Casimir Research School - Leiden University's and Delft University of Technology’s joint research school in physics - brings together over 320 PhD students, 130 postdocs and 100 faculty members. The school's research program is developed by groups at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft and at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION). Casimir, established in 2004, is named after Professor Hendrik B.G. Casimir (1909-2000), whose involvement in fundamental physics as well as applied physics left many traces in the Dutch scientific landscape.

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Willem Tromp

Study: MSc degree in Experimental Physics from Leiden University, Currently PhD at Leiden University in Milan Allan’s group

"Part of the fun is that I get to regularly discuss interesting physics with all these people coming from different angles and having different backgrounds. Casimir is a great help in this!"

 

Events

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30 May - 14 June 2023

UQ-Bio Summer schoollink

12 - 16 June 2023

Quantum Meets 2023link

12 June 2023

PhD defence - Carlo Belloni: "Improving iron oxide-based adsorbents for phosphate recovery from surface water, using Mössbauer spectroscopy as main analytical tool"link

13 June 2023

PhD defence - Gal Lemut: "Topological properties of massless fermions in a magnetic field"link

13 June 2023

WIQD's annual symposium: Diversify Yourself - registration openlink

20 June 2023

Kavli Colloquiumlink

22 June 2023

BN: Qua Vadis - Summer Editionlink

23 June 2023

Quantum Software: QSC 9th General Assembly - registration openlink

29 June 2023

Casimir Science Day for PI's - registration openlink

29 June 2023

PhD defence - Ludwig Hoffmann: "This is Life: Some Thoughts on Self-organized Structure Formation in Active Liquids and Biological Systems"link

29 - 30 June 2023

Quantum Software: QSC 4th Quantum Training on post-quantum cryptography - registration openlink

30 June 2023

Grant for writing a scientific book (in Dutch) - application deadlinelink

3 - 7 July 2023

Summer School Science Communicationlink

4 July 2023

PhD defence - Alice Garoffolo: "Gravitational waves through the Cosmic Web"link

5 July 2023

PhD defence - Junxiang Yao: "Spin Transport and Superconductivity in Half-metallic Nanowires and Junctions"link

5 July 2023

PhD defence - Petr Steindl: "Quantum dots in microcavities: from single spins to engineered quantum states of light"link

7 July 2023

PhD defence - Brecht Simon: "Building a platform for magnetic imaging of spin waves"link

29 - 31 August 2023

Casimir Summer School - registration openlink

12 September 2023

Annual LION Science Daylink

27 September 2023

PhD defence - Louis Kuijpers: "How can something empty be so full: Virus-like particles as next generation vaccines"link

5 October 2023

Kavli Daylink

9 - 10 October 2023

NWO Biophysics 2023 - abstract submission openlink

16 November 2023

NWO Insight Out – Connecting Women in STEMlink