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DRSTP Newsletter - 9 February 2012
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Next issue: 8 March 2012
NEWSLETTER
DUTCH RESEARCH SCHOOL OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Telephone: +31 (0)30 253 5916
E-mail: mailto:science.secr.drstp@uu.nl
Fax: +31 (0)30 253 5937
Website: http://web.science.uu.nl/DRSTP/newsletter.html
Newsletter issue: Thursday, 9 February 2012
This newsletter contains:
1. DRSTP postgraduate course AIO/OIO school Statistical Physics and Theory
of Condensed Matter (SPTCM) (19-30 March 2012)
2. DITP course Field Theory in Condensed Matter: Topological Insulators
(Monday, 13 February 2012)
3. Lorentz Center Workshop Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and its
Applications to Physics (19-23 March 2012)
4. PhD Defenses
5. Awards/grants/distinctions
6. Staff mutations
7. Reminder upcoming/ongoing events
8. National seminars
9. Local seminars
1. DRSTP postgraduate course AIO/OIO school Statistical Physics and Theory
of Condensed Matter (SPTCM) (19-30 March 2012)
Location: Hotel Bergse Bossen, Driebergen
Program:
Leonardo Di Carlo (TNW): TBA
Detlef Lohse (UT): Thermally driven turbulence;Taylor-Couette turbulence;
Droplet impact on a surface; Surface nanobubbles
Henk Stoof (UU) and Gerard Barkema (UU/UL): Renormalization-group methods
Ari Turner (UvA): Quantum phases and their entanglement
Rene van Roij (UU): From basic thermodynamics and classical ensembles to
self-assembly and energy conversion
Evening speakers:
Detlef Lohse (UT): Bubble puzzles
Hans Oerlemans (IMAU, UU): Nonlinear behaviour of glaciers
Jan-Willem van Holten (Nikhef/UL): Majorana fermions in particle physics
For registration and further information see:
http://web.science.uu.nl/DRSTP/Postgr.courses/SPTCM/2012/info.html
Closing date for registration: 20 February 2012
2. DITP course Field Theory in Condensed Matter:
Topological Insulators (Monday, 13 February 2012)
Our course on FT in CM will start on February 13 and the topic this year
will be Topological Insulators.
We have set a wonderful program for you, with lecturers from different
places (Utrecht, Amsterdam, Leiden, Paris) and several invited speakers to
talk about experiments.
Please find below the detailed list of topics and dates.
There will be 4 lectures on Mondays, and sometimes only exercises during the
entire day.
The lectures are recommended even if you do not need ECTS anymore, it is a
set of lectures for Master and PhD students in a very fashionable topic,
which connects also to high-energy physics via the possible observation of
Majorana fermions.
The exact location of the lectures is not yet clear. In principle, there is
a room reserved in Utrecht for the entire program, and also assistants to
help with the exercises.
However, if there are lots of students from the other universities, it can
be that some of the lectures will be in Leiden or in Amsterdam.
In any case, until the end of March, the lectures are in Utrecht and the
exercises are always in Utrecht.
The room is BBL 161 (Buys Ballots Lab, 1st floor).
The tentative program is:
Monday: 11:00h-12:45h lectures; 13:15h-15:00h exercises; 15:15h-17:00h
lectures
Martijn Mink is the assistant for the first part of the course and Ralph van
Gelderen is the assistant for the second part.
The program is:
13/02: Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) (Cristiane Morais Smith, Utrecht)
20/02: QHE in graphene (Mark Goerbig, Orsay - Paris)
27/02: Spintronics (Rembert Duine, Utrecht)
05/03: Spintronics (Rembert Duine, Utrecht)
12/03: Exercises and invited talk (experiments)
19/03: Exercises
3. Workshop Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and
its Applications to Physics (19-23 March 2012)
For further information see:
http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2012/485/info.php3?wsid=485
4. PhD Defenses
(Nikhef):
Date: Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Name: drs. R. de Adelhart Toorop
Advisor: prof. dr. J.-W. van Holten
Title thesis: A flavour of family symmetries in a family of flavour models
Time: 15:00h
Location: Academy Building, Rapenburg 67-73, Leiden
(UU):
Date: Friday, 2 March 2012
Name: drs. A.C. Swaving
Advisors: dr. R.A. Duine (prof. dr. H.T.C. Stoof, formal advisor)
Title thesis: Spin transport and dynamics in antiferromagnetic metals and
magnetic insulators
Time: 10:30h
Location: Academy Building, Domplein 29, Utrecht
5. Awards/grants/distinctions
(UU): A NWO Vici Grant has been awarded to René van Roij entitled:
Nanoparticles in liquids and fluids in nanostructures.
More info at:
http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_8QZKCA
http://www.fom.nl/live/nieuws/artikel.pag?objectnumber=177316
(Nikhef): Marie Curie Fellowship for postdoc Pierre Artoisenet
6. Staff mutations
(VUA): Begin of contract: G.J. Stephens (associate professor, per 1 March
2012)
7. Reminder upcoming/ongoing events
These announcements were published earlier in the DRSTP Newsletter:
* Casimir Physics School - Workshop 2012 (5-16 March 2012) -
Location: Lorentz Center, Leiden University
Further information is available at:
http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2012/500/info.php3?wsid=500
* Second Quantum Universe Symposium (Wednesday, 4 and Thursday, 5 April
2012) -
The website of the meeting can be found at:
http://thep.housing.rug.nl/qu2
8. National seminars
* DRSTP National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics (CMP):
http://web.science.uu.nl/DRSTP/Seminars/archivesCMP.html
* DRSTP National Seminar Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP):
http://web.science.uu.nl/DRSTP/Seminars/archivesTHEP.html
* Mark Kac:
http://www.win.tue.nl/markkac/.
This season's Mark Kac seminars will be held on the following Fridays:
March 9, 2012
April 13, 2012
May 11, 2012
June 1, 2012
Speakers, titles, abstracts and locations will be published on our website
as they become known, and announced by e-mail one week ahead of
each seminar. Our main speaker this season is Anton Bovier, who will give a
series of three lectures in March, April and May.
The Mark Kac seminar is supported by FOM and is an activity of the STAR
stochastics cluster.
* International Center for Workshops in the Sciences:
http://www.lorentzcenter.nl
Anyone engaged in scientific research anywhere in the world can propose a
workshop. In fact, the Center welcomes diversity of background and
nationality in submissions.
For detailed guidelines and advice, see the Lorentz Center website and the
general information flyer.
Workshop Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and its Applications to Physics
(19-23 March 2012)
For further information see:
http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2012/485/info.php3?wsid=485
* Theoretical Cosmology Meetings:
http://www.cosmology.nl/
9. Local seminars
Friday, 10 February: H. Dass, Minimum uncertainty states (11:15h) String
Theory Seminar, room 401, ITP, Minnaert building, Leuvenlaan 4, Utrecht.
Friday, 10 February: T. Hyart (Leipzig) Josephson-like tunneling in quantum
Hall bilayer exciton condensates (11:30h) Lorentz Seminar, room 276, Oort
building, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden.
Monday, 13 February: T. Takayanagi (IPMU) Title to be announced (13:30h)
String Theory Group Seminar, room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam.
Wednesday, 15 February: W. van der Schee (UU) Title to be announced (11:15h)
String Theory Seminar, room 401, ITP, Minnaert building, Leuvenlaan 4,
Utrecht.
Thursday, 16 February: J.-F. Joanny (Curie Paris) Title to be announced
(11:30h) Lorentz Seminar, room 276, Oort building, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden.
Thursday, 16 February: J. Laamanen (14:00h) Theory Seminar, H331, Nikhef
Theory Group, Science Park 105, Amsterdam.
Friday, 17 February: W. van der Schee (UU) Title to be announced (13:30h)
String Theory Group Seminar, room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam.
Tuesday, 21 February: Y. Oz (TAU) Gravity and hydrodynamics (13:30h) String
Theory Group Seminar, room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam.
Thursday, 23 February: ULB, Higher spin AdS supergravity in 2+1 dimensions
(13:30h) String Theory Group Seminar, room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park 904,
Amsterdam.
Monday, 27 February: O. Aharony (Weizmann Institute of Science) Title to be
announced (13:30h) String Theory Group Seminar, room C4.278, ITFA, Science
Park 904, Amsterdam.
Wednesday, 29 February: M. Shaposhnikov (Lausanne) Title to be announced
(19:30h) Colloquium Ehrenfestii, (De Sitter lecture room=) Sitterzaal 032,
Oort building, Niels Bohrweg 2,
Leiden.
Friday, 2 March: F. Larsen (Michigan) Conformal symmetry for general black
holes (13:30h) String Theory Group Seminar, room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park
904, Amsterdam.
Tuesday, 6 March: S. Murthy (UU) Title to be announced (13:30h) String
Theory Group Seminar,
room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park 904,
Amsterdam.
Tuesday, 8 March: C. Krishnan (ULB) Black Holes, rotation and AdS/CFT
(14:00h) String Theory Group Seminar, room D1.116, ITFA, Science Park 904,
Amsterdam.
Thursday, 8 March: T. Plehn (14:00h) Theory Seminar, H220, Nikhef Theory
Group, Science Park 105, Amsterdam.
Tuesday, 13 March: A. Tavanfar, Title to be announced (13:30h) String Theory
Group Seminar,
room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam.
Tuesday, 20 March: F. Denef (KU Leuven) Title to be announced (13:30h)
String Theory Group Seminar, room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam.
Tuesday, 27 March: A. O'Bannan (Dampt) Title to be announced (13:30h) String
Theory Group Seminar, room C4.278, ITFA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam.
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