The 2010 Kavli Prize Symposium on Astrophysics
Monday September 6th, 2010
Location:
The National Library, Oslo
Coffee will be served from 09:00
09:20: Opening addresses by
Øyvind Østerud, Vice-President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Robert Willams, President of the International Astronomical Union
09:30-10:00: Simon White
Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
"Structure in our Universe"
10:00-10:30: Sandra Faber
UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz, USA
"Emerging Principles of Galaxy Formation"
10:30 -11:00: Coffee and refreshments
11:00 -11:30: Alex Filippenko
UC Berkeley, USA
"Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy"
11:30 -12:00: Aake Nordlund
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Star and Planet Formation"
12:00 -13:00 Lunch
13:00 -13:30: Athena Coustenis
Observatoire de Paris LESIA/CNRS, Meudon, France
"The exploration of Titan and the Saturnian System"
13:30 -14:00: Michel Mayor
Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland
"Extrasolar planets : The Quest for Earth-Twins"
