Events

Robbert Geertsema, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 10 January 2024 at 13.00 at the Maastricht University. “Chasing Time: Characterisation and application of precision temporal measurements…

Friday 1 December, 11.00h, at Nikhef/CWI in Z011. Speaker: Melissa van Beekveld (Nikhef) Title: “PanScales: the next generation of parton showers” Abstract: While parton showers are used ubiquitously…

Thomas Meijknecht, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Tuesday 28 November 2023 at 11.00 at Groningen University. “Electric and magnetic field control for electric dipole moment searches”…

Colloquium within National Seminar Theoretical High Energy Physics (DRSTP): Friday 17 November, 11.15h, at Nikhef/CWI in Z011. Speaker: Elisa Chisari (UU) Title: “Cosmology with the next generation of…

Scientists often see things just a little differently. They want to know how something works, how things are. They take nothing for granted and never stop asking questions….

Navrit Bal, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 8 November 2023 at 14.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Medipix3: Spectral X-ray micro-CT and hadron therapy” “Cancer…

Auro Mohanty, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Tuesday 7 November 2023 at 13.15 at the Utrecht University. “ Charm Jets – Production and fragmentation of D0-tagged…

THE RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM WORLD This lecture series of ten 1-hour lectures on five evenings will focus on the central concepts of two theories, while keeping mathematics to a…

Friday 27 October, 11.00h, at Nikhef/CWI in Z011. “Interferometric techniques to improve vibration isolation in gravitational wave detectors” by Alexandra Mitchell (Nikhef, VU) Abstract: Current gravitational wave detectors…

Friday 20 October, 11.00h, at Nikhef/CWI in Z011. Speaker: Martin Bauer (Durham) Title: “How to detect Cosmic Neutrinos?” Abstract: The cosmic neutrino background is a firm prediction of…

Alessio Pizzini, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 18 October 2023 at 16.30 at the Twente University. “Self-interacting Higgs Bosons – Searching for di-Higgs production with…

Leiden heeft een rijke historie aan natuurkundige ontdekkingen. Zo verdienden Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Hendrik Lorentz en Pieter Zeeman hun Nobelprijs in de sleutelstad voor de ontdekking van supergeleiding…

Friday 13 October, 11.00h, at Nikhef/CWI in Z011. Speaker: Sasha Glazov (DESY) Title: “Evidence for B+ -> K+ nu nubar Decay at Belle II” Abstract: This colloquium will…

Mauricio Feo Pereira Rivello de Carvalho, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Tuesday 10 October 2023 at 15.30 at the University of Groningen. “A SciFi tracker for…

Pawan Kumar Gupta, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Monday 9 oktober 2023 at 16.15 at the Utrecht University. “ Probing compact objects with gravitational waves –…

Nikhef offers a look behind the scenes during the Open Day of the Amsterdam Science Park in 2023. This year, the open day will take place on Saturday…

Friday 29 September, 11.00h, at Nikhef/CWI in Z011. Speaker: Chris Rasmussen (CERN) Title: “Probing antimatter gravity with trapped antihydrogen” This Colloquium will include the results published in Nature…

Mart Pothast, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Friday 15 September 2023 at 10.30 at the Radboud University. ” Ultra-high-energy cosmic particle identification” This thesis investigates ultra-high-energy…

Darius Keijdener, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Friday 1 September 2023 at 12.15 at the Utrecht University. “Azimuthal differences of quenched jets” The study of high-energy…

Rasa Muller, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Tuesday 11 July 2023 at 14.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Getting to the point – First cosmic neutrino…