Just over a year ago, the first COVID-19 infection was detected in the Netherlands. What have scientists learnt since then about the transmission of viruses via droplets and aerosols? In this webinar, seven experts ...

17.12.2020 - via Zoom! Please register before 27.11.2020.

Faculty of Science PhD candidate Jaco de Swart is organising a new lecture series on the connection between science and rock music.

The University of Amsterdam and QuSoft are organizing The Quantum Quest, a four-week web class for high school students.

Prof. Jürgen Renn (Director Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) will give the Zeeman lecture "The Anthropocene and the History of Science".

Prof. Karine Chemla (SPHERE, CNRS & Université de Paris) will give the Zeeman lecture 'The Shaping of Scientific Classics for Modern Uses: An Invitation to a Critical Approach'.

On 16 October, the new biography 'Een levend kunstwerk' about Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, written by UvA emeritus professor Anne Kox, will be presented at the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds in Amsterdam.

Science & Cocktails is a series of public talks by scientists with live music and smoky dry-ice chilled cocktails in your hand. Heino Falcke, Sera Markoff and Feryal Özel will talk about the famous Black Hole Image ...

At the LMPV symposium, the latest developments in light management for solar cells are discussed. The core of the program consists of four talks by international speakers and covers investigations of methods and ...

Filmmaker Huub Rutjes and pianist Yuri van Nieuwkerk both studied physics in Amsterdam. This common background led to their show ‘World in vibration’, a performance about physics, music and harmony. On the evening of ...

FYSICA, the annual physics conference of the Netherlands' Physical Society (NNV), will be organized at Amsterdam Science Park this year. The conference is aimed at all physicists in the Netherlands, from high school ...

The Bonn Physics Show comes to the Netherlands! The show with spectacular physics experiments visits Amsterdam for three performances on 5 and 6 April 2019. Tickets (free!) for the shows in the Compagnietheater are ...

Science & Cocktails is a series of public talks by scientists with live music and smoky dry-ice chilled cocktails in your hand. Erik Verlinde will talk about black holes, gravity and the edge of the universe. ...

Prof. Rohini Godbole, visiting professor of the Indian Institute of Science and current incumbent of the Johannes Diderik van der Waals rotating chair, will give a special colloquium on 21 November 2018 starting at ...

In October, Physics and Astronomy Visiting Professor Rohini Godbole will give a lecture series titled "Where is collider physics headed?" The lectures are aimed at the Master student level and will take place at the ...

Artis Planetarium and GRAPPA present an evening on The Dark Universe. Gianfranco Bertone (UvA), Hiranya Peiris (UCL) and Jocelyn Monroe ( University of London) will give talks and answer questions on different ...

NEMO Kennislink Live, in collaboration with GRAPPA, present an evening on dark matter. UvA researchers Jacco Vink, Jan Pieter van der Schaar and Patrick Decowski will be interviewed on three different aspects of the ...

The annual IoP BBQ will take place in inner courtyard of Science Park 904, under the C building. Come and enjoy a drink and a burger with your colleagues to celebrate the end of the academic year!

The annual IoP BBQ will take place in inner courtyard of Science Park 904, under the C building. Come and enjoy a drink and a burger with your colleagues to celebrate the end of the academic year!

The fourth edition of the ‘Astronomy & Astrophysics & Physics Career Days’ is coming up on 30 June and 1 July 2016. The career days are aimed at MSc Physics and MSc A&A students, as well as PhD researchers and ...