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Highlights FYSICA-CHEMIE

FYSICA-CHEMIE 2012 takes place at University of Twente on Wednesday 30 May, 2012. The event is organised in cooperation with the Chemical Society (KNCV). Attention will be drawn to interesting and hot physical and chemical subjects. Please reserve this date! Some of the highlights:

Plenary lectures by:

Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize Chemistry 2011
Metin Tolan, Science of soccer: Why will women's soccer be the soccer of the future
Cees Dekker, Physica Prize 2012: Using the toolbox of nanotechnology for single-molecule biophysics
Huib Ovaa, KNCV Gold Medal 2011: Chemistry of ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis and antigen presentation
Mischa Bonn, KNCV Gold Medal 2009:
Structure and Dynamics of

Water at Interfaces
Structure and Dynamics of Water at Interfaces
Maria-Antonietta Loi, Minerva Prize 2011: Organic-inorganic Hybrids for Electronics and Optoelectronics
Leo Kouwenhoven: Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires

EPJ Young Speakers contest

Young scientists are invited to join the speakers contest. The winner will receive 750 euros. Registration for the contest has been closed. The finalists are:

Hanneke Gelderblom (UT) - Order-to-disorder transition in a coffee stain
Peter Korevaar (TU/e) - Pathway Complexity in Supramolecular Polymerization
Michael Reimer (TUD) - Controlling light at the nanoscale with shaped nanowires

Meet and greet a career coach or recruiter

Opportunity only for Master students and 'promovendi'. Registration for the Meet and Greet has been closed.

FYSICA-CHEMIE market

Plenty of opportunities to contact interesting companies and institutes.

Interesting Focus sessions

Career perspectives for PhD students	History of Solid State Physics and Chemistry
Chemistry and Physics of Life	Medical Imaging
Climate	Microfluidics & Reactors
Education	Nanomaterials / -fabrication
Everyday's Chemistry and Physics	New Materials
High Energy Physics	Renewable Energy / Solar Fuels

We promise you an exciting day!

General info

The registration desk opens at 9h30. The morning program consists of plenary lectures, including the finals of the EPJ Young Speakers Contest. After the lunch several focus sessions take place. The day concludes with an evening program, open to the public with Metin Tolan about the Science of Soccer and Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman. FYSICA-CHEMIE will finish at 21h00.

If you register before 1 May 2012, you recieve early bird discount of 5 euro (for registration as well as for the dinner).