Analytical Pixels' Paris launch - c'est si bon!
Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau was in Paris on Monday, December 12, to announce the launch of Analytical Pixels, the first start-up company to emerge from the research and development programs of the joint Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI (very-large-scale-integration)—a collaboration between Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) and the Micro and Nanotechnologies Innovation Campus (Minatec) of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA)—Leti research institute in Grenoble, France. Read more...

Light as a Feather, Stiffer than a Board!
Julia Greer, KNI Board member and assistant professor of materials science and mechanics, is part of a team of researchers from Caltech, HRL Laboratories, LLC, and the University of California, Irvine, who have developed the world's lightest solid material, with a density of just 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimeter, or approximately 100 times lighter than Styrofoam™. Though the material is ultra-low in density, it has incredible strength allowing for a wealth of possible applications. The research appears in the November 18 issue of Science. Read more...

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TEDxCaltech: The Brain.
18 January 2013

The archive of the talks from our first event, can be found here: "Feynman's Vision: The Next 50 Years"

KNI-MDL Seminar Series
The next seminar in this series will be on Monday, June 4, at 4 pm in 125 Steele Lab. Refreshments to follow the talks. This monthly seminar series features current research at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute (Caltech) and the Microdevices Laboratory (JPL).

Fighting Cancer with Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology holds the promise of revolutionizing the way medicine wages war against cancer, from providing new ways to combine drugs to delivering gene-silencing therapeutics for cancer cells. To more fully understand the impact, The Kavli Foundation held a roundtable teleconference with four pioneers in the field, including KNI Board member Jim Heath, and Caltech colleague, Mark E. Davis. Read more...

New Kavli Institute Announced at the University of Tokyo
The KNI is pleased to welcome the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), located at the University of Tokyo (Todai), as the newest member of the Kavli group of research institutes. The Kavli IPMU is comprised of about 200 researchers from 15 fields, with almost half coming from outside Japan, and reflects a dedication to multi-disciplinary collaboration. Read more...

Science prizes for the 21st century, the Kavli Prizes recognize scientists for their seminal advances in three research areas: astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Find out more...

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