Events

Edwin Chow, PhD at Nikhef will defend his thesis Monday 26 August 2024 at 14.30 at the Radboud University. “Measurement of D Meson Production” The Standard Model, the…

Over the past century, physics has unveiled the fundamental laws of nature and traced the Universe’s evolution back to the Big Bang. Yet, many mysteries remain, and numerous…

Ruben Jaarsma, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 15.45 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. “B-Meson Decays as Probes of New Physics” Understanding…

More Information Inaugural lecture: prof.dr. I.B. (Ivo) van Vulpen Title: “Vermenigvuldigen door te delen – het belang van wetenschapscommunicatie in de natuurkunde” (the lecture will be in Dutch)…

Friday 7 June, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the Colloquium room Speaker: Edda Gschwendtner (CERN) Title: “Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and the AWAKE Experiment at CERN” Abstract: Plasma wakefield acceleration…

Friday 31 May, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the Colloquium room Speakers: Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef) and Kazu Akiba (Nikhef) Title: “The upgraded LHCb Velo” Abstract: In LS-2 the LHCb…

Valeriia Lukashenko, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 13.45 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. “Measurement of CP-violation in decays of strange beauty…

Peter Gaemers, Phd at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Tuesday 21 May 2024 at 13.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Electronic Recoils in XENONnT” The PhD defense will…

Particle physicist Dylan van Arneman of ATLAS group Nikhef and the UvA is one of the speakers with a Caribbean background in the program Switching in up in…

Filmmakers Jan van den Berg and Hannie van den Bergh created a poetic portrait of the universe’s most elusive particle, the neutrino. For “Neutrino,” they traveled to the…

We are happy to announce that this year’s Nikhef Jamboree will take place on Monday May 13 and Tuesday May 14 in Amsterdam. The meeting is held in…

Friday 3 May, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the Vertex Colloquium room Speaker: Giacomo Magni (VU, Nikhef) Title: “Resolving the proton content to percent accuracy” Abstract: Hadronic Colliders, as…

Artificial intelligence is gaining influence in all kinds of fields, and thus also in basic scientific research. But how much, and is that a good idea? At this…

De afgelopen eeuwen heeft de mensheid het universum in kaart gebracht door intensief met telescopen en satellieten het licht uit het heelal te analyseren. Toch is 95% van…

Rahul Balasubramanian, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 10 April 2024 at 13.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Effectively going beyond the Standard Model. Combined interpretations…

Wednesday 10 April, 11.00h, at Nikhef/CWI in Z011 Speaker: Federico Meloni (DESY) Title: “Towards a muon collider” Abstract: Muon colliders are an unprecedented opportunity for high-energy physics. They…

Friday 5 April, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the new Colloquium room Speaker: Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) Title: “New Probes of the Primordial Liquid” Abstract: Heavy ion collisions reproduce droplets…

Ayatri Singha, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Thursday 4 April 2024 at 10.00 at Maastricht University. “Gravitational Wave Astronomy With Current and Future Generation Detectors” Gravitational…

Lex Greeven, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 3 april 2024 at 13.00 at the Maastricht University. “Decoding beauty: rare baryonic decays & SciFi detector commissioning”…

Friday 22 March, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the new Colloquium room Speaker: Marcel Vos (UV) Title: “The next facility in high energy physics – the scientific potential of…