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On 7 March, D.B. Cohen Maldonado will be defending the PhD thesis 'Black Holes and Vacua in String Theory. A Non-supersymmetric Study'.
Assembling nanocrystal superstructures
1 Mar 2019
10:00 - 11:00
PhD defence ceremony
At the nanoscale, electronic materials can develop size-dependent properties due to quantum-confinement effects. This is the case for semiconductor nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots. To be used as an active ...
Science & Cocktails with Erik Verlinde
4 Feb 2019
19:30 - 23:00
Event
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. ...
New methods to guide and store light
18 Jan 2019
10:00 - 11:00
PhD defence ceremony
Optical resonators compress and store light and are instrumental in providing control over the flow of light and its interaction strength with matter - a control required for many technologies involving ...
Searching for dark matter with the Xenon1t detector
11 Jan 2019
11:00 - 12:00
PhD defence ceremony
Sander Breur focuses on the search for dark matter using the Xenon1t-detector deep under the ground in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy.
Laser cooled ions in a bath of ultracold atoms
9 Jan 2019
10:00 - 11:00
PhD defence ceremony
Henning Fürst describes an experimental setup designed for preparing an ultracold sample of 6Li atoms and overlap it with Yb+ ions that are trapped in a radiofrequency trap. He uses this setup to study the the ...
Interaction between Higgs boson and top quark
14 Dec 2018
12:00 - 13:00
PhD defence ceremony
Tim Wolf's research focuses on interaction between the Higgs boson and top quarks in the Large Hadron Collider.
Atom chip for quantum simulator
28 Nov 2018
13:00 - 14:00
PhD defence ceremony
Maarten Soudijn’s research focuses on constructing a quantum simulator. He investigates the use of an atom chip based on a permanently magnetic film of iron-platinum as a platform for quantum simulation.
Women in Science: The story from India
21 Nov 2018
15:00 - 16:30
Event
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 ...
Aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence
6 Nov 2018
12:00 - 13:00
PhD defence ceremony
Eva Llabrés Llambías focuses on aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence which are directly relevant to problems in quantum and classical gravity. Specifically, she uses geodesic Witten diagrams, and gravitational ...
Interacting Rydberg atoms on a chip
1 Nov 2018
12:00 - 13:00
PhD defence ceremony
In recent years, Rydberg atoms have been used for exploring a plethora of interesting quantum phenomena. Their strong, long-range and tunable interaction makes them good candidates for applications in quantum ...
Running in the early Universe
25 Oct 2018
12:00 - 13:00
PhD defence ceremony
If the Universe evolved from a primordial hot and dense state, the expansion and subsequent cooling led to an inescapable fact: there must exist a ubiquitous radiation, the so-called Cosmic Microwave Background ...
Exotic phases of matter in quantum magnets
18 Oct 2018
14:00 - 15:00
PhD defence ceremony
In many-body systems, the complex interplay between the particles that make up the system can lead to unexpected collective behaviour, giving rise to exotic phases of matter. Well-known examples of such exotic phases ...
Spinning conformal blocks and applications
12 Oct 2018
13:00 - 14:00
PhD defence ceremony
Fernando Barrera's research focuses on conformal field theory. He investigates spinning conformal blocks and their applications.
Where is collider physics headed?
5 Oct 2018 - 30 Oct 2018
15:30 - 16:30
Event
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 ...
Hot electrons in cool nanocrystals
4 Oct 2018
12:00 - 13:00
PhD defence ceremony
Chris de Weerd studies all-inorganic nanocrystals using microscopy and spectroscopy.
Perspectives from string theory
3 Oct 2018
12:00 - 13:00
PhD defence ceremony
Sam van Leuven studies several topics fro the perspective of string theory: generalised Toda theories fro six dimensions, towards holography for non-AdS spacetimes, and spinning black holes and enhanced automorphy.
Boundary symmetries and strong coupling dualities
2 Oct 2018
12:00 - 13:00
PhD defence ceremony
The holographic dictionary translates between two parts of theoretical physics that appear at first sight to be completely different. Although its best-understood incarnations arise from string theory, many ...
Indirect detection of dark matter
28 Sep 2018
12:00 - 13:00
PhD defence ceremony
Richard Bartels's research focuses on the indirect detection of dark matter. He investigates how bright a signal from dark matter can be and what types of dark mater could potentially be detected now or in the near ...
From number theory to quantum field theories
26 Sep 2018
10:00 - 11:00
PhD defence ceremony
Francesca Ferrari caries out research at the intersection between the branch of mathematics called number theory and the physics of string theory and quantum field theories. She uses string theory as the framework, ...
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