The Kavli Prize Week 2008

Monday, September 8

Public Awareness Lectures 2008
10 AM - 12 PM

Dr. Jill Tarter:
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, US
The Quest To Find Inhabitants Of Habitable Worlds

Professor Thomas Ebbesen:
Université Louis-Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
What is Nanoscience?

Professor Per Andersen:
University of Oslo, Norway
The Brain - the essence of Man!

Location: University Aula
 

The Kavli Prize Symposia 2008

12:30 PM - 6 PM: The Kavli Prize Symposium in Astrophysics
Location: Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library)

12:30 PM - 6 PM: The Kavli Prize Symposium in Nanoscience
Location: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

12:30 PM - 6 PM: The Kavli Prize Symposium in Neuroscience
Location: Gamle festsal (Old Festival Hall)

 

Tuesday, September 9

1400 - 1530: The Kavli Prize Award Ceremony
Location: Oslo Concert Hall

1900 - 0000: The Kavli Prize Banquet
Location: Oslo City Hall
  -By invitation only.

 

Wednesday, September 10

The Kavli Prize Lectures:
10 AM - 12 PM

The Lecture in Astrophysics:
Professor Maarten Schmidt
California Institute of Technology, US
"The Discovery of Quasars"

The Lecture in Nanoscience:
Professor Sumio Iijima
Meijo University, Japan
"Carbon nanotube and electron microscopy"

The Lecture in Nanoscience:
Professor Thomas M. Jessell
Columbia University, US
"The Assembly of a Sensory-Motor Circuit"

Location: University Campus, Blindern