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Taking matter in your own hands: cornering the 'zero mode'
24 Sept 2019
A group of physicists in Utrecht, San Sebastián and Pennsylvania created a new artificial molecule, which is insulating inside but has electronic states localised in its corners. These states have zero energy, and ...
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Encoding gravity - without gravity
1 Aug 2019
Surprisingly, the combination of gravity and quantum mechanics can be encoded in laws of nature that do not involve gravity at all. Physicists from the UvA Institute of Physics and several US universities have now ...
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NWO KLEIN Grant for Carlo Beenakker
3 July 2019
Are Weyl particles the ideal conductors? Carlo Beenakker, theoretical physicist at Leiden University, wants to investigate this question. He received a KLEIN grant from the NWO. With these grants, NWO wants to ...
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Alessandra Silvestri wins Vidi for understanding the universe
27 May 2019
Alessandra Silvestri, a cosmologist at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), has been awarded an NWO Vidi garant for understanding the expanding universe.
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Delta ITP Annual Report 2018 online available
20 May 2019
An online version of the Delta ITP Annual Report 2018 is now available for download, with many extra's the paper version doesn't have!
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ERC Advanced Grant for Delta ITP physicists Jan de Boer and Carlo Beenakker
29 Mar 2019
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Advanced Grants to theoretical physicists Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam) and Carlo Beenakker (Leiden University). The grant, which totals 2.5 million ...
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Discovering new particles using black holes
27 Feb 2019
Some theories that go beyond the Standard Model of particle physics predict the existence of new ultralight particles, with masses much below the lightest known particles in nature. When these particles have very ...
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Vici grant for Rembert Duine
26 Feb 2019
Theoretical physicist Rembert Duine (Utrecht University) will receive an NWO Vici grant of 1.5 million euros for his project 'Fluid electronics'. Duine previously received an ERC Consolidator Grant for his research.
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Another blow for the dark matter interpretation of the Galactic Centre Excess
6 Aug 2018
For almost ten years, astronomers have been studying a mysterious diffuse radiation coming from the centre of our Galaxy. Originally, it was thought that this radiation could originate from the elusive dark matter ...
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Physicists in Utrecht and Stockholm discover unique effect
29 May 2018
Scientists around the world are busy looking for chiral superconductors because they are predicted to be ideal for building quantum computers. Until now, it has not been easy to determine whether a material is ...
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Lorentz Medal 2018 awarded to Juan Martín Maldacena
27 Mar 2018
Theoretical physicist Juan Martín Maldacena, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been awarded the Lorentz Medal for his groundbreaking and innovative work in theoretical physics over the past two decades.
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Two out of eight Projectruimte grants for Delta affiliated researchers
20 Mar 2018
NWO awarded Projectruimte grants to UvA physicist Wouter Waalewijn, and Leiden physicists Koenraad Schalm and Jan Zaanen. Waalewijn will use the grant to study new methods for precise predictions at the Large Hadron ...
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Delta ITP grants three new research projects
27 Nov 2017
Every year the Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics expects to fund several PhD and postdoc positions, assigned to those research projects that best serve the general objectives of the Delta ITP initiative. The ...
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Stanford Prof. Renate Kallosh appointed Lorentz Professor 2017
13 June 2017
Each year an eminent theoretical physicist holds the Lorentz Chair. The 2017 Lorentz professor is Renata Kallosh, from Stanford University. Her stay in Leiden will overlap with the visit of professor Andrei Linde, ...
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Robustness of quantum mechanics under perturbations investigated
6 Feb 2017
To what extent does a small perturbation influence the dynamical properties of a system? One of the most important results in classical mechanics, the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem, states that dynamical systems ...
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Black holes on an electronic chip
31 Jan 2017
Theoretical physicists have proposed a way to simulate black holes on an electronic chip. This makes it possible to study fundamental aspects of black holes in a laboratory on earth. Additionally, the underlying ...
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Mildred Dresselhaus award for Cristiane Morais Smith
30 Jan 2017
Prof. Cristiane Morais Smith (Utrecht University) was awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2016. The prize comes with the Dresselhaus Guest professorship program at the Centre for Ultrafast Imaging at Hamburg ...
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NWO TOP-subsidie for Henk Stoof and colleagues
10 Jan 2017
Utrecht University researchers Henk Stoof (Institute for Theoretical Physics) and Daniël Vanmaekelbergh (Debye Institute for Nanomaterials) have been awarded an NWO TOP subsidy of € 780,000 together with their ...
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Anne Kox elected member of Academia Europaea
2 Jan 2017
Anne Kox, emeritus professor of the History of Physics at the Institute of Physics, has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea, a European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences.
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Rembert Duine and Ben Freivogel
22 Dec 2016
Two Delta ITP researchers were awarded a prestigeous ERC Consolidator Grant: theoretical physicists Rembert Duine from Utrecht University, and Ben Freivogel, University of Amsterdam. The ERC Consolidator Grant is ...
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Fluctuations in gamma-ray background indicate two different source classes; no trace of dark matter
19 Dec 2016
Researchers from the University of Amsterdam GRAPPA Centre of Excellence just published the most precise analysis so far of the fluctuations in the gamma-ray background. They used more than six years of data gathered ...
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Jan de Boer member of new NWO domain board Physical and Natural Sciences
16 Dec 2016
As per 1 February 2017, prof. Jan de Boer, head of the theoretical physics department in Amsterdam, will be a member of the new NWO domain board for Physical and Natural Sciences. De Boer is currently a member of the ...
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Lecturer in the Spotlight: Jeroen van Dongen
6 Dec 2016
Physicist and science historian Jeroen van Dongen (IoP) conducts research into the history and philosophy of gravitation. Together with Rens Bod (ILLC) and Julia Kursell (Faculty of Humanities), he is co-director of ...
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Gerard ’t Hooft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2016
1 Dec 2016
Utrecht professor of theoretical physics, Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2016 for his groundbreaking work on black holes, quantum gravity and quantum field ...
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Two new FOM Vrije Programma's in Theoretical Physics
27 Nov 2016
Two out of seven funded proposals in the 2016 round for FOM 'Vrije Programma's' involve theoretical physics research: the new ‘Strange metals’ programme and ‘Exploring new horizons - Space-time, black holes and ...
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Delta ITP grants three new research projects
16 Nov 2016
The Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics granted three new research projects.
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New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Mattter
8 Nov 2016
A new theory of gravity might explain the curious motions of stars in galaxies. Emergent gravity, as the new theory is called, predicts the exact same deviation of motions that is usually explained by inserting dark ...
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Open access platform SciPost launches inaugural edition of first journal
27 Oct 2016
The inaugural edition of SciPost Physics, a free scientific journal for both authors and readers, will be officially released today. This two-way open access journal forms part of the unique open access scientific ...
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Leiden physicists find way to control fractures
14 Oct 2016
Rigid materials break more easily than floppy ones. With this simple observation in mind, physicists have found a way to predict and control the width of cracks. Theoretical understanding of how materials break is ...
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Topological materials are highly promising for quantum computer
13 Oct 2016
This year the Nobel Prize in Physics went to the exotic discipline of topological materials, which is still developing apace. For example, professor of theoretical physics Cristiane Morais Smith (Utrecht University) ...
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Nobel Prize in Physics for topological phase transitions
5 Oct 2016
The British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 for their theoretical discovery of topological phase transitions.
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ERC Starting Grant for Diego Hofman
13 Sept 2016
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to Diego Hofman, theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam, for his research proposal 'Non-AdS Holography and Generalized Geometric ...
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Sander Bais Prize 2016 awarded
2 Sept 2016
The Sander Bais Prize 2016 has been awarded to Cathelijne ter Burg and Karel Temmink, master students of Theoretical Physics at the Institute of Physics.
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Veni grants for Juan Pedraza (UvA) and Enej IIlievski (UvA)
15 July 2016
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to theoretical physicists Juan Pedraza and Enej IIlievski, both researchers at the University of Amsterdam.
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PRL cover for Soligno, Dijkstra, van Roij (Utrecht)
24 June 2016
The cover of the June 24 (2016) issue of Physical Review Letters features a graphical representation of research by Utrecht PhD student Giuseppe Soligno and his supervisors Marjolein Dijkstra (DINS) and Rene van ...
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Second layer of information in DNA confirmed
9 June 2016
Leiden theoretical physicists have proven that not only the genetic information in DNA determines who we are, but also DNA’s mechanics. Helmut Schiessel and his group simulated many DNA sequences and found a ...
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Paolo Zanardi and Lorenzo Campos Venuti: lecture series
6 June 2016
It's a great pleasure to welcome our DITP visitors, Prof. Paolo Zanardi and Dr. Lorenzo Campos Venuti from University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA). They will give several introductory lectures and ...
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NWO Vidi Grants for Luca Giomi (Leiden) and Carmine Ortix (Utrecht)
13 May 2016
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant to Luca GIomi (Leiden) and Carmine Ortix (Utrecht). They will will each receive an €800,000 to develop their own innovative line of ...
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Charles Kane: Lorentz Professor 2016
2 May 2016
Each year an eminent theoretical physicist holds the Lorentz Chair. The 2016 Lorentz professor is Charles Kane, from the University of Pennsylvania. During his stay, he will give several colloquia, student courses ...
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Bert Vercnocke wins FameLab Netherlands
26 Apr 2016
Science is everything but boring. The living proof lies in Bert Vercnocke’s enthusiastic pitch on string theory last Friday, 22 April. With this pitch, he outshone his fellow finalists during the Dutch final of ...
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ERC Advanced Grant for Leiden physicist Alexey Boyarsky
14 Apr 2016
Leiden physicist Alexey Boyarsky has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to research an extension of the standard model of particle physics. He shares the grant with research groups from Lausanne and Copenhagen. ...
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Daniel Baumann appointed professor of Theoretical Cosmology
8 Mar 2016
Daniel Baumann has been appointed professor of Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science. The chair is meant to strengthen the UvA’s Institute of Physics and will be closely ...
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Millisecond pulsars are likely to account for dark matter signal in galactic centre
4 Feb 2016
The puzzling excess of gamma rays from the centre of the Milky Way probably originate from rapidly rotating neutron stars, or millisecond pulsars, and not from dark matter annihilation, as previously claimed. This is ...
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FOM Physics Poster Prize for Diego Cohen-Maldonado
22 Jan 2016
Diego Cohen-Maldonado, PhD student in theoretical physics at the Insitute of Physics, was assigned the FOM Physics Poster Prize 2016. The prize, 750 euro, was awardes at the tenth edition of Physics@FOM in Veldhoven, ...
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Two FOM Projectruimte Grants for Theoretical Physics research projects
18 Dec 2015
The foundation for fundamental research on matter (FOM) has divided a total of 3.3 million Euro over nine researchers. Amongst them are two Delta ITP researchers: professor Carlo Beenakker (Leiden), who is awarded a ...
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Einstein's Gravity on the wall
23 Nov 2015
On Tuesday November 24th, professor Robbert Dijkgraaf (IAS, Princeton) will unveil a painted version of Einstein’s Field Equation on Museum Boerhaave’s outside wall. This launches a series of at least ten physics ...
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Granted research proposals 2015
19 Nov 2015
The results of the Delta ITP project round 2015 were decided on Tuesday 17 November 2015, based on an evaluation of an independent and representative committee. Based on the grading, the excutive board decided to ...
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ERC Starting grants for Wouter Waalewijn, Philippe Corboz
18 Nov 2015
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to Wouter Waalewijn (Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics) and Philippe Corboz (Institute of Physics, Amsterdam).
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Lorentz Graduation Award for Koen Schakenraad
18 Nov 2015
PhD student Koen Schakenraad has won this year’s Lorentz Afstudeerprijs, a prize awarded annually by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) to a recently graduated theoretical physics master ...
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Book Release: Holographic Duality in Condensed Matter Physics
17 Nov 2015
The physics of black holes appears to be as far removed from the physics of electrons in metals as it can be. Now Prof. Jan Zaanen, Prof. Koenraad Schalm (both Leiden University), Dr. Yan Liu and Dr. Ya-Wen Sun (both ...
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Utrechtse scholier wint eerste Natuurkunde Olympiade voor de onderbouw
22 Sept 2015
De finale van de allereerste Nederlandse Natuurkunde Olympiade voor de onderbouw is gewonnen door Samuel Klumpers van het Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht. De prijs – een trofee en een oorkonde – werd gistermiddag ...
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FOM Projectruimte Grant for Jan Zaanen and Koenraad Schalm
9 July 2015
Leiden researchers prof. Jan Zaanen and prof. Koenraad Schalm received a FOM Projectruimte Grant for their research proposal ‘The strange metals: when quantum entanglement reaches its extreme’.
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Rubicon grant for Benjamin Mosk
7 July 2015
A Rubicon grant was awarded to UvA PhD-candidate Benjamin Mosk for his research proposal ‘Gravity by Entanglement’, by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research NWO. The grant provides funding for two years ...
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Buckling on demand
9 June 2015
Researchers from Leiden University, the Netherlands, designed a novel metamaterial that buckles on demand. Small structural variations in the material single out regions that buckle selectively under external stress, ...
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Vidi grant for Enrico Pajer
18 May 2015
A Vidi grant was awarded to Enrico Pajer, theoretical cosmologist at Utrecht University and staff member at the Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research NWO. With ...
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Electronic Corkscrews
1 Apr 2015
In the first edition of the new Amsterdam Science Magazine, Jasper van Wezel (ITFA) describes his research on electronic corkscrews.
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FOM Projectruimte Grant for Henk Stoof and Dries van Oosten (Utrecht University)
24 Mar 2015
Prof. Henk Stoof and Dr Dries van Oosten have received a FOM Projectruimte Grant for their research proposal ‘Shaping the sound of light’. Their objective is to create and study a Bose-Einstein condensate of light. ...
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Theoretical physicists design ‘holy grail’ of materials science
10 Mar 2015
Physicists of Utrecht University and their French colleagues have theoretically designed the ‘holy grail’ of material science. This material should exhibit a unique combination of the exceptional electronic ...
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PRIMEUR: Natuurkunde Olympiade voor de onderbouw
25 Feb 2015
Leerlingen in de onderbouw van HAVO en VWO kunnen dit jaar voor het eerst meedoen aan de junioreditie van de Natuurkunde Olympiade. Deze is ontwikkeld door het Freudenthal Instituut (Universiteit Utrecht) en wordt ...
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Strings attached to future high temperature superconductivity
11 Feb 2015
The behaviour of strongly correlated electron systems, such as high temperature superconductors, defies explanation in the language of ordinary quantum theory. A seemingly unrelated area of physics, string theory, ...
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Dark matter in the inner Milky Way
9 Feb 2015
An international team of researchers including University of Amsterdam physicist Gianfranco Bertone, has obtained the first observational proof of the presence of dark matter in the innermost part of the Milky Way, ...
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Topological protection in mechanical metamaterials
19 Jan 2015
Researchers at Leiden University, the Netherlands, showed that certain crystal defects in mechanical metamaterials can harbour topologically protected motions. These mechanical states are analogues of protected ...
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New app lets you swipe through dark matter
12 Jan 2015
What is dark matter actually? Chances are that the answer to this question – and a lot more information – can be found in the new app ‘Dark Matter - Behind the Scenes of the Universe’. Developed by UvA researcher ...
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MISTI Global Seed Fund for physicist Waalewijn and colleagues
3 Jan 2015
UvA physicist Dr Wouter Waalewijn, together with his colleagues Prof. Iain Stewart (MIT) and Dr Frank Tackmann (DESY), received a grant from the MISTI Global Seed Fund. The grant is aimed at promoting and supporting ...
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Delta ITP grants five new research projects
14 Dec 2014
The Delta ITP board recently decided to grant 5 new research projects.
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Lorentz medal for Sir Michael Berry
11 Dec 2014
The British physicist Michael Berry, emeritus professor at the University of Bristol, is receiving the Lorentz medal 2014 for the development of the theory of the geometric phase, which plays an important role in ...
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ERC Grant for Miranda Cheng
2 Dec 2014
Miranda Cheng received an ERC starting grant for her project 'Moonshine and String Theory'. With the grant, dr Cheng will be able to further explore the mysterious 'moonshine relation' in the context of string ...
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Erik van der Wurff wins Lorentz Master Award
1 Dec 2014
Erik van der Wurff (Utrecht University) has won the Lorentz Master Award for his master thesis on the collective behaviour of photons. Van der Wurff did his master research under supervision of Henk Stoof.
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Three new FOM 'Vrije Programma's' for theoretical physics
21 Nov 2014
Three new research programs in theoretical physics have been awarded a FOM 'Vrije Programma' grant. 'Higgs as a probe and portal' by professor Eric Laenen (University of Amsterdam), 'Observing the big bang: the ...
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Three FOM 'Projectruimte' grants for theoretical physics
21 Nov 2014
The Foundation FOM has awarded three theoretical physicists with a ‘Projectruimte’ grant: Ben Freivogel (University of Amsterdam), Dirk Schuricht (Utrecht University) and Rembert Duine (Utrecht University).
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Bert Vercnocke receives ASL Prize for Science and Technology
7 Oct 2014
Theoretical physicist Bert Vercnocke (UvA Institute of Physics) received the prize for his PhD thesis Hidden structures of black holes. Vercnocke worked on his thesis at the KU Leuven. The prize is granted once ...
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Two FOM 'Projectruimte' grants for UvA physicists
23 June 2014
The Foundation FOM has awarded the two proposals in the 'Projectruimte' call of Dr. Diego Hofman and Prof. Jean-Sébastien Caux. With two out of in total five grants in this national call, the Institute of Physics of ...
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Kijk Live! 3 - Jan Pieter van der Schaar
21 Nov 2013
Wat gebeurt er als je in een zwart gat valt? We dachten altijd dat je dan wordt verscheurd. Maar misschien verbrand je wel! Theoretisch natuurkundige Jan Pieter van der Schaar (Universiteit van Amsterdam) praat ons bij.
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Kick-off event Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics
4 Nov 2013
The D-ITP Kick-off took place on the 31st October 2013 at Westerliefde, Amsterdam.
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Multi-million euro NWO grant for D-ITP
22 Dec 2012
The Delta-Institute for Theoretical Physics has received an enormous boost with the award of a new grant worth 18.3 million euros from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of its ...
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