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Organization

SONS, from left to right

Sebastiaan van Rijk
Hessel Jagers
Folkert Kuipers

Word of thanks

We would like to express our gratitude to the following people who

have made it possible for us to organize this day:

The department
The speakers
Dries van Oosten
Those presenting at the
jamboree
Those presenting posters
The judges of the poster-
session \
Henk Dijkstra
Huib de Swart
Peter van de Straten
Our helpers
 Programme

13:20 Opening, Teacher-of-the-Year KGB Cosmos

Award (Bachelor) & Show by
Dries van Oosten

14:20 Teacher-of-the-Year Award KGB Cosmos

(Master) & Jamboree

15:15 Thomas Grimm (ITF) KGB Cosmos

The Hidden Harmony of Natures
Fundamental Forces

Auke-Pieter Colijn (SAP) KGB Atlas

Finding Dark Matter (or not)

16:15 Huib de Swart (IMAU) KGB Cosmos

How tides,waves and sea level rise
shape the bottom of coastal seas

Freddy Rabouw (Debye) KGB Atlas

Unconventional color conversion
materials

17:00 Poster session, TA-of-the-Year Vagant

Award, drinks

18:20 Dinner Vagant

 Jamboree
dr. Freddy Rabouw
Unconventional color conversion materials
Debye

Photoluminescent materials, which convert one color of light into Sebastiaan Greveling Bose-Einstein condensation of photons
another, are used in virtually all lamps and screens. For most of Jantina Fokkema Fluoresently labeled silica coated gold
these materials, each conversion event involves the absorption of nanoparticles for correlative microscopy
one photon with high energy (e.g. ultraviolet) followed by the
IMAU
emission of one photon photon with lower energy (e.g. visible).
The energy efficiency of such a conversion is necessarily lower Brice Nol A downscaled 1 km dataset of daily
than 100%. We search for photon-cutting materials that convert Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance
one high-energy photon into multiple, rather than one, lower- components (1958-2015)
energy photons, allowing much higher efficiencies. Crystals Marco de Bruine
doped with a few percent of luminescent rare-earth ions can do
ITF
this. Through partial transfer of energy from rare-earth ion to
another, these materials effectively cut the energy of an Watse Sybesma
absorbed photon. Conversely, they can also absorb two low- Giuseppe Soligno Droplets, capillary interactions and self-
energy (e.g. infrared) photons and emit the combined energy as assembly from the equilibrium shape of
fluid-fluid interfaces
higher-energy (e.g. visible) light. We have studied and modeled
the dynamics of such unconventional conversion events, with the SAP
aim to design, identify, and understand optimal materials. This is
not only useful for lighting, but potentially also for next- Henrique Zanoli Angular correlations of heavy-flavour
generation solar cells. hadron decay electrons and charged
particles in p-Pb collisions
Cristina Bedda 0 meson reconstruction with the ALICE
detector at the LHC

Abstracts
prof. dr. Huib de Swart
How tides, wind, waves and sea level
rise shape the bottom of coastal seas
In many coastal and inland seas, such as the North Sea and
Wadden Sea, currents and waves excert sufficiently large forces
at the sea bed to cause erosion and subsequent transport of
sediment. This results in the emergence of bottom patterns with
many different length and time scales. The related features are
known as sand ripples, sand bars, sand ridges, etc. In this
presentation, the physics of sand bars in the nearshore zone
(where waves break) and of sand ridges on the inner shelf (10-20
m of water depth) will be discussed. It will be shown that, despite
their difference in size, the formation of these bars and ridges is
determined by the same physical principles. A noticeable
difference between them is that sand ridges, because of their long
time scales, are also subject to sea level rise, which can cause
drowning of part of the ridges.
dr. Thomas Grimm
The Hidden Harmony of
Nature's Fundamental Forces
Our current model of particle physics relies on the use of
quantum physics and is experimentally very well tested. It
captures three out of the four known fundamental forces. The
fourth force is gravity and is described by Einstein's theory of
general relativity. The quantum formulation of gravity is one of
the toughest challenges in theoretical physics. String theory
suggests a unifying approach to quantize all fundamental forces
by introducing a seemingly simple one-dimensional object, the
fundamental string. However, it requires to introduce hidden
extra dimensions, which crucially impact the observed physics. In
this lecture I give a brief introduction into string theory and
describe current progress in constructing physical models of our
Universe using a geometric framework known as F-theory.
dr. Auke Pieter Colijn
Finding Dark Matter (or not)
Since a long time, we know that most matter in our Universe is
not made of the atoms and molecules we see around us. For every
gram of ordinary matter, we think there is about 5 grams of a
substance that we call Dark Matter. I will present astrophysical
evidence to convince the audience of the existence of Dark
Matter. Then I will present the experimental techniques by which
we try to find the new elementary particles that form Dark
Matter. The focus will be on the brand new XENON1T
experiment in the underground laboratory at the Gran Sasso
mountains in Italy.