[staff-physics-and-astronomy-HL-UHD-UD] VU-physics & AMOLF meeting in May

[Juan Rojo]

Dear colleagues,

As most of you know, the AMOLF NWO-I institute at Science Park 
(https://amolf.nl/research) carries out research on topics related to 
complex matter, such as light at the nanoscale, living matter, designer 
matter and nanoscale solar cells.

As such, AMOLF has many synergies with research carried out within our 
own department, and for instance two AMOLF staff are professors by 
special appointment with us.

Discussing with the AMOLF director, Huib Bakker, we thought that it 
would be interesting to invite him and other AMOLF PIs to visit our 
flashy new building and labs and learn a bit more from each other's 
research activities, also to explore possible future synergies and 
collaborations (very much in the spirit of the NeuroPhysics meeting 
organised by Matz and colleagues).

To give some focus to the meeting, we agreed to organise it around the 
topics of "Imaging and Spectroscopy", which connects well with many 
research lines both at AMOLF and within our department. We are of course 
aware that there are many other areas of common interest (from 
biophysics to solar cells) but thought that a first focused meeting 
would be more useful, and then if the idea works we can organise other 
topical meetings in the future.

We plan to schedule this meeting on an afternoon in May. We need 2 or 3 
colleagues, in particular from the sections connected with the "Imaging 
and Spectroscopy", to take the lead in organising this event, in 
collaboration with our AMOLF counterparts and with both secretariats. 
The idea is to keep it light and allow ample time for networking and 
interactions, so it should not be too much of a burden.

If you are available and interested, please let the MT know before this 
Friday, so that we can proceed with booking a date and meeting room. We 
believe this could be a great opportunity for our department to create 
new synergies and look forward to interact with our AMOLF colleagues!

Best,
Juan




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Prof. Dr. Juan Rojo
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Faculty of Science, VU Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081, 1081HV Amsterdam
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Nikhef Theory Group, Science Park 105,
1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Webpage: http://www.juanrojo.com/
Zoom: https://vu-live.zoom.us/my/juanrojo
E-mail: j.rojo at vu.nl
         j.rojo at nikhef.nl
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