Events

Friday 13 March, 11.15h, at the Colloquium room at Nikhef Speaker: Maria Ubiali (Cambridge University) Title: “Precision Physics at the LHC and Beyond” Abstract: The unprecedented precision achieved…

Bas Hofman, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Monday 9 March 2026 at 16.00 at the Utrecht University. Correlated Jet Observables as Probes of the Quark–Gluon Plasma…

Friday 6 March, 11.00h, at the Colloquium room at Nikhef Speaker: Maaijke Mevius (ASTRON) Title: “The low frequency array as near-Earth sensor” Abstract: In Dwingeloo, Drenthe, next to…

Jan de Boer, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Monday 2 March 2026 at 14.30 at the University of Groningen. “Scintillating Beauty – The SciFi tracker and…

Friday 20 February, 11.00h, at the Colloquium room at Nikhef Speaker: Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia Title: “Search for the Invisible: Dark Matter and Neutrinos in XENONnT” Abstract: In recent…

Andrea Visibile, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Friday 20 February 2026 at 10.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Just beyond our reach. Standard Model Effective Field…

Pieter Braat, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 18 February 2026 at 11.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Hiding in the Dark. Constraining Dark Sectors with…

Friday 13 February, 11.00h, at the Colloquium room at Nikhef Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (MPI Munich) Title: “Precision Physics and Challenges at Colliders” Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…

Harsh Narola, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Thursday 12 February 2026 at 16.15 at the Utrecht University. Precision science with Einstein Telescope – Cleaning glitches and…

Zef Wolffs, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 11 February 2026 at 16.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Higgs, the Measurement of a Lifetime. Probing the…

Friday 6 February, 11.00h, at the Colloquium room at Nikhef Speaker: Mathieu Perrin-Terrin (Marseille University) Title: “Neutrino tagging” Abstract: Neutrino tagging is novel method for accelerator based neutrino…

Viva Fysica is the annual event for physics teachers and upper secondary school students interested in physics. At Amsterdam Science Park, they bring science to life with inspiring…

The Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan Foundation brings an older audience into contact with students in a variety of fields. Master student in technical physics Niels ter Linden is…

Have you always wanted to take a look at CERN’s accelerators and detectors? On Monday 26 January at 1:30-2:30 p.m., Nikhef master’s student Niels ter Linden will give…

Max Jaarsma, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Friday 23 January 2026 at 11.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Breaking a Collision into Pieces” The defense will…

NWO Physics is a large conference that provides a topical overview of physics in the netherlands. Traditionally, young researchers are given the chance to present themselves and their…

Carolina da Silva Bolognani, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Monday 15 December 2025 at 13.00 at the Maastricht University.. “The colours of flavour” How do colours…

Friday 5 December, 11.00h, at the Colloquium room at Nikhef Speaker: Jesse Thaler (MIT) Title: “Centaur Science: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning”” Abstract: Modern machine learning has had…

Clara Gatius Oliver, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Thursday 4 December 2025 at 10.00 at the Amsterdam University. “From the cosmos to the sea. Dynamic calibration…

Friday 28 November, 11.00h, at the Colloquium room at Nikhef Speaker: Marko Stamenkovic (Brown U.) Title: “The decade of heavy flavour: recent CMS H-bb/cc results” Abstract: Measurements of…