Kavli Prize Week with Kavli Prize Astrophysics Symposium
The days September 5-8 is the Kavli Prize week, when the Kavli Prizes are awarded in Oslo. The most important prize is of course (at least for us) the Kavli Astrophysics Prize, this year awarded to the leaders of the LIGO team, which for the first time detected gravitational waves from outer space.
There are several events which are of high interest to the AST2210 students, and we recommend that you attend as many as possible of them:
On the 5th of September at 09:00 in Georg Sverdrup's hus, two of the leaders of the LIGO team, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss, will give the lecture "Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves". This is highly recommended! Register on http://registration.kavliprize.org/rsvp/
On the 6th of September is the Award ceremony when the laureates will receive their prizes from HRH Crown Prince Haakon in Oslo Concert Hall at 14:00 - 15:30 (refreshments served from 13:00, everybody must be seated before 13:45). There will be a lot of entertainment with SiLyA, Tine Thing Helseth, Juice Crew, Birgitta Oftestad and Nikita Khnykin. If you want to attend, you should register on http://registration.kavliprize.org/rsvp/
Last, but not least, on the 8th of September will be held the Kavli Prize Symposium in Astrophysics where some of the world's foremost astronomers will give lectures. The symposium is held at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Drammensveien 78. It will start at 10 and end at 16:10.
Because of this symposium there will not be any AST2210 lectures on the 8th of September.
To attend the symposium, you must register by sending an e-mail to gro.havelin@dnva.no saying you want to attend the symposium.
The programme for the symposium is:
10:00-10:08: Greetings and welcome by the organizers
10:08-10:20: Opening address by Silvia Torres-Peimbert, President of International Astronomical Union, Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
10:20-11:05: Kavli Laureate Popular Lectures Kip S. Thorne, California Institute of Technology, US and Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US: Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves
11:05-11:45: Cathy Olkin, Southwest Research Institute, US: Our New View of Pluto
11:45-12:50: Lunch
12:50-13:30: Jochen Liske, University of Hamburg, Germany: The sky is the limit: New megastructures for astronomy
13:30-14:10: Ofer Lahav, University College London, UK: Wide-field optical surveys: from Dark Energy to Gravitational-Wave counter parts
14:10-14:50 Coffee break
14:50-15:30: Hans-Thomas Janka, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Germany: Unravelling the Mechanism of Supernova Explosions
15:30-16:10: Mario Santos, University of Western Cape, South Africa: Probing the Large Scale Structure of the Universe at radio wave lengths