Postgraduate AIO/OIO School 2012

  • Program:

    Main lecturers:
    Christophe Grojean (CERN):
    Electroweak symmetry breaking and physics beyond the standard model

    Elisabetta Pallante (RUG):
    Effective field theories

    Jan-Pieter van der Schaar (UvA):
    Quantum field theory in the early universe

    Erik Verlinde (UvA):
    Emergent gravity: from strings and black holes to dark energy and dark matter

    Evening speakers:
    week 1: Karla de Bruin (Netherlands Forensic Institute):
    Physics in forensic science

    week 2: David Norris (Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, RU Nijmegen):
    The imaging of position, velocity and displacement with magnetic resonance imaging: from the motion of sea water to tracking the fibres of the living brain.

  • Organizers:

    Piet Mulders (VUA)
    Diederik Roest (RUG)
     / Marieke Postma (Nikhef)
    Thijs van den Broek (RU Nijmegen)

  • Registration:

    Registration deadline: 23 December 2011
    Registration fee: € 1.050,–
    The registration fee includes a double room for eight nights and all meals. Alcoholic beverages are not included.

    PhD students are expected to share a room.

    Please note: DRSTP PhD-students will be given priority in case of overbooking.

    You will receive an e-mail confirmation and further information after the registration closing date.
    An invoice will be sent to your affiliation.

    Half the registration fee will be charged for cancellations after 9 January 2012.
    The full registration fee will be charged for cancellations after 16 January 2012.

    If you wish to stay for the weekend you must make your own arrangements.