Program FYSICA 2017
We feel very honoured to announce the following plenary speakers:
- Ben Feringa (University of Groningen) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
- Bart van Wees (University of Groningen): NWO Spinoza Prize 2016 - Nanospintronics
- Viola Vogel (ETH Zurich): Julius Springer Prize 2006 for Applied Physics - Mechanobiology. Unfortunately Viola Vogel is ill and not able to come to Groningen. We are very happy and grateful that Gijs Wuite (VU) is going to give a nice talk on biophysics.
- Jo van den Brand (Nikhef, VU): Physica Prize 2017 - Gravitational Waves
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Program
09.15 Registration desk open / coffee & tea & FYSICA-market
10.15 Welcome by Jan van Ruitenbeek, Chair NNV (Kleine Zaal)
10.20 Plenary Physica Lecture: Jo van den Brand (Nikhef, VU): Gravitational Waves: Physics at the extreme
10.50 Plenary Lecture: Gijs Wuite (VU): Frontiers in Single Molecule Manipulation and Imaging of DNA-protein transactions
11.20 Award Ceremonies 'Natuurkundedocent van het Jaar 2017' & "NTvN-prize'
11.30 Young Speakers Contest: 3 finalists
Aernout van der Poel (VU): Cold collisions in a molecular synchrotron
Mafalda Monteiro (TUD): Quantum interference in an interfacial superconductor
Diego Cohen-Maldonado (UvA): Kerr/CFT duality
12.15 Lunch & FYSICA-market
*12.20-13.50 Meeting PUN (for PUN members)
*12.45-13.45 ALV NNV
*12.45-13.45 Finals SPIN BSc-contest
14.00 Focus Sessions:
- Physics & Cosmology: Matter over antimatter: 50 years after Sakharov
- Physics & Biology
- Physics & Energy
- Physics & Health
- Physics & Education
- Student Session: Careers in Physics
16.00 Tea break & FYSICA-market
16.30 Award Ceremonies 'Young Speakers Contest' & 'BSc-contest'
16.40 Plenary Lecture: Bart van Wees (RUG): Nanospintronics
17.10 Plenary Lecture: Ben Feringa (RUG, Nobel Prize 2016)
18.00 - 19.30 Dinner
19.30 Evening program: Physics & Art - Quantum Sensitivity
21.00 Closing of FYSICA 2017
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