Events

Marko Stamenkovic, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Friday 11 March 2022 at 14.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Charming Higgs bosons: Constraint on the Higgs-charm coupling…

Brian Moser, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Friday 4 March 2022 at 13.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “The Beauty and the Boost: a Higgs Boson…

Alice Alfonsi, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Tuesday 1 March 2022 at 15.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “A tale of a new generation” The current…

Physics @ Veldhoven takes place each year in January. It is a large congress that provides a topical overview of physics in the Netherlands. Traditionally, young researchers are…

Speaker: Ema Dimastrogiovanni (RUG Groningen) Title: “Gravitational waves from inflation” Abstract: Primordial gravitational waves have the potential to shed new light on the very early universe. In this…

The LIGO Virgo Consortium achieved the first detection of gravitational waves. A century after the fundamental predictions of Einstein, we report the first direct observations of binary black…

Michele Veronesi, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Monday 15 November 2021 at 11.45 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. “Quantum oscillations of neutral particles with the beauty…

Speaker: Marta Verweij (UU) Title: “Parton shower modifications in a hot QCD medium” Room: Z011 Abstract: “In collisions between relativistically accelerated lead ions a dense medium is formed:…

Speaker: Claudio Kopper (MSU Michigan) Title: “High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube” Room: Z011 Abstract: “In 2013, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory discovered a flux of high-energy neutrinos of extra-terrestrial…

Karel Melis, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 10 November 2021 at 11.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Studying the Universe from -3000m N.A.P.” Neutrinos are…

Milo Vermeulen, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Tuesday 9 November 2021 at 15.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “A Blessing in Disguise — Characterisations of ProtoDUNE…

Bob Stienen, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Thursday 28 October 2021 at 10.30 at the Radboud University. “Working in High-Dimensional Parameter Spaces: Applications of machine learning…

Next Wednesday, October 27, Govert Schilling and Patrick Decowski will be guests in the new Nikhef lunch-talk program. Science writer Govert Schilling wrote a book about dark matter…

Nadezda Proklova, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Wednesday 27 October 2021 at 10.30 at the Radboud University. “DECAY ANOTHER DAY Search of Higgs production with decay…

On 27 January 1971, beams collided for the first time in the world’s first hadron collider, the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR), changing the course of high energy particle…

Speaker: Servaas Kokkelmans (TUe) Title: “Quantum computing and simulation with ultracold Rydberg atoms” Room: Z011 Abstract: “We develop a hybrid quantum computing platform, optimised for variational quantum eigensolving…

Discover more about the secrets of the universe or the surprising properties of smart materials during the Amsterdam Science Park open day. Or take a look behind the…

Kasper van Dam, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Friday 1 October 2021 at 14.45 at Twente University. “HiSPARC: A Scintillating Experiment” The High School Project on…

Speaker: Jory Sonneveld (Nikhef) Title: “Towards picosecond timing with ultrathin silicon pixel detectors” Room: Z011 Abstract: “How can an image sensor similar to the one in your phone…

Pedro Rocio Rodrigues Cal, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 29 september 2021 at 14.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Jet substructure at the LHC with…