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News and Events
News Archives: 2005 and earlier
31 December, 2005 and earlier
News Archive: 2005
| 12/16/05 |
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Kavli Foundation to Sponsor Frontiers of Science
The Kavli Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)  have
joined forces through a $5 million gift from the Foundation to support the NAS's
Frontiers of Science symposia. Since 1989 these symposia have been offered by
the NAS, which give the best young scientists the opportunity to learn about new
research, meet new colleagues and form new collaborations, in a relaxed, informal
setting. A copy of the article is available for downloading here (330KB
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| 12/08/05 |
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University of Chicago Kavli Institute's Inaugural Symposium
"New Views of the Universe," the inaugural symposium of the
Kavli  Institute
for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, took place Thursday, December
8, through Tuesday, December 13, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Chicago.
The symposium brought together scientists from around the world who discussed
the current state and future of theory, experiments, and observations at the boundary
between cosmology and particle physics. The event also honored the late David
Schramm, who pioneered the study of the early universe by connecting the fields
of cosmology and particle physics. (more
here).
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| 12/01/05 |
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Fred Kavli Honored as One of Scientific American's "50"
 Fred
Kavli, founder and chairman of The Kavli Foundation, has been selected by the
board of editors of Scientific American magazine for inclusion in the fourth annual
Scientific American 50 as Policy Leader of the Year. Kavli was specifically cited
for his "generous philanthropic support of science and technology."
A news release about the honor can be found here (304KB
PDF) |
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| 11/02/05 |
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Small Times Magazine Awards Fred Kavli
 Fred
Kavli has been awarded the 2005 "Best of Small Tech Awards: Advocate"
by Small Times magazine, which covers developments in the micro and nanotechnology
industry. The award was given for the establishment, beginning in 2008, of the
Kavli Prizes, three, $1 million awards that will recognize advances in the research
areas on which the Foundation focuses: astrophysics, neuroscience, and of course,
nanoscience. The award, say the magazine's editors, has been heralded as nano's
Nobel Prize and will be available to researchers anywhere who advance nanoscience.
More information is available here (254KB
PDF) Photo courtesy of John Wondrasek. |
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| 10/24/05 |
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Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute Holds First
Symposium
 The
Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) at the California Institute of Technology held
its first annual symposium on Monday, October 24, in Beckman Auditorium on the
Caltech campus. Guest speakers included Theodor Hänsch from the Max-Planck-Institute
of Quantum Optics. Hänsch was a co-winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics
for the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, the determination of
the color of the light of atoms and molecules. The complete list of speakers can
be found here (57KB
PDF). Image courtesy of KNI director Michael Roukes.
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| 10/14/05 |
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 MIT Kavli Scientist Leads Work on X-ray Imaging Spectrometer
X-ray cameras aboard an orbiting observatory are helping to probe
the secrets of such phenomena as exploding stars. The cameras were designed by
a team led by Mark Bautz, principal research scientist at MIT's Kavli Institute
for Astrophysics and Space Research. (Image of galaxy clusters courtesy of Mark
Bautz.) More here (662KB
PDF).
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| 10/12/05 |
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U.S. Advantage in Science and Technology
is Eroding
U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have  eroded,
says a panel of the National Academy of Sciences in a new report. The panel included
Charles Vest, a Kavli Foundation board member and the emeritus president of MIT,
and Nobel Laureate Robert C. Richardson, Director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell,
and that university's senior vice provost for research. The report makes substantive
recommendations for improvement (56KB
PDF). The entire report can also be (read
online here), or a copy can be (purchased
here). |
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| 10/06/05 |
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Kavli Scientist Leads Effort to Solve
Mystery of Short Gamma Ray Bursts
George R. Ricker, senior research scientist of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics
and Space Research, was the leader of an international team of astronomers that
solved the mystery of the origin of short gamma-ray bursts. Such bursts are violent
cosmic events marking the explosive collision of two compact stars. More here
(481KB PDF). |
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| 10/01/05 |
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 MIT's
Kavli Institute Honors Fred Kavli and Inaugurates Program in Dark Energy and Dark
Matter
A banquet on October 1 honoring Fred Kavli was part of the MIT Kavli Institute
for Astrophysics and Space Research's (MKI) inaugural program in dark energy and
dark matter. The program will continue through December with a weekly series of
talks by prominent scientists that will be webcast and later archived. More information
is (available
here). |
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| 07/27/05 |
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Small Times Magazine Interviews Fred Kavli
An online Q&A, by Candace Stuart. Small Times covers the nanotechnology
industry. (click
here for article) |
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| 07/27/05 |
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Kavli Professor
Designs Nano-Sized Valve
Led by Fraser Stoddart, who holds the Fred Kavli Chair in nanosystems
sciences at UCLA, a team of UCLA chemists have created the first nano-sized valve--smaller
than a living cell--that can be opened and closed at will to trap and release
molecules. Could such a valve be ingested by a cell, combined with biological-molecules
and fueled by light energy, to release a drug inside a cell? Stay tuned. UCLA's
news release can be found here (92KB
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| 07/01/05 |
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Scientific American Publishes Article
on Fred Kavli and The Kavli Foundation.
The article, published in July 2005, focused on the funding activities of The
Kavli Foundation. A copy of the article is available for downloading here (93KB
PDF).
(Reposted with permission from Scientific American). |
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| 05/12/05 |
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Economist Magazine Publishes an Article Regarding the Kavli Prizes.
The article, published on May 12, 2005, focused on the future awarding of the
Kavli Prizes. |
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| 05/03/05 |
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The Kavli Foundation Establishes $1 Million
Science Prizes
The prizes will be awarded every two years beginning in 2008 and will be
presented in cooperation with the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the
Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, Fred Kavli's
native country, with the President of the Norwegian Academy presiding. The King
of Norway will be invited to make the presentation of the awards. A distinguished
panel of international scientists will determine recipients. A copy of the press
release is available for downloading here (183KB
PDF). |
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| 04/19/05 |
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New York Times Newspaper Publishes Interview
with Fred Kavli
Science Writer Dennis Overbye of the New York Times wrote an article (April 19,
2005) profiling Fred Kavli and the activities of The Kavli Foundation. A copy
of the article is available for downloading here (212KB
PDF).
*Reposted with permission from New York Times |
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| 01/21/05 |
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Science Magazine publishes an article, "A New Benefactor Takes Aim at Basic Scientific Questions," about Fred Kavli and the Foundation
(http://www.sciencemag.org/;
subscription required).
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News Archive: 2004, 2003 & 2002
| 12/01/04 |
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Scientific American
Magazine publishes article on the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics 25th
Anniversary Conference The article (Scientific American, vol. 291, p. 30, no. 6, December 2004), written
by science writer Graham P. Collins, highlighted the conference topics which are
relevant to the next 25 years in physics. (64KB
PDF).
(Reposted with permission from Scientific American). |
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| 10/07/04 |
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Santa Barbara, Calif.— Dedication of the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics' new wing of Kohn Hall at University of California, Santa
Barbara. To view photos from the dedication ceremony, (read
the press release). |
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| 10/05/04 |
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Santa Barbara, Calif.—David J. Gross, director of the Kavli
Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and the first incumbent of the Frederick
W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa
Barbara, has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for solving in 1973
the last great remaining problem of what has since come to be called "the
Standard Model" of the quantum mechanical picture of reality. He and
his co-recipients discovered how the atomic nucleus works. (read
the press release) |
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| 10/05/04 |
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Cambridge, Mass. — Professor Frank Wilczek, MIT's Herman
Feshbach Professor of Physics, has won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for a "colorful"
discovery in the world of quarks, the building blocks of the atomic nucleus. (read
the press release) |
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| 10/04/04 |
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New York, New York — Richard Axel, M.D. of Columbia University
Medical Center has won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with
Linda B. Buck, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for clarifying
how the olfactory system works. Dr. Buck was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia
when she and Dr. Axel jointly published the fundamental paper on the subject in
1991. (read the press release) |
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| 08/03/04 |
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The Kavli Foundation announces the establishment of the Kavli
Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(read
the press release from MIT) |
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| 03/10/04 |
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Fred Kavli and The Kavli Foundation today announced the formation
of seven new scientific research institutes at leading universities in the United
States and Europe. The new institutes, together with two institutes established
earlier by the Foundation, form a network of nine Kavli Institutes to address
major challenges in the fields of cosmology, nanoscience and neuroscience. (read
the press release) |
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| 03/21/03 |
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Inauguration Ceremony celebrated at the Kavli Institute for
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University and Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center (SLAC) (read
the press release from Stanford) |
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| 01/15/03 |
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The Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at
Stanford University and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) established
by a gift through The Kavli Foundation and Fred Kavli (read
the press release) |
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| 06/07/02 |
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UCSB Names Institute For Theoretical Physics For Industrialist
And Philanthropist Fred Kavli (read
the press release) |
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