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The 2010 Kavli Prize Symposium on Nanoscience

Monday September 6th, 2010

Location:
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo

Coffee will be served from 09:00

09:20:  Opening addresses by
Øivind Andersen, Secretary General of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Yuri Galperin, Chairman of the 2010 Kavli Prize Symposium on Nanoscience

09:30-10:00:  Thomas Ebbesen
Université Louis-Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
"Light, Metal and Molecules"

10:00-10:30:  Paul Alivisatos
UC Berkeley, USA
"Artificial molecules built from colloidal nanocrystals."

10:30 -10:45  Coffee break

10:45-11:15:  Andre Geim
University of Manchester, UK
"Graphene: Magic of Flat Carbon"

11:15 -12:15  Lunch

12:15 -12:45:  Moty Heiblum
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
"Interference between two indistinguishable electrons emanating from two independent sources"

12:45 -13:15:  Albert Fert
Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Palaiseau, France
"The Impact of Spintronics on the Information and Communication Technologies"

13:15 -13:30  Coffee break

13:30 -14:00:  Charles Marcus
Harvard University, Boston, USA
"Controlling Individual Spins in Semiconductors: Basic Physics and Applications to Quantum Information"
 

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