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The Kavli Prize Award Ceremony 2008

PROGRAMME:

The Prize will be presented by HRH Crown Prince Haakon Magnus

Tuesday 9 September 2008, 2 PM, Oslo Concert Hall 

Guests are kindly requested to take their seats no later than 1:45 PM, please present your invitation card on entry to the Oslo Concert Hall

The Kavli Prize – Public Awareness Lectures 2008

Lectures by; 
Dr. Jill Tarter: The Quest To Find Inhabitants Of Habitable Worlds
Professor Thomas Ebbesen: What is Nanoscience?
Professor Per Andersen: The Brain - the essence of Man!

Monday 8 September 2008, 10 AM - 12 PM, University Aula 

The Kavli Prize Symposia 2008 

Scientific Symposia, location:

Astrophysics: The National Library  
Nanoscience: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Neuroscience: Gamle Festsal, University of Oslo  

Monday 8 September 2008, 13:30 PM - 6 PM, Lunch from 12:30 PM

The Kavli Prize Lectures 2008 - In Oslo

Prize lectures by;
Professor Maarten Schmidt, California Institute of Technology, USA:

"The Discovery of Quasars"
Professor Sumio Iijima, Meijo University, Japan:
“Carbon nanotube and electron microscopy”
Professor Thomas M. Jessell, Columbia University, USA:
 "The Assembly of a Sensory-Motor Circuit" 
  
Wednesday 10 September 2008, 10 AM - 12 PM
Location: Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo

The Kavli Prize Lectures 2008 - In Trondheim

Prize lectures by;
Professor Louis Brus, Columbia University, USA:

"Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
Professor Pasko Rakic, Yale University School of Medicine, USA:
"Making maps of the mind: Molecular mechanisms of neuronal migration"
Professor Sten Grillner, Karolinska Institute, Sweden: 
“The logics of Networks in Motion - from Ion channels to Behaviour”
 
Thursday 11 September.
Location: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The Kavli Prize Lectures 2008 - In Stavanger  

Prize lecture by;
Professor Donald Lynden-Bell, Cambridge University, UK:

"Quasars and Giant Black Holes in Galaxies"
Professor Maarten Schmidt, California Institute of Technology, USA:
"The Discovery of Quasars"

After the lectures the prize winners will be
interviewed by Margrethe Wold og Øystein Elgarøy.

Thursday 11 September

Location: University of Stavanger

The Kavli Prize – Public Awareness Lectures in Oslo and the prize winners lectures in Oslo, Trondheim and Stavanger will be filmed and published on the Kavli Prize website later.

Registration for all events

If you don't have an invitation to the various activities, but would like to obtain one, please request an invitation at our request invitation page.

After receiving your invitation, please confirm your attendance at the confirm attendance page.

Registration for the The Banquet - 9 September - only:
Please continue to the registration form found at http://www.ics.no/reg/121.

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