On 7 March, D.B. Cohen Maldonado will be defending the PhD thesis 'Black Holes and Vacua in String Theory. A Non-supersymmetric Study'.

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 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. ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Tim Wolf's research focuses on interaction between the Higgs boson and top quarks in the Large Hadron Collider.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fernando Barrera's research focuses on conformal field theory. He investigates spinning conformal blocks and their applications.

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 ...

Chris de Weerd studies all-inorganic nanocrystals using microscopy and spectroscopy.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...