Tuesday, March 8th, 4:00pm. Erik Demaine (MIT) will present the 2016 Kavli Lecture on "Replicators, Transformers, and Robot Swarms: Science Fiction through Geometric Algorithms." Lecture series hosted by the Kavli Institute at Cornell.

February, 2016: KIC member Sol Gruner is part of a collaboration that has created the first self-assembled, three dimensional gyroidal superconductor, which may lead to entirely novel property profiles of superconductors. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle and the Daily Sun. Read the full article in Science Advances.

January, 2017: KIC Member and Physics Professor Sol Gruner works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and physicists to create the first self-assembled superconductor structure.

January, 2016: KIC member Itai Cohen‘s origami research is prominently highlighted in the latest issue of "What’s happening in the Mathematical Sciences" journal, published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Read more about how the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding is going high-tech.

December, 2015: KIC members David Muller and Lara Estroff have uncovered the process by which mollusks manufacture nacre-commonly known as mother of pearl. This knowledge could lead to new methods of synthesizing a variety of new materials.  Read more in Nature Communications.

November 30, 2015: Dr. Leo Kouwenhoven (Delft) presented a Kavli Distinguished Lecture entitled "Majorana Fermions: From Particle Physics on a Chip to Topological Quantum Computing."

November, 2015: Neil Lin and Itai Cohen, along with researchers from the University of Edinbugh, have come up with a unique experiment to explain why shear thickening happens. Read the Synopsis, or the full article in Physical Review Letters.

March, 2015: Cornell Neurotech — a joint initiative launched in 2015 by Cornell Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences — aims to build powerful new tools that can be used to map the individual cells and complex neural networks that change from moment-to-moment within the brain. The group was encouraged by Paul McEuen, co-director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell — which not only provided nominal funding for the monthly meetings, but since 2011 had also been pushing a much larger national research initiative to substantially invest in studies of the brain.

June, 2015: Uyen Nguyen’s origami art is part of a VOGEL collection that features creased textiles. Info on the collection is available on their Indiegogo page. Nguyen works in KIC member Itai Cohen's research group studying the mechanical properties of Origami and designing materials with tailored mechanical properties.

July, 2015: Physicists in the McEuen research group use the principles of kirigami to manipulate graphene, laying the groundwork for future nano-machines. Both Co-Directors of KIC, Paul McEuen and David Muller, contributed to the July article in Nature.