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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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