Description and aim
The annual workshop 'Physics with Industry 2017' will take place from 20 November to 24 November 2017 at the Lorentz Center in Leiden. During the workshop, about 50 fundamental and applied physicists will tackle five selected company problems.
This workshop is intended to encourage cooperation and exchange of knowledge between academia and industry. In a stimulating setting at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, scientists and researchers from both academia and industry work closely together for one full week to find original solutions to challenging industrial problems.
During the workshop week the participants will focus on problems from five companies. Physicists from different disciplines will use their academic knowledge to realise surprising solutions for the problems. While doing this they will become thoroughly acquainted with the companies and the companies with them. Therefore the workshop will not only provide interesting solutions for each company but the companies concerned will also come into contact with potential employees.
The workshop Physics with Industry was first held in 2010. Since then various large and small companies have participated. In the past years, the workshops have led to solutions for problems, but also to new collaborative projects, patent applications and jobs for the participating researchers.
Cases:
- The National Data Warehouse for Traffic Information (NDW) - Travel time reliability
- Boskalis - Oil detection behind the hull of a ship
- Sioux CCM - Laser speckle reduction in combination with DOE light structuring elements
- Shell - Sorting carbon particles: running on hydrogen, building on carbon
- Koppert - Smart cooling
- Registration form
- Participants
- Scientific organizers:
Melvin Kasanrokijat (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Jeroen van Houwelingen (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Johan Withagen (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Bram Borkent (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Maria Sovago (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- Workshop Coordinator: Nienke Tander, Tel: +31715275581