The Kavliprize was established to recognize outstanding scientific research, honour highly creative scientists, promote public understanding of scientists and their work and foster international cooperation among scientists. We celebrate with a two-day programme packed with interesting lectures and symposia, to which you are all invited.
Wednesday 10 September:
Marty Saggese, Executive Director of the Society for Neuroscience
“SfN: Creating Compelling Value for Members… and How This Relates to Roald Amundsen?”
10 September at 16.00
MTFS, meeting room 5th floor. at Campus Øya.
Marty Saggese, Executive Director of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), will talk about SfN, what it does, and why scientists around the world should care. He will touch on how science and scientific careers are changing around the world, and share his thoughts about what scientists will need to do in the future to ensure continuing strong support for science from governments and the public.
Wednesday 10 September:
2014 Kavli Public lecture – Stanislas Dehaene
“The matter of education: Literacy, numeracy and the developing brain”
10 September at 18.30
Students Society Building
Stanislas Dehaene is a professor at the Collège de France. He has worked on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. The lecture will be an eye-opener and will fascinate educators concerned with the contested issues of how we learn to read, calculate, and of pathologies like dyslexia.
Thursday 11 September: The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures
Auditorium R1, Natural Sciences Building (Realfagbygget) Gløshaugen
9:15 Welcome remarks – Rector Gunnar Bovim, NTNU
9:20 Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters – Nils Christian Stenseth, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
9:25 Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Thomas W. Ebbesen
9:30 Nanoscience prize lecture: Thomas Ebbesen: “Small things – Big consequences”
9:45 Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Stefan W. Hell
9:50 Nanoscience prize lecture: Stefan W. Hell: “Optical microscopy: the resolution revolution”
10:05 Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Sir John Pendry
10:10 Nanoscience prize lecture: Sir John Pendry: “The science of invisibility”
10:25 Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Brenda Milner
10:30 Neuroscience prize lecture: Brenda Milner: “Memory: Looking Back and Looking Forward”
10:45 Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, John O’Keefe
10:50 Neuroscience prize lecture: John O’Keefe: “Spatial Cells in the Hippocampal Formation”
11:05 Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Marcus E. Raichle
11:10 Neuroscience prize lecture: Marcus E. Raichle: ” The Brain’s Dark Energy”
11:25 Concluding remarks by Rector Gunnar Bovim
Thursday 11 September: The Kavli Prize Symposium on Neuroscience
14.00-17.00 Auditorium KBA in Women- and Childrens Centre
1400 Haim Sompolinsky, “Computational Perspectives on Neural Representations”
1430 Doris Tsao,”Mapping object representations”
1500 Nachum Ulanovsky, “Neural codes for 2-D and 3-D space in the hippocampal formation of bats”
1530 Break
1545 Eric Knudsen, «Brain Maps Controlling Attention»
1615 Dennis O’Leary,”Cortical maps: Regulation of area patterning”
1645 End of symposium
Thursday 11 September: The Kavli Prize Symposium on Nanoscience
14.00-17.00 Auditorium R2, Natural Sciences Building (Realfagbygget) Gløshaugen
14.00 Anne Borg, Opening of the Kavli Nanoscience Symposium
14:10 Andre Geim, “Van der Waals heterostructures: Assembling designer materials from isolated atomic planes”
15:00 Bo Brummerstedt Iversen, “Watching nanoparticles form”
15:30 Break
15:50 Molly Stevens, “Designing nanomaterials for biosensing and regenerative medicine”
16:25 Ke Lu, “Anisotropic nanostructures in materials”