Kavli Prize Week
The Kavli Prize Week 2024
Events at NTNU, Trondheim
The Kavli Prize is a partnership between The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Kavli Foundation (US) and The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience – transforming our understanding of the big, the small and the complex. The prize consists of USD 1,000,000 in each of the scientific fields and is awarded every second year by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
After the Kavli Prize ceremony and lectures in Oslo, a number of the laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience travel to Trondheim and NTNU to give official prize lectures and participate in the Kavli Prize Events.
The Kavli Laureates in Nanoscience 2024
Awarded for revolutionizing the field of nanomedicine by demonstrating how engineering nanoscale materials can advance biomedical research and application
Thursday 5 September 2024
Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium 2024
- Time: Thursday 5 September 2024
- Place: Lecture Hall R5 in The Natural Science Building, Campus Gløshaugen, NTNU
Programme
10:00 Rector Tor Grande, NTNU
Welcome to NTNU and NTNU Kavli Nanoscience Symposium 2024
10:05 Vice president Terje Lohndal, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, NTNU
Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Lectures by the Kavli Laureates in Nanoscience
10:10 Professor Robert Langer, Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
A Scientific Road not Taken: My Path from Chemical Engineering to Nanotechnology and Biology and Medicine, read abstract here
10:50 Professor Armand Paul Alivisatos, University of Chicago
Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Biomedical Imaging, Health, and Sustainability, read abstract here
11:30 Professor Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University
Repurposing the Blueprint of Life through Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs): Opening the Field of Structural Nanomedicine, read abstract here
12:10 Lunch for invited guests
13:00 Dean and chairman of NTNU NanoLab Øyvind Gregersen, Faculty of Natural Sciences, NTNU
NTNU NanoLab as a Cross Disciplinary Infrastructure
13:05 Professor Dame Molly Stevens, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford
Innovating Nanomaterials Design for Healthcare Applications
13:45 Professor Berit Løkensgard Strand, Dept of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU
Fibrosis Free Polysaccharide Microbeads Relevant for Cell Therapy
14:05 Coffee
14:20 Dr. Sofie Snipstad, Dept of Physics, NTNU
Localized Delivery of Nanoparticles by Ultrasound and Microbubbles for Treatment of Cancer and Brain Diseases
14:40 Associate professor Sulalit Bandyopadhyay, Dept of Chemical Engineering, NTNU
Our Journey with Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles in Diagnostics and Therapeutics
15:00 Professor Erika Eiser, Dept of Physics NTNU
Whole Genome Detection Using Multivalent DNA-Coated Colloids”
15:20 Professor Bjørn Torger Stokke, Dept of Physics, NTNU
Closing
The Kavli Laureates in Neuroscience 2024
Awarded for the discovery of a specialized system within the brain to recognize faces.
Thursday 5 September 2024
Kavli Prize Neuroscience Symposium 2024
- Time: Thursday 5 September 2024
- Place: Auditorium MTA at The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, The Fred Kavli Building (MTFS), Campus Øya, NTNU
Programme
10:00 Opening remarks by Bjarne Foss, Adm. Director, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience (KISN)
10:10 Greetings from Lise Øvreås, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
10:15 Laureate lecture: Nancy Kanwisher: The FFA as a Portal into Architecture of the Human Mind, read abstract here
Followed by Q&A session
11:10 Coffee break
11:20 Laureate lecture: Doris Tsao: How the brain represents the world: Insights from the macaque face patch system, read abstract here
Followed by Q&A session
12:15 Lunch in the canteen at the Fred Kavli building for invited guests
13:10 Re-opening of the symosium: Tor Grande, Rector, NTNU
13:20 Laureate lecture: Winrich Freiwald: Life, Face and Brain, read abstract here
Followed by Q&A session
14:10 Concluding remarks, round-up disucssion & end of symposium: Jonathan Whitlock, Professor, KISN
14:20 Lab tour at the Animal Facility for Kavli Prize laureated and invited guests
Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Kristine B. Walhovd, introduces the Neuroscience prize laureates
The Q&A session will be led by Assosiated Professor Maryam Ziaei, KISN
Previous Kavli Prize Laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience
2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
The Kavli Laureates
Jacob Sagiv has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Ralph G. Nuzzo has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
David L. Allara has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
George M. Whitesides has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
The Kavli Laureates
Jean-Louis Mandel has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Christopher A. Walsh has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Huda Y. Zoghbi has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Harry T. Orr has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Programme for the Kavli Prize Events at NTNU
Friday 9 September
Kavli Prize Symposium for Nanoscience
Auditorium R5, The Natural Science Building, NTNU
10:00 Welcome
Øyvind Gregersen, NTNU
Session 1 - The Kavli Prize Laureates in nanoscience 2020
Chair: Bodil Holst, University of Bergen, Norway
10:05 Introduction of 2020 Laureate Harald Rose
10:10 Harald Rose, Ulm University and Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
10:45 Introduction of 2020 Laureate Maximillan Haider
10:50 Maximillan Haider, CEOS GmbH and KIT, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe, Germany
11:25 Coffee
11:40 Introduction of 2020 Laureate Knut Urban
11:45 Knut Urban, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
12:20 Introduction of 2020 Ondrej L. Krivanek
12:25 Ondrej L. Krivanek, Nion Co and Arizona State University, USA, UK and Czechia
13:00 Lunch
Session 2 - The Kavli Prize Laureates in nanoscience 2022
Chair: Naomi Halas, Rice University, USA
14:00 Introduction of 2022 Laureates George Whitesides, Ralph G. Nuzzo and David L. Allara
14:10 Ralph G. Nuzzo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
15:00 Coffee
15:15 Introduction of 2022 Laureate Jacob Sagiv
15:20 Jacob Sagiv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
15:55 Closing remarks
John de Mello, NTNU Nano
16:00 End
Friday 9 September
Kavli Prize Symposium for Neuroscience
Auditorium MTA, in The Medical - Technical Research Centre (MTFS), Campus Øya
10:00 Welcome
10:02 Introduction of 2020 Laureate David Julius
10:07 "Natural products as probes of the pain pathway: from physiology to atomic structure”
- David Julius, University of California San Fransisco, USA
10:37 Introduction of 2020 Laureate Ardem Patapoutian
10:44 "How Do You Feel? The Molecules That Sense Touch"
- Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, Lebanon and USA
11:14 Questions for the 2020 Laureates
11:24 Lunch
12:00 Introduction of 2022 Laureate Jean-Louis Mandel
12:07 "From Fragile X to a thousand + monogenic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders; impact on patients and families?"
- Jean-Louis Mandel, University of Strasbourg, France
12:37 Introduction of 2022 Laureate Christopher A. Walsh
12:44 “Genetics of Human Cerebral Cortical Development”
- Christopher A. Walsh, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
13:14 Introduction of 2022 Laureate Huda Y. Zoghbi and 2022 Laureate Harry T. Orr
13:21 "From the clinic to the bench and back: adventures in the genetics of neurological disorders"
- Huda Y. Zoghbi, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, USA and Lebanon
"A collaborative research journey to understand a neurodegenerative disease"
- Harry T. Orr, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA
14:28 Questions for the 2022 Laureates
14:38 Closing remarks
15:00 End
2020 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
The Kavli Laureates
Harald Rose has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Maximilian Haider has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Knut Urban has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Ondrej L. Krivanek has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
2020 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
The Kavli Laureates
David Julius has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Ardem Patapoutian has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Programme for the Kavli Prize Events at NTNU
The Kavli Prize events was cancelled due to the COVID19 pandemic. The events in 2022 included both the Kavli Prize winners from 2020 and 2022.
2018 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
The Kavli Laureates
Emmanuelle M. Charpentier has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Jennifer A. Doudna has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Virginijus Šikšnys has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
The Kavli Laureates
A. James Hudspeth has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Robert Fettiplace has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Christine Petit has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Photo credit: Peter Bagde/Kavli Prize
Programme for the Kavli Prize Events at NTNU
Thursday, 6 September 2018
09:00-12:00: The Kavli Prize, Laureate Lectures 2018
Auditorium R1 in The Natural Science Building at Gløshaugen.
09:00: Photo session
09:45: Pro-Rector Bjarne Foss, Welcome
9:50: Ole M. Sejersted, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
9:55: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas , Introduction of the Nanoscience prize winner, Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
10:00: Nanoscience prize lecture: Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, CRISPR-Cas9: a transformative genome engineering technology originating from a bacterial immune system
10:15: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, Introduction of the Nanoscience prize winner, Jennifer A. Doudna
10:20: Nanoscience prize lecture: Jennifer A. Doudna, CRISPR Biology Guides the Future of Genome Editing
10:35: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, Introduction of Nanoscience prize winner, Virginijus Šikšnys, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
10:40: Nanoscience prize lecture: Virginijus Šikšnys, From antiviral defense towards genome editing
10:55: Scientific director at the Kavli Institute, NTNU, Edvard Moser, Introduction of the Neuroscience prize winner, James Hudspeth, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
11:00: Neuroscience prize lecture: James Hudspeth, How hearing happens: the ear's biological hearing aid
11:15: Professor Edvard Moser, Introduction of the Neuroscience prize winner, Robert Fettiplace, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
11:20: Neuroscience prize lecture: Robert Fettiplace, The twin roles of auditory hair cells in hearing
11:35: Professor Edvard Moser, Introducion of the Neuroscience prize winner, Christine Petit, Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, Paris, France
11:40: Neuroscience prize lecture: Christine Petit, Understanding hearing mechanisms based on genetic readout from disorders
11:55: Concluding remarks by Pro-Rector Bjarne Foss
13:30-16:30: Kavli Prize Symposium for Neuroscience
Auditorium MTA, in The Medical - Technical Research Centre (MTFS), Campus Øya
13:30: Christian Doeller, Opening remarks
13:35: Christine Petit, The hidden face of hereditary deafness: an emerging genetic roadmap for the central auditory system?
14:15: Coffee break
14:30: A. James Hudspeth, Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by ion channels and myosin molecules in hair cells of the inner ear
15:10: Coffee break
15:30: Robert Fettiplace, The contribution of transmembrane channel-like protein (TMC1) to mechano-electrical transduction in cochlear hair cells
16:10: Round-up discussion and end of symposium
13:30-16:30: Kavli Prize Symposium on Nanoscience
Auditorium R7, Natural Sciences Building, Gløshaugen
13:30: Øyvind Gregersen, Opening Remarks
13:40: Albert Fert, Physics of condensed matter and topology: magnetic skyrmions, topological phases of matter and applications
14:30: Chris Palmstrøm, Epitaxy by Design: Epitaxial Growth of Dissimilar Materials
15:00: Coffee Break
15:20: Kristina Edström, Batteries for a Better Environment
15:50: Albert van den Berg, Labs, Cells and Organs on chip
16:20: John De Mello, Closing Remarks
2016 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
The Kavli Laureates
Calvin Quate has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Gerd Binnig has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Christoph Gerber has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
The Kavli Laureates
Eve Marder has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Michael M. Merzenich has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Carla J. Shatz has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Photo credit: Peter Bagde/Kavli Prize
Programme for the Kavli Prize Events at NTNU
Thursday 8 September 2016
09.45–12.00 The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures
09:45 Rector Gunnar Bovim, Welcome
President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Ole M. Sejerstad, Greetings From the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Nanoscience Prize Winner Calvin Quate, Short Statement Given on Behalf of Calvin Quate by Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas
Nanoscience Prize Winner Gerd Binnig, Atomic Force Microscopy for Nano-Medicine and in General for Nanotechnology
Nanoscience Prize Winner Christoph Gerber, The Impact of AFM on a Global Scale
Neuroscience Prize Winner Eve Marder, The Neuroscience of Animal Variability and Robust Behaviour in the Face of Environmental Challenge
Neroscience Prize Winner Michael M. Merzenich, Brain Plasticity-Based Therapeutics
Neuroscience Prize Winner Carla J. Shatz, New Synapses in Old Brains?
11:45, Rector Gunnar Bovim, Concluding Remarks
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14.00–17.00 The Kavli Prize Symposia in Nanoscience
14:00, Anne Borg, Opening Remarks
14:10, Shuji Nakamura, The Invention of Blue LED and Future Solid State Lighting
15:00, Stacey Bent, Layer-by-Layer Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Energy Applications
15:30, Coffee Break
15:50, Krijn de Jong, Nanoscale Effects in Catalysis for More Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals
16:25, Dimos Poulikakos, How to Arrest, Interrogate and Transport Viruses in Liquids, One at a Time
16:55, Erik Wahlström, Closing Remarks
Download The Kavli Prize Symposia in Nanoscience and Neuroscience (pdf)
14.00–17.00 The Kavli Prize Symposia in Neuroscience
14:00, Emre Yaksi, Opening Remars
14:05, Vivek Jayaraman, Dissecting the Workings of a Neural Compass
14:50, Leslie Vosshall, Building a Mosquito Sensory System to Hunt Humans
15:35, Coffee Break
16:00, Botond Roska, The First Steps in Vision: Cell Types, Circuits and Repair
16:45, Round-up Discussions
2014 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
The Kavli Laureates
Sir John B. Pendry has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanooscience.
Thomas W. Ebbesen has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
Stefan W. Hell has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Nanooscience.
2014 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
The Kavli Laureates
Brenda Milner has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Photo credit: Owen Egan/McGill, University
Marcus E. Raichle has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Photo credit: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
John O'Keefe has been awarded The Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Photo credit: David Bishop, UCL
Programme at NTNU
Wednesday 10 September
16:00 MTFS, meeting room 5th floor at Campus Øya
Marty Saggese: SfN: Creating Compelling Value for Members… and How This Relates to Roald Amundsen?
18:30 Kavli Popular Lecture
The Students Society Building (Studentersamfundet)
Stanislas Dehaene:
The matter of education: Literacy, numeracy and the developing brain
Thursday 11 September
0915–1200 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
Kavli Prize Symposium in Nanoscience
Auditorium R2, Natural Sciences Building, 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
Kavli Prize Symposium in Neuroscience
Auditorium KBA in Women- and Childrens Centre
14:00 Haim Sompolinsky: Computational Perspectives on Neural Representations
14:30 Doris Tsao: Mapping object representations
15:00 Nachum Ulanovsky: Neural codes for 2-D and 3-D space in the hippocampal formation of bats
15:30 Break
15:45 Eric Knudsen: Brain Maps Controlling Attention
16:15 Dennis O'Leary: Cortical maps: Regulation of area patterning
16:45 End of symposium
2012 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
The Kavli Laureate
Mildred S. Dresselhaus has been awarded the Kavli Prize in the field of Nanoscience.
2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
The Kavli Laureates
Cornelia Bargmann has been awarded the Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Winfried Denk has been awarded the Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Ann Martin Graybiel has been awarded the Kavli Prize in the field of Neuroscience.
Photo credit: Knut Falch/Kavli Prize
Programme at NTNU
Wednesday 5 September
18:30–19:30 The Students Society Building (Studentersamfundet)
Public lecture – free:
Richard Morris, D. Phil, the University of Edinburgh:
The making, keeping and losing of memory
Thursday 6 September
10:00–12:00 The Kavli Prize Lectures
NTNU, Gløshaugen, Auditorium R1
10:15 Welcome remarks – Rector Torbjørn Digernes, NTNU
10:20 Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters – Nils Christian Stenseth, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
10:25 Arne Skjeltorp, Chairman of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, introduces the Nano prize winner, Mildred Dresselhaus
10:30 Mildred Dresselhaus: Nanoscale Phenomena (broadcasted from the University of Bergen)
11:00 Lily Jan, member of the Kavli Prize Committee, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Cornelia Bargmann
11:05 Cornelia Bargmann: Genes, neurons, and decisions: using fixed circuits to drive flexible behaviours
11:35 Charles Stevens, member of the Kavli Prize Committee, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Winfried Denk
11:40 Winfried Denk: Imaging tools to reverse engineering the brain
Kavli Symposia on Neuroscience and Nanoscience – parallel sessions
14:00–18:00
Kavli Symposium on Neuroscience
Location: Centre for Women and Children, Auditorium 1st floor
Moderators: May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
14:55 Opening remarks by Nils Christian Stenseth, president of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
15:00 Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France: How learning to read changes the brain
15:40 Coffee
15:55 Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University: Digging for genes that contribute to behavioural evolution in mammals
16:35 Catherine Dulac, Harvard University: Sex battles in the brain
Kavli Symposium on Nanoscience
Location: NTNU, Gløshaugen, The Natural Science Building, Auditorium R9
Moderators: Bjørn Torger Stokke, NTNU, and Thomas Tybell, NTNU
14:00 Opening remarks by Bjørn Torger Stokke, Chair of NTNU NanoLab Board
14:10 Carlos Bustamante, Univ of California, Berkeley, USA: Discrete Steps and Intersubunit Coordination in a DNA-Packaging Ring ATPase
14:45 Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore, Singapore: Electrospinning – A Means to Innovate for Funding Strapped Researchers
15:20 Coffee
15:45 Jochen Mannhart, Max Planck Stuttgart, Germany: Oxide Interfaces – A Fantastic World for Electrons; From MOSFETs to Novel Electron Systems
16:20 Milena Grifoni, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany: Spin-dependent phenomena in carbon nanotubes
16:55 Closing Remarks by Thomas Tybell, NTNU