May 11 - Symposium 'Growing Smaller'

Posted on 04 May 2016

This years edition of the Franckensymposium will take place on Wednesday May 11. The theme 'Growing Smaller' aims at the research of companies and universities that's being conducted at ever smaller scales. The program consists of talks about Lab on a Chip, nanospheres, nuclear fusion, the research behind the new definition of the kilogram and lastly the technichal applications behind the discovery of the Higgs particle. The included lunch will be served at 't Feithhuis.

Registration can be done here.

The full program is as follows:

09:00  Registration and Coffee
09:30  Prof. dr. ir. P.R. Onck
 'Introduction'
09:45  Prof. dr. P. Barker
 'Cold nanospheres'
10:30  Coffee Break
11:00  Prof. dr. ir. A. Van den Berg
 'Lab on a chip'
11:45  Dr. G. Rietveld
 'Revision of the SI: from artefacts to fundamental constants'
12:30  Lunch at restaurant 't Feithhuis
13:40  Prof. dr. M. R. de Baar
 'Controlling performance and stability of fusion plasmas'
14:25  Prof. dr. N. De Groot
 'How the Higgs particle was found'
15:10  Coffee break
15:30  Dr. S. Veenstra
 'Perovskite solar cells'
16:15  Prof. dr. ir. P.R. Onck
 'Concluding remarks'
16:30  Reception

We hope to see you there!

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