Events

Friday 6 December, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the Colloquium room Speaker: Jorgen D’Hondt (Nikhef) Title: “Future particle physics colliders with Energy Recovery Linacs” Abstract: In order to meet…

Ashley McDougall, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Wednesday 27 November 2024 at 11.00 at the Amsterdam University. “Determining the Higgs boson width in the diphoton decay…

Daniil Ponomarenko, PhD at Nikhef will defend his thesis Monday 25 November 2024 at 14.30 at the Radboud University. “The W boson production at ATLAS experiment: Drell-Yan angular…

Enzo Tapia San Martín, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Monday 25 November 2024 at 10.00 at the Amsterdam University. “Capturing gravitational waves in a world of…

Friday 22 November, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the Colloquium room Speaker: Oliver Gerberding (U Hamburg) Title: “Laser interferometers with a twist – noisy lasers for low-frequency gravitational wave…

Andrei Utina, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 13.00 at the Maastricht University. Instrumentation and characterization techniques for advanced gravitational-wave observatories (pdf)…

Eleftheria Malami, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Wednesday 6 November 2024 at 13.45 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. “The Beauty of Flavour Physics – B Meson…

Friday 25 October, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the Colloquium room Speaker: Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University) Title: “Twice the Higgs, twice the fun” Abstract: In the Standard Model, the…

Anno Touwen, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Tuesday 22 October 2024 at 12.45 at the University of Groningen. “Readout and control of molecules for electric dipole…

Thijs van Eeden, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Friday 11 October 2024 at 14.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Neutrino astronomy with KM3NeT/ARCA” “In everyday life,…

Friday 11 October, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the Colloquium room Speaker: Maarten de Jong (Nikhef/Leiden) Title: “KM3NeT/ARCA: a gift from heaven” Abstract: KM3NeT/ARCA is a high-energy neutrino telescope…

Jordan Seneca, PhD at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 9 October 2024 at 14.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “ShineFit: Time-Informed Reconstruction of Cosmic Neutrino Showers” “At…

Nikhef opens its doors during the Science Day Amsterdam Science Park! In October, during the Weekend of Science, the Open Day is an excellent opportunity to take a…

Friday 4 October, 11.00h, at Nikhef in the Colloquium room Speaker: Pauline Gagnon (CERN) Title: “What’s wrong with me?” Abstract: Why are sexism, homophobia and racism still so…

Every year, Nikhef organises the ‘Dutch CERN Teacher Programme’ together with CERN. This 4-day programme offers physics teachers the opportunity to visit CERN. There are Dutch-language lectures and…

Aleksandra Snoch, PhD at Nikhef, will defend her thesis Friday 20 September 2024 at 11.00 at the University of Groningen. “Angles and B-mons – Angular analysis of B0→K0*J/ψ(→ee)…

Jordy Degens, Phd at Nikhef, will defend his thesis Wednesday 18 September 2024 at 13.00 at the University of Amsterdam. “Spinning tops: A search for new physics in…

You are in 6 vwo, you are very curious about subatomic particles and you have to start working on your profielwerkstuk soon. Then Nikhef is the place to…

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…