MultiPhase Matters

Particles 2023

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!

Thanks Ken

Thanks Ken Kamrin for sending me the latest and best text book on solid mechanics!

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

The research network CALIPER is coming to an end, but the team is already gearing up to make new collaborations. We had a good time with a lab visit and return to the place where also the CALIPER kick-off was organized, at H401.

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.