In this year’s edition of the IoP PhD/PD symposium, several of our PhD students and Postdocs will again enthusiastically present their research in a selection of short talks. It will be an interesting afternoon and a great way to get to know your colleagues! We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

As today's theoretical calculations and experimental analysis are not only done using pen and paper, most of us are familiar with Mathematica as an addition to this. As the PhD/PostDoc Council we would like to invite you to a series of Wolfram Mathematica tutorials at the IoP.

Every first Thursday of the month the IoP PhD/PD council organizes drinks in "De Oerknal". All PhD's and Postdoc of the physics institute are welcome to join for a beer and a bitterbal!

For the third year in a row the IoP PhD/PD symposium was held, downtown in the UvA's Bungehuis. Several PhD students and Postdocs enthusiastically presented their research in front of IoP colleagues from all disciplines. In this way, besides getting familiar with the work that everybody is doing, a breeding ground for interesting questions and conversations was present which hopefully can contribute to original theories and experimental procedures.

Especially for IoP PhD students and postdocs a meeting concerning the current stage of integration between the science faculties of the Free University (VU) and the UvA will be organized. The meeting will be held on Thursday the 5th of December at 16:00 hours in room C1.112.

All IoP employees are invited to the IoP End of the Year BBQ, celebrating the end of the academic year and the beginning of the summer!