The Kavli Prize

The Kavli Prize laureate in Neuroscience, Professor Ann Greybiel Foto: Donna Coveney/MIT

The Kavli Prize laureate in Nanoscience, Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus. Foto: Donna Coveney/MIT

Wednesday, September 5th

19:30 The Kavli Prize Popular Science Lectures, at Maartmanshaven, Hotel Norge:

The Kavli Prize laureate in Nanoscience Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, USA

The Kavli Prize laureate in Neuroscience Professor Ann M. Graybiel, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, USA

Conversation between the laureates, hosted by Siri Lill Mannes 

Thursday, September 6th

The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures at the University of Bergen, Auditorium “Egget” at 
Studentsenteret, Parkveien

10:15 Welcome by Rector Sigmund Grønmo, University of Bergen

10:20 Introduction by Secretary General Øivind Andersen, The Norwegian Academy of 
Science and Letters

10:25 Committee Chairman, Professor Arne Skjeltorp introduces 
professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

10:30 The Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture in Nanoscience by Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus

11:00 Committee Chairman, Professor Jon Storm-Mathisen introduces 
Professor Ann M. Graybiel

11:05 The Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture in Neuroscience by Professor Ann M. Graybiel.

12:50–16:00 The Kavli Prize Symposium in Nanoscience, Auditorium “Egget” at 
Studentsenteret, Parkveien

Chair: Professor Dag Rune Olsen, Dean of The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 
University of Bergen

12:50–12:55 Chair: Welcome to the Kavli Prize Nano Symposium 2012

12:55–13:35 Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, 
Paris, France – ''Juggling with photons and real or artificial atoms in cavities''

13:35–14.15 Professor Leo Kouwenhoven, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 
– ''Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires''

14:15–14:35 Break (coffee/tea)

14:35–14:40 Chair: Welcome back

14:40–15:20 Professor Roeland Nolte, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 
''Mastering Molecular Matter. Design and Synthesis of Bio-inspired Catalysts and Materials''

15:20–16.00 Professor Geoffrey A. Ozin, University of Toronto, Canada 
– ''Green Nanochemistry''

16:00 Chair: Concluding remarks

The Kavli Prize Symposium in Neuroscience at the Building for Biological Basic Science, Auditorium II, Jonas Lies vei 91

13:00–13:05 Opening Nina Langeland (Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Odontology)

Session 1 Chair: Professor Clive Bramham

13:05–13:55  Michael E Greenberg. Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA 
"Neuronal Activity-Dependent Signaling: Networks that Regulate Synapse Development
and Cognitive Function"

13:55–14:45 Erin M Schuman. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
"Local Control at Synapses"

14:45–15:15 Refreshments

Session 2 Chair: Professor Kenneth Hugdahl

15:15–16:05 Chiara Cirelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, USA   
“Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis"

16:05–16:55 Michael Meaney.  A*STAR, Singapore & McGill University, Montreal, Canada  
"Epigenetic Regulation of Brain Development and Function"