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Minerva-Prize 2013 for UvA physicist Katerina Dohnalová
22 Oct 2013
The Foundation FOM has awarded the Minerva Prize 2013 to dr. Katerina Dohnalová. She receives the prize for her silicon quantum dots research.
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Behind the scenes of the universe: from the Higgs to dark matter
11 Oct 2013
The discovery of dark matter has led to a worldwide race to identify the nature of this mysterious form of matter. In his popular science book Behind the Scenes of the Universe. From Higgs to Dark Matter, which ...
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Next step for collaboration between UvA and VU physicists and astronomers
6 Oct 2013
On Thursday 3 October, the collective scientific and support staff of the Institute of Physics, the Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek and the VU-FEW Physics department met to discuss their planned integration in ...
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Physicist Gora Shlyapnikov receives ERC Advanced Grant
23 Sept 2013
Gora Shlyapnikov, professor of physics at both the Université Paris-Sud (France) and the University of Amsterdam, has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant 2013 for his project ‘New collective phases in ...
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Wim Sinke, professor of Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
2 Sept 2013
Prof. W.C. Sinke (1955) has been appointed professor of Photovoltaic Energy Conversion at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science.
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UvA Executive Board visits particle accelerator at CERN
27 Aug 2013
On 21 August, the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam was invited for a VIP visit to the CERN institute in Geneva. UvA professor Stan Bentvelsen, who is strongly involved in the Dutch contribution to the ...
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Speed limit set for ultra-fast electrical switch
28 July 2013
An international team of researchers, which includes UvA physicists Hermann Dürr and Mark Golden, has clocked the speed limit for electrical switching in magnetite (Fe3O4), a naturally magnetic mineral. Their results ...
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Four UvA researchers receive ERC Starting Grants
16 July 2013
Anthropologists Rivke Jaffe and Barak Kalir and astronomers Saskia Hekker and Jason Hessels are to receive Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). The grants open the way for the recipients to ...
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Physicists publish solution to the quantum measurement problem
9 July 2013
Quantum mechanics is a highly successful theory, but its interpretation has still not been settled. In their recent opus magnum, Theo Nieuwenhuizen (Institute of Physics, UvA) and colleagues claim to have found a ...
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UvA physicists report direct measurement of the free energy of colloidal glasses
20 June 2013
A team of physicists of the University of Amsterdam have for the first time performed a direct measurement of the free energy of a glass, in their case a hard sphere glass. They published their results as an Editor’s ...
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Physicists solve mysteries of quantum magnets
16 June 2013
A team of scientists, including prof. Jean-Sébastien Caux of the UvA’s Institute of Physics, has made a breakthrough into the properties of quantum magnets that can impact our understanding of fundamental physics. ...
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Light measures the minute motion of nanoscale vocal cords
14 June 2013
Researchers at FOM Institute AMOLF, including UvA professor Albert Polman, and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a new way to measure tiny displacements with light.
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Martí Perarnau Llobet second in 2013 UvA Thesis Prize
11 June 2013
During the University Day on June 1st, Martí Perarnau Llobet (Physics cum laude, University of Amsterdam) was awarded the second prize in the 2013 UvA Thesis Prize contest.
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PhD council IoP organizes successful symposium for young scientists
28 May 2013
On Thursday May 23rd, the PhD/postdoc council of the Institute of Physics organized its first IoP junior scientist symposium for all PhD students and postdocs in the institute. With over 40 participants, the ...
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High-tech research to Science Park Amsterdam
28 May 2013
The high-tech company ASML, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU University Amsterdam (VU) ...
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Hydrodynamic theory predicts its own breakdown
27 May 2013
A team of physicists, including NWO Veni laureate dr. Michal P. Heller from the Institute of Physics (IoP) at the University of Amsterdam, has discovered that repeated refinements in the description of strongly ...
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Erik Verlinde new member of the KHMW
27 May 2013
Prof. Erik Verlinde of the Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam has been elected as a new member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities ('Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Alma Itzel Olivos Suárez
21 May 2013
On 4 June Alma Itzel Olivos Suárez (1983) will be awarded her doctorate degree at the UvA. As part of her research at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), she made a detailed survey of the ...
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FOM projectruimte grant for two Institute of Physics projects
26 Apr 2013
The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) has awarded a 'Projectruimte' grant to the UvA scientist Dr Robert Spreeuw and Dr. Stan Bentvelsen (Institute of Physics).
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Physicists explain how honey drips from a spoon
22 Apr 2013
An international team of scientists, including prof. dr. Daniel Bonn from the Institute of Physics of the University of Amsterdam, published a new theory and experimental results that explain why the lengthy strands ...
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