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Kavli Prize Science Forum announced at AAAS, San Diego

US President Science Advisor John P. Holdren (left) and Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, the first Secretary General of the European Research Council, will be the keynote speakers at the first Kavli Prize Science Forum to take place in Oslo, Norway on September 6, 2010. They will join a panel of leaders of science societies and academies to discuss "International Cooperation in the Advancement of Science.”

(22.02.2010) Read more

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.

(18.02.2010) Read more

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.

(17.02.2010) Read more

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.

(13.10.2009) Read more

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
(30.09.2009) Read more

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 Ole Didrik Lærum, Reidun Sirevåg and Fred Kavli arrives for the 2008 award ceremony  
Ole Didrik Lærum, Reidun Sirevåg and Fred Kavli arrive for the 2008 award ceremony

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