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Vrije programma's
The so-called Vrije programma's form the largest category of research programmes. The majority of the budget is available for challenging initiatives from researchers. Programmes should have a clear objective, focus, cohesion and added value (compared to separate small-scale projects). And the scientific quality must of course be evident.
Programmes are awarded funding in a highly competitive annual round. The proposals submitted are evaluated on the basis of oral presentations, recommendations from advisory committees and a strict evaluation by international experts. Based on these evaluations, FOM's Executive Board eventually awards the programmes for a predetermined number of years.
To facilitate the management of developments in Dutch physics, FOM's Executive Board has divided FOM's sphere of activities into seven subfields. The programmes carried out within a given subfield can be found in the menu on the left.
Further information about the five new programmes awarded in 2011 can be found below.
To facilitate the management of developments in Dutch physics, FOM's Executive Board has divided FOM's sphere of activities into seven subfields. The programmes carried out within a given subfield can be found in the menu on the left.
Further information about the five new programmes awarded in 2011 can be found below.
- Topological insulators
- Single gold nanorods in live cells
- Single phonon nanomechanics
- Barriers in the brain: the molecular physics of learning and memory
- Stirring of light!
- Quantum optics at a nanoscale – how does the interaction between photons and material in an extremely small volume take place?
- The singular physics of one-dimensional systems
- Broken mirrors & drifting constants - searching for new physics with accurate atomic clocks and ultrastable lasers
- The thylakoid membrane - a dynamic switch
- Protein aggregation at the nanoscale
- Fundamental look at friction
- Proton mobility in confinement - Understanding proton transport in nano-water
- Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction by cells - Mechanics reigns, also in the cell
- Active control of magneto-hydrodynamic modes in burning plasmas - Stabilising fusion plasmas
- Gravitational physics - the dynamics of space-time - Measuring gravity waves
- A string-theoretic approach to cosmology and quantum matter - Finding evidence for string theory
