The PArticles 2023 was hosted in Milan this year. As always it was good to catch up with colleagues and friends: Chris, Lou, Riccardo, Vanessa, Rouven and many others were there to connect about, yes, particles!
Getting ready for the Physics & Astronomy Practicum 2
The BSc program “Natuurkunde & Sterrenkunde” (Physics & Astronomy) at VU/UvA has a course called “NSP2” in the Fall. In this course, students perform various experiments (they choose which to do) among which studying the flow behavior of liquids with Laser Doppler Anemometry (shown). It’s so much fun to perform alignment of the setup and see the tracer particles flow by with the photodetector!
Hosting CALIPER students and supervisors
AERC/ICR in Athens
The beautiful city of Athens was the host of the combined AERC/ICR meeting 2024. Julie gave a presentation on the tribology of surfactant solutions.
Dinner with visiting professor Heinrich Jaeger
Colleagues Corentin Coulais and visitor Anton Souslov could also join.
Dutch Soft Robotics Meeting
We were kindly welcomed by Aimee Sakes and Cosimo Della Santina at some of the robotics labs at TU Delft. Due to a local storm, some attendees could only join online, but it was a successful meeting nonetheless
Course “Project” for 1st year BSc students
The BSc program “Natuurkunde & Sterrenkunde” (Physics & Astronomy) at VU/UvA has a course called “Project” in the last month of the year (June). In this course, students are embedded (as teams) in the various Physics & Astronomy research groups in the Amsterdam area and do a small research project there. They present their work in a final poster presentation, where these pictures were taken. We organize this course together with @ParticleClara. Photo credit: Midas Scheffers / NSA
Getting Into Shape
Together with Emilien Azema, Silke Henkes and Cino Viggiani, we organized a Lorentz Center workshop titled “Getting into Shape“.
eScienceCenter Fellow
Joshua is now 23-24 Fellow at the Netherlands eScience Center. He will collaborate with Luisa Orozco and Stefan Radl to improve a MOOC that brings DEM education to more people.
JMBC Burgers Symposium
Right after the Dutch Soft Matter Day. the JMBC had their annual symposium, with more great content, focusing on fluid dynamics.