us on a journey from the small scale of nanoscience to the complex world of neuroscience.

• Location: Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC
• Time: 15 October 2009 at 18:45