Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter

01/09 FOM-Nikhef and Rijnhuizen at European Researchers' Night

The Geneva particle accelerator, fusion as possible solution for the energy problem and gazing at the stars with the world's largest radio telescopes. These are the topics of BEST (Being a European Scientist Today), an event organised by the Erasmus Medical Center during the European Researchers' Night on Friday 24 September. Read more

01/09 Crowds at Fusion Road Show during Lowlands 2010

Between 20 and 22 August, over 55.000 music fans visited Lowlands, the Netherlands' largest music festival. On the floating LLowlab-stage, they found the Fusion Road Show, the fusion outreach activity of FOM institute Rijnhuizen. Read more

24/08 Frequency comb lasers make the jump to extreme ultraviolet light

Figure 1. Frequency comb lasers make the jump to extreme ultraviolet light

Researchers from the Institute for Lasers, Life and Biophotonics Amsterdam at the VU University of Amsterdam, have developed a method for making the high precision of frequency comb lasers available for experiments that use very short wavelengths (< 100 nm in the extreme ultraviolet). Read more

16/08 FOM research in the Scientific Block Calendar

Figure 1. Scientific Block Calendar 2010

Researcher Peter Schall helped to produce the Scientific Block Calendar 2010. Read more

09/08 Rijnhuizen at Lowlands 2010

At the annual Lowlands festival, the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen will present the Fusion Road Show 2010. Read more

02/08 Summer edition FOM expres published

The summer edition of the information bulletin FOM expres was published in July and has been sent to all FOM employees, FOM workgroup leaders, members of advisory committees, relations and interested persons. Read more

27/07 Two physicists stretch their wings with Rubicon grant

NWO has awarded two Rubicon grants to physicists who want a taste of research abroad: A. Bakulin and L. Huijse. Read more

20/07 Flow reversals in thermally driven turbulence

2010/26

Researchers from the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the University of Twente, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (China), the University of Tokyo (Japan), and the Philipps University of Marburg (Germany) have demonstrated with the help of experiments and numerical simulations (partly performed on the Huygens cluster of SARA) that the flow in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection can spontaneously reverse under the influence of the flow in the corners of the tank. Read more

20/07 Boost to Dutch innovation for and by nuclear fusion

2010/27

Consortium ITER-NL brings together science and industry for construction of fusion reactor Read more

19/07 FOM Valorisation Prize 2010 for Fred Bijkerk

2010/25

Today FOM awarded the FOM Valorisation Prize 2010 to Prof. Fred Bijkerk of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen and the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente. Read more

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