Thesis defense Gerhard Magis - "Shedding Light on Surface-Assembled Photosynthetic Systems"
Thesis defense Hoang Nguyen - "Two Dimensional Photonic Crystal Devices"
Thesis defense Samir Etaki - "Superconducting Quantum Interference based Electromechanical Systems"
Thesis defense Simon Kelly - "Complex oxides studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy"
Thesis defense Alexander Zyazin - "Electron Transport through Single Magnetic Molecules"
Thesis defense Toeno van der Sar - "Quantum Control of Single Spins and Single Photons in Diamond"
Thesis defense Jennifer Mathies - "High-frequency EPR on high-spin transition-metal sites"
PhD defence Stefan Bretzel - "Magneto-mechanical dynamics at the nanoscale"
Petra Schwille - "Bottom-up synthetic biology of pattern formation"
PhD defence Aron Beekman "Vortex duality in higher dimension"
Thesis Defence Mr. M. van de Giessen, Statistical modeling of the shape and motion of the wrist
Konstanin Novoselov -"Heterostructures based on 2D crystals"
PhD defence Jos Seldenthuis "Electrical and Mechanical Effects in Single-Molecule Junctions"
PhD defence Shabaz Anwar "Spin triplet supercurrents in thin films of ferromagnetic CrO2"
Andrew Cleland - "Quantum mechanics in mechanical systems" 4 October
Paul McEuen - NanoPhotonics in Nanotubes and Graphene 23 September
PhD defence Kiri Nichol "Fluidization and fluctuations in granular systems" 4 October
PhD defence Ferry Prins "Molecular functionality in nanoelectronic devices" 16 September
PhD defence Henrique Di Lorenzo Pires "Spatial coherence and entanglement of light" 13 September
PhD defence Sander Dorenbos "Superconducting single photon detectors" 3 October
Les Houches "Frontiers of Condensed Matter" 6 - 15 September
PhD defence Fan-Tso Chien "Chromatin Dynamics resolved with Force Spectroscopy" 28 June
Kavli Colloquium lecture, Stephan Quake "Microfluidic large scale integration" 24 June
"Are we Able to See Through the Big Bang, into Another World?" Roger Penrose, 10 June 2011
Biannual Casimir Symposium "Science Communicated!" 26 May 2011
PhD defence Marnix Wakker "Quantum pumping and adiabatic transport in nanostructures" 24 May
PhD defence Ljubisa Babic Frequency conversion in two-dimensional photonic structures" 17 May
Coherent Structures in Dynamical Systems workshop 16 - 20 May
PhD defence Kees Herbschleb "ReactorSTM: Imaging Catalysts under Realistic Conditions" 10 May
Casimir Course Biology for Physicists spring 2011 4 May - June 22
PhD defence Huang She "Fermions, Criticality and Superconductivity" 3 May
PhD defence Mariya Medvedyeva "On localization of Dirac fermions by disorder" 3 May
PhD defence Liesbeth Huisman "simulations of biopolymer networks under deformation" 14 April
Kavli Colloquium, Ali Yazdani "Topological Insulators" - 14 April
PhD defence Sjoerd Hardemans 'Non-decoupling of heavy scalars in cosmology' 1 March
PhD defence Umberto Perinetti "Optical Properties of Semiconductor" 17 Febuary
PhD defence Bart-Jan Pors ' Entangling light in high dimensions' 3 Febuary
Multiscale fluid dynamics with the Lattice Boltzmann method - 14 February - 18 February
Phd defence S. Nadj-Perge 'Control of Single Electron Spins in Semiconductor Nanowires' 20 December
PhD defence Christoph Groth 'Anomalous diffusion of Dirac fermions' 8 December
Lorentz Center Workshop 'Mathematical Life in the Dutch Republic' 6 - 10 December
Workshop "Isolated Networks and Coupled Networks" 14 November
Casimir Course 'Frontiers of measurement' – 5 November - 21 January
Lorentz Center Workshop 'Seeing enzymes in action' 1-5 November
PhD defence Ardian Nata Atmaja 'Applications of AdS/CFT in Quark Gluon Plasma' 26 October
PhD defence M. van den Hout ' Forcing DNA and RNA through Artificial Nanopores' 21 October
Lorentz Center Workshop 'Physics with Industry' 11-15 October
PhD defence A. Mesaros 'Dislocations in stripes and lattice Dirac fermions' 6 October
Lorentz Center Workshop 'New Directions in Modern Cosmology' 27 September - 1 October
PhD defence T. Thanh Nguyen 'First-order phase transitions and magnetocaloric effect' 27 September
PhD defence Pol Forn-Diaz 'Superconducting Qubits and Quantum Resonators' 27 September
PhD defence Xing Lan Liu 'Quantum dots and Andreev reflections in graphene' 22 September
PhD defence T. Picot; On the quantum measurement of superconducting flux qubits' 22 September
Les Houches; 'Frontiers of condensed matter' August 29 - September 10
Flow instabilities and turbulence in viscoelastic fluids 19 - 23 July
PhD defence Pieter de Groot 'Coupled flux qubits and double bifurcation readou' 8 July
PhD defence G. Goetz 'Single Electron-ics with Carbon Nanotubes' 2 July
PhD defence Juriaan van Tilburg 'Electron Spins in Nanowire Quantum Dots' - 2 July
PhD defence Z. Zeravcic 'Vibrations in Materials with Granularity' 29 June
PhD defence M. van Weert 'Quantum dots in vertical nanowire devices' 29 June
PhD defence J. van Kouwen 'Opto-electronics on single nanowire quantum dots' 28 June
PhD defence Jeroen Oostinga 'Quantum transport in graphene' 27 April
Capillary shaping of Solutes - Workshop May 17 - 21 - Leiden
Inter-phase: Novel Electronic States at Interfaces in Oxides, Leiden 26 April - 29 April
Kavli Colloquium, Immanuel Bloch 'Introduction to cold atoms and optical latices' -15 April
The Interface of Integrability and Quantization - Workshop 12 April - 16 April
PhD defence Wouter Borghols 'Li-insertion in nanostructured titanates' - 29 March
PhD defence Gabri Lansbergen "Electron transport through single donors in silicon" - 9 March
De wondere wereld van de quantummechanica - Leo Kouwenhoven 21 Febuary Amsterdam
'Quantum measurement and chemical spin dynamics' - Leiden 15 March - 19 March
PhD defence Raxvan Stan 'Hot-wiring azurins onto gold surfaces' 27 January
PhD defence K. Babaei Gavan 'Dynamic Characterization of silicon Nitride Cantilevers' 16 December
PhD defence M. Poot ' Mechanical systems at the nanoscale' 1 December
PhD defence T. Idema 'Structure, shape and dynamics of biological membranes' 19 November
Electrochemistry in Historical and Archaeological Conservation 11 - 15 January - Leiden
Micro- and nanofluidics for cell biology; Leiden, 18 - 22 January
PhD defence F. Bodoky 'Multipartite Entanglement in Solid-State Nanosystems' 2 November
Cavity enhanced spectroscopy 2 November - 6 November, Leiden
PhD defence P. Shaklee ' Collective motor dynamics in membrane transport in vitro' 11 November
Scale Transitions in Space and Time for Materials, 19 - 23 October, Leiden
Physics goes DNA: from base-pairs to chromatin - Workshop - 7 - 11 September, Leiden
PhD defence Eduard Driessen 'Coupling light to periodic nanostructures', Leiden - 24 September
Universe in a Box: LHC, Cosmology and Lattice Field Theory - Workshop - 24 -28 August, Leiden
PhD defence Jeroen Danon 'Nuclear Spin Effects in Nanostructures' 8 September, Delft
Giant Fluctuations in Population Dynamics, Leiden 3-7 August
Statistical mechanics of static granular media, Leiden 6-10 July
Monodromy and geometric phases in classical and quantum mechanics, 15-19 June
Kavli Colloquium 'From the foundations of quantum mechanics to quantum information' 5 June
PhD defence E. Osorio Oliveros "Quantum Transport Through Single Molecules" 7 April
PhD Defence, B. Witkamp "High frequency nanotube resonators" 30 March 2009
Thesis defense Jan-Willem Beenakker - "Unravelling the Collagen Network of the Arterial Wall"
Interdisciplinary journal club on bioimaging and cell and molecular biology
Jan Zaanen elected member of KNAW
14-05-2012
Royal decoration for Peter H. Kes
01-05-2012
Best Master of Physics program in Leiden
01-05-2012
Peter Zijlstra, Pedro Paulo and Michel Orrit detect “invisible” proteins one-by-one (20-4-2012)
23-04-2012
Koenraad Schalm and Mark Jackson search for quantum gravity in the Cosmic Microwave Background
02-04-2012
Royal honor for astronomer George Miley
02-04-2012
Switching molecules on and off
29-03-2012
Gerard Nienhuis honored by APS
06-03-2012
Hendrik Casimir prizes awarded
06-03-2012
05-03-2012