Our group makes predictions and performs experiments at the high energy particle physics frontier and studies the properties of spacetime and fields in the following areas:
Collider physics
Cosmic rays
Theoretical PP
Quantum gravity
News
Techniek mag geen B-keuze zijn op school. (de Gelderlander, 3 juni 2017)
Daan Janssen, student of the faculty's honours program, has won first prize in the finals of the SPIN Bachelor Project Competition at this year's FYSICA 2017.
Melissa van Beekveld ontving maandag 28 november een Shell Afstudeerprijs voor Natuurkunde van 5.000 euro bij de Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW) te Haarlem.
In the search for new particles and forces at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, theoretical models are tested against experimental results in order to identify which models are excluded and which are still going strong.
HEP Colloquia/Seminars
Friday, October 13, 2017 (14.00h - HG02.802): Glenn Barnich (UL Bruxelles): "BMS current algebra and central extension"
Friday, October 6, 2017 (14.00h - HG02.802): Omar Zanusso (Jena U.): "Conformal data in the epsilon-expansion"
Friday, September 29, 2017 (14.00h - HG02.802): Jan Ambjorn (Niels Bohr Institute & RU): "Making Matrix Models Great Again"
Friday, September 15, 2017 (14.00h - HG02.802): Renate Loll (RU): "Quantum Ricci curvature"
Friday, June 16, 2017 (14.00h - HG02.802): Thomas Krajewski (CPT Marseille): "A renormalization group approach to the universality of Wigner's semi-circle law for random matrices with dependent entries"



