Annual Report 2010

Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics

ANNUAL REPORT 2010

Landelijke Onderzoekschool voor Theoretische Natuurkunde Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) Landelijke Onderzoekschool voor Theoretische Natuurkunde (LOTN)

Visiting address: Minnaert Building Leuvenlaan 4 3584 CE Utrecht

Postal address: P.O. Box 80.195 3508 TD Utrecht the Netherlands telephone: +31 30 253 5916 fax: +31 30 253 5937 e-mail: [email protected] website: http://web.science.uu.nl/drstp/ Preface

This DRSTP Annual Report 2010 provides an overview of the educational and research activities during 2010. The report also presents two research highlights written by staff members of the Research School. In addition, it offers information, such as a list of the participating staff, of the PhD students, a comprehensive list of publications, as well as other relevant statistics.

The Annual Report is not the only information that is provided by the DRSTP throughout the year. The DRSTP also publishes the monthly DRSTP Newsletter and a yearly Educational Guide of its educational activities. Up-to-date information is also readily available on internet at: http://web.science.uu.nl/drstp/.

We would like to thank all of those who contributed to the Research School during this past year.

prof. dr. R. Loll prof. dr. E.P. Verlinde Scientiﬁc director Chair Governing Board (per 1 May 2011)

December 2011 4 Annual report 2010 Contents

1 General information 7

2 The DRSTP in 2010 9

3 Scientiﬁc highlights 15

4 PhD program 21 4.1 Educational programme ...... 21 4.1.1 Postgraduate courses (AIO/OIO schools) ...... 21 4.1.2 PhD Day ...... 22 4.2 PhD degrees and subsequent employment ...... 22 4.3 PhD degrees granted in the DRSTP in 2010 ...... 22 4.4 PhD students (per 31-12-2010) ...... 37 4.5 Scientiﬁc and educational activities of PhD students (theme 1) . . . . 46 4.6 Scientiﬁc and educational activities of PhD students (theme 2) . . . . 56

5 Scientific staff (per 31-12-2010) 69 5.1 Permanent staff ...... 69 5.2 Temporary staff ...... 72 5.3 Associate members ...... 73

6 Academic publications 75 6.1 Theme 1 ...... 75 6.2 Theme 2 ...... 84

7 Scientiﬁc activities 97 7.1 Theme 1 ...... 97 7.2 Theme 2 ...... 112

8 Science-related activities 125 8.1 Physics-related publications ...... 125 8.2 Public lectures ...... 126 8.3 Other contributions ...... 128 9 Research funding 131 9.1 Personal grants ...... 131 9.2 FOM funding ...... 132 9.3 FOM-Nikhef ...... 137 9.4 EU-networks ...... 137 9.5 ESF ...... 138 9.6 Other ...... 138

10 Organization (per 31-12-2010) 139

11 Partners and associate members 141

Appendix A Mission statement 146

Appendix B Selection and supervision procedure of PhD students 151

Appendix C Postgraduate courses (AIO/OIO schools) 153

Appendix D PhD Day 158

Appendix E National seminars 163

Appendix F Shell theoretical physics stipends 165

Appendix G Statistics 167 1 General information

The Netherlands has a long tradition in theoretical physics which involves research performed at university institutes, industrial laboratories, and government institutions. The strength of this research area is, for a large part, based on the unity of methods employed in a wide range of applications. This manifests itself both in scien- tiﬁc research and in academic education.

To structure and coordinate the graduate education in theoretical physics, the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) was formed. The school is a cooperation between the theoretical physics groups of six Dutch universities: University of Amsterdam (UvA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), University of Groningen (RUG), Leiden University (UL), Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) and Utrecht University (UU) (commissioner) and of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef). In addition, there are several associate members. The DRSTP was accredited in 1994 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and reaccredited in 1999, 2004 and 2010.

The main objectives of the DRSTP are to implement a joint program of graduate education in theoretical physics and to maintain and strengthen research in theoretical physics from a broad unifying perspective that exploits the interrelationships between different fields of theory. The DRSTP is based on the conviction that a joint venture of all the moderately sized local theory groups, each with its own profile, offers added value for the achievement of these objectives.

Theoretical physics is based on universal principles. New concepts often have a much wider validity than in the ﬁeld in which they are discovered, and methods developed in one ﬁeld are sometimes very useful in another. Hence, theoretical physics is characterized by unity in diversity. The research program of the DRSTP is organized according to two themes:

• Theme 1: Particle physics, cosmology, quantum gravity and string theory. • Theme 2: Quantum matter, quantum information, soft condensed matter and biophysics. 8 Annual report 2010

The speciﬁc content of the research program depends on the responsible project leaders, on their creativity as well as their success in acquiring research funding from their home university, from the Dutch research councils of NWO, or from international sources such as European Union programs.

The research output of DRSTP members presented in this Annual Report is presented according to the two mentioned research themes. 2 The DRSTP in 2010

On 31 December 2010, 90 PhD students were aﬃliated to the DRSTP, 49 tenured and 52 non-tenured staﬀ (postdocs). The research output led to 22 PhD dissertations and 335 academic publications.

Reaccreditation DRSTP In June 2010 the accreditation of the DRSTP was extended for another six years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). This recognizes and endorses the prominent role the DRSTP has been playing in the Dutch theoretical physics community since its inception in 1994 in maintaining high standards of excellence in both research and graduate education.

PhD Day On 15 October 2010 the DRSTP PhD Student Council organized their third PhD Day. The PhD Day is an annual fall event organized by members of the PHD Student Council and is part of the educational program for PhD students. The PhD Day is aimed at exchanging ideas, inviting former PHD students to discuss career options, presenting scientiﬁc talks and discussing recent trends in theoretical physics. The PhD Day is primarily intended for PhD and Master’s students. More information is available in Appendix D.

Shell theoretical physics stipends On 8 December 2010 Shell awarded stipends for the third time to the best Master’s students in theoretical physics in the Netherlands. With these stipends, Shell intends to draw attention to future career possibilities for graduates in international companies such as Shell. Eleven Master’s students in theoretical physics were awarded a Shell stipend. More information is available in Appendix F. 10 Annual report 2010

Sjoerd Hardeman (27 January 1982 - 7 July 2011) Sjoerd Hardeman, a PhD student at the Institute Lorentz in Leiden with Ana Achúcarro and Koenraad Schalm, died on July 7th (2011) after a long battle with leukaemia. He was hospitalized at the end of February, two days before defending his thesis on “Non-decoupling of heavy scalars in cosmology”, and passed away a day after it was announced that he had earned an N.W.O. Rubicon scholarship to work with Prof. Paul Shellard in Cambridge. Sjoerd and his collaborators had recently published the first calculation of the effects of sharp turns along the inflationary trajectory. They predicted specific features and statistical correlations in the spectrum of primordial density perturbations generated during inflation. These can be searched for in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, they betray the presence of heavy fields that are otherwise too heavy to be detected by conventional means such as particle accelerators or astroparticle detectors [1]. Sjoerd’s project in Cambridge was to search for these features of heavy physics in the new CMB data set that is being collected by the ESA Planck Satellite.

Sjoerd Hardeman

[1] A. Ach´ucarro,J-O Gong, S.R. Hardeman, G. Palma, S. Patil, Features of heavy physics in the CMB power spectrum, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, JCAP 1101 (2011) 030.

Staff mutations in 2010 * Per 1 June 2010 the position of professor emeritus F.A. Bais (UvA) was extended. * Per 1 January 2010 the position of professor emeritus B. de Wit (UU) was extended. * Prof. dr. B. Krauskopf (VUA) resigned on 1 September 2010. His affiliation with the DRSTP ended. * Prof. dr. Y. Levin (UL) resigned on 1 Augustus 2010. His affiliation with the DRSTP ended. 2. The DRSTP in 2010 11

* Prof. dr. M. Mostovoy (RUG) was appointed associate professor per 1 February 2010. * Prof. dr. G. Nienhuis (UL) retired per 1 July 2010. * The DRSTP membership for Prof. dr. P. van Baal (UL) changed into that of an associated member per 1 October 2010. * Dr. V. Vitelli (UL) was appointed assistant professor at the Instituut-Lorentz on 1 January 2010.

Changes in the DRSTP organization Prof. dr. R. Loll (UU) started her position as Scientiﬁc Director of the DRSTP per 1 April 2010. Prof. dr. K. Schoutens ended his term as chairman of the DRSTP Governing Board per 1 May 2011. A list of DRSTP committee members can be found in Chapter 10.

Guest chairs * Prof. dr. S.S. Sethi (Chicago) occupied the Van der Waals Chair at the University of Amsterdam from 1 April to 30 June 2010. Professor Sethi delivered a series of lectures entitled: Introduction to supergravity and flux compactifications. * Prof. dr. T.A. Witten (Chicago) occupied the Lorentz Chair at Leiden University from 1 May to 30 June 2010. Professor Witten taught a course of three lectures entitled: Thin sheets and sandpiles: subtle self-organization in prosaic places. * Prof. dr. W.G. Unruh (British Columbia) occupied the Kramers Chair at Utrecht University from 19 September to 19 December 2010. Professor Unruh taught an advanced Master’s course on: Quantum fields in spacetime.

Awards and distinctions * G.E. Arutyunov (UU) was awarded an NWO Vici Grant for his project entitled: Gauge fields from quantum strings. * X.D. Arsiwalla (UvA) was awarded a CSN Fellowship and received first prize at The Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School 2010 which took place from 30 August to 10 September 2010. * F.A. Bais (UvA) received the Stapenning Award on 16 June 2010. This is a special University of Amsterdam honorary award, on the occasion of his departure as professor of theoretical physics. Professor Bais was also awarded ‘Lecturer of the Year 2010’ at the University of Amsterdam. * E.A. Bergshoeff (RUG) was appointed KNAW Academy Professor on 27 April 2010. * J.-S. Caux (UvA) was awarded an NWO Vici Grant for his project entitled: Bethe liquids. 12 Annual report 2010

* B. de Wit (UU) was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research project entitled: Supersymmetry: a window to non-perturbative physics. * K.B. Gubbels (UU) won the NTvN writing contest 2010 (first prize) for his article entitled: Ultra-cold Fermi-mixtures are super. * S.M. Haaker (UvA) was awarded the Pieter Zeeman Prize on 26 November 2010 for the best Master’s thesis in physics of the last two academic years, entitled: Phase transitions between fractional quantum Hall states: a Bose condensation approach. * L. Huijse (UvA) was awarded an NWO Rubicon Grant on 6 July 2010 for her research proposal: Vreemde materialen begrijpen met zwarte gaten. * I. Khavkine (UU) was awarded an NWO Veni Grant for his project entitled: What is quantum space-time geometry?. * R. Loll (UU) was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Professor Loll was also a member of the FOM Board of Governors and held a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. * P.L. McFadden (UvA) won third place in the Springer/European Journal of Physics Young Scientist Award 2010. * C. Morais Smith (UU) was nominated Mathematics and Physics Fellow of the Uni- versity College, Utrecht University. * J.M. Oberreuter (UvA) was awarded ‘Teaching Assistant of the Year 2010’ at the University of Amsterdam. * B.S. Pozsgai (UvA) was awarded an NWO Veni Grant for his project entitled: Ther- mal correlations in one dimensional quantum systems. * S.J.G. Vandoren (UU) was awarded an NWO Vici Grant for his project entitled: Geometrical aspects of superstring theory. * E.P. Verlinde (UvA) was appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Professor Verlinde was also awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research project entitled: Emergent gravity, string theory and the holographic principle.

Visiting professorships held by DRSTP staﬀ * F.A. Bais (UvA) was External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, USA from 8 to 22 August 2010. * Th.M. Nieuwenhuizen (UvA) was visiting scientist at the Institut de Physique Th´eorique(IPhT), CEA-Saclay, France from 15 October to 15 December 2010. 2. The DRSTP in 2010 13

Visiting scientists (long term) *M.A. Cardella (Universitàdi Milano Bicocca) was a guest at the University of Am- sterdam from 1 September to 30 November 2010. *P. Zinn-Justin (UniversitéPierre et Marie Curie), funded by the visiting professor programme of the the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) was a guest at the University of Amsterdam from 1 to 30 April 2010. 14 Annual report 2010 3 Scientific highlights

This chapter describes two highlights of research in theoretical physics, presented from the personal point of view of members of the Research School who have been actively involved in them. One describes recent insights into the emergence of gravity. This work belongs to theme 1 of the school and the contribution has been written by Erik Verlinde. A second highlight belongs to theme 2 and deals with recent developments in spintronics. This contribution has been written by Rembert Duine.

Entropic gravity (Erik Verlinde, University of Amsterdam)

Einstein’s theory of general relativity is still by most physicists viewed as the complete description of gravity. Even within string theory and other proposals for quantum gravity, Einstein’s theory plays a central role. Yet there are theoretical indications that gravity should eventually be understood as a phenomenon that emerges from a microscopic description without gravity. These indications come from both string theory and the physics of black holes. The fact that the Einstein equations can be written as the laws of thermodynamics and hydrodynamics, supports this new view of gravity. There also exist string theoretic models, where from a microscopic description without gravity, gravity emerges in a space with one extra dimension. This microscopic theory can be viewed as living on the edge of space. This is called the holographic principle (see Figure 3.1). In January 2010, the author, one of the researchers of the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics, suggested that the underlying explanation of gravity lies in diﬀerences in the entropy of the underlying microscopic theory. This entropy is associated with the amount of microscopic states, the phase space, or more generally, the information that the underlying theory is formulated. Using an analogy with entropic forces, which for example is responsible for the elasticity of polymers and other macromolecules (eg. DNA), a heuristic derivation of the gravitational laws of Newton and Einstein was presented (see Figure 3.2). A further elaboration of this idea last year led to surprising new insights, especially for cosmology. A whole new light is shed on major unanswered questions related to dark energy and dark matter. 16 Annual report 2010

Figure 3.1: The microscopic information can be stored in the holographic principle on the edge of space. Gravity emerges in the translation of this information to the entire space.

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Spintronics: new connections between electricity and magnetism (Rembert Duine, Utrecht University)

A great deal of our technological achievements of the last centuries are based on electricity, the flow of electron charge giving rise to charge currents, and on magnetism, the ordering of electron spins. Their mutual interaction is utilized in large-scale technology, from power plants where currents are generated by time-dependent magnetic fields, to nanoscale write-heads in hard-disks that write information with magnetic fields generated by electric current. From a fundamental physics viewpoint the relevant equations for the electromagnetic field are Maxwell’s equations that have been known since the nineteenth century, and, together with the Lorentz force law and Ohm’s law, give a description of the above-mentioned (and of course many more) phenomena. Only very recently, spin currents — the flow of electron spins — have entered the stage with the research field of spintronics, the birth of which can be traced to the Nobel- prize winning discovery of giant magnetoresistance by Fert and Grünberg. Their discovery, i.e., the strong dependence of the resistance on relative magnetization- direction orientation of magnetic layers in devices, has been utilized in the read-heads of harddrives since the late nineties. Broadly speaking, spintronics studies the interplay between charge currents, spin currents, and magnetization dynamics, both from a fundamental point-of-view and with applications in mind. The fundamentally new physics ingredient is that a spin current is a current of angular momentum and is therefore not conserved. In particular, it can exchange its angular momentum with the lattice via spin-orbit coupling. This means that spin currents may be strongly influenced by scattering events that flip spins, or by strong spin-orbit coupling. The latter coupling in itself gives rise to various physical phenomena such as the anomalous Hall effect, i.e., the Hall effect in ferromagnets in the absence of a magnetic field, or the spin Hall effect, i.e., the spin current that is induced transverse to an applied charge current. Furthermore, the interest in strong spin-orbit coupling has in part led to the recent discovery of a new class of materials called topological insulators. In conducting ferromagnets, a spin current can also exchange its spin angular momentum with the magnetization. This phenomenon is know as spin transfer, because in this process spin is transferred from spin currents to the magnetization. For large enough spin currents this may lead to magnetization dynamics, allowing for a direct way to manipulate magnetization with charge currents in ferromagnetic metals. This comes about because a spin current in a ferromagnetic metal is automatically a charge current due to the nonzero spin polarization in the ferromagnet. (It turns out that this direct effect becomes dominant over the magnetic field induced by the current for small wire cross sections.) One typical example of spin transfer is current-driven domain wall motion. A ferromagnetic domain wall separates two domains with different directions of magnetization (see Figure 3.3). As electrons are transported across the domain wall, their spins ad- just themselves to the local magnetization. This means that the magnetization exerts 18 Annual report 2010 a torque on the spin of the electrons which is accompanied by a reaction torque, called the spin transfer torque, of the electron spins on the magnetization. Although spin angular momentum is exchanged between electron spins and magnetization, the total is approximately (not fully, because of spin-orbit coupling and spin-flip scattering) conserved. The net result of this is that the magnetic domain wall will be pushed in the direction of the electron flow. This method of manipulating domain walls is very attractive for applications as any type of domain (both from “down” to “up” and the opposite) is pushed in the same direction. This allows for moving information stored in the position of magnetic domains, and is the idea behind IBM’s Magnetic Race Track Memory. The above-mentioned spin transfer torques on magnetic domain walls are only one aspect of the interplay between spin and charge currents and magnetism. In our recent theoretical work [1] we have predicted the existence of a new and complementary effect, namely, that a time-dependent magnetization, e.g., a domain wall that is driven by a magnetic field, induces a current or voltage (see Figure 3.3). That such an effect exists was understood in the limit in which the domain wall precesses. Such domain wall precession occurs for large driving fields, and means that the spins at the position of the domain wall precess around the field. That this induces a voltage is understood as follows: imagine going to a frame of reference where the spin quantization axis is in the direction of the magnetization. In this frame the electrons feel a time-dependent vector potential, coming from the gauge transformation to this new frame of reference, which is opposite for opposite spin projections, giving rise to opposite forces. Such forces are called spin motive forces. Because of the spin asymmetry in the ferromagnet there will be a charge current proportional to the spin polarization, or, in an open circuit, a voltage. In the limit of small magnetic field it turns out that the domain wall does not precess but instead moves rigidly. In this case the above-mentioned vector potential is zero. It turns out, however, that there can still be a current or voltage, but that spin-flip scattering is essential in this case [1]. Recent experiments have measured the domain-wall-induced voltage [2] in the high-field limit and more experiments are in progress. Spin transfer and spin motive forces are mostly studied in ferromagnetic metals. A natural (theorist’s) question is therefore whether similar phenomena exist in materials with different magnetic order. One example are antiferromagnets. These are materials where the magnetic moments are anti-aligned on neighbouring sites, as op- posed to being aligned as in a ferromagnet. We have recently studied the influence of current on the dynamics of the magnetization in antiferromagnetic conductors [3]. Although the net spin polarization is zero in these system, it turns out that there are nonzero current-induced torques on the magnetic moments in the antiferromagnet. In particular, these torques can lead to current-driven motion of antiferromagnetic domains. Given the recent experimental activity on spintronics with antiferromagnets [4], we hope that these predictions will be tested in the near future. 3. Scientific highlights 19

Figure 3.3: Illustration of a domain wall in a ferromagnetic metallic wire that is driven by an external magnetic ﬁeld B and induces a voltage V . (This picture was made by Dries van Oosten.)

Another example of magnetic ordering are spiral magnets. They are in between ferromagnets and antiferromagnets as the magnetic order forms spirals. In a particular phase of the spiral magnetic metal MnSi current-induced torques were recently observed, in a collaboration with the theory group of Achim Rosch (Cologne) and the experimental group of Christian Pfleiderer (TU Munich) [5]. In the future, the field of spintronics will continue to explore new materials with the longterm goal of developing applications. The developments with antiferromagnets and spiral magnets, briefly described above, are part of this activity. One other subfield that is worth mentioning is that of magnetic insulator spintronics. In these materials, the charge current is always zero, but there can be spin and heat currents that interact with the magnetization [6]. Another direction is exploring the fundamentals of spintronics with systems of trapped cold alkali atoms. Although these 20 Annual report 2010 systems at present do not have consumer electronics applications, and probably never will, they serve as a tunable model system to explore physics in a way that is more controllable than with solid-state materials. For example, the decay of spin current due to interactions, called spin drag, was recently proposed in both bosonic and fermionic cold-atom systems, and the first experiments with fermions have just been carried out [7]. In conclusion, the exciting recent developments that push spintronics outside the realm of semiconductors and ferromagnetic metals will likely bring about a wealth of new and interesting physics in the years ahead.

[1] R.A. Duine, Spin pumping by a ﬁeld-driven domain wall, Phys. Rev. B 77, 014409 (2008).

[2] S.A. Yang et al., Universal electromotive force induced by domain wall motion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067201 (2009); Robert McMichael and Mark Stiles, A new connection between electricity and magnetism, Physics 2, 11 (2009). [3] A.C. Swaving and R.A. Duine, Current-induced torques in continuous antiferromagnetic textures, Phys. Rev. B 83, 054428 (2011).

[4] R.A. Duine, An alternating alternative, Nature Materials 10, 344 (2011), News and Views on Park et al., Nature Materials 10, 347 (2011). [5] F. Jonietz, S. Muehlbauer, C. Pﬂeiderer, A. Neubauer, W. Muenzer, A. Bauer, T. Adams, R. Georgii, P. Boeni, R.A. Duine, K. Everschor, M. Garst, and A. Rosch, Spin transfer torques in MnSi at ultra-low current densities, Science 330, 1648 (2010). [6] K. Uchida et al., Spin Seeback insulator, Nature Materials 9, 894 (2010). [7] R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Spin drag in noncondensed Bose gases, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170401 (2009); R.A. Duine, Marco Polini, H.T.C. Stoof, and G. Vignale, Spin drag in an ultracold Fermi gas on the verge of a ferromagnetic instability, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220403 (2010); Ariel Sommer, Mark Ku, Giacomo Roati, Martin W. Zwierlein, Universal spin transport in a strongly interacting Fermi gas, Nature 472, 201 (2011). 4 PhD program

This chapter provides an overview of the educational program and of the PhD degrees granted in 2010. Research projects of current PhD students and data on their scien- tiﬁc and educational activities in 2010 are given.

The DRSTP oﬀers a joint program of graduate education leading to a PhD. The educational program is based in part on the regular advanced courses, seminars and topical courses oﬀered at the participating universities. The DRSTP organizes at least two postgraduate schools every year. Furthermore, students can gain international experience by attending (international) workshops or summer schools and, in certain cases, by making extended research visits abroad. The Governing Board is advised on educational matters by the Educational Board. Regular advanced courses at the universities are published in a nationwide survey at the beginning of each academic year.

The Governing Board of the DRSTP decides on admission of individual PhD students and monitors their progress. An extended description of the selection and supervision procedure is presented in Appendix B.

On 31 December 2010, ninety (90) PhD students were aﬃliated with the DRSTP. Twenty-two (22) PhD students obtained their PhD in 2010.

4.1 Educational programme

4.1.1 Postgraduate courses (AIO/OIO schools) The following courses were held in 2010:

Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP) The DRSTP Postgraduate Course (AIO/OIO school) Theoretical High Energy Phy- sics was held from 1 to 12 February 2010 at Hotel Bergse Bossen in Driebergen. The program was organized by A. Ach´ucarro(UL) and J. Vermaseren (Nikhef). Twenty- eight (28) students participated. Further information is available in Appendix C. 22 Annual report 2010

Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM) The DRSTP Postgraduate Course (AIO/OIO school) Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter was held from 12 to 22 April 2010 at Hotel Bergse Bossen in Driebergen. Due to coinciding events the program was shortened by one day. The program was organized by J.-S. Caux (UvA) and C. Storm (TU/e). Twenty (20) students participated. Further information is available in Appendix C.

4.1.2 PhD Day The PhD Day was held on 15 October 2010 at Utrecht University. The program was organized by members of the DRSTP PhD Student Council. Eighty-three (83) people attended of which forty-nine were PhD students, thirty-one were Master’s students, two were postdocs and one participant was a former PhD student who is now employed at McKinsey & Company. Further information is available in Appendix D.

4.2 PhD degrees and subsequent employment

In 2010, twenty-two (22) PhD students received their degree. Twelve students accepted postdoctoral positions in: Austria (1), France (1), Germany (4), Spain (1), UK (1), the Netherlands (2) and in the USA (2); three (3) accepted research positions not related to theoretical physics; four (4) accepted a position at a commercial company; one (1) accepted a postion as a research scholar and one (1) accepten a position as a physics high school teacher in the Netherlands. One student passed away. More information on career moves of former PhD students during the last six years can be found in Appendix G.

4.3 PhD degrees granted in the DRSTP in 2010

In this section a short summary of the PhD theses published in 2010 is given. The summaries were written by the students.

Ament, L.J.P. (UL) thesis title: Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering studies of elementary excitations advisor: prof. dr. ir. J. van den Brink date: 11 November 2010 present position: junior associate, McKinsey & Company, Amsterdam, the Nether- lands

The subject of this thesis is Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering (RIXS), which is a technique to study, amongst others, the properties of materials. This is done by 4. PhD program 23 making a sort of x-ray photo (called a spectrum) in a synchrotron – a huge, circular particle accelerator (with a circumference of a few hundred meters) that produces very high intensity x-rays. These x-ray spectra are compared to calculations based on various models of the material under study. This way, it is possible to falsify the models.

Arsiwalla, X.D. (UvA) thesis title: Supersymmetric black holes as probes of quantum gravity advisors: prof. dr. E.P. Verlinde and prof. dr. R.H. Dijkgraaf date: 13 April 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory for Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems (SPECS), University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

The research presented in this thesis features a specific class of black holes arising in string theory that offer a rare window towards probing quantum gravity. The driving force behind much of this research in black hole physics lies in the idea of holography which is a duality between a gravitational theory in a bulk space-time and a quantum theory (without gravity) living on the boundary of that space-time. In string theory this duality is famously manifest as the AdS/CFT correspondence. Macroscopic observables refer to gravitational quantities in the bulk; whereas, mi- croscopics corresponds to the theory living on a bound state of higher dimensional objects in string theory called branes. The black holes that we work with in this thesis are analogs of zero temperature black holes (also known as extremal) in Ein- stein’s gravitational theory with electromagnetic charge; and are obtained through compactification of a type of closed string theory in ten dimensions, where the com- pactified six dimensions are endowed with 4, 2 and 0 dimensional (spatially) branes, thus giving a black hole solution in four non-compact dimensions. Lifting this set-up to eleven dimensions by opening a circular spatial dimension gives a five dimensional black string in M-theory, where the branes now lift to 5 & 2 dimensional membranes and respectively angular momentum along the M-theory circle. Subsequent fragmentation of this system leads to interesting multi-center configurations in 4 as well as 5 dimensions. Investigating this specific system and its various manifestations, sheds new insights into the quantum field theory(gauge theory)/gravity paradigm.

Atmaja, A.N. (UvA/UL) thesis title: Applications of AdS/CFT in quark gluon plasma advisor: prof. dr. J. de Boer co-advisor: dr. K.E. Schalm date: 26 October 2010 present position: researcher, The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta, Indonesia

As one of the most important developments in string theory, the AdS/CFT correspondence (or in general gauge/gravity correspondence) encodes a way of using string theory to perform non-perturbative calculation in gauge theory which is still a com- plicated problem. It was firstly formulated as the correspondence between weakly coupled gravity theory with AdS (Anti de Sitter) space-time background and stron- 24 Annual report 2010 gly coupled gauge theory with conformal symmetry in one lower dimension. In this thesis, we would like to apply AdS/CFT correspondence to compute some of observables of strongly coupled QGP such as photon and dilepton production rates, mean-free path time of the plasma constituents, and anisotropic drag force effect to the elliptic flow.

Boomsma, J.K. (VUA) thesis title: Eﬀects of instanton interactions on the phases of quark matter advisor: prof. dr. P.J.G. Mulders co-advisor: dr. D. Boer date: 17 June 2010 present position: physics teacher, Hermann Wesselink College, Amstelveen, the Ne- therlands

Matter that is subject to extreme conditions has remarkable properties. In this thesis the effects of instantons on matter under these conditions are investigated using model calculations. The investigations show that instantons allow for new phases and that in combination with strong magnetic fields they induce a rich phase structure. Under normal conditions, quarks are confined to protons and neutrons. At temperatures of 2 trillion degrees Celsius and at densities larger than 5 times the density of a nucleus everything is different. Under such conditions matter undergoes a phase transition to a phase called quark matter. This form of matter plays a role in describing the Big Bang, heavy ion collisions and the core of neutron stars. In all of these systems very strong magnetic fields can occur. The interaction that holds quarks together in protons and neutrons is the strong interaction. This interaction has an infinite number of vacua. Instantons are transitions between these vacua. Gerard ‘t Hooft has shown in 1976 that these instantons can have physical implications. In this thesis their effects on quark matter are studied. Using the normal techniques of the strong interaction it is impossible to study the effects of instantons. Therefore we use model calculations. Most attention is paid to the phase structure of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The main conclusion is that instantons play an important role in describing the behavior of quark matter. We have found new phases that may be of importance in describing the structure of neutron stars and for matter that is created in heavy ion collisions. de Leeuw, M. (UU) thesis title: The S-matrix of the AdS5xS5 superstring advisor: prof. dr. B. de Wit co-advisor: dr. G.E. Arutyunov date: 29 March 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Golm, Germany

According to the gauge-string duality conjecture, the spectrum of scaling dimensions of composite gauge invariant operators of the planar maximally supersymmetric Yang- Mills theory in four dimensions should be equivalent to the energy spectrum of superstrings propagating in the AdS5xS5 space-time, where AdS5 is the ﬁve-dimensional 4. PhD program 25

Anti-de Sitter space and S5 is the ﬁve-dimensional sphere. We study strings on AdS5xS5. The corresponding world-sheet theory exhibits the remarkable property of being integrable, that is it has an inﬁnite number of conservation laws. The asymptotic spectrum of the world-sheet theory contains both the fundamental particles and bound states of the latter. We explicitly derive the S-matrix that describes scattering of arbitrary bound states. The key feature that enables this derivation is the so- called Yangian symmetry. Subsequently, we study the universal algebraic properties of the found S-matrix. As in many integrable models, the S-matrix plays a key role in the determination of the energy spectrum. In this context, we employ the Bethe ansatz approach to compute the large volume energy spectrum of string bound states.

Eggen, E.J. (UU) thesis title: Orientational ordering of charged colloids advisor: prof. dr. H. van Beijeren co-advisor: dr. R.H.H.G. van Roij date: 24 February 2010 present position: web developer, Rhinoﬂy, Utrecht, the Netherlands

This thesis studies orientational ordering of charged colloidal particles, which appears if the particles are not spherically symmetric. Generally, this is the case. The nonspherical aspects of colloidal particles can be either due to shape or to chemical surface properties. The question we address is: when do such nonspherical properties become important in the collective behavior of colloidal particles? To answer this question, we theoretically investigate the equilibrium properties of charged colloidal particles. We have chosen charge particles for three reasons. First, electrostatic effects are generally present in colloidal suspensions. Second, there were, and still are, many opportunities in this field to answer existing questions or raise new ones. Third, the effective interactions between charged colloidal particles are relatively easy to describe. In the end, we hope to describe collective properties that can be obtained through the equi- libration of a system. The way we treat particle orientations is through orientational distributions. Analogous to particle-position distributions, we find configurations that minimize the free energy, thereby predicting the equilibrium state. We distinguish four types of phases that describe equilibrium configurations: isotropic fluid, liquid crystal, plastic crystal, and aligned crystal. The isotropic-fluid phase is characterized by a lack of both positional and orientational ordering. Fluids that display orientational ordering but no (complete) positional ordering are denoted liquid crystals. Conversely, in the case of a plastic crystal there is complete positional ordering but no orientational ordering. The aligned-crystal phase exhibits both orientational and positional ordering. We view particles of different orientation as particles belonging to different species. Such a description is easily implemented in a grand-canonical ensemble to find the most favorable distribution of particle orientations in a system. In this thesis, we apply the description to systems of colloidal particles that are either rodlike in shape and homogeneously charged, or heterogeneously charged and spherical. In chapter 2, we treat the phase behavior of short charged rods. We construct a mapping onto systems of hard rods with effective dimensions. The liquid-crystal phases that are predicted in these systems are no longer present for rods of sufficiently 26 Annual report 2010 high charge, because their interactions are essentially isotropic. Chapter 3 is based on a charge renormalization scheme, which defines a relation between the nonlinear and linearized descriptions of electrostatic interactions between charged colloidal particles. This scheme is traditionally applied to spherical particles with homogeneous surface charge, but we apply it to colloidal spheres of heterogeneous surface charge. Finally, we present two models in which we apply bifurcation theory to a linearized description for heterogeneously charged spheres. In chapter 4 we introduce a cell model, which we employ in chapter 5 to describe fluid phases, as it lacks any positional ordering of the colloidal particles. The second model is treated in chapter 6 and puts the particles on a fixed lattice, which characterizes the positional ordering in solids. In both cases we investigate the possibility of an isotropic-to-aligned transition of the orientational distribution. In the fluid phase we find none, whereas the solid phase exhibits two possible transitions.

Galistu, G.M. (UvA) thesis title: Magnetotransport studies of the single and bilayer two dimensional electron gas in the quantum Hall regime advisor: prof. dr. A.M.M. Pruisken co-advisor: dr. A. de Visser date: 11 June 2010 present position: clinical physicist, University Medical Center (UMC), Utrecht, the Netherlands

This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to a magnetotransport study of scaling in the integral quantum Hall regime. New transport measurements based on the DC-method are being developed and compared with the traditional AC-method of lock-in amplification. Some of the main results on the plateau-plateau and plateau-insulator are presented in Chapters 4 and 5 that deal with the effects of sample inhomogeneity on quantum criticality. Critical exponent values are reported taken from a variety of low mobility samples (InGaAS/GaAS quantum wells) and compared with those in the literature. The second part deals with magnetotransport experiments conducted on coupled two dimensional electron gases in double quantum well systems. The aim is to study the effects of a tunnel barrier on the energy levels as well as the wavefunctions of the electron gas. The experimental results are explained, in part, based on numerical computations of the electron structure.

Gubbels, K.B. (UU) thesis title: Exotic superﬂuidity in imbalanced Fermi gases advisor: prof. dr. ir. H.T.C. Stoof date: 13 January 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI), Berlin, Germany The research is done in collaboration with the University of Nijmegen, where K. Gub- bels is currently based. 4. PhD program 27

We consider ultracold imbalanced Fermi gases with strong attractive interactions, for which Cooper-pair formation plays an important role. The two-component mixtures consist either of identical fermionic atoms in two different hyperfine states, or of two different atomic species. In both cases, the number of atoms for each component is allowed to be different, leading to a spin imbalance or a polarization. In the second case, the two different species also give rise to a mass imbalance for the particles. Imbalanced Fermi mixtures play a fundamental role in condensed-matter, nuclear and astroparticle physics. Experimentally, the atomic mixtures are made strongly interacting with the use of two-channel Feshbach resonances. We start out by treating these in more detail. We review the relevant scattering theory, and apply it to the well-studied case of resonant s-wave collisions with zero angular momentum. Furthermore, we discuss the less-studied case of p-wave collisions with nonzero angular momentum, and the inhomogeneous case due to a trapping potential. Having discussed the two-body physics, we turn to the many-body physics. The pioneering experimental studies of Cooper pairing in lithium-6 mixtures with a spin imbalance were performed by Zwierlein et al. [Science 311, 492 (2006)] and Partridge et al. [Science 311, 503 (2006)]. We study the mean-field theory for the polarized Fermi mixture to obtain a qualitative understanding of these experiments. In the unitarity limit, where the scattering length of the interatomic interaction diverges, the theory gives rise to two exotic superfluid phases that are absent in the balanced mixture. These are the gapless superfluid Sarma phase and the phase-separated phase. By using renormalization group techniques to account for the effects of strong interactions, we obtain also quantitative agreement with Monte-Carlo calculations and experiments. We then generalize our knowledge of the solely spin-imbalanced mixture to the mass-imbalanced case, where in particular the mixture consisting of lithium-6 and potassium-40 is experimentally promising. We study the mean-field phase diagram for this mixture in the unitarity limit, where we not only find phase separation and Sarma superfluidity, but also a Lifshitz point. The latter signals an instability towards a supersolid phase. We also include the effects of fluctuations, which do not alter the topology of the phase diagram. However, fluctuation effects lower the critical temperatures with an experimentally relevant factor of three. Finally, we study superfluidity in a fully polarized gas of potassium-40 atoms near a p-wave Feshbach resonance. In particular, we consider coherent Josephson oscillations between the superfluid components in the two channels of the resonance, whose frequencies contain a clear signature of the quantum phase transition that occurs as a function of applied magnetic field.

Habraken, S.J.M. (UL) thesis title: Light with a twist; Ray aspects in singular wave and quantum optics advisor: prof. dr. G. Nienhuis date: 16 February 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria

This thesis discusses the spatial structure and the physical properties of basis sets of modes in optical resonators. The mirrors of the cavity are allowed to be astigmatic. 28 Annual report 2010

The mode structure is non-trivial, in particular when the symmetry planes of the mirrors do not coincide. It is shown that ray optical properties of the resonators deﬁne a set of bosonic ladder operators that give rise to algebraic expressions for the modes. These modes contain phase singularities and they carry orbital angular momentum. The technique also applies to the case of a resonator with rotating mirrors. Rotation can stabilize an unstable resonator, or destabilize a stable one.

Hardeman, S.R. (UL) 27 January 1982 - 7 July 2011 thesis title: Non-decoupling of heavy scalars in cosmology advisor: prof. dr. A. Ach´ucarro co-advisor: dr. K.E. Schalm date: to be awarded posthumous

If a system heats up, more degrees of freedom become available. In ice certain vibrations of the water molecule are not available, yet in liquid water they are. This can be made visible by putting both ice and water in a microwave oven. The microwave emits radiation exactly at the wavelength of one of these vibrations and is therefore very efficient in heating water. On the other hand, heating ice with a microwave oven takes much longer. In our universe there are many degrees of freedom that can be made visible only at very high temperatures. Some of those we know, or at least we think we know. The Higgs particle, the particle the LHC in Geneva is looking for, is a well known example of a degree of freedom that is observable only at very high temperatures. We think we know the Higgs particle exists because it betrays its existence at lower temperatures due to certain corrections to specific processes. Some of these processes have been measured very accurately and the measurements can be explained only by assuming the existence of a Higgs particle. There are likely many more degrees of freedom at very high temperatures that we do not yet know. We currently do not know which theory explains the physics at the highest temperatures. What we do know is that all proposed candidates predict many new degrees of freedom. In order to understand such theories, it is important to know the degrees of freedom associated to it. These degrees of freedom are visible only under very special circumstances. Such circumstances are not available on earth, but our universe offers possibilities. This thesis is about what we can learn from these degrees of freedom by studying the properties of our universe. Why it is that our universe is such an exquisite measuring instrument for these degrees of freedom, what we have learned and can still learn about them is the subject of this summary.

Hoogeveen, J. (UvA) thesis title: Fundamentals of the pure spinor formalism advisor: prof. dr. R.H. Dijkgraaf co-advisor: dr. K. Skenderis date: 9 July 2010 present position: quantitative analyst, UBS Investment Bank, London, UK

This thesis presents recent developments within the pure spinor formalism, which has simplified amplitude computations in perturbative string theory, especially when 4. PhD program 29 spacetime fermions are involved. Firstly the worldsheet action of both the minimal and the non-minimal pure spinor formalism is derived from first principles, i.e. from an action with two dimensional diffeomorphism and Weyl invariance. Secondly the decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism is proved.

Huijse, L. (UvA) thesis title: A supersymmetric model for lattice fermions advisor: prof. dr. C.J.M. Schoutens date: 18 June 2010 present position: research scholar, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, USA

The subject of this Master’s thesis is the information loss paradox. In the ﬁrst chapters we treat the theoretical background needed to understand the original calculation carried out by Hawking that shows that black holes radiate. A detailed discussion of this calculation, its implications for information loss and its validity is provided in the chapters 3 to 5. Then we focus on the suggested solutions to the paradox. In particular, we investigate one of these proposals that was found by Mathur using string theory. We subject this so-called ‘fuzzball’ picture to a test that should give some insight regarding the question whether or not Mathur’s proposal is likely to solve the paradox in the long run. We were unable to draw a deﬁnite conclusion. We do, however, obtain a couple of intermediate results that can be useful in successive research. Some suggestions for a follow up are given explicitly.

Lim, L.-K. (UU) thesis title: Ultracold gases in two dimensions: novel superﬂuid phases for bosons and fermions advisor: prof. dr. C. Morais Smith date: 15 January 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (until Sep- tember 2010); postdoctoral fellow, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS), Uni- versity Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

This thesis concerns ultracold two-dimensional atomic gases and the associated novel superfluid phases in an optical lattice subjected to staggered rotations. In the first part, we study the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in a two- dimensional Bose gas. Motivated by recent experiments on the cold gas in the BKT regime, we employ a modified Popov theory and a renormalization group theory to describe the system. The two-dimensional renormalization group flow equations display unique features, which we interpret as precursors of the BKT physics. We further calculate higher correlation functions close to the BKT transition, which can serve as observables for detecting effects beyond mean-field. Finally, we obtain the density profile under the conditions of the experiment performed in the group of Dalibard in Paris, France. In the second part of the thesis, we study a recent experimental proposal of a time-dependent optical lattice with staggered rotations. We show that in the tight-binding regime, the system can be effectively described by a (Bose-)Hubbard 30 Annual report 2010 model subjected to an artificial staggered magnetic field. The staggered magnetic field (flux) in the lattice leads to conical points in the band structure which possesses distinct minima for different strength, and can give rise to Dirac-like dispersions. For bosons, we show that besides the homogenous superfluid phase, a staggered-vortex superfluid phase is stabilized for large flux values. We show that the staggered flux renormalizes the phase boundary and find a multi-critical point separating the two superfluid phases and the Mott insulating phase. Finally, the full phase diagram of the generalized Bose-Hubbard model at zero temperature is determined. We then generalize the model for a mixture of ultracold bosons and spin-1/2 fermions. By using the Bogoliubov theory for the bosonic sector, we show that the bosonic superfluid mediates attractive interactions between fermions up to the nearest-neighbor site. The resulting model is an extended Hubbard model in the presence of a staggered magnetic field, where the on-site and the nearest-neighbor attractive interactions can be tuned independently. We then employ the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory for superconductivity, by considering an on-site pairing order parameter competing with a nearest-neighbor resonating-valence-bond order parameter. Due to conical points in the energy band, the system possesses quantum critical property and the resulting phase diagram displays features which are strikingly similar to that of high-critical- temperature superconductors or heavy-fermion superconductors.

Looyestijn, H.T. (UU) thesis title: Aspects of compactiﬁcations and black holes in four-dimensional supergravity advisor: prof. dr. B. de Wit co-advisor: dr. S.J.G. Vandoren date: 27 September 2010 present position: senior focus expert, ASML, Veldhoven, the Netherlands

In the 20th century, theoretical physics has seen the development of General Relati- vity and the Standard Model of elementary particles. These theories describe, with great precision, gravity and all known matter, respectively. However, it is not possible to unite them into one, single theory. We need such a theory of quantum gravitation to study phenomena where both theories are important, such as black holes and the Big Bang. One of the leading candidates for a theory of quantum gravitation is string theory. The low-energy limit of string theory is called supergravity. This thesis studies some of the open questions in string theory, in the setting of four-dimensional supergravity. We first classify the fully supersymmetric solutions of gauged N = 2 supergravity with arbitrary gaugings in the vector- and hypermultiplet sectors. We present several examples of such solutions and connect some of them to vacuum solutions of flux compactifications in string theory. The next chapter searches for black hole solutions, where the scalars in the theory are gauged. Next, we show how one can embed known black hole solutions trough spontaneous symmetry breaking. When searching for new solutions, we find solutions only in cases when the metric contains ripples and the vector multiplet scalars become ghost-like. We then show how one can obtain four-dimensional supergravities by a Scherk-Schwarz reduction of eleven-dimensional supergravity, and study its equivalence with a compactification on 4. PhD program 31 a seven-dimensional space. Finally, we study general aspects of NS5-brane instantons in relation to the stabilization of the volume modulus in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II strings with fluxes, and their orientifold versions.

Machado, P.F. (UU) thesis title: On the renormalization group ﬂow of gravity advisor: prof. dr. R. Loll date: 8 January 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Department of Genetics, University of Cam- bridge, London, UK

Understanding gravity as a fundamental theory implies understanding its behavior as we move across different length scales. In the present thesis, we have investigated this scale-dependent behavior by studying the renormalization group flow of gravity. A central focus of our investigations was the asymptotic safety scenario, which po- sits the existence of a non-trivial fixed point of the gravitational renormalization group controlling the behavior of the theory in the ultraviolet and providing it with a predictive and well-defined high-energy limit. Our main tool was a continuous Wilso- nian renormalization group technique, the functional renormalization group equation. Computations within this framework rely on truncation approximations, whereby the full renormalization group flow is projected onto a subspace of the couplings of the theory. The reliability of the results thus obtained is assessed by verifying their stability under the gradual extension of the truncation subspace. The simplest, non-trivial gravity truncation one may consider is the Einstein-Hilbert truncation, in which evidence was first found for a non-trivial fixed point of gravity in support of the asymptotic safety scenario. The crucial question is then whether or not this fixed point persists under further enlargement of the truncation subspaces. In this thesis, we have tackled this question by following three complementary strategies. First, in Chapter 3, we investigated the renormalization group flow of gravity restricted to the conformal sector. This simplification allowed us to consider truncations containing terms which would be otherwise intractable for technical reasons, and thus obtain a rough picture of the effect of those terms on the behavior of the complete theory. A second strategy, which we followed in Chapters 4 and 5, returning to the case of full gravity, was to construct a functional renormalization group equation that allowed us to study general truncations spanned by arbitrary functions f(R) of the curvature scalar, and hence investigate large sectors of the full renormalization group flow space. Lastly, in Chapter 6, we included in our truncation terms which are known to be particularly problematic from the point of view of perturbative quantization. First, we moved beyond the f(R)-case by explicitly including four-derivative tensorial operators in our truncation, and then added a minimally coupled, massless scalar field to our truncation. Remarkably, in all of these extensions a non-trivial ultraviolet fixed point was found. The coherent picture that arises from these studies provides signifi- cant evidence in favor of the asymptotic safety scenario, and suggests that quantized gravity remains predictive at arbitrarily small scales. 32 Annual report 2010

Makogon, D. (UU) thesis title: Novel quantum phases, excitations, and transport in low-dimensional systems advisor: prof. dr. C. Morais Smith date: 9 September 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht Uni- versity, the Netherlands

The Chapter 2 is devoted to the study of the transport properties of a quantum wire, described by the Tomonaga-Luttinger model, in the presence of a backscatte- ring potential provided by several point-like or extended time-dependent impurities (barriers) and find regimes of conductance enhancement. In Chapter 3 we study a set of crossed 1D systems, which are coupled with each other via tunnelling at the cros- sings. Concentrating on the case of a single crossing, we were able to explain recent experiments on crossed metallic and semiconducting nanotubes, which showed the presence of localized states in the region of crossing. The Chapter 4 treats the effects of disorder and interactions in a quantum Hall ferromagnet. We study the problem by projecting the original fermionic Hamiltonian into magnon states, which behave as bosons in the vicinity of the ferromagnetic ground state. The approach permits the reformulation of a strongly interacting model into a non-interacting one. The latter is a non-perturbative scheme that consists in treating the two-particle neutral excitations of the electron system as a bosonic single-particle. Indeed, the employment of bosonization facilitates the inclusion of disorder in the study of the system. It has been shown previously that disorder may drive a quantum phase transition in the Hall ferromagnet. However, such studies have been either carried out in the framework of the nonlinear sigma model, as an effective low-energy theory, or included the long-range Coulomb interaction in a quantum description only up to the Hartree-Fock level. Here, we establish the occurrence of a disorder-driven quantum phase transition from a ferromagnetic 2DEG to a spin glass phase by taking into account interactions between electrons up to the random phase approximation level in a fully quantum description. In the Chapter 5 we derive and discuss an experimentally realistic model describing ultracold atoms in an optical lattice including a commensurate, but staggered, Zeeman field. The resulting band structure is quite exotic; fermions in the third band have an unusual rounded picture-frame Fermi surface (essentially two concentric squircles), leading to imperfect nesting. We develop a generalized theory describing the spin and charge degrees of freedom simultaneously, and show that the system can develop a coupled spin-charge-density wave order. This ordering is absent in studies of the Hubbard model that treat spin and charge density separately.

Mehmani, B. (UvA) thesis title: Classical manipulation of a quantum system advisor: prof. dr. B. Nienhuis co-advisor: dr. Th.M. Nieuwenhuizen date: 22 September 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Science of Light, Er- langen, Germany 4. PhD program 33

One of the main tasks in quantum information theory is to determine the initial state of a qubit, i.e. a two-level system that can be described by the Pauli matrices. Quantum state tomography provides a useful method for this aim. Quantum state tomography is the process of reconstructing the quantum state (density matrix) of an ensemble of quantum systems by performing measurements on it. In order to be able to uniquely identify the state, the measurements must be tomographically complete. That is, the measured operators must form an operator basis in the Hilbert space of the system, providing all the information about the state. However since in general different operators do not commute with each other, one needs to perform successive measurements of non-commuting observables to recover the initial state of the system. In chapter 2 we show that one can completely reconstruct the initial state of a qubit by means of simultaneous measurement of commuting observables. The price to be paid is to introduce another system called assistant of which the state is known. The assistant need not necessarily be another qubit. It may for example also be a single near resonance cavity mode. By letting the system and the assistant interact with each other, and after a some time laps performing measurements on one observable of each system it is possible to make a linear map between the measurement results and the initial state of the qubit. The suggested observables are the easiest ones to measure. Usually it is very difficult to isolate a quantum system from its surrounding environment. Therefore studying the influence of the surrounding environment on the state of an open quantum system, i.e. a quantum system that is interacting with its environment, is crucial in quantum processes. Depending on the type of environment, there are different conditions under which one can study the influence of the environment on a quantum system. A group of methods categorized by the name of system-bath interaction are based on the assumption that the reaction of the system on its surrounding environment is weak. One of the main consequences of this approach is the Langevin equation, which supplements the Newton equation of motion for the small system by two additional forces: random conservative force and non- conservative (i.e., non-Lagrangian), velocity-dependent friction force. Chapter 3 is devoted to specific application of this model with which one can study the dynamics of the polarization of an open qubit. Two non-interacting qubits are considered to be surrounded by a common environment. Inducing sharp and strong pulses on one of them makes the polarization transfer from the other one mediated by the common environment.There is another set-up that allows studying the dynamics of an open system. Here the essential condition is that the time scale of the evolution of the quantum system is much faster than that of its classical environment. This is one the most used set-ups for coupling quantum and classics variables. In chapter 4 we consider the Hamiltonian governing the evolution of the quantum system as a function of slowly varying parameters of its surrounding environment. By employing the adiabatic perturbation theory, which is described in this chapter, we derive the state of the quantum system beyond the adiabatic regime where the transition to other energy levels is not forbidden. In chapter 5 we turn our focus on the dynamics of the slow classical environment which experiences an average force exerted by the fast quantum system. We show 34 Annual report 2010 that the back reaction force in contrast to the system-bath type of interaction is a conservative force that can be generated by a Lagrangian. The Lagrangian describing the situation depends on the classical slow parameters, and their higher order time derivatives. Several interesting aspects of the Lagranigan are discussed in chapter 5.

Mesaroˇs,A. (UL) thesis title: Dislocations in stripes and lattice Dirac fermions advisor: prof. dr. J. Zaanen date: 6 October 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Lei- den University, the Netherlands

In this thesis we study two different types of systems which exhibit topological defects called dislocations. Lattice dislocations locally destroy the crystal lattice ordering by restoring the translational symmetry of free space – whenever we count lattice steps along any path going around the dislocation, there is always a fixed number of steps missing. W study the effects of dislocations on graphene and two-dimensional topological insulators, systems where the effective theory of non-interacting electrons happens to describe fundamental Dirac fermions. We also study an effective theory of strongly interacting electrons in the high critical temperature (high-Tc) copper superconductors, called “cuprates”, which describes the local patterns of translational and rotational symmetry breaking. A prominent role is played by stripe dislocations, topological dislocational defects in stacks of parallel lines of charge known as “stripes”.

Nutma, T.A. (RUG) thesis title: Kac-Moody symmetries and gauged supergravity advisor: prof. dr. E.A. Bergshoeﬀ date: 13 September 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Golm, Germany

Symmetry. Not only makes it our world round, but it’s also what makes it go round. From the perfect circular wheels on our bikes and cars that deliver an enjoyable ride, to the error-correction protocols that keep e-mails from turning into junk; it’s literally all around us. It’s also symmetry that dictates the laws of nature. On the small scale the symmetry group of the Standard Model controls the interactions in molecules, atoms, and nuclei. On the large scale gravity is governed by Einstein’s symmetry principle of our space-time. This thesis deals with a certain class of symmetries known as Kac-Moody algebras. In contrast to the symmetries of the Standard Model and gravity, Kac-Moody algebras are inﬁnite. They appear in the context of M-theory, an as of yet unknown theory that might both describe the Standard Model and gravity. In this thesis we will show how Kac-Moody algebras unify all the low-energy limits of M-theory, which are known as supergravities. Moreover, the Kac-Moody algebras contain information that corresponds exactly to all the known gauge deformations of these supergravities. We will demonstrate how to obtain the ﬁeld content of the various gauged supergravities from 4. PhD program 35

Kac-Moody algebras, and attempt to relate the equations of motion of both sides to each other.

Ruszel, W.M. (RUG) thesis title: Gibbs and non-Gibbs aspects of continuous spin models advisors: prof. dr. A.C.D. van Enter and prof. dr. C. K¨ulske (Ruhr-University Bo- chum, Germany) date: 17 September 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, Stochastics (IMAPP) Radboud University Nij- megen and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

The finite-volume microscopic behaviour of a system in equilibrium is determined by the Boltzmann-Gibbs prescription for probability measures in which probabilities are proportional to the exponential of some Hamiltonian, which describes the energy fluctuations while the total number of particles is fixed. For seeing a phase transition mathematically one has to investigate infinite-volume measures. The natural objects for describing dependences (due to e.g. a spin interaction) are conditional probabilities. These are compatible with a possibly non-unique measure on an infinite-volume space. The conditioned measures describe the behaviour of a finite set of spins while all others are fixed. This approach was proposed by Dobrushin, Lanford and Ruelle and is since referred to as the DLR approach. Kozlov and Sullivan gave an equivalent characterization of a Gibbs measure. A measure is Gibbs is it is uniformly nonnull and quasilocal. This property is very important in describing physical reality, since one is interested in modeling local systems which are not influenced by events at infinity. A fortiori a measure is not Gibbs, if one finds at least one discontinuity point (in the product topology) of the conditional probabilities w.r.t. the conditioning. Non-Gibbsianness can appear after applying different kind of transformations on Gibbs measures, such as renormalization group transformations, projections or time- evolution. In this thesis we study Gibbs and non-Gibbs aspects of continuous spin models during time-evolution. We obtain the major part of the results for planar rotors which are spins moving on circles, these are stated in Chapters 3-5 and 7. Additionally we prove short-time Gibbsianness for unbounded spins in Chapter 6. In particular we will prove in Chapter 3, first that for every initial and dynamical inverse temperature the measure stays Gibbsian for short times. Secondly, for small inverse initial and dynamical temperatures the measure is Gibbs for all times. The third result states loss of Gibbsianness in a time interval for a planar rotor model without a field. Furthermore in Chapter 4 we prove loss and recovery of Gibbsian- ness for models in a field. For both cases where Gibbsianness was lost we assumed a low-temperature initial Gibbs measure and infinite-temperature dynamics (the initial measure converges towards an infinite temperature Gibbs measure). Analogously as in the Ising case, the presence of an initial external field is responsible for the measure to become Gibbs in finite time again. The following Chapter 5 deals with a planar rotor model in an alternating field in equilibrium, exhibiting a phase transition at low temperatures. Moreover it contains an argument how a similar proof can be used to 36 Annual report 2010 prove phase coexistence for a planar rotor model in a field which consist of certain periodic or random configurations on crosses. In Chapter 6 we generalize the short-time conservation result for possibly non-Markovian dynamics for unbounded spins. Finally the last Chapter 7, which stands a bit apart, contains the first example of Chaotic Temperature Dependence for compact spins. We construct a potential for a planar rotor system, thus a system of compact spins such that no ground state measure can be obtained by lowering the temperature. Thus the model depends chaotically on the temperature. van Rees, B.C. (UvA) thesis title: Dynamics and the gauge/gravity duality advisor: prof. dr. E.P. Verlinde co-advisor: dr. K. Skenderis date: 7 September 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

In this thesis we first review some standard results of the gauge/gravity dictionary. These result are valid for backgrounds with positive definite signature metrics. We then develop a new real-time dictionary which is valid for Lorentzian backgrounds as well. We apply it to the computation of various correlation functions, both at zero and a finite temperature. We then show that our dictionary leads to an unambiguous holographic interpretation for a class of 2+1-dimensional wormhole spacetimes, for which we also present physically motivated coordinate systems. Finally we investigate in detail the holographic dictionary for topologically massive gravity and compute the vacuum two-point functions of the operators sources by the boundary data for the bulk fields.

Zeravˇci´c,Z.ˇ (UL) thesis title: Vibrations in materials with granularity advisor: prof. dr. ir. W. van Saarloos date: 29 June 2010 present position: postdoctoral fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

In this thesis we deal with materials with granularity – materials consisting of particles large enough that the temperature does not play any role in the dynamics of the system. We study their vibrational properties that are strongly inﬂuenced by several types of disorder – geometrical, mass and interactional. 4. PhD program 37

4.4 PhD students (per 31-12-2010)

This section gives an overview of the PhD students aﬃliated to the DRSTP on 31 December 2010. The projects are chronologically ordered according to starting date. The research themes mentioned refer to particle physics, cosmology, quantum gravity and string theory (theme 1) and quantum matter, quantum information, soft condensed matter and biophysics (theme 2).

University of Amsterdam (UvA) • Zozulya, O.S. as of 1 October 2005 with K. Schoutens. project: collective behavior vs. entanglement in atomic matter (theme 2). PhD exam: 9 June 2011. • Oberreuter, J.M. as of 15 September 2007 with E.P. Verlinde. project: cosmological vacua in string theory (theme 1). • Smolic, J. as of 18 January 2008 with K. Skenderis (E.P. Verlinde, formal advisor). project: non-equilibrium dynamics and black hole formation (theme 1). • Smolic, M. as of 18 January 2008 with M.M. Taylor (E.P. Verlinde, formal advisor). project: the fuzzball proposal for black hole physics (theme 1). • Mossel, J.J. as of 1 September 2008 with J.-S. Caux (K. Schoutens, formal advisor). project: cracking the quantum quench (theme 2). • Romers, J.C. as of 1 September 2008 with K. Schoutens and F.A. Bais. project: topological quantum registers (theme 2). • Baggio, M. as of 1 September 2009 with prof. dr. J. de Boer. project: to explore applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to various systems (theme 1). • Bzowski, A.W. as of 16 September 2009 with dr. K. Skenderis (E.P. Verlinde, formal advisor). project: holographic cosmology (theme 1). • Haaker, S.M. as of 1 October 2009 with K. Schoutens. project: topological quantum computation - fractional quantum Hall eﬀect devices (theme 2). • Panﬁl, M. as of 1 October 2009 with J.-S. Caux (K. Schoutens, formal advisor). project: a new launch pad for renormalization (theme 2). • Caldeira Costa, R.N. as of 24 November 2009 with M. Taylor (E.P. Verlinde, formal advisor). project: holography and black hole dynamics; use of gravity gauge duality to explore singularity resolutions (theme 1). 38 Annual report 2010

• Holsheimer, K. as of 1 September 2010 with J. de Boer. project: applications of the AdS-CFT correspondence to non-relativistic systems, with possible applications to strongly coupled condensed matter systems (theme 1).

• Korovin, Y. as of 1 September 2010 with K. Skenderis. project: string theory in AdS spacetimes (theme 1).

• Wouters, B.M. as of 1 October 2010 with E.P. Verlinde. project: string theory and the emergence of gravity (theme 1).

• Klauser, A.M. as of 1 November 2010, entering his last year, with J.-S. Caux (J. van den Brink, formal advisor). project: theory of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering on integrable spin-1/2 quantum spin chains (theme 2).

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA)

• van Dijk, T. as of 1 April 2007 with T.D. Visser. project: singular optics and plasmonics (theme 2). PhD exam: 4 April 2011.

• Broedersz, C.P. as of 1 May 2007 with F.C. MacKintosh. project: theoretical development of models for cytoskeletal networks (theme 2). PhD exam: 16 May 2011.

• Mantz, C.L.M. as of 1 September 2008 with P.J.G. Mulders. project: to investigate the ways in which the color ﬂow aﬀects the hard process by using recently developed theoretical tools, applicable in a large variety of scattering processes (theme 1).

• den Dunnen, W. as of 15 December 2008 with D. Boer (P.J.G. Mulders, formal advisor). project: CP-violation at LHC from new gauge bosons (theme 1).

University of Groningen (RUG)

• Deuzeman, A. as of 1 January 2006 with E. Pallante. project: understanding non-perturbative aspects of strong and weak interactions (theme 1). PhD exam: 14 January 2011.

• Kadosh, A. as of 1 September 2006 with E. Pallante. project: understanding and constraining extra-dimensional theories (brane worlds) derived as eﬀective low-energy realizations of M-theory (theme 1).

• Reker, S.F. as of 1 February 2008 with E. Pallante. project: clarify properties of strong and weak interactions of baryonic matter from ﬁrst principles, through a lattice formulation of the ﬁeld theory for strong and weak forces (theme 1). 4. PhD program 39

• Andringa, R. as of 1 September 2008 with E.A. Bergshoeff. project: properties of gravitational theories in three-dimensional space-time, in particular with regard to contributions of higher order in the curvature, and to black holes (theme 1). • Dibitetto, G. as of 1 November 2008 with E.A. Bergshoeff. project: realistic compactifications of string M-theory that give rise to four- dimensional effective theories with moduli stabilisation (no massless scalar fields) and interesting cosmological aspects (inflation, late-time acceleration) (theme 1). • Noordmans, J.P. as of 1 September 2009 with R.G.E. Timmermans. project: theory of Lorentz and CPT violation in the weak interaction (theme 1).

• Yin, Y. as of 1 September 2009 with D. Roest (E.A. Bergshoeff and M. de Roo, formal advisors) project: focus on the issue of stabilising parameters of the extra dimensions in string theory, which bridges the gap between theory and experiment (theme 1). • Romanets, O. as of 1 October 2009 with R.G.E. Timmermans. project: improving the theoretical framework for open charm embedding not ∗ only D, but also Ds and Ds (theme 1). • Borghese, A. as of 15 November 2009 with D. Roest (E.A. Bergshoeff, formal advisor). project: to investigate De Sitter vacua, corresponding to positive minima of the scalar potentials and hence a positive cosmological constant; special emphasis in this project will be placed on so-called N-2 theories (theme 1). • de Haan, S. as of 13 September 2010 with E.A. Bergshoeff. project: understanding a new model of gravity in three space-time dimensions and looking for applications (theme 1).

• Nunes da Silva, T.J. as of 1 October 2010 with E. Pallante. project: understanding how conformality is restored in non-abelian gauge theories and its consequences, with particular focus on LHC physics (theme 1). • Merbis, W. as of 1 November 2010 with E.A. Bergshoeﬀ. project: to look for applications of string theory using the so-called AdS-CFT correspondence at diﬀerent distance scales. This research is embedded into the national string programme (theme 1). 40 Annual report 2010

Leiden University (UL)

• Emanuel, M.O. as of 1 December 2005 with H. Schiessel. project: theoretical biophysics of DNA and its complexation with proteins (theme 2).

• Beekman, A.J. as of 1 January 2006 with J. Zaanen. project: topological phases in quantum liquid crystals (theme 2). PhD exam: 1 December 2011.

• Huisman, E.M. as of 1 April 2007 with G.T. Barkema. project: networks of semi-ﬂexible polymers (theme 2). PhD exam: 14 April 2011.

• She, J.-H. as of 1 May 2007 with J. Zaanen. project: fermionic quantum criticality and the constrained path integral (theme 2). PhD exam: 3 May 2011.

• Akhmerov, A.R. as of 1 July 2007 with C.W.J. Beenakker. project: investigation of the potential of spin and valley qubits in graphene for quantum computation (theme 2). PhD exam: 31 May 2011.

• Hardeman, S.R. as of 1 November 2007 with A. Ach´ucarro and K.E. Schalm. project: observational cosmology from strings, branes and quantum gravity (theme 1). PhD exam: to be awarded posthumous. Deceased: 7 July 2011.

• Woldhuis, E.L. as of 4 June 2008 with M. van Hecke and W. van Saarloos. project: statistical properties and rheology of foams near the jamming point (theme 2).

• Lanzani, G. as of 1 July 2008 with H. Schiessel. project: theoretical study of the organization and dynamics of chromatin (theme 2).

• van der Aalst, T.A.F. as of 6 October 2008 with K.E. Schalm (A. Ach´ucarro, formal advisor). project: experimental signatures of string theory in cosmology or collider experiments (theme 1).

• Rademaker, L. as of 1 January 2009 with J. van den Brink and J. Zaanen. project: electron correlation eﬀects in coupled electron-hole doped Mott insulating interfaces (theme 2).

• Cubrovi´c,M.ˇ as of 9 February 2009 with J. Zaanen. project: investigation of fermion sign structure through Ceperleg’s constrained path integral formalism for fermions (theme 2).

• van Ostaay, J. as of 1 September 2009 with C.W.J. Beenakker. project: majorana fermions in topological insulators and graphene (theme 2). 4. PhD program 41

• Dahlhaus, J. as of 1 October 2009 with C.W.J. Beenakker. project: quantum transport in topological insulators and graphene; in particular transport along line defects in 3D topological insulators (theme 2).

• Fulga, I.C. as of 1 June 2010 with C.W.J. Beenakker project: entangled spin pairs in graphene (theme 2). • Upadhyaya, N. as of 1 July 2010 with V. Vitelli (M. van Hecke, formal advisor) project: theoretical and computational studies of non-equilibrium phenomena in disordered and jammed systems (theme 2). • Ortiz, P. as of 1 September 2010 with A. Achúcarroand J.-W. van Holten project: theoretical cosmology, with a special emphasis on theories and models of inflation in the early universe (theme 1). • Pikulin, D. as of 1 September 2010 with C.W.J. Beenakker and Y.V. Nazarov (TU Delft). project: the study of mesoscopic transport properties of topological insulators, in particular in contact with superconducting and ferromagnetic contacts (theme 2). • Koning, V. as of 1 November 2010 with V. Vitelli (M. van Hecke, formal advisor). project: to study crystal order fracture and phase nucleation on a curved substrate (theme 2). Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) • van den Oord, G.J.W.M. as of 1 February 2007 with R.H.P. Kleiss and S.C.M. Bentvelsen. project: to probe the nature of the Higgs sector, comparing observed data with model-independent, Monte Carlo generated events (theme 1). • Malamos, I.E. as of 1 January 2008 with R.H.P. Kleiss. project: tools and precision calculations for physics discoveries at colliders (theme 1). • Niessen, A.I.M. as of 1 September 2008 with W.J.P. Beenakker (formal advisor, R.H.P. Kleiss). project: precise Higgs and supersymmetry predictions for the LHC (theme 1). • Akhukov, M.A. as of 1 January 2009 with A. Fasolino and M.I. Katsnelson. project: calculations of electronic and structural properties of finite graphene structures (theme 2). • van den Broek, T.C.H. as of 1 November 2009 with W.J.P. Beenakker and W.D. van Suijlekom (formal advisor, R.H.P. Kleiss). project: deriving the minimal supersymmetric standard model from noncommutative geometry (theme 1). 42 Annual report 2010

Utrecht University (UU)

• Reska, P.M. as of 1 Augustus 2006 with R. Loll. project: various aspects of non-perturbative quantum gravity and quantum cosmology, and in particular the question of the role of the conformal factor and big-bang scenarios (theme 1). PhD exam: 28 February 2011.

• Katmadas, S. as of 1 September 2007 with B. de Wit. project: study of black holes in the context of string theory (theme 1). PhD exam: 4 July 2011.

• Koksma, J.F. as of 15 September 2007 with T. Prokopec (G. ‘t Hooft, formal advisor). project: study the nature of dark energy (theme 1). PhD exam: 22 June 2011.

• Diederix, J.M. as of 1 October 2007 with H.T.C. Stoof. project: research in the ﬁeld of ultracold atomic gases (theme 2). PhD exam: 28 September 2011.

• van Zalk, M. as of 1 October 2007 with B. de Wit. project: study of N=2 and 4 supergravities and their consequences for ﬂux compactiﬁcations and black holes (theme 1). PhD exam: 26 September 2011.

• van de Meent, M. as of 1 November 2007 with G. ’t Hooft. project: algebraical description of quantum eﬀects of the Schwarzschild horizon and related aspects of quantum gravity (theme 1). PhD exam: 19 December 2011.

• Boon, N.J.H. as of 1 February 2008 with R.H.H.G. van Roij (H. van Beijeren, formal advisor). project: theoretically predicting and/or explaining properties of soft matter systems in bulk and in external ﬁelds (theme 2).

• Swaving, A.C. as of 1 February 2008 with R.A. Duine (H.T.C. Stoof, formal advisor). project: understanding of the interplay between ferro and antiferromagnetism, and electric current (theme 2).

• Budd, T.G. as of 1 March 2008 with R. Loll. project: gravity, quantum gravity and quantum geometry (theme 1).

• H¨ohn,P.A. as of 1 May 2008 with R. Loll. project: quantum gravity and quantum cosmology, and their nonperturbative aspects (theme 1).

• Lucassen, M.E. as of 1 June 2008 with R.A. Duine (H.T.C. Stoof, formal advisor). project: current-driven magnetization dynamics in ferro and antiferromagnets (theme 2). 4. PhD program 43

• Beugeling, W. as of 1 September 2008 with C. Morais Smith. project: the study of multi-layer quantum Hall systems (theme 2).

• Hristov, K.P. as of 1 September 2008 with S.J.G. Vandoren (B. de Wit, formal advisor). project: string theory compactiﬁcations and implications for cosmology (theme 1).

• Mink, M.P. as of 1 September 2008 with R.A. Duine (H.T.C. Stoof, formal advisor). project: cold atoms, especially on the boundary between cold atoms and (un)conventional condensed-matter systems (theme 2).

• van Driel, H.J. as of 1 December 2008 with R.A. Duine (H.T.C. Stoof, formal advisor). project: theoretical investigation of pseudospin transport in electron-hole and graphene bilayers (theme 2).

• van Heugten, J.J.R.M. as of 1 January 2009 with H.T.C. Stoof. project: microscopic description of the thermodynamical and dynamical properties of quark-gluon plasma aimed at observing color superconductivity in neutron stars (theme 2).

• Wever, C.S.P. as of 1 January 2009 with G. ’t Hooft. project: eﬀective multicomponent ﬁeld theory for quantum chromodynamics (theme 1).

• Jordan, S. as of 1 March 2009 with R. Loll. project: nonperturbative quantum properties of gravitational interaction (theme 1).

• Franzen, A.T. as of 1 June 2009 with G. ’t Hooft. project: algebraical description of quantum eﬀects of the horizon of black holes and related aspects of quantum ﬁeld theories (theme 1).

• van Gelderen, R. as of 1 June 2009 with C. Morais Smith. project: analogies between cold atoms and condensed matter systems (theme 2).

• Tieleman, O. as of 1 July 2009 with C. Morais Smith. project: to study the exotic quantum phases in strong correlated systems (theme 2).

• Baarsma, J.E. as of 1 September 2009 with H.T.C. Stoof. project: microscopic description of degenerate atomic gases, directed to the possible observation of supersolidity in two species Fermi mixtures (theme 2).

• van Tongeren, S. as of 1 September 2009 with G.E. Arutyunov (B. de Wit, formal advisor). project: integrable quantum ﬁeld theories in ﬁnite volume; development of the 44 Annual report 2010

thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz for strings on semi-symmetric superspaces (theme 1).

• Belli, S. as of 1 October 2009 with R.H.H.G. van Roij (M. Dijkstra, formal advisor). project: investigation of nucleation and clustering phenomena in suspensions of anisotropic particles (e.g., rods or platelets), by (dynamic) density functional theory, integral equation theory, and by simulation (theme 2).

• Weenink, J.G. as of 1 November 2009 with T. Prokopec (E.L.M.P. Laenen, formal advisor). project: compatibility of baryogenesis with the standard model that will emerge as a result of the future LHC experiments (theme 1). • van der Bijl, E. as of 1 February 2010 with R.A. Duine (H.T.C. Stoof, formal advisor). project: theoretical research on manipulating magnetic materials, and, in particular, minipulating domain walls (theme 2). • Troppenz, T. as of 7 September 2010 with R.H.H.G. van Roij (M. Dijkstra (UU), formal advisor). project: to study the thermodynamic and structural properties of (nano)rods in emulsion droplets exposed to external electric fields (theme 2). • Lodato, I. as of 1 October 2010 with B. de Wit. project: aspects of black holes and string theory (theme 1). • Sfondrini, S. as of 1 October 2010 with G.E. Arutyunov. project: development of the thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz approach for the su- 5 perstring theory on the AdS5xS space-time as a tool to determine the spectrum of primary operators in the maximally supersymmetric gauge theory (theme 1). • Toldo, C. as of 1 October 2010 with S.J.G. Vandoren. project: black holes in anti de Sitter spacetimes, and its relation to the AdS/CFT correspondence. This includes the study of BPS bounds, extremal and non- extremal black hole solutions in N=2 gauged supergravity. Embeddings into string theory, and microscopic entropy counting for black holes in asymptoti- cally anti de Sitter spacetimes (theme 1). • van der Schee, W. as of 1 October 2010 with G.E. Arutyunov (T. Peitzman, formal advisor). project: The research is devoted to applications of the gauge-string correspondence to the problem of heavy ion collisions. It includes determination of relaxation times and the elliptic flow by using phenomenologically relevant modelsof gravity in five space-time dimensions (theme 1). 4. PhD program 45

Nikhef Theory Group (Nikhef) • Maio, M., as of 1 December 2007 with A.N.J.J. Schellekens. project: string theory from a conformal ﬁeld theory point of view (theme 1). PhD exam: 5 October 2011. • de Adelhart Toorop, R., as of 1 February 2008 with J.-W. van Holten. project: particle physics beyond the standard model, with focus on supersymmetry and family symmetries (theme 1).

• Hartgring, L., as of 1 January 2009 with E.L.M.P. Laenen. project: precise descriptions of single top production at the LHC (theme 1). • Mooij, S.J.N., as of 1 April 2009 with M. Postma (E.L.M.P. Laenen, formal advisor). project: learning about particle physics from cosmology and inﬂation (theme 1). • Knegjens, R.J., as of 1 February 2010 with R. Fleischer (E.L.M.P. Laenen, formal advisor). project: B decays as probes of new physics (theme 1). 46 Annual report 2010

4.5 Scientiﬁc and educational activities of PhD students (theme 1)

Andringa, R. (RUG) – Non-relativistic gravity, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day 2010, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Wetenschap en wereldbeeld, Groninger Studentenpastoraat, Groningen, the Ne- therlands, 18 October 2010 (talk). – Newtonian gravity and the Bargmann algebra, Nordic Network Meeting, Strings, Fields and Branes, Gothenburg, Sweden, 21-23 October 2010 (talk). – 1st National String Meeting, Groningen, the Netherlands, November 2010 (attended). – Zwarte gaten, hologrammen en magnetronmaaltijden, FMF-periodiek 1 (Associa- tion for Students in (Applied) Mathematics, (Applied) Physics, Computer Science and Astronomy), 2010 (article). – De oorsprong van Newton, FMF-periodiek 2, 2010 (article). – Onwetendheid, kappers en oneindige uien, FMF-periodiek 3, 2010 (article). – Snaartheorie, FMF-periodiek 4, 2010 (article). Arsiwalla, X.D. (UvA) – Workshop, Neuroinformatics in the Netherlands, Dutch Neuroinformatics Node, Den Haag, the Netherlands, 19 March 2010 (attended). – International Symposium, Neuroeconomics, Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 18 June 2010 (attended). – International Summer School, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 30 August-10 September 2010 (attended). Atmaja, A.N. (UvA) – PiTP-2010, Aspects in Supersymmetry, Summer School, IAS-Princeton, New Jer- sey, USA, 19-30 July 2010 (attended). Baggio, M. (UvA) – A test of the AdS/CFT correspondence, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – String Theory Workshop 2010, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 28 June-9 July 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). Boomsma, J.K. (VUA) – Influence of strong magnetic fields on quark matter, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Influence of instantons and strong magnetic fields on quark matter, Norwegian Winter Workshop, QCD in Extreme Conditions, Trondheim, Norway, 24-26 Fe- bruary 2010 (talk). – The combined influence of instantons and strong magnetic fields on quark matter, Workshop, P- and CP-Odd Effects in Hot and Dense Matter, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 26-30 April 2010 (talk). 4. PhD program 47

Borghese, A. (RUG) – Why (not) dS?, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Munich School on Strings and Fundamental Physics, Munich/Garching, Germany, 26 July-6 August 2010 (attended). – Modave School on Mathematical Physics, Belgium, 30 August-3 September 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Stability on non-SUSY vacua in supergravity, XXVI Nordic Network Meeting, Strings, Fields and Branes, Gothenburg, Sweden, 21-23 October 2010 (talk). – 1st National String Meeting, Groningen, the Netherlands, November 2010 (attended). Budd, T.G. (UU) – Conformal trouble in quantum gravity, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Having fun with cute little universes, PhD Lunch Seminar (PLaneT), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 30 November 2010 (talk). Bzowski, A.W. (UvA) – Aspects of axiomatic QFT, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). Caldeira Costa, R.N. (UvA) – String Theory Summer Workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 28 June-9 July 2010 (attended). de Adelhart Toorop, R. (Nikhef) – Family physics with S4 and Pati-Salam, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Nether- lands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Discrete flavour symmetries in GUTs: the beauty and the beast, Theory Seminar High Energy Physics, University of Padova, Italy, 24 March 2010 (talk). – The interplay between GUT and flavour symmetries in a Pati-Salam xS4 model, PASCOS 2010, 16th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Valenica, Spain, 23 July 2010 (talk). – Familiensymmetrien und GUTs in einem Pati-Salam × S4 Model, 42. Herbstschule fur Hochenergiephysik Maria Laach, Germany, 9 September 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (co-organizer/attended). – Constraining non-Abelian flavour symmetries, Discrete 2010, Rome, Italy, 7 De- cember 2010 (talk). de Haan, S. (RUG) – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). den Dunnen, W. (VUA) – Probing CP-violation beyond the standard model at RHIC, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). 48 Annual report 2010

– Double transverse spin asymmetries as a probe for new physics, Workshop, Progress in High-pT Physics at RHIC, Brookhaven, New York, USA, 18 March 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Double transverse spin asymmetries at RHIC as a probe for new physics, INT Program, Gluons and the Quark Sea at High Energies, Seattle, USA, 28 October 2010 (talk). – Measuring W-W’ mixing with spin asymmetries at RHIC, NNV Fall Meeting, Lun- teren, the Netherlands, 5 November 2010 (talk). Deuzeman, A. (RUG) – Predictions from 2+1+1 flavour twisted mass lattice QCD, Physics@FOM, Veld- hoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). Dibitetto, G. (RUG) – De Sitter in N = 4 compactifications, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). Franzen, A.T. (UU) – Classical and quantum gravitational collapse, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theo- retical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India, February-March 2010 (work visit). – Conference, Quantum Field Theory and Gravity, Conceptual and Mathematical Advances in the Search for a Unified Framework, University of Regensburg, Ger- many, 28 September-1 October 2010 (attended). Hardeman, S.R. (UL) – Supergravity effective actions for cosmology, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Ne- therlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Effects of non-decoupled mass hierarchies on cosmology, Corfu Summer Institute Workshop, Corfu, Greece, 29 August-12 September 2010 (talk). – Heavy physics from the CMB, New Directions in Cosmology, Leiden, the Nether- lands, 25 September-1 October 2010 (poster). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Supergravity consequences for inflationary cosmology, Theory Seminar, Groningen, the Netherlands, 28 October 2010 (talk). – Features of heavy physics in the CMB, String Meeting, Groningen, the Netherlands, 5 November 2010 (talk). – Signatures of heavy physics in cosmology, Tufts Cosmology Seminar, 16 December 2010 (talk). Hartgring, L. (Nikhef) – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (attended). – DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Drieber- gen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (attended). – Physics at TeV Colliders: from Tevatron to LHC, Cargese, France, 19-31 July 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). 4. PhD program 49

Höhn,P.A. (UU) – Diffeomorphism symmetry in discrete gravity, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theo- retical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – From covariant to canonical formulations of discrete gravity, Quist Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 18 February 2010 (talk). – Conference, Open Problems in Loop Quantum Gravity, Zakopane, Poland, 28 February-5 March 2010 (attended). – Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University, USA, August 2009-31 January 2010 (work visit). – Albert Einstein Institut, Potsdam, Germany, 5 September-31 October 2010 (work visit). – An effective approach to the problem of time, 5th Quantum Gravity Colloquium, Paris, France, 7 October 2010 (talk). Holsheimer, K. (UvA) – PhD School Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam, l’Universit libre de Bruxelles, Vrije Uni- versteit Brussel, Ecole` Normale Supérieure(Paris), Universiteit van Amsterdam (ITFA), Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, 27 September-10 December 2010 (attended). Hristov, K.P.(UU) – String Theory Workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 28 June-09 July 2010 (attended). – International Conference, Strings, M-Theory and Quantum Gravity, Ascona, Swit- zerland, 25-30 July 2010 (attended). Jordan, S. (UU) – Phase transitions of quantum geometry, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Taking Charge of your PhD Project, Workshop, FOM Utrecht, the Netherlands, 17 February-3 March 2010 (attended). – Part and Whole in Physics, Workshop, Lorentz Center Leiden, the Netherlands, 22-26 March 2010 (attended). – Phase transitions in causal dynamical triangulations, Quantum Gravity Focus Work- shop, MPIPKS Dresden, Germany, 8-10 April 2010 (talk). – Phase transitions in causal dynamical triangulations, Perimeter Institute, Water- loo, Canada, 14-20 June 2010 (talk; work visit). Kadosh, A. (RUG) – Planck 2010, Conference, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 31 May-4 June 2010 (attended). – 1st National String Meeting: A String Theoretic Approach to Cosmology and Quantum Matter Groningen, the Netherlands, 5-6 November 2010 (attended). – Suppression of flavor violation in an A(4) warped extra dimensional model, DIS- CRETE 2010, Symposium, Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, Sa- pienza University of Rome, Italy, 6-11 December 2010 (talk). 50 Annual report 2010

Katmadas, S. (UU) – Cargese Summer School 2010, String Theory: Formal Developments and Applica- tions, Cargese, France, 21 June-3 July 2010 (attended). Knegjens, R.J. (Nikhef) – Supersymmetric single top production, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Quantum fields in spacetimes, Kramers Course, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 7 October- 15 December 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). + − – In pursuit of new physics with Bs → K K , NNV Subatomic Physics Meeting, Lunteren, the Netherlands, 5 November 2010 (talk). Koksma, J.F. (UU) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, February 2010- August 2010 (work visit). – Decoherence and dynamical entropy generation in an interacting quantum field theory, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 18 June 2010 (talk). – Conference, Strong and ElectroWeak Matter, McGill University, Montreal, Ca- nada, 29 June-2 July 2010 (attended). – Decoherence and dynamical entropy generation in an interacting quantum field theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Kavli), Cambridge, USA, 7 July 2010 (talk). – Decoherence and dynamical entropy generation in an interacting quantum field theory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 14 July 2010 (talk). – Decoherence and dynamical entropy generation in an interacting quantum field theory, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, 15 July 2010 (talk). – Decoherence and dynamical entropy generation in an interacting quantum field theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CTP), Cambridge, USA, 28 July 2010 (talk). – Conference, Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Fields in the Early Universe, RWTH Aachen, Germany, 6-8 September 2010 (attended). – Decoherence and dynamical entropy generation in an interacting quantum field theory, Conference, Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Fields in the Early Universe, RWTH Aachen, Germany, 7 September 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). Korovin, Y. (UvA) – PhD School Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam, l’Universit libre de Bruxelles, Vrije Uni- versteit Brussel, Ecole` Normale Supérieure(Paris), Universiteit van Amsterdam (ITFA), Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, 27 September-10 December 2010 (attended). Lodato, I. (UU) – Amsterdam-Bruxelles-Paris Doctoral School, Paris, France, 25 October-12 Novem- ber 2010 (attended). – Amsterdam-Bruxelles-Paris Doctoral School, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 November-10 December 2010 (attended). 4. PhD program 51

Looyestijn, H.T. (UU) – Aspects of compactifications and black holes in four-dimensional supergravity, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 20 September 2010 (talk). Maio, M. (Nikhef) – Fixed point resolution in extensions of permutation orbifolds, Physics@FOM, Veld- hoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Simple current extensions and permutation orbifolds, 22th Workshop Beyond the Standard Model, Bad Honnef, Germany, 8 March 2010 (talk). – Extensions and the permutation orbifold, Prospect in Theoretical Physics - Aspects of Supersymmetry, Princeton, USA, 27 July 2010 (talk). Malamos, I.E. (RU) – DRSTP Postgraduate AIO/OIO School 2010 Theoretical High Energy Physics, Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (attended). – FYSICA 2010, Meeting of the NNV (Dutch Physical Society), Utrecht, the Ne- therlands, 23 April 2010 (attended). – HELAC Internal Group Meeting, Athens, Greece, 9-10 May 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – HELAC Internal Group Meeting, Aachen, Germany, 10-11 November 2010 (attended). – HEPTOOLS Final Meeting, Universidad de Granada, Spain, 25-26 November 2010 (attended). Mantz, C.L.M. (VUA) – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (co-organizer/attended). Merbis, W. (RUG) – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – 1st National String Meeting: A String Theoretic Approach to Cosmology and Quantum Matter Groningen, the Netherlands, 5-6 November 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Theoretical High Energy Physics, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Ne- therlands, 19 November 2010 (attended). – Amsterdam-Brussel-Paris Doctoral School, 22 November-10 December 2010 (attended). Mooij, S.J.N. (Nikhef) – Inflation in supergravity, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 Ja- nuary 2010 (poster). – Moduli stabilization in SUGRA hybrid inflation, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 Fe- bruary 2010 (talk). – Moduli stabilization in SUGRA hybrid inflation, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 18 Fe- bruary 2010 (talk). – Moduli stabilization in SUGRA hybrid inflation, Nikhef Theory Meeting, Amster- dam, the Netherlands, 26 February 2010 (talk). – 5th Parma School of Theoretical Physics, Parma, Italy, 30 Augustus-4 September 2010 (attended). – Moduli stabilization in SUGRA hybrid inflation, Universe Net Meeting, Lecce, Italy, 14 September 2010 (talk). 52 Annual report 2010

– Ruimte en tijd volgens Einstein, Crea Cafe, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 29 Sep- tember 2010 (talk). – Various approaches to cosmological inflation, DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Ne- therlands, 15 October 2010 (talk). Niessen, A.I.M. (RU) – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (attended). – Improving predictions for SUSY cross sections, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theo- retical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Expected, observed and measured cross sections, Student Seminar of the TPP Mee- ting, 26 February 2010 (talk). – SUSY and Pre-SUSY 2010, Bonn, Germany, 18-28 August 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (co-organizer/attended). – Improving predictions for SUSY cross sections, Nikhef Jamboree 2010, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 17 December 2010 (talk). Noordmans, J.P. (RUG) – DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Drieber- gen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (co-organizer/attended). Nunes da Silva, T.J. (RUG) – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). Nutma, T.A. (RUG) – E11 and gauged supergravity: the D=2 case, UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 10 February 2010 (talk). – Workshop Symmetries and dualities in gravitational theories, UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 19-21 May 2010 (attended). Oberreuter, J.M. (UvA) – DRSTP Conformal Field Theory Course 2009-2010, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January-June 2010 (co-organizer). – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 February 2010 (attended). – Spring School, Superstring Theory and Related Topics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 22-30 March 2010 (attended). – Resolution of cosmic singularities via string theory, Spring School, Superstring Theory and Related Topics, Trieste, Italy, 26 March 2010 (talk). – String Theory Workshop 2010, Center for Mathematical Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 28 June-9 July 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Workshop, A String Theoretic Approach to Cosmology and Quantum Matter, Gro- ningen, the Netherlands, 5-6 November 2010 (attended). Ortiz, P. (UL) – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). Reker, S.F. (RUG) – Predictions from 2+1+1 flavour twisted mass lattice QCD, Physics@FOM, Veld- hoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). 4. PhD program 53

– Algorithms, codes and collaboration, ETMC Spring Meeting, Bonn, Germany, 13 March 2010 (talk). – Light hadrons from Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 dynamical twisted mass fermions, XXVIII International Symposium, Lattice Field Theory, Lattice 2010, Villasimius, Italy, 14 June 2010 (talk). – Chiral perturbation theory in the pion sector in Nf = 2+1+1, ETMC Fall Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2 October 2010 (talk). Reska, P.M. (UU) – Causal dynamical triangulations with a point-like source, Quist Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 September 2010 (talk). – Causal dynamical triangulations with a point-like source, Quantum Gravity Collo- quium 5, Paris, France 7 October 2010 (talk). – Causal dynamical triangulations with a point-like source, Jagiellonian University, Kraków,Poland, 9 December 2010 (talk). Romanets, O. (RUG) – DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Drieber- gen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (attended). Sfondrini, A. (UU) – Solvay Doctoral School 2010, ULB Brussels, Belgium, 28 September-15 October 2010 (attended). – Solvay Doctoral School 2010, ENS Paris, France, 25 October-12 November 2010 (attended). – Solvay Doctoral School 2010, UvA Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 November-10 December 2010 (attended). Smolic, J. (UvA) – Nonequilibrium QFT and holography, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Nonequilibrium QFT and holography, DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (talk). Smolic, M. (UvA) – Nonequilibrium QFT and nPI effective actions, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theo- retical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (co-organizer/attended). Toldo, C. (UU) – Amsterdam-Bruxelles-Paris Doctoral School, Paris, France, 25 October-12 Novem- ber 2010 (attended). – Amsterdam-Bruxelles-Paris Doctoral School, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 November-10 December 2010 (attended). van de Meent, M. (UU) – Piecewise flat gravity in 3+1 dimensions, PhD Lunch Seminar (PLaneT), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 11 January 2010 (talk). – Collisions in 3+1D piecewise flat gravity, Quist Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 8 April 2010 (talk). 54 Annual report 2010

– Piecewise flat gravity in 3+1 D, 3rd Odense Winter School, Geometry and Theo- retical Physics, Odense, Denmark, 4 November 2010 (talk). van den Broek, T.C.H. (RU) – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (attended). – Supersymmetry as non-commutative geometry, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theo- retical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Particle physics from noncommutative geometry, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Nether- lands, 19 March 2010 (talk). – National Seminar, Theoretical High Energy Physics, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Ne- therlands, 26 March 2010 (attended). – Topical Lectures, Gravitational Waves, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 9-11 June 2010 (attended). – Noncommutative geometry & supersymmetry, 26th Workshop, Foundations and Constructive Aspects of QFT, Westfälische Wilhelms-UniversitätMünster,18-19 June 2010 (talk). – Noncommutative geometry & supersymmetry, Colloquium, Centre de Physique Théoriquede l’Universitéde Marseille, 25 June 2010 (talk). – Conference, Mathematics Cluster of Geometry and Quantum Theory, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 28 June-2 July 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – To commute or not to commute, NNV Fall Meeting, Lunteren, the Netherlands, 5 November 2010 (talk). – Seminar, Theoretical High Energy Physics, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 19 November 2010 (attended). – Topical Lectures, B-Physics and CP-Violation, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Nether- lands, 13-15 December 2010 (attended). – Nikhef Jamboree 2010, Nikhef Annual Meeting, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 16-17 December 2010 (attended). van den Oord, G.J.W.M. (RU) – Status of CAMORRA, Atlas Workshop, Oldenzaal, the Netherlands, 14-16 April 2010 (talk). – NNV Fall Meeting, Lunteren, the Netherlands, 5 November 2010 (attended). – Nikhef Jamboree 2010, Nikhef Annual Meeting, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 16-17 December 2010 (attended). van der Aalst, T.A.F. (UL) – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (attended). – Inflation from string theory, DRSTP Postgraduate AIO/OIO School 2010 Theore- tical High Energy Physics, Driebergen, the Netherlands, 2 February 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). van der Schee, W. (UU) – Solvay Doctoral School 2010, ULB Brussels, Belgium, 28 September-15 October 2010 (attended). – Solvay Doctoral School 2010, ENS Paris, France, 25 October-12 November 2010 (attended). – Solvay Doctoral School 2010, UvA Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 November-10 4. PhD program 55

December 2010 (attended). van Rees, B.C. (UvA) – String Theory Summer Workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 28 June-9 July 2010 (attended). van Tongeren, S. (UU) – Integrability in AdS/CFT, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – T.B.A. (Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz), PhD Lunch Seminar (PLaneT), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 14 June 2010 (talk). – DITP Course, Quantum Physics in One Dimension: Exactly Solvable Models, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). Weenink, J.G. (UU) – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (attended). – Inflation through the nonminimally coupled Higgs boson, Nikhef Theory Center Meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 January 2010 (talk). – The Higgs boson as the inflaton, Postgraduate AIO/OIO school Theoretical High Energy Physics, Driebergen, the Netherlands, 11 February 2010 (talk). – Inflation for dummies, Nikhef Theory Center Meeting, Student Session, Amster- dam, the Netherlands 26 February 2010 (talk). – National Seminar Theoretical High Energy Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26 March 2010 (attended). – QFT in an expanding universe, PhD lunch seminar (PLaneT), Utrecht, the Ne- therlands, 6 April 2010 (talk). – ICTP Summer School in Cosmology, Trieste, Italy, 19-30 July 2010 (attended). – Quantum field theory on a curved background, Nikhef Theory Center Meeting, Student Session, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 24 September 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Theoretical High Energy Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 19 November 2010 (attended). Wever, C.S.P. (UU) – Higgs mechanism for massive gravitons, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Effective multicomponent field theory for QCD, QCHS IX Conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 30 August-3 September 2010 (poster). Wouters, B.M. (UvA) – PhD School Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam, l’Universit libre de Bruxelles, Vrije Uni- versteit Brussel, Ecole` Normale Supérieure(Paris), Universiteit van Amsterdam (ITFA), Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, 27 September-10 December 2010 (attended). Yin, Y. (RUG) – Connecting 11 dimensions with 4 dimensions, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theo- retical High Energy Physics (THEP), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010 (talk). – Introduction to Supergravity and Flux Compactifications, Prof. S. Sethi (Chicago) Van der Waals Chair Lectures, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, once every week in 56 Annual report 2010

April and May, 2010 (attended). – International School, Strings and Fundamental Physics, Munich/Garching, Ger- many, 24 July-7 August 2010 (attended). – Modave Summer School, Mathematical Physics, Modave, Belgium, 29 August-4 September 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – 1st National String Meeting, A String Theoretic Approach to Cosmology and Quan- tum Matter, Groningen, the Netherlands, 5-6 November 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Theoretical High Energy Physics, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Ne- therlands, 19 November 2010 (attended).

4.6 Scientiﬁc and educational activities of PhD students (theme 2)

Akhmerov, A.R. (UL) – Topological insulators for quantum computation, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Theory of the topological Anderson insulator, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Ne- therlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Pseudo diﬀusive transmission of nodal Diral fermions through a clean d-wave superconductor, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Tunable spin precession in inverted band gap semiconductors, Von Klitzing Group Seminar, Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart, Germany, 25 January 2010 (talk). – Detection of Majorana fermions in topological insulators, CMT Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland, 28 January 2010 (talk). – Tunable spin precession in inverted band gap semiconductors, Research Workshop, Progress in Spintronics and Graphene Research, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, Beijing, 28 April 2010 (talk). – Fermion parity-protected quantum computation with Majorana fermions, CMT Se- minar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 31 August 2010 (talk). – Fermion parity-protected quantum computation with Majorana fermions, Chez Pierre Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, 27 September 2010 (talk). – Fermion parity-protected quantum computation with Majorana fermions, CMP Se- minar, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 14 October 2010 (talk). – Fermion parity-protected quantum computation with Majorana fermions, CMT Se- minar, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 26 October 2010 (talk). – Fermion parity-protected quantum computation with Majorana fermions, Q-Seminar, Microsoft Station Q, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 2 November 2010 (talk). – Fermion parity-protected quantum computation with Majorana fermions, CM Se- minar, University of California, Riverside, USA, 10 November 2010 (talk). 4. PhD program 57

– Fermion parity-protected quantum computation with Majorana fermions, CMT Se- minar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, 11 November 2010 (talk). Akhukov, M.A. (RU) – Edge reconstruction in graphene ribbons, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Nether- lands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). Ament, L.J.P. (UL) – What you should know about resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (talk). Baarsma, J.E. (UU) – Populations and mass imbalance in atomic Fermi gases, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Imbalanced atomic Fermi gases, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – Supersolids, BEC Group Meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 4 June 2010 (talk). – Population and mass imbalance in atomic Fermi gases, Ecole` de Physique, Many- Body Physics with Ultracold Gases, Les Houches, France, 28 June-23 July 2010 (poster). – Journal club, BEC Group Meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 17 September 2010 (talk). – Supersolid phases in cold atoms, PhD Lunch Seminar (PLaneT), Utrecht, the Ne- therlands, 5 October 2010 (talk). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 October 2010 (attended). – DITP Course, Quantum Physics in One Dimension: Exactly Solvable Models, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – DITP Course, Quantum Physics in Two Dimensions: Quantum Hall Systems, Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 2010 (attended). Beekman, A.J. (UL) – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (attended). – Gravitons in quantum nematics, Gordon Research Conference, Correlated Electron Systems, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, 13-18 June 2010 (poster). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (co-organizer/attended/poster). – 3rd UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge University, UK, 1-3 November 2010 (attended). Belli, S. (UU) – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (attended). – Hans-Sur-Lesse Winter School, Physical Chemistry, Belgium, 25-30 January 2010 (attended). 58 Annual report 2010

– Dynamical heterogeneities in columnar liquid crystals, SFB TR6 Workshop 2010 Physics of Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields, Bonn, Germany, 1-3 March 2010 (poster). – Theory and simulation of liquid crystal phases, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Sta- tistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Ne- therlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – Dynamical heterogeneities in columnar liquid crystals, Playing Colloidal Mikado II, Luxembourg, 27-29 May 2010 (talk). – Heterogeneous dynamics in columnar liquid crystals, International Soft Matter Conference 2010, Granada, Spain, 5-8 July 2010 (poster). – Cargese SFB-TR6 Summer School, Soft Matter, Physics of Colloidal Suspensions and Granular Media, France, 27 September-09 October 2010 (attended). – FOM Workshop, The Art of Presenting Science, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 5 No- vember, 19 November and 3 December 2010 (attended). Beugeling, W. (UU) – Conference, Spin Manipulation in Cold Atoms and Condensed Matter, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 7-9 January 2010 (attended). – Chern-Simons theory of multi-component quantum Hall systems, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Graphene Day, Delft, the Netherlands, 2 March 2010 (attended). – Introduction to the quantum Hall eﬀect, PhD Lunch Seminar (PLaneT), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 8 March 2010 (talk). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26 March 2010 (attended). – Chern-Simons theory of multi-component quantum Hall systems, DRSTP Post- graduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – Chern-Simons theory of multi-component quantum Hall systems, FYSICA 2010, Meeting of the NNV (Dutch Physical Society), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 April 2010 (poster). – Group Meeting, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 27 April 2010 (untitled informal talk). – Chern-Simons theory of multi-component quantum Hall systems, Conference, In- teractions, Disorder, and Topology in Quantum Hall Systems, Dresden, Germany, 7-11 June 2010 (poster). – Graphene Day, Groningen, the Netherlands, 8 July 2010 (attended). – UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 September 2010 (attended). – Chern-Simons theory of multi-component quantum Hall systems, Conference, Quan- tum Matter in Low Dimensions (INSTANS/NORDITA), Stockholm, Sweden, 6-10 September 2010 (poster). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 October 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Graphene Day, Leiden, the Netherlands, 3 November 2010 (attended). – Spectra of the honeycomb lattice in a magnetic ﬁeld, Strongly Correlated Systems 4. PhD program 59

Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 18 November 2010 (talk). Boon, N.J.H. (UU) – Self-organization of patchy colloids: plastic or liquid crystals?, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Ionic screening of patterned surfaces and Janus particles, Veldhoven Meeting V&G, 16 February 2010 (talk). – Second International Soft Matter Conference, Granada, Spain, 5-8 July 2010 (attended). – Physics with Industry, Leiden, the Netherlands, 11-15 October 2010 (attended). – Blue energy, DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (talk). Broedersz, C. (VUA) – Dynamics and mechanics of transiently cross-linked cytoskeletal networks, The Physical Cell Meeting, London, UK, 28-30 June 2010 (poster). – Dynamics and mechanics of transiently cross-linked cytoskeletal networks, Phy- sics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 4-5 October 2010 (poster). Cubrović,M.ˇ (UL) – String theory, quantum phase transitions and the emergent Fermi liquid, Phy- sics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – String theory and strongly correlated electrons, LION Meeting, Leiden, the Nether- lands, 6 March 2010 (talk). – Self-management, time-management, University Compulsory Course, Leiden, the Netherlands, Spring 2010 (attended). – Strongly correlated electrons: geometric encoding for Fermi statistics from AdS/CFT, National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 October 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – AdS/CFT for strongly correlated fermions, String Seminar, Groningen, the Nether- lands, 18 November 2010 (talk). – Communication in science, Leiden University Compulsory Course, the Nether- lands, Fall 2010 (attended). – Effective communication, Leiden University Compulsory Course, the Netherlands, Fall 2010 (attended). Dahlhaus, J.P. (UL) – The effect of surface curvature on conductivity in 3D topological insulators, DPG Spring Meeting 2010, Regensburg, Germany, 21-26 March 2010. – Random-matrix theory of thermal conduction in superconducting quantum dots, ITN Nanoelectronics Meeting, Nanoelectronics-Concepts, Theory and Modeling, Bremen, Germany, 17-21 May 2010 (poster). – Random-matrix theory of thermal conduction in superconducting quantum dots, Research Seminar on Correlated Quantum Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, 14 June 2010 (talk). Diederix, J.M. (UU) – Confinement-induced Sarma phase in resonantly interacting Fermi mixtures, Phy- sics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). 60 Annual report 2010

Eggen, E.J. (UU) – Self-organization of patchy colloids: plastic or liquid crystals?, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). Emanuel, M.O. (UL) – Twisting into a plectoneme, CECAM Workshop, Coarse-Grained Mechanics of DNA: Bases to Chromosomes, Lyon, France, 1-4 June 2010. Gubbels, K.B. (UU) – Exotic superﬂuidity in imbalanced Fermi mixtures, Conference, Newspin, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 7 January 2010 (talk). – Population and mass imbalance in strongly interacting Fermi mixtures, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Populations and mass imbalance in atomic Fermi gases, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Conﬁnement-induced Sarma phase in resonantly interacting Fermi mixtures, Phy- sics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Ultrakoude Fermi-mengsels zijn super, NtvN 76 (2010) 64 (article). Haaker, S.M. (UvA) – A Bose condensation approach to fractional quantum Hall hierarchies, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Physics in the plane: From condensed matter to string theory, Laboratoire de Phy- sique Thorique et Modles Statistiques, Le Houches, France, 25 February-5 March 2010 (attended). – Landau levels for a non-Abelian vector potential, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – Topological states in condensed matter physics, IAS, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 28 December 2010 - 4 January 2011 (poster). Habraken, S.J.M. (UL) – Geometric phases in astigmatic paraxial modes of all orders, Complex Light and Optical Forces IV, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, California, 23-28 January 2010 (talk). – Light with a twist - ray aspects in singular wave and quantum optics, Quantum Optics Seminar, IQOQI of the Austria Academy of Sciences, Austria, 4 March 2010 (talk). – Rays and waves in singular optics, Seminar, Department of Physical Chemistry and Department of Theoretical Physics, Universidad del Pas Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Spain, 15 April 2010 (talk). – Geometric aspects of twisted and rotating light, Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 28 April 2010 (talk). Huijse, L. (UvA) – DRSTP Conformal Field Theory Course 2009-2010, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January-June 2010 (initiator and co-organizer). – Quantum phases of a supersymmetric model for lattice fermions, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Skyrmions in fractional quantum Hall systems, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Ne- therlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). 4. PhD program 61

– Quantum phases of a supersymmetric model for lattice fermions, Lorentz National Seminar, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 April 2010 (talk). – Workshop, Low Dimensional Topological Matter, Aspen Center for Physics, Colo- rado, USA, 18 July-8 August 2010 (attended). – Quantum phases of a supersymmetric model for lattice fermions, International Conference, Quantum Matter in Low Dimensions, Albanove Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 September 2010 (talk). Klauser, A.M. (UvA/UL) – Exact spin chain dynamics probed by RIXS, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Ne- therlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Revealing the 4-spinon excitations of the Heisenberg anti ferromagnetic chain, Ins- titute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2 June 2010 (talk). – Revealing the 4-spinon excitations of the Heisenberg anti ferromagnetic chain, Ins- titute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Germany, 13 August 2010 (talk). Lim, L.-K. (UU) – Strongly interacting two-dimensional Dirac fermions, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Condensed Matter Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands (until July 2010) (organizer). – Strongly Correlated Systems (SCS) Seminars, Utrecht, the Netherlands (until July 2010) (organizer). Lucassen, M.E. (UU) – Spin motive forces and current fluctuations due to thermal motion of domain walls, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Domain walls and spin motive forces, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – FYSICA 2010, Meeting of the NNV (Dutch Physical Society), Utrecht, the Ne- therlands, 23 April 2010 (attended). – Domain-wall induced spin motive forces, Group Meeting, Physics of Nanostruc- tures, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 29 June 2010 (talk). – UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Maddingley Hall, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 Sep- tember 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 8 October 2010 (attended). – Domain-wall induced spin motive forces, Spin/NANO Spintronics Meeting, Nijme- gen, the Netherlands, 14-15 October 2010 (talk). Makogon, D. (UU) – Effects of disorder and interactions in the quantum Hall ferro magnet, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Graphene Day, Delft, the Netherlands, 2 March 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26 March 2010 (attended). – Effects of disorder and interactions in the quantum Hall ferromagnet, FYSICA 2010, Meeting of the NNV (Dutch Physical Society), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 62 Annual report 2010

April 2010 (poster). – Graphene Day, Groningen, the Netherlands, 8 July 2010 (attended). – Spin-charge-density wave in a squircle-like Fermi surface for ultracold atoms, UK- NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 September 2010 (talk). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 October 2010 (attended). – Spin-charge-density wave in a squircle-like Fermi surface for ultracold atoms, In- ternational Conference, Conducting Materials, Sousse, Tunisia, 3-7 November 2010 (talk). – Spin-charge-density wave instability in 2D tight-binding models, Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar, Groningen, the Netherlands, 21 December 2010 (talk). Mehmani, B. (UvA) – 1st LERU Summer School, Amsterdam and Utrecht, the Netherlands, 5-16 July (attended). Mesaroˇs,A. (UL) – Gravitational parallel transport and Berry phases of Dirac fermions in graphene containing dislocations and disclinations, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Nether- lands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Local electronic liquid crystallinity and topological defects, application to high Tc cuprate STM data, APS March Meeting, 15 March 2010 (talk). Mink, M.P. (UU) – Exciton condensation in bilayer graphene, NewSpin Conference, Utrecht, the Ne- therlands 7-9 January 2010 (attended). – Exciton condensation in two-layer graphene, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Ne- therlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). – Exciton condensation in bilayer graphene, Graphene Day, Delft, the Netherlands, 2 March 2010 (poster). – DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (attended). – FYSICA 2010, Meeting of the NNV (Dutch Physical Society), Utrecht, the Ne- therlands, 23 April 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 October 2010 (attended). Mossel, J.J. (UvA) – Non-equilibrium dynamics of the Heisenberg spin chain, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Exact spin chain dynamics probed by RIXS, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Ne- therlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Relaxation dynamics in the gapped XXZ spin-1/2 chain, ITFA Condensed Lunch Seminar, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 17 February 2010 (talk). – Relaxation dynamics after a quantum quench, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Sta- tistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Ne- therlands, 14 April 2010 (talk). – Relaxation dynamics in the gapped XXZ spin-1/2 chain, Time-Dependent Dy- namics and Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems Workshop INSTANS, Budapest, Hungary, 20 May 2010 (poster). 4. PhD program 63

– Relaxation dynamics in the gapped XXZ spin-1/2 chain, Workshop, Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems, Trieste, Italy, 24 June 2010 (poster). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Correlation functions of the 1D Bose gas after an interaction quench, ITFA Conden- sed Lunch Seminar, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 15 December 2010 (talk). Panfil, M. (UvA) – DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (attended). – Time-dependent dynamics and non-equilibrium quantum systems, Meeting, Buda- pest, Hungary, 19-22 May 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). Rademaker, L. (UL) – Master Class by Wolfgang Ketterle, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 18-20 January 2010 (attended). – A theoretical study on herostructures of coupled electron and hole doped Mott insulators, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Communication in Science, De Sonneville and Herd, Leiden, the Netherlands, January-February 2010 (attended). – Flux quantization in double layer exciton superfluids, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12 April 2010 (talk). – Novel Electronic States at Interfaces in Oxides, Lorentz Workshop, Leiden, the Netherlands, 26-29 April 2010 (attended). – Lorentz Professor Course by Tom Witten, Thin Sheets and Sandpiles: Subtle Self- Organization in Prosaic Places, Leiden, the Netherlands, May-June 2010 (attended). – Flux quantization in double layer exciton superfluids, Casimir Spring School, Ar- nemuiden, the Netherlands, 14-16 June 2010 (talk; best oral presentation award). – Quantum Physics in One Dimension: Luttinger Liquids and Bosonization, S.J. Caux, Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sep- tember 2010 (attended). – 3rd Annual UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 1-3 September 2010 (attended). – Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in oxide heterostructures, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology Meeting 2010, Enschede, the Netherlands, 14 September 2010 (poster). – Quantum Physics in One Dimension: Exactly Solvable Models, S.J. Caux, Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 2010 (attended). – National Seminar on Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 Octo- ber 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Quantum Hall Systems, C. Morais Smith, Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 2010 (attended). – Professor Jeroen van der Brinks group, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany, 19 64 Annual report 2010

November-1 December 2010 (work visit). – How to Manage your Professor, Wubben, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 11 November 2010 (attended). – Low- and High Tc Superconductors, C. Morais Smith, Delta Institute for Theore- tical Physics, Utrecht, the Netherlands, December 2010 (attended). Romers, J.C. (UvA) – DRSTP Conformal Field Theory Course 2009-2010, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January-June 2010 (initiator and co-organizer). – Skyrmions in fractional quantum Hall systems, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Ne- therlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Les Houches School Physics in the Plane, Les Houches, France, 28 February - 5 March 2010 (attended). – Skyrmions in the 5/2 fqH state, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Winter School Topological States in Condensed Matter Physics, Institute for Ad- vanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 26 December - 4 January 2010 (attended). Ruszel, W.M. (RUG) – Gibbs and non-Gibbs aspects of continuous spin models, Mathematics Colloquium, Groningen, the Netherlands, 16 September 2010 (talk). She, J.-H. (UL) – BCS superconductivity in quantum critical metals, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Shaking oﬀ the fermionic minus signs to unravel novel superconductors, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – She, J.H., BCS superconductivity in quantum critical metals, APS March Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 2010 (talk). – BCS superconductivity in quantum critical metals, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – She, J.H., BCS superconductivity in quantum critical metals, International Confe- rence, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES 2010), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, June-July 2010 (talk). – She, J.H., Stability of quantum critical points in the presence of competing orders, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, August 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). Swaving, A.C. (UU) – Current-induced torques in continuous antiferromagnetic textures, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Current-induced torques in continuous antiferromagnetic textures, DRSTP Post- graduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 19 April 2010 (talk). 4. PhD program 65

Tieleman, O. (UU) – Conference, Spin Manipulation in Cold Atoms and Condensed Matter, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 7-9 January 2010 (attended). – Bilayer quantum Hall system at nut = 1 pseudospin models and in-plane magnetic field, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Pokrovsky-Talapov model at finite temperature: a renormalization-group analysis, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Graphene Day, Delft, the Netherlands, 2 March 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26 March 2010 (attended). – Dipolar bosons in a two-dimensional optical lattice with staggered flux, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – Bilayer quantum Hall system at nut = 1: pseudospin models and in-plane magnetic field, FYSICA 2010, Meeting of the NNV (Dutch Physical Society), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 April 2010 (poster). – Dipolar bosons in optical lattices with a staggered flux, Summer School, Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases, Les Houches, France, 28 June-23 July 2010 (poster). – Strongly Correlated Systems (SCS) Seminars, Utrecht, the Netherlands (from July- December 2010) (organizer). – UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 September 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 October 2010 (attended). – Strongly Correlated Systems (SCS) Seminar, Dipolar Bosons in Optical Lattices with a Staggered Flux, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 14 October 2010 (attended). van der Bijl, E. (UU) – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven 2010, Veldhoven, the Netherlands 18-20 January 2010 (attended). – Strongly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Sta- tistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Ne- therlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 1-2 September 2010 (attended). – National Seminar Condensed Matter Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 October 2010 (attended). – Spin transfer torques and spin pumping in strongly spin orbit coupled systems, FOM Spin/Nanoned Spintronics Meeting, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 14-15 Octo- ber 2010 (talk). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (co-organizer/attended). van Dijk, T. (VUA) – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). – Conference, Optical Society of America, ISA, Rochester, New York, 24-28 October 2010 (attended). 66 Annual report 2010 van Driel, H.J. (UU) – Pseudo-spin currents in semi-conductor bi-layers, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (poster). – Spin-drag Hall effect, BEC-meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 19 March 2010 (talk). – Spin drag in rotating Bose gasses, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – Spin-drag Hall effect, PhD Lunch Seminar (PLaneT), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 28 June 2010 (talk). – UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 September 2010 (attended). – DRSTP PhD Day, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010 (attended). van Gelderen, R. (UU) – Conference, NewSpin: Spin Manipulation in Cold Atoms and Condensed Matter, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 7-9 January 2010 (attended). – Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (attended). – Rashba and intrinsic spin-orbit interactions in biased bilayer graphene, Graphene Day, Delft, the Netherlands, 2 March 2010 (poster). – Introduction to the Spin Hall Effect, Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 March 2010 (talk). – Rashba and intrinsic spin-orbit interactions in biased bilayer graphene, Conference, New Frontiers in Graphene Physics, Trento, Italy, 12-14 April 2010 (poster). – FYSICA 2010, Meeting of the NNV (Dutch Physical Society), Utrecht, the Ne- therlands, 23 April 2010 (attended). – Spin-orbit coupling in bilayer graphene, Graphene Day, Groningen, the Nether- lands, 8 July 2010 (talk). – UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 September 2010 (attended). – Graphene Day, Leiden, the Netherlands, 3 November 2010 (attended). – Rashba and intrinsic spin-orbit interactions in biased bilayer graphene, Winter School, Topological States in Condensed Matter Physics, Jerusalem, Israel, 27 December 2010-2 January 2011 (poster). van Heugten, J.J.R.M. (UU) – Color superconductivity, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 Ja- nuary 2010 (poster). – Introduction to color superconductivity, PhD Lunch Seminar (PLaneT), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 25 January 2010 (talk). – Color superconductivity, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010 (talk). – Espace de Structure Nucleaire Theorique Workshop, Superfluidity in Nuclear Mat- ter, Finite Nuclei and Ultra-Cold Fermion Gases, Saclay, France, 31 May-4 June 2010 (attended). – Color superconductivity, QCHS (Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum), Ma- drid, Spain, 30 August-3 September 2010 (poster). 4. PhD program 67

– Neutron stars, BEC-Meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 4 November 2010 (talk). Zeravˇcić,Z.ˇ (UL) – Localized or not: damping will tell, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010 (talk). 68 Annual report 2010 5 Scientific staff (per 31-12-2010)

Below an overview is given of the permanent and temporary staﬀ of the DRSTP on 31 December 2010. Also the associate members are listed. PhD students are listed in Chapter 4 (Section 4.4). Theme 1 refers to particle physics, cosmology, quantum gravity and string theory and theme 2 to quantum matter, quantum information, soft condensed matter and biophysics.

5.1 Permanent staﬀ

University of Amsterdam (UvA) theme prof. dr. F.A. Bais 1 prof. dr. H.W. Capel (emer.) 2 dr. J.-S. Caux 2 prof. dr. J. de Boer 1 prof. dr. ir. H. Dekker (emer.) 2 prof. dr. R.H. Dijkgraaf 1 prof. dr. J.H. Koch (emer.) 1 prof. dr. E.L.M.P. Laenen 1 prof. dr. B. Nienhuis 2 dr. Th.M. Nieuwenhuizen 2 prof. dr. A.M.M. Pruisken 2 prof. dr. K. Schoutens 2 dr. K. Skenderis 1 prof. dr. J. Smit (emer.) 1 dr. L.G. Suttorp (emer.) 2 dr. M.M. Taylor 1 dr. L.J. van den Horn (emer.) 1 dr. W.A. van Leeuwen (emer.) 2 prof. dr. E.P. Verlinde 1 70 Annual report 2010

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) theme dr. K. Allaart (emer.) 2 dr. B.L.G. Bakker (emer.) 1 prof. dr. F.C. MacKintosh 2 prof. dr. P.J.G. Mulders 1 prof. dr. T.D. Visser 2 prof. dr. P.R. ten Wolde 2

University of Groningen (RUG) theme prof. dr. E.A. Bergshoeﬀ 1 dr. D. Boer 1 prof. dr. M. de Roo 1 prof. dr. E. Pallante 1 prof. dr. R.G.E. Timmermans 1 prof. dr. A.C.D. van Enter 2

Leiden University (UL) theme prof. dr. A. Ach´ucarro 1 prof. dr. G.T. Barkema 2 prof. dr. C.W.J. Beenakker 2 prof. dr. H.W.J. Bl¨ote(emer.) 2 dr. P.J.H. Denteneer 2 prof. dr. G. Nienhuis (emer.) 2 dr. K.E. Schalm 1 prof. dr. H. Schiessel 2 prof. dr. J.W. van Holten 1 prof. dr. J.M.J. van Leeuwen (emer.) 2 dr. V. Vitelli 2 prof. dr. J. Zaanen 2

Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) theme dr. W.J.P. Beenakker 1 prof. dr. A. Fasolino 2 prof. dr. M.I. Katsnelson 2 prof. dr. R.H.P. Kleiss 1 dr. T.A. Rijken (emer.) 1 prof. dr. A.N.J.J. Schellekens 1 5. Scientiﬁc staﬀ (per 31-12-2010) 71

Utrecht University (UU) theme prof. dr. J. Ambjørn 1 dr. G.E. Arutyunov 1 prof. dr. G.T. Barkema 2 prof. dr. B. de Wit 1 dr. R.A. Duine 2 prof. dr. M.H. Ernst (emer.) 2 prof. dr. E.L.M.P. Laenen 1 prof. dr. R. Loll 1 prof. dr. C. Morais Smith 2 dr. T. Prokopec 1 prof. dr. Th.W. Ruijgrok (emer.) 1, 2 prof. dr. J. Smit (emer.) 1 prof. dr. ir. H.T.C. Stoof 2 prof. dr. G. ’t Hooft 1 prof. dr. H. van Beijeren (emer.) 2 prof. dr. P.P.A.M. van der Schoot 2 prof. dr. N.G. van Kampen (emer.) 2 dr. R.H.H.G. van Roij 2 dr. S.J.G. Vandoren 1

Nikhef Theory Group (Nikhef) theme dr. R. Fleischer 1 prof. dr. J.H. Koch (emer.) 1 prof. dr. E.L.M.P. Laenen 1 prof. dr. A.N.J.J. Schellekens 1 prof. dr. J.-W. van Holten 1 dr. J.A.M. Vermaseren 1 72 Annual report 2010

5.2 Temporary staﬀ

University of Amsterdam (UvA) theme dr. B.D. Chowdhury 1 dr. B.D.A. Estienne 2 dr. M.P. Heller 1 dr. P.L. McFadden 1 dr. G.L.E.G. Palacios 2 dr. B.S. Pozsgai 2 dr. M. Snoek 2 dr. J.P. van der Schaar 1

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) theme dr. M. Bacabac 2 dr. M. Das 2 dr. M. Depken 2 dr. T.C. Rogers 1 dr. M. Sheinman 2

University of Groningen (RUG) theme dr. J.A. Guarino 1 dr. J.C. Myers 1 dr. D. Roest 1 dr. J. Rosseel 1

Leiden University (UL) theme dr. T.P. Choy 2 dr. J. Edge 2 dr. L. Gomez 2 dr. F. Hassler 2 dr. C.H. Hou 2 dr. M. Jackson 1 dr. V. Juricic 2 dr. Y. Lui 2 dr. B.J. Overbosch 2 dr. P. Prinsen 2 dr. Y.W. Sun 2 dr. B.P. Tighe 2 dr. M. Wimmer 2

Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) theme dr. A.S. de Wijn 2 dr. J. Laamanen 1 5. Scientiﬁc staﬀ (per 31-12-2010) 73

Utrecht University (UU) theme dr. M. Arzano 1 dr. N. Banerjee 1 dr. J. Behrend 1 dr. P. Falgari 1 dr. R.K. Gupta 1 dr. B. Haghighat 1 dr. M.M. Hatlo 1 dr. I. Khavkine 1 dr. T.S. Koivisto 1 dr. S.-P. Miao 1 dr. E. Plauschinn 1 dr. D. Sloan 1 dr. R. Suzuki 1 dr. L.J. Tarrio 1 dr. S. Yin 2

Nikhef Theory Group (Nikhef) theme dr. M. Aybat 1 dr. D.P. George 1 dr. J. Kuipers 1 dr. M. Postma 1 dr. T. Reiter 1

5.3 Associate members

theme prof. dr. H.A. de Raedt (RUG) 2 prof. dr. ir. H. Dekker (UvA) 2 prof. dr. L.-F. Feiner (Philips) 2 dr. B.J. Hoenders (RUG) 2 dr. ir. L.P.J. Kamp (TU/e) 2 prof. dr. J. Knoester (RUG) 2 prof. dr. D. Lohse (UT) 2 prof. dr. M.V. Mostovoy (RUG) 2 Theoretical and Polymer Physics Group (TU/e) 2 prof. dr. P.J. van Baal (UL) 1 74 Annual report 2010 6 Academic publications

This chapter presents an overview of publications in refereed journals published in 2010. The publications belonging to theme 1 and theme 2 are given separately. Wi- thin each theme the publications are ordered according to university. Occasionally publications may be listed twice, as is the case when staﬀ members are aﬃliated with more than one university. Publications by associate members are not included. Pro- fessional publications are listed in Chapter 7.

6.1 Theme 1

University of Amsterdam – Arsiwalla, X.D. and Verlinde, E.P., A black hole levitron, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 084004. – Atmaja, A.N. and Schalm, K., Photon and dilepton production in soft wall AdS/QCD, JHEP 8 (2010). – Atiyah, M., Dijkgraaf, R.H. and Hitchin, N., Geometry and physics, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2010) 368. – Avery, S.G., Chowdhury, B.D. and Mathur, S.D., Deforming the D1D5 CFT away from the orbifold point, JHEP 6 (2010). – Avery, S.G., Chowdhury, B.D. and Mathur, S.D., Excitations in the deformed D1D5 CFT, JHEP 6 (2010). – Avery, S.G. and Chowdhury, B.D., Emission from the D1D5 CFT: higher twists, JHEP 1001 (2010) 087. – Balasubramanian, V., de Boer, J., Sheikh-Jabbari, M.M. and Simon, J., What is a chiral 2d CFT? And what does it have to do with extremal black holes?, JHEP 1002 (2010) 017. – Baptista, J.M., Non-abelian vortices, Hecke modiﬁcations and singular monopoles, Lett. Math. Phys. 92 (2010) 243-252. – Beenakker, W., Brensing, S., Laenen, E. and Niessen, I., et al., Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders, JHEP 1008 (2010) 098. – Beenakker, W., Brensing, S., Kramer, M., Kulesza, A., Laenen, E. and Niessen, I., Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders, JHEP 1008 (2010) 098. – Candu, C., Mitev, V., Quella, T., Saleur, H. and Schomerus, V., The sigma model on complex projective superspaces, JHEP 1002 (2010) 015. – de Boer, J. and Shigemori, M., Exotic branes and non-geometric backgrounds, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010) 251603. – de Boer, J., Kulaxizi, M. and Parnachev, A., Holographic Lovelock gravities and 76 Annual report 2010

black holes, JHEP 1006 (2010) 008. – de Boer, J., Kulaxizi, M. and Parnachev, A., AdS7/CF T6, Gauss-Bonnet gravity, and viscosity bound, JHEP 1003 (2010) 087. – de Boer, J., Papadodimas, K. and Verlinde, E., Holographic neutron stars, JHEP 1010 (2010) 020. – de Boer, J., El-Showk, S., Messamah, I. and van den Bleeken, D., A bound on the entropy of supergravity?, JHEP 1002 (2010) 062. – Dolan, F.A.H., On superconformal characters and partition functions in three dimensions, J. Math. Phys. 51 (2010) 022301. – Forte S., Laenen, E., Nason, P. and Rojo, J., Heavy quarks in deep-inelastic scattering, Nucl. Phys. B 834 (2010) 116-162. – Gardi, E., Laenen, E., Stavenga, G. and White, C.D., Webs in multi-parton scattering using the replica trick, JHEP 1011 (2010) 155. – Herquet, M., Knegjes, R. and Laenen, E., Single top production in a non-minimal supersymmetric model, Phys. Lett. B 639 (2010) 591-595. – Hoogeveen, J. and Skenderis, K., Decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism I, JHEP 1001 (2010) 041. – Laenen, E., Magnea, L., Stavenga, G. and White, C.D., On next-to-eikonal exponentiation, Nucl. Phys. B - Proc. Suppl. 205-206 (2010) 260. – McFadden, P. and Skenderis, K., Holography for cosmology, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 021301. – McFadden, P. and Skenderis, K., The holographic universe, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 222 (2010) 012007. – Meerburg, P.D., van der Schaar, J.P. and Jackson, M.G., Bispectrum signatures of a modified vacuum in single field inflation with a small speed of sound, JCAP 1002 (2010) 001. – Papadodimas, K., Topological anti-topological fusion in four-dimensional superconformal field theories, JHEP 1008 (2010) 118. – Skenderis, K., Taylor, M. and Tsimpis, D., A consistent truncation of IIB supergravity on manifolds admitting a Sasaki-Einstein structure, JHEP 1006 (2010) 025. – Weydert, C., Frixione, S., Herquet, M., Klasen, M., Laenen, E., Plehn, T., Sta- venga, G. and White, C.D., Charged Higgs production in association with a top quark in MC@NLO, Eur. Phys. J. C 67 (2010) 617-636.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Badalian, A.M., Bakker, B.L.G., and Danilkin, I.V., Dielectron widths of the S-, D-vector bottomonium states, Phys. Atom. Nucl. 73 (1) (2010) 138-149. – Badalian, A.M., Bakker, B.L.G. and Danilkin, I.V., Hyperﬁne splittings in bottomonium and the B − q(q = n, s, c) mesons, Phys. Rev. D 81 (7) (2010) 071502. – Bakker, B.L.G. and Ji, C.-R., The Smithsonian/NASA astrophysics data system, Nucl. Phys. B - Proc. Suppl. 199 (2010) 225. – Bakker, B.L.G. and Ji, C.-R., Treacherous points in deeply virtual compton scattering, Nucl. Phys. B - Proc. Suppl. 199 (2010) 225-230. – Bazzocchi, F., Cerdeno, D., Munoz, D. and Valle, J.W.F., Calculable inverse- seesaw neutrino masses in supersymmetry, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 051701 (hep- ph/0907.1262). 6. Academic publications 77

– Bazzocchi, F., Calculable neutrino masses in an inverse see-saw scenario and DM candidates, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 203 (2010) 012049. – Boer, D., Transverse lambda polarization at high energy colliders, PoS (DIS2010) 215 (hep-ph/1007.3145). – Boer, D. and den Dunnen, W.J., Bounding W -W 0 mixing with spin asymmetries at RHIC, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (7) (2010) 071801. – Boer, D., Kang, Z.-B., Vogelsang, W. and Yuan, F., Test of the universality of naive-time-reversal-odd fragmentation functions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 202001. – Boomsma, J.K. and Boer, D., Influence of strong magnetic fields and instantons on the phase structure of the two-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 074005. – Ji, C.-R. and Bakker, B.L.G., GPD extraction from DVCS in LFD, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 199 (2010) 16-25. – Ji, C.-R. and Bakker, B.L.G., Spin filter and GPDs in DVCS amplitudes, PoS (LC2010) 054. – Rogers, T.C. and Mulders, P.J., No generalized transverse momentum dependent factorization in the hadroproduction of high transverse momentum hadrons, Phys. Rev. D 81 (9) (2010) 094006. – Rogers, T.C. and Strikman, M., Multiple hard partonic collisions with correlations in proton-proton scattering, Phys. Rev. D 81 (1) (2010) 016013. – Sierra, D.A., Bazzocchi, F., de Medeiros Varzielas, I., Merlo, L. and Morisi, S., Tri-bimaximal lepton mixing and leptogenesis, Nucl. Phys. B 827 (2010) 34-58 (hep-ph/0908.0907). – Toorop, R.D., Bazzocchi, F. and Merlo, L., The interplay between GUT and flavour symmetries in a Pati-Salam x S-4 model, JHEP 1008 (2010) 001. – Toorop, R.D., Bazzocchi, F. and Merlo, L., Discrete falvour symmetries in GUTs: the beauty and the beast, JHEP 1008 (2010) 001 (hep-ph/1003.4502).

University of Groningen – Andringa, R., Bergshoeﬀ, E.A., Hohm, O., Roo, M. de, Sezgin, E. and Townsend, P.K., Massive 3D supergravity, Class. Quant. Grav. 27 (2010) 025100 (hep- th/0907.4658). – Baron, R., Boucaud, Ph., Carbonell, J., Deuzeman, A., Drach, V., Farchioni, F., Gimenez, V., Herdoiza, G., Jansen, K., McNeile, C., Michael, C., Montvay, I., Palao, D., Pallante, E., Pne, O., Reker, S., Urbach, C., Wagner, M. and Wenger, U., Light hadrons from lattice QCD with light (u, d), strange and charm dynamical quarks, JHEP 1006 (2010) 111. – Baron, R., Boucaud, P., Carbonell, J., Drach, V., Farchioni, F., Herdoiza, G., Jansen, K., Michael, C., Montvay, I., Pallante, E., Reker, S., Urbach, C., Wagner, M. and Wenger, U., Kaon and D meson masses with Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 twisted mass lattice QCD, PoS (LAT2010) 119. – Baron, R., Boucaud, P., Carbonell, J., Deuzeman, A., Drach, V., Farchioni, F., Gimenez, V., Herdoiza, G., Jansen, K., McNeile, C., Michael, C., Montvay, I., Palao, D., Pallante, E., Pene, O., Reker, S., Urbach, C., Wagner, M. and Wenger, U., Light hadrons from Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 dynamical twisted mass fermions, PoS 78 Annual report 2010

(LAT2010) 123. – Baron, R., Boucaud, P., Carbonell, J., Farchioni, F., Gimenez, V., Herdoiza, G., Jansen, K., McNeile, C., Michael, C., Montvay, I., Palao, D., Pallante, E., Pene, O., Reker, S., Urbach, C., Wagner, M. and Wenger, U., Computing K and D meson masses with Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 twisted mass lattice QCD, Comp. Phys. Comm. 182 (2010) 299-316 (hep-lat/1005.2042). – Bergshoeff, E.A. and Hartong, J., BPS open strings and A-D-E-singularities in F-theory on K3, JHEP 1002 (2010) 007. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Hartong, J., Howe, P., Ortin, T. and Riccioni, F., IIA/IIB supergravity and ten-forms, JHEP 1005 (2010) 061. – Bergshoeff, E.A. and Riccioni, F., D-brane Wess-Zumino terms and U-duality, JHEP 1011 (2010) 139 (hep-th/1009.4657). – Bergshoeff, E.A., Hohm, O. and Townsend, P.K., On higher derivatives in 3D gravity and higher spin gauge theories, Ann. Phys. 325 (2010) 1118-1134. – Bergshoeff, E.A., On massive gravitons in 2 + 1 dimensions, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 229 (2010) 012005 (hep-th/0912.2944). – Bergshoeff, E.A., Hohm, O., Rosseel, J. and Townsend, P.K., On maximal massive 3D supergravity, Class. Quant. Grav. 27 (2010) 235012. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Cecotti, S., Samtleben, H. and Sezgin, E., Superconformal sigma- models in three dimensions, Nucl. Phys. B 838 (2010) 266-297 (hep-th/1002.4411). – Chemissany, W., Fre, P., Rosseel, J., Sorin, A.S., Trigiante, M. and van Riet, T., Black holes in supergravity and integrability, JHEP 1009 (2010) 080 (hep- th/1007.3209). – Deuzeman, A., Pallante, E. and Lombardo, M.P., Phases of QCD from small to large N(f): (Some) lattice results, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 25 (2010) 5175-5182. – Deuzeman, A., Lombardo, M.P. and Pallante, E., Evidence for a conformal phase in SU(N) gauge theories, Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 074503 (hep-ph/0904.4662). – Deuzeman, A., Lombardo, M.P. and Pallante, E., Chiral symmetry of QCD with twelve light flavors, PoS (LAT2010) 062 (2010) (hep-lat/1012.6023). – Deuzeman, A., Lombardo, M.P. and Pallante, E., The bulk transition of many- flavour QCD and the search for a UVFP at strong couplings, PoS (LAT2010) 067 (hep-lat/1012.5971). – Dibitetto, G., Linares, R. and Roest, D., Flux compactifications, gauge algebras and de Sitter, Phys. Lett. B 688: (2010) 96-100 (hep-th/1001.3982); AIP Conf. Proc. 1318 (2010) 232-238. – Dibitetto, G. and Klemm, D., Magnetic charges in the AdS(4) superalgebra osp(4—2), JHEP 1012 (2010) 005 (hep-th/1005.4334). – Kadosh, A. and Pallante, E., An A(4) flavor model for quarks and leptons in warped geometry, JHEP 1008 (2010) 115 (hep-ph/1004.0321). – Roest, D. and Rosseel, J., De Sitter in extended supergravity, Phys. Lett. B 685 (2010) 201-207 (hep-th/0912.4440).

Leiden University – Atmaja, A.N. and Schalm, K., Photon and dilepton production in soft wall AdS/QCD, JHEP 1008 (2010) 124. – Bartko, M., Martins, F., Trippe, S., Fritz, T.K., Genzel, R., Ottl, T., Eisenhauer, 6. Academic publications 79

F., Gillessen, S., Paumard, T., Alexander, T., Dodds-Eden, K., Gerhard, O., Levin, Y., Mascetti, L., Nayakshin, S., Perets, H.B., Perrin, G., Pfuhl, O., Reid, M. J., Rouan, D., Zilka, M. and Sternberg, A., An extremely top-heavy initial mass function in the galactic center stellar disks, Astrophys. J. 708 (2010) 834. – Chen, H.Y., Gong, J.O., Koyama, K. and Tasinato, G., Towards multi-field D-brane inflation in a warped throat, J. Cosm. Astrop. Phys. 1011 (2010) 34. – Gong, J.O., Koh, S. and Sasaki, M., Complete analysis of linear cosmological perturbations in Horava-Lifshitz gravity, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 084053. – Gong, J.O., Lin, C.S. and Wang, Y., Non-Gaussianity from false vacuum inflation: Old curvaton scenario, J. Cosm. Astrop. Phys. 1003 (2010) 4. – Idema, T., Semrau, S., Storm, C. and Schmidt, T., Membrane mediated sorting, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010) 198102. – Meerburg, P.D, van der Schaar, J.P. and Jackson, M.G., Bispectrum signatures of a modified vacuum in single field inflation with a small speed of sound, J. Cosm. Astrop. Phys. 1002 (2010) 1. – van Haasteren, R. and Levin, Y., Gravitational-wave memory and pulsar timing arrays, Mon. Not. Roy. Astronom. Soc. 401 (2010) 2372.

Radboud University Nijmegen – Anastasopoulos, P., Leontaris, G.K., Richter, R. and Schellekens, A.N., SU(5) D- brane realizations, Yukawa couplings and proton stability, JHEP 1012 (2010) 011. – Argyres, E.N., van Kessel, M.T.M. and Kleiss, R.H.P., Quantum extremism: eﬀec- tive potential and extremal paths, Eur. Phys. J. C 65 (2010) 303-310. – Beenakker, W., Brensing, S., Laenen, E. and Niessen, I., et al., Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders, JHEP 1008 (2010) 098. – Beenakker, W., Brensing, S., Kramer, M., Kulesza, A., Laenen, E. and Niessen, I., Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders, JHEP 1008 (2010) 098. – Garzelli, M.V., Malamos, I. and Pittau, R., Feynman rules for the rational part of the electroweak 1-loop amplitudes, JHEP 1001 (2010) 040; Erratum-ibid. 1010 (2010) 097. – Gato-Rivera, B. and Schellekens, A.N., Asymmetric Gepner models: revisited, Nucl. Phys. B 841 (2010) 100-129. – Gato-Rivera, B. and Schellekens, A.N., Heterotic weight lifting, Nucl. Phys. B 828 (2010) 375-389. – Hiyama, E., Motoba, T., Rijken, T.A. and Yamamoto, Y., Baryon-baryon interactions and hypernuclei, Progr. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 185 (2010) 1-13. – Hiyama, E., Kamimura, M., Yamamoto, Y., Motoba, T. and Rijken, T.A., S=-1 Hypernuclear structure, Progr. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 185 (2010) 106-151. – Hiyama, E., Kamimura, M., Yamamoto, Y.Y., Motoba, T. and Rijken, T.A., S=-2 Hypernuclear structure, Progr. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 185 (2010) 156-196. – Kiritsis, E., Lennek, M. and Schellekens, B., SU(5) orientifolds, Yukawa couplings, stringy instantons and proton decay, Nucl. Phys. B 829 (2010) 298-324. – Maio, M. and Schellekens, A.N., Complete analysis of extensions of D(n)(1) permutation orbifolds, Nucl. Phys. B 826 (2010) 511-521. – Maio, M. and Schellekens, A.N., Formula for ﬁxed point resolution matrix of per- 80 Annual report 2010

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Utrecht University – Alexandrov, S., Pioline, B. and Vandoren, S., Self-dual Einstein spaces, heavenly metrics and twistors, J. Math. Phys. 51 (2010) 073510 (hep-th/0912.3406). – Alexandrov S., Pioline, B., Saueressig F. and Vandoren, S., Linear perturbations of quaternionic metrics, Comm. Math. Phys. 296 (2010) 353-403 (hep-th/0810.1675). – Ambjørn, J., Gorlich, A., Jordan, S., Jurkiewicz, J. and Loll, R., CDT meets Horava-Lifshitz gravity, Phys. Lett. B 690 (2010) 413-419 (hep-th/1002.3298). – Ambjørn, J., Gorlich, A., Jurkiewicz, J. and Loll, R., Geometry of the quantum universe., Phys.Lett. B 690 (2010) 420-426 (hep-th/1001.4581). – Ambjørn, J., Loll, R., Westra, W. and Zohren, S., Causal random geometry from stochastic quantization J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 246 (2010) 012028 (hep-th/1004.0718). – Ambjørn, J., Jurkiewicz, J. and Loll, R., Deriving spacetime from first principles Ann. of Phys. 19 (2010) 186-195. – Anderson, E. and Franzen, A., Quantum cosmological metroland model, Class. Quant. Grav. 27 (2010) 045009 (gr-qc/0909.2436). – Arutyunov, G.E., Frolov, S. and Suzuki, R., Exploring the mirror TBA, JHEP 1005 (2010) 031 (arXiv: 0911.2224 [hep-th]). – Arutyunov, G.E., de Leeuw, M. and Torrielli, A., On Yangian and long representa- tions of the centrally extended su(2|2) superalgebra, JHEP 1006 (2010) 033 (arXiv: 0912.0209 [hep-th]). – Arutyunov, G.E., Frolov, S. and Suzuki, R., Five-loop Konishi from the mirror TBA, JHEP 1004 (2010) 069 (arXiv: 1002.1711 [hep-th]). – Arzano, M., Kowalski-Glikman J. and Walkus A., A bound on Planck-scale mo- difications of the energy-momentum composition rule from atomic interferometry, Europhys. Lett. 90 (2010) 30006 (hep-th/0912.2712). – Arzano, M. , Kowalski-Glikman, J. and Walkus, A., Lorentz invariant field theory on kappa-Minkowski space, Class. Quant. Grav. 27 (2010) 025012 (hep-th/0908.1974). – Banerjee, N. and Dutta, S., Nonlinear hydrodynamics from flow of retarded Green’s function. JHEP 1008 (2010) 041 (hep-th/1005.2367). – Banerjee, N., Banerjee, S., Gupta, R.K., Mandal, I. and Sen, A., Supersym- metry, localization and quantum entropy function, JHEP 1002 (2010) 091 (hep- th/0905.2686). 6. Academic publications 81

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Nikhef Theory Group – Akerblom, N., et al., Marginal deformations and 3-algebra structures Nucl. Phys. B 826 (2010) 456. – Akerblom, N. and Cornelissen, G., A compact codimension-two braneworld with precisely one brane, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 124025. – Anastasopoulos, P., Leontaris, G.K., Richter, R. and Schellekens A.N., SU(5) D- brane realizations, Yukawa couplings and proton stability, JHEP 1012 (2010) 011. 6. Academic publications 83

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6.2 Theme 2

University of Amsterdam – Allahverdyan, A.E., Balian, R. and Nieuwenhuizen, T.M., Simultaneous measurement of non-commuting observables, Phys. E-Low-Dim. Syst. and Nanostr. 42 (2010). – Calabrese, P., Campostrini, M., Essler, F. and Nienhuis, B., Parity eﬀects in the 6. Academic publications 85

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– Spicka, V., Nieuwenhuizen, T.M. and Keefe, P.D., Physics at the FMQT201908 conference, Phys. E-Low-Dim. Syst. and Nanostr. 42 (2010). – Titvinidze, I., Snoek, M. and Hofstetter, W., Resonant superﬂuidity in an optical lattice, New J. Phys. 12 (2010) 065030. – Wang, Y.C., Guo, W.A., Nienhuis, B. and Bl¨oteH.W.J., Conducting-angle-based percolation in the XY model, Phys. Rev. E 81 (2010) 031117. – Wernsdorfer, J., Snoek, M. and Hofstetter, W., Lattice-Ramp induced dynamics in an interacting Bose-Bose mixture, Phys. Rev. A 81 (2010) 043620.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Broedersz, C.P., Depken, M., et al., Cross-link governed dynamics of biopolymer networks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 238101. – Broedersz, C.P., Kasza, K.E., et al., Measurement of nonlinear rheology of cross- linked biopolymer gels Soft Matt. 6(17) (2010) 4120-4127. – Das, M. and MacKintosh, F.C., Poisson’s ratio in composite elastic media with rigid rods, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010). – Fakhri, N., MacKintosh, F.C., et al., Brownian motion of stiff filaments in a crow- ded environment, Science 330 (2010) 1804-1807. – Gbur, G. and Visser, T.D., The structure of partially coherent fields, Progr. Opt. 55 (2010) 285-341. – Gremaud, R., Broedersz, C.P., et al., Hydrogenography of MgyNi1-yHx gradient thin films: interplay between the thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrogenation, Acta Mat. 58 (2010) 658-668. – Kapitein, L.C., Schlager, M.A., Kuijpers, M., Wulf, P.S., van Spronsen, M., Mac- Kintosh, F.C. and Hoogenraad, C.C., Mixed microtubules steer dynein-driven cargo transport into dendrites, Curr. Bio. 20 (2010) 290-299. – Kasza, K.E., Broedersz, C.P., et al., Actin filament length tunes elasticity of flexibly cross-linked actin networks, Biophys. J. 99 (2010) 1091-1100. – Koenderink, G.H. and MacKintosh, F.C., Actieve materialeigenschappen van de levende cel, Ned. Tijdschr. Nat. 76 (2010) 146. – Lin, Y.-C., Broedersz, C.P., et al., Divalent cations crosslink vimentin intermediate filament tail domains to regulate network mechanics, J. of Mol. Bio. 399 (2010) 637-644. – Lin, Y.-C., Yao, N.Y., Broedersz, C.P., et al., Origins of elasticity in intermediate filament networks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010). – MacKintosh, F.C. and Schmidt, C.F., Active cellular materials, Curr. Op. Cell Bio. 22 (2010) 29-35. – Mayer, M., Depken, M., et al., Anisotropies in cortical tension reveal the physical basis of polarizing cortical flows, Nature 467 (2010) 617-U150. – Piechocka, I.K., Bacabac, R.G., et al., Structural hierarchy governs fibrin gel mechanics, Biophys. J. 98 (2010) 2281-2289. – Raghunathan, S.B., van Dijk, T., et al., Experimental demonstration of an intensity minimum at the focus of a laser beam created by spatial coherence: application to the optical trapping of dielectric particles, Optics Lett. 35 (2010) 4166-4168. – Sept, D. and MacKintosh, F.C., Microtubule elasticity: connecting all-atom simulations with continuum mechanics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010). 6. Academic publications 87

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University of Groningen – Redig, F., Roelly, S. and Ruszel, W.M., Short-time Gibbsianness for infinite- dimensional diffusions with space-time interaction, J. Stat. Phys. 138 (2010) 1124-1144. – van Enter, A.C.D., Kuelske, C., Opoku, A.A. and Ruszel, W.M., Gibbs-non-Gibbs properties for n-vector lattice and mean-field models, J. Prob. Stat. 24 (2010) 226-255. – van Enter, A.C.D. and Verbitskiy, E., Erasure entropies and Gibbs measures, Mar- kov Proc. Rel. Fields 16 (2010) 3-15. – van Enter, A.C.D., Fernández,R., den Hollander, W.T.F. and Redig, F., A large deviation view of dynamical Gibbs-non-Gibbs transitions, Mosc. Math. J. 10 (2010) 687-711.

Leiden University – Ament, L.J.P. and Khaliullin, G., Theory of Raman and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering from collective orbital excitations in YTiO3, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 125118. – Akhmerov, A.R., Topological quantum computation away from the ground state with Majorana fermions, Phys Rev. B 82 (2010) 020509. – Baiesi, M., Barkema, G.T. and Carlon, E., Elastic lattice polymers, Phys. Rev. E 81 (2010) 061801. – Baiesi, M., Barkema, G.T., Carlon, E. and Panja, D., Unwinding dynamics of double-stranded polymers, J. Chem. Phys. 133 (2010) 061801. – Bardarson, J.H., Medvedyeva, M.V., Tworzydlo, J., Akhmerov, A.R. and Beenak- ker, C.W.J., Absence of a metallic phase in charge-neutral graphene with a random gap, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 121414. – Beri, B., Topologically stable gapless phases of time-reversal invariant superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 134515. – Braicovich, L., Sala, M.M., Ament, L.J.P., Bisogni, V., Minola, M., Balestrino, G., Di Castro, D., De Luca, G. M., Salluzzo, M., Ghiringhelli, G. and van den Brink, 88 Annual report 2010

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This chapter contains an overview of (international) conference talks, seminars, sym- posia, colloquia, meetings, workshops, lecture courses given at schools and universities and poster presentations of staﬀ members and postdoctoral fellows. A list of public lectures can be found in Chapter 8 (Section 8.2) An overview of the presentations of PhD students is given in Chapter 4 (Sections 4.5 and 4.6).

7.1 Theme 1

University of Amsterdam – Bais, F.A., Introductie in de natuurwetenschappen, Lectures, Geert Grote School, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 11-13 January 2010. – Bais, F.A., Very special relativity, Lectures, Master Course, University of Amster- dam, the Netherlands, 13 January 2010. – Bais, F.A., Turningpoints in science, Lectures, European Comenius Course, Cam- bridge, UK, 27-29 January 2010. – Bais, F.A., Abelian and non-abelian magnetic monopoles, CMT-Lunch Seminar, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 17 March 2010. – Bais, F.A., Keerpunten in de natuurwetenschap, Lecture, Comenius Course, Arn- hem, the Netherlands, 19 March 2010. – Bais, F.A., A pictorial account of relativity and The physics of quantum groups and their breaking, International Workshop, Leiden, the Netherlands, 4 June 2010. – Bais, F.A., Keerpunten, Lecture, AOG Summer School, Groningen, the Nether- lands, 6 July 2010. – Bais, F.A., The physics of quantum groups and their breaking, Kavli Royal Society International Meeting, Topology and Physics, Chicheley Hall, London, UK, 15 July 2010. – Bais, F.A., Summer Workshop, Two seminars, Aspen Institute for Physics, Colo- rado, USA, 19 July-8 August 2010. – Bais, F.A., Turningpoints in science, Lectures, European Comenius Course, Cam- bridge, UK, 8-11 September 2010. – Bais, F.A., Grote wendingen in ons denken over de natuur, Lectures, Volksuniver- siteit, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 7 and 14 October 2010. – Bais, F.A., Keerpunten in de Natuurwetenschap, Lecture, Comenius Course, Arn- hem, the Netherlands, 2 December 2010. 98 Annual report 2010

– Bais, F.A., Much ado about nothing, Xmas Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2 December 2010. – de Boer, J., Holography, quantum gravity and black holes, General Physics Collo- quium, AlbaNova/Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden, 18 February 2010. – de Boer, J., (Non)geometric aspects of black hole microstates, Conference, Strings 2010, College Station, Texas, USA, 16 March 2010. – de Boer, J., (Non)geometric aspects of black holes and their microstates, Spring School, Superstring Theory and Related Topics, Trieste, Italy, 22-30 March 2010. – de Boer, J., Why black holes are difficult, Inaugural Workshop, Black Holes in Supergravity and M/Superstring Theory, Pennsylvania State University, Philadel- phia, USA, 10 September 2010. – de Boer, J., Black holes and exotic states, Conference, Gauge Theories and the Structure of Spacetime, Kolymvari, Crete, Greece, 16 September 2010. – de Boer, J., Black holes and exotic states, London Triangular Seminar, Kings Col- lege, UK, 13 October 2010. – de Boer, J., Holography, quantum gravity and black holes, General Physics Collo- quium, University of Trondheim, Norway, 19 November 2010. – de Boer, J., Black holes and exotic states, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany, 25 November 2010. – de Boer, J., Holography, neutron stars and quantum effects near black holes, Liver- pool High Energy Theory Group, UK, 15 December 2010. – Heller, M.P., Holographic approach to far-from-equilibrium dynamics of non-Abelian media, First String Meeting, A String Theoretic Approach to Cosmology and Quan- tum Matter National Conference, Groningen, the Netherlands, 6 November 2010. – Heller, M.P., Black brane entropy and hydrodynamics, Seminar, Institute for Theo- retical Physics, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10 November 2010. – Kulaxizi, M., Lovelock gravity, black holes and holography, Swansea, Wales, Queen Mary, London, UK, April 2010. – Kulaxizi, M., Holographic lovelock gravity and entanglement entropy, Conference, Gauge Theories and the Structure of Spacetime, Kolymvari, Crete, Greece, Sep- tember 2010. – Kulaxizi, M., AdS/CFT and lovelock gravity, GGI Workshop, AdS4/CFT3 and the Holographic States of Matter, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy, October 2010. – Kulaxizi, M., AdS/CFT and lovelock gravity, ENS, Paris, France, November 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P. (see under Nikhef). – McFadden, P.L., Holography for cosmology, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Nether- lands, 19 January 2010. – McFadden, P.L., Holography for cosmology, Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9 April 2010. – McFadden, P.L., Holography for cosmology & the holographic universe, Seminars, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 15 and 20 April 2010. – McFadden, P.L., The holographic universe, National Conference, FYSICA 2010, Meeting of the NNV (Dutch Physical Society), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 April 2010. 7. Scientific activities 99

– McFadden, P.L., The holographic universe, Seminar, Groningen, the Netherlands, 12 May 2010. – McFadden, P.L., The holographic universe, Seminar, DAMTP, Cambridge, UK, 19 May 2010. – McFadden, P.L., The holographic universe, Seminar, Nottingham, UK, 21 May 2010. – McFadden, P.L., Holographic non-gaussianity, Seminar, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 September 2010. – McFadden, P.L., Observational signatures of holographic models of inflation, GRAPPA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 27 October 2010. – McFadden, P.L., Holographic non-gaussianity, Seminar, Durham University, Du- rham, UK, 29 October 2010. – McFadden, P.L., Holographic non-gaussianity, Seminar, University of Barcelona, Spain, 4 November 2010. – McFadden, P.L., Observational signatures of holographic models of inflation, Na- tional Conference, First String Meeting, Groningen, the Netherlands, 5 November 2010. – Papadodimas, K., Lectures on dualities in supersymmetric gauge theories, Amsterdam-Brussels Paris Doctoral School 2010. – Papadodimas, K., Degenerate stars and gravitational collapse in AdS/CF T , Paris, France, 30 July 2010. – Papadodimas, K., Small hairy black holes in AdS5xS5, Conference, Gauge Theo- ries and the Structure of Spacetime, Crete, Greece, 13 September 2010. – Prokopec, T., Introduction to cosmic inflation, Theoretical Physics Summer School, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 16-27 August 2010. – Quella, T., Conformal superspace sigma-models, Workshop, The Interface of Inte- grability and Quantization, Leiden, the Netherlands, 12 April 2010. – Shigemori, M., Exotic branes and non-geometric backgrounds, University of Barce- lona, Spain, 27 May 2010. – Shigemori, M., Exotic branes and non-geometric backgrounds, Service de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay, France, 4 June 2010. – Shigemori, M., Exotic branes and non-geometric backgrounds, International Confe- rence, Strings, M-Theory and Quantum Gravity, Ascona, Switzerland, 26 July 2010. – Skenderis, K., AdS/CFT of holographic dualities and applications, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Skenderis, K., Higher derivative corrections to supergravity using the pure spinor superstring, Simons Center Workshop, Superstrings in Ramond-Ramond Back- grounds, Stony Brook, New York, USA, 25 March 2010. – Skenderis, K., Holographic inflation, Workshop, The Frontiers of Cosmology, He- raklion, Crete, Greece, 3 April 2010. – Skenderis, K., The holographic universe, University of Barcelona, Spain, 29 April 2010. – Skenderis, K., Cosmological frontiers in fundamental physics, Workshop, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 15 June 2010. – Skenderis, K., Holography for Schrödinger, 35th International Conference, High 100 Annual report 2010

Energy Physics (ICHEP), Paris, France, 25 July 2010. – Skenderis, K., Holographic non-gaussianity, Focus Week String Cosmology Work- shop, IPMU, Japan, 5 October 2010. – Skenderis, K., AdS/CFT and novel approaches to hadron and heavy ion physics, Holography for Cosmology KITPC, Beijing, China, 12 October 2010. – Skenderis, K., Rencontres theoreticiennes, Holographic Cosmology, Paris, France, 16 December 2010. – Taylor, M.M., A holographic view of the universe, Meeting Physics Section, KNAW, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 5 March 2010. – Taylor, M.M., Lectures on AdS/CFT and non-relativistic holography, IPM Spring School, Tehran, Iran, 9-15 April 2010. – Taylor, M.M., FOM/v Symposium, Arnhem, the Netherlands, 16 April 2010. – Taylor, M.M., Schrödingerholography, Conference, Gauge Theories and the Struc- ture of Spacetime, Kolymbari, Crete, 14 September 2010. – Taylor, M.M., Schrödingerholography, Conference, Program AdS4/CF T 3 and the Holographic States of Matter, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy, 30 Septem- ber 2010. – Taylor, M.M., Schrödingerand Lifshitz holography, Imperial College, London, UK, 1 December 2010. – van der Schaar, J.P., Non-Gaussian constraints on excited states in effective field theories of inflation, Seminar NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden, 22 March 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Holography and the emergence of gravity, Physics@FOM, Veldho- ven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Hoe ontstaat de zwaartekracht?, Viva Fysica Symposium, Amster- dam, the Netherlands, 29 January 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., On the origin of gravity, Colloquium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1 February 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The entropic origin of gravity, Colloquium Ehrenfesti, Leiden, the Netherlands, 3 February 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The emergence of gravity, ITFA-WZI Colloquium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 4 February 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Gravity as an emergent force, Nikhef Colloquium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 5 February 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The emergence of gravity, London Triangle Meeting, London, UK, 3 March 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The entropic origin of gravity, Colloquium, Groningen, the Nether- lands, 18 March 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The entropic origin of gravity, Evening Lecture, Trieste Spring School, Italy, 26 March 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., De oorsprong van de zwaartekracht, Student Colloquium, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 30 March 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The entropic origin of gravity, Colloquium, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 1 April 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., De zwaartekracht in beweging: van Newton tot nu, Evening Lecture, Public Museum Boerhave, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 April 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Emergent gravity, Evening Lecture, DRSTP Postgraduate Course 7. Scientific activities 101

Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The entropic origin of gravity, Colloquium, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 12 May 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., What is string theory, Seminar, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, On- tario, Canada, 14 May 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The entropic origin of gravity, Colloquium, Renaissance Technolo- gies, Stony Brook, New York, USA, 18 May 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The emergence of gravity from a string theory perspective, Simons Meeting, Manhattan, New York, USA, 23 May 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Reaction forces and the adiabatic theorem, Seminar, Mathematics Department, University of Stony Brook, New York, USA, 16 May 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Zwaartekracht bestaat niet, Lezing, UvA-Alumni-Dag, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 6 June 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Gravity as an emergent force, Parallel Session, ICHEP 2010, Paris, France, 22 July 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., The emergence of gravity, Presentation, Science Foo Camp, Google Campus, Mountain View, California, USA, 30 July 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Gravity as an emergent force, Special Seminar, KITP, Santa Bar- bara, California, USA, 2 August 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Gravity as an emergent force, Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena, Califor- nia, USA, 4 August 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Emergence of gravity, Colloquium, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 4 October 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Gravity as an emergent force, Colloquium, Korteweg-de Vries Ins- titute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 20 October 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Emergence of gravity, General Physics Colloquium, Harvard Uni- versity, Cambridge, USA, 25 October 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Counting Dyon, wall crossing and Borcherds algebra, Mathematics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 26 October 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Emergent forces, Geneva-Laussanne-Bern-Zurich Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 26 November 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., 2D physics, Xmas Colloquium, AMOLF, Amsterdam, the Nether- lands, 24 December 2010.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Bazzocchi, F., Constraining non-abelian discrete ﬂavor symmetries, Nikhef, Am- sterdam, the Netherlands, 12 December 2010. – Mulders, P.J.G., Transverse momentum dependent distribution functions at high energies, 3rd International Workshop, High Energy Physics in the LHC Era, Val- paraiso, Chile, 3 January 2010. – Mulders, P.J.G., Veranderende concepten over materie, ruimte en tijd, ITS Regio- nal Meeting, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25 March 2010. – Mulders, P.J.G., Tranverse momentum dependent PDFs in high energy processes - theory overview and applications, AGS-RHIC User’s Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 6 June 2010. 102 Annual report 2010

– Mulders, P.J.G., Transverse momentum dependence in high-energy scattering processes, Workshop, Transverse Momentum Distributions, (ECT*), Trento, Italy, 21 June 2010. – Mulders, P.J.G., Overview of TMD factorization in high energy scattering processes, Brookhaven Summer Program Nucleon Spin Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 15 July 2010. – Mulders, P.J.G., Universality of transverse momentum dependent distribution functions, Workshop, Perturbative and Nonperturbative Aspects of QCD at Collider Energies, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 14 September 2010. – Rogers, T.C., Complications in QCD factorization with transverse momentum PDFs, Seminar, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 2010. – Rogers, T.C., Transverse momentum PDFs and factorization breaking, RHIC Spin Meeting, Iowa State University, USA, 15 May 2010. – Rogers, T.C., TMD factorization breaking, (ECT*) Workshop, TMD 2010, Trento, Italy, 22 June 2010. – Rogers, T.C., Factorization and factorization breaking with TMD PDFs, INT Work- shop, Gluons and the Quark Sea at High Energies, University of Washington, Seat- tle, Massachusetts, USA, 20 September 2010.

University of Groningen – Bergshoeff, E.A., New massive gravity, CECS Summer Workshop, Theoretical Phy- sics, Valdivia, Chili, January 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Massive gravity in three dimensions, National Seminar, Theore- tical High Energy Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Massive gravity in three dimensions, MIT, Boston, USA, April 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Massive gravity in three dimensions, Brandeis University, Boston, USA, April 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Massive (super-)gravity and AdS vacua, Solvay Workshop, Sym- metries and Dualities in Gravitational Theories, Brussels, Belgium, May 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Massive (super-)gravities in three dimensions, III Mini Workshop, String Theory 2010, Oviedo, Spain, June 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Massive (super-)gravities in three dimensions, Lyon, France, June 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Quantum gravity in three dimensions, Relativity Meeting - ERE 2010, Gravity as a Crossroad in Physics, Granada, Spain, September 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Massive gravity in three dimensions, Conference, Gauge Theories and the Structure of Spacetime, Kolymvary, Crete, September 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., D-brane Wess-Zumino terms and U-duality, Queen Mary College, London, UK, October 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., D-branes and doubled geometry, 26th Nordic Network Meeting Strings, Fields and Branes, Göteborg, Sweden, October 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Gravity and strings, Symposium, Deeltjesfysica, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, October 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., D-branes and doubled geometry, College Station, USA, November 2010. 7. Scientific activities 103

– Bergshoeff, E.A., Snaartheorie, FMF Symposium, Thursday’s Universe or How the Quantum Created the Cosmos, Groningen, the Netherlands, November 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Newtonian gravity and the Bargmann algebra, Topical Confe- rence, Elementary Particles, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Miami, USA, December 2010. – Boer, D., T-odd effects in hadronic collisions, Workshop, High-Energy Hadron Physics with Hadron Beams, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, 6 January 2010. – Boer, D., Gluon saturation and the color glass condensate, Center for Theoretical Physics, Groningen, the Netherlands, 16 February 2010. – Boer, D., Transverse spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive DIS, Workshop, Partonic Transverse Momentum in Hadrons: Quark Spin-Orbit Correlations and Quark- Gluon Interactions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, 12 March 2010. – Boer, D., Transverse Lambda polarization and small-x physics, Workshop, Progress in High-pT Physics at RHIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, 19 March 2010. – Boer, D., Transverse Lambda polarization at high energy colliders, XVIII Inter- national Workshop, Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2010), Florence, Italy, 21 April 2010. – Boer, D., Hadron structure in Drell-Yan - theory overview, Workshop, Studying the Hadron Structure in Drell-Yan Reactions, CERN, Switzerland, 26 April 2010. – Boer, D., The scale dependences of TMD asymmetries, Workshop, High Energy Strong Interactions (HESI2010), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, 25 August 2010. – Boer, D., Beyond the spin crisis, Physics Colloquium, Groningen, the Netherlands, 9 December 2010. – Myers, J.C., QCD with chemical potential in a small hyperspherical box, 2nd Theory Meeting, KVI, Groningen, the Netherlands, 16 November 2010. – Pallante, E., Walking through the phase diagram of gauge theories, INFN-LNF Frascati National Laboratories, Rome, Italy, May 2010. – Pallante, E., Emergent conformality in gauge theories, Plenary National Meeting, Theoretical Physics, Cortona, Italy, May 2010. – Pallante, E., Conformality in QCD with twelve flavors, ACP Aspen Summer 2010 Workshop, Strong Dynamics beyond the Standard Model, Colorado, USA, May- June 2010. – Pallante, E., The bulk transition of many-flavour QCD and the search for a UVFP at strong coupling, LATTICE2010, Sardinia, Italy, June 2010. – Pallante, E., The phases of non-Abelian gauge theories: from theory to the lattice, StrongBSM Kick-Off Meeting, CP3-Origins Centre of Excellence, Odense, Den- mark, August 2010. – Pallante, E., Emergent conformality in gauge theories, Barcelona, Spain, September 2010. – Pallante, E., Conformality restored in gauge theories, National Seminar, Theore- tical High Energy Physics, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 19 November 2010. – Pallante, E., Conformality restored in gauge theories, Theoretical Physics Collo- 104 Annual report 2010

quium, Dublin, Ireland, UK, December 2010. – Roest, D., Cosmic challenges for fundamental physics, Groningen, the Netherlands, 30 March 2010. – Roest, D., Cosmic challenges for fundamental physics, Excellence Cluster, Gar- ching, Germany, 5 April 2010. – Roest, D., Stability of non-SUSY vacua in supergravity, Ludwig Maximilian Uni- versity, Munich, Germany, 22 July 2010. – Roest, D., Stability of non-SUSY vacua in supergravity, Barcelona, Spain, 20 Oc- tober 2010. – Rosseel, J., Massive supergravities in three dimensions, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 26 November 2010.

Leiden University – Achúcarro,A., Maths in the sky: the secret life of cosmic strings, Introduction to the Mary Cartwright Lecture 2010, Durham, North Carolina, USA, 26 February 2010. – Achúcarro,A., Heavy physics in the CMB, ERE2010, Spanish Relativity Meeting 2010, Granada, Spain, 8 September 2010. – Gong, J.O., Lectures on contemporary cosmology 1: inflation and classical linear perturbation theory, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 5 January 2010. – Gong, J.O., Lectures on contemporary cosmology 2: quantum linear perturbation theory and beyond, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 6 January 2010. – Gong, J.O., False vacuum inflation, CQUeST, Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 7 January 2010. – Gong, J.O., A complete analysis of linear cosmological perturbations in the Horava- Lifshitz gravity, KIAS, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 15 January 2010. – Gong, J.O., A complete analysis of linear cosmological perturbations in the Horava- Lifshitz gravity, YKIS2010, Symposium Cosmology, The Next Generation, YITP, Kyoto University, Japan, 30 June 2010. – Gong, J.O., Phenomenology of multi-field inflation, Gravity and Cosmology 2010, YITP, Kyoto University, Japan, 13 July 2010. – Gong, J.O., Phenomenology of multi-field inflation, Summer Institute 2010, Nik- keiren Fuji Seminar House, Fuji-Yoshida, Japan, 12 August 2010. – Gong, J.O., Loop corrections to cosmological correlation functions, YITP, Kyoto University, Japan, 16 September 2010. – Gong, J.O., Waterfall field in hybrid inflation and curvature perturbation, 20th Workshop, General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG20), YITP, Kyoto University, Japan, 21 September 2010. – Gong, J.O., Loop corrections to cosmological correlation functions, COSMO/CosPA 2010, University of Tokyo, Japan, 27 September 2010. – Gong, J.O., More updates on warped brane inflation, Focus Week, String Cosmo- logy, IPMU, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, 7 October 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, Theory Seminar, Spinoza Ins- titute, Utrecht, the Netherlands, March 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, Theoretical Cosmology Semi- nar, Leiden, the Netherlands, March 2010. 7. Scientific activities 105

– Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, National Seminar, Theoretical High Energy Physics, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26 March 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, Workshop, Physics at the TeV Scale Seminar, Grenada, May 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, IPMU String Cosmology Focus Week Seminar, Tokyo, Japan, September 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, Theory Seminar, Valencia, Spain, September 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, Ecole´ Normale Sup´erieure Seminar, Paris, France, October 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, AstroParticule et Cosmologie Seminar, Paris, France, October 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, Institut d’Astrophysique Se- minar, Paris, France, October 2010. – Jackson, M., The state of string theory, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, December 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, Gravity and Cosmology Semi- nar, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, December 2010. – Jackson, M., Observing quantum gravity in the sky, String Meeting Seminar, Gro- ningen, the Netherlands, December 2010. – Levin, Y., Supermassive black holes, Evening lecture, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics, Driebergen, the Netherlands, 8-12 February 2010. – Schalm, K., An emergent fermi liquid from a strongly coupled quantum critical point, Groningen, the Netherlands, 4 January 2010. – Schalm, K., An emergent fermi liquid from a strongly coupled quantum critical point, NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden, 15 January 2010. – Schalm, K., An emergent fermi liquid from a strongly coupled quantum critical point, Theoretical Physics Colloquium, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, UK, 8 February 2010. – Schalm, K., An emergent fermi liquid from a strongly coupled quantum critical point, Bruxelles/Leuven, Belgium, 10 February 2010. – Schalm, K., Building a holographic fermi liquid, Workshop, Aspects of the Gauge/Gravity Duality, Cambridge, UK, 22-24 March 2010. – Schalm, K., Building a holographic fermi liquid, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25 May 2010. – Schalm, K., Building a holographic fermi liquid, 3rd Annual UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 September 2010. – Schalm, K., Explaining fermi liquid stability with AdS black holes, Conference, Gauge Theories and the Structure of Spacetime, Crete, Greece, 11-18 September 2010. – Schalm, K., Explaining fermi liquid stability with AdS black holes, AdS/CFT and Holographic States of Matter, GGI Firenze, Italy, 1-5 November 2010. – van Baal, P., Progress on calorons, Workshop, P- and CP-odd Eﬀects in Hot and Dense Matter, RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven, New York, USA, 28 April 2010. – van Baal, P., Progress on calorons, Gribov-80 Memorial Workshop, Quantum 106 Annual report 2010

Chromo Dynamics and Beyond, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, 28 May 2010. – van Baal, P., Calorons with non-trivial holonomy, Future Directions in Lattice Gauge Theory, CERN Theory Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, 10 August 2010. – van Baal, P., Calorons with non-trivial holonomy, Workshop, The Many Faces of QCD, Gent, Belgium, 5 November 2010. – van Holten, J.-W. (see under Nikhef).

Radboud University Nijmegen – Beenakker, W., Introduction to SUSY phenomenology, Lectures, DRSTP Postgra- duate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics, Driebergen, the Netherlands, 8-12 February 2010. – Schellekens, A.N. (see under Nikhef).

Utrecht University – Arutyunov, G.E., Exploring the mirror TBA, Workshop, Quantum Integrability and Gauge Theories, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA, 11-16 January 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., Exploring the mirror TBA, Institute for Advanced Study, Prin- ceton, USA, 19 January 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., Gauge theories from quantum strings, Theoretical Physics Col- loquium, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 27 January 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., Gauge theories - spins vs strings, Colloquium, Utrecht’s Physics Society, the Netherlands, 2 March 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., The mirror TBA: through the looking glass, and, what Alice found there, Workshop, Superstrings in Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA, 22-24 March 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., The mirror TBA: through the looking glass, and, what Alice found there, Workshop, The Interface of Integrability and Quantization, Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands 12-16 April 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., The mirror TBA, Seminar, Humboldt University, Berlin, Ger- many, 27 April 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., On the mirror TBA, Conference, Integrability in Gauge and String Theories, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden, 28 June-3 July 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., Gauge theories from quantum strings, Theoretical Physics Col- loquium, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 7 October 2010. 5 – Arutyunov, G.E., Towards the spectrum of the AdS5xS superstring, Theoretical Physics Colloquium, University of Brussels, Belgium, 13 October 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., Gauge theories from quantum strings, Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 1 November 2010. – Arutyunov, G.E., Twisting the mirror TBA, Workshop, From Sigma Models to Four-Dimensional QFT, Hamburg, Germany, 29 November-3 December 2010. – Arzano, M., Fun from none: deformed Fock space and hidden entanglement, Quan- tum Gravity Workshop, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, 7 May 2010. – Arzano, M., Fun from none: deformed Fock space and hidden entanglement, Quan- tum Gravity Seminar, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, On- 7. Scientiﬁc activities 107

tario, Canada, 26 May 2010. – Arzano, M., Anatomy of a deformed symmetry: field quantization on curved momentum space, Workshop, Caen, France, 7 September 2010. – Arzano, M., Anatomy of a deformed symmetry: field quantization on curved momentum space, Workshop, Noncommutative Field Theory and Gravity, Corfu, Greece, 11 September 2010. – Arzano, M., Anatomy of a deformed symmetry: field quantization on curved momentum space, Theory Group Seminar, Nikhef, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 21 October 2010. – Banerjee, N., Black hole hair removal, Seminar, Potsdam, AEI, Germany, February 2010. – Banerjee, N., Counting of black hole microstates, Seminar, Swansea University, Wales, UK, April 2010. – Banerjee, N., Higher derivative corrections to shear viscosity from graviton’s effective coupling, Seminar, Nordita, Sweden, June 2010. – Banerjee, N., Holographic hydrodynamics, Seminar, Crete, Greece, September 2010. – Banerjee, N., Holographic hydrodynamics, Seminar, Groningen, the Netherlands, November 2010. – Behrend, J., Covariant averaging of a Poincare gauge theory of gravity, Grafiti Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 11 October 2010. – de Wit, B., BPS Black holes and the topological string – a progress report, Istituto Superior Técnico,Lisbon, 10 May 2010. – de Wit, B., BPS Black holes and the topological string – a progress report, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 2 June 2010. – de Wit, B., BPS black holes – new perspectives, Workshop, Black Holes in Supergra- vity and M/Superstring Theory, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 11 September 2010. – de Wit, B., BPS black holes – new perspectives, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, USA, 14 September 2010. – de Wit, B., From elementary particles to strings, in ’Particle Physics - to the Collision and Beyond’, 50th Anniversary Symposium of SVTN J.D. van der Waals, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 5 October 2010. – Falgari, P., Non-factorizable corrections to t-channel single-top production at NLO in QCD, Freiburg, Germany, 23 November 2010. – Falgari, P., Production-decay interferences in t-chanel single-top production at NLO in QCD, Terascale Alliance Meeting, Dresden, Germany, 2 December 2010. – Falgari, P., Non-factorizable corrections to single-top production at NLO in QCD, Bari, Italy, 9 December 2010. – Gupta, R.K., Quantum corrections to entropy of extremal black hole, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 27 October 2010. – Hatlo, M.M., Physics of Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields, Conference, Bonn, Germany, 1-3 March 2010. – Hatlo, M.M., Electrokinetics and electroacoustics near oil-water interfaces in porous media, Shell-FOM Progress Meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 26 May 2010. – Hatlo, M.M., The double layer and nonlinear electrokinetics; the role of ion po- larizability, Shell-FOM Progress Meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9 November 108 Annual report 2010

2010. – Koivisto, T.S., Three-form dark energy and inflation, Astrophysics Seminar, Insti- tute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo, Norway, 21 January 2010. – Koivisto, T.S., Nonlocal gravity theories, Astrophysics Seminar, Institute for Theo- retical Astrophysics, Oslo, Norway, 23 March 2010. – Koivisto, T.S., Bouncing cosmologies from modified gravity, 5th Cosmology Days, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 7 May 2010. – Koivisto, T.S., Three-form cosmology, High Energy/Cosmology Seminar, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland, 18 June 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P. (see under Nikhef). – Loll, R., Probing the Planckian structure of spacetime, 46th Dutch Mathematical Congress, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 22 April 2010. – Loll, R., Searching for the quantum origins of space and time, Lecture, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 5 May 2010. – Loll, R., Searching for the quantum origins of space and time, Colloquium, Hum- boldt University, Berlin, Germany, 1 June 2010. – Loll, R., Searching for the quantum origins of space and time, Colloquium, Uni- versity of Innsbruck, Austria, 9 June 2010. – Loll, R., Lattice quantum gravity - an update, Conference, Lattice 2010, Villasimius, Italy, 16 June 2010. – Loll, R., Quantum gravity from causal dynamical triangulation, Lectures, PASI Quantum Gravity Summer School, Morelia, Mexico, 30 June 2010. – Loll, R., What’s new and cool in causal dynamical triangulations, Conference, Ge- neral Relativity and Gravitation GR19, Mexico City, Mexico, 5 July 2010. – Loll, R., What you always wanted to know about quantum gravity ..., Lecture, Summer School for Master Students in Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 20 August 2010. – Loll, R., New ’best hope’ for quantum gravity, Conference, Quantum Field Theory and Gravity, Regensburg, Germany, 28 September 2010. – Prokopec, T., The cosmology at the electroweak scale, Whepp XI Workshop, High Energy Physics Phenomenology, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmeda- bad, India, 2-12 January 2010. – Prokopec, T., Primordial non-Gaussianity, Workshop, Frontiers of Cosmology, He- raklion, Crete, Greece, 28 March-5 April 2010. – Prokopec, T., Path integral for cosmological perturbations, Theory Meeting Semi- nar, Nikhef, Amsterdam, 21 May 2010. – Prokopec, T., Path integral for cosmological perturbations, RWTH Workshop, Out- of-Equilibrium Quantum Fields in the Early Universe, Aachen, Germany, 6-8 Sep- tember 2010. – Prokopec, T., Cosmological perturbations and primordial non-Gaussianity, Lorentz Center Workshop, New Directions in Modern Cosmology, Leiden, the Netherlands, 27 September-1 October 2010. – Prokopec, T., Going beyond de Sitter, Workshop, IR Issues and Loops in de Sitter Space, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 27-30 October 2010. – Prokopec, T., Implications of loops in de Sitter space for back-reaction of fluctuations on the cosmological background, Workshop, Cosmological Backreaction and 7. Scientific activities 109

IR Effects, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 31 October-1 November 2011. – Prokopec, T., Decoherence: a novel view, Institute for Fundamental Theory Semi- nar, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, 5 November 2010. – Vandoren, S.J.G., Supersymmetric black holes in gauged supergravity, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 12 May 2010. – Vandoren, S.J.G., Instantons and quaternion-Kahler geometry, Lisbon, Portugal, 14 June 2010. – Vandoren, S.J.G., BPS black holes in gauged N = 2D = 4 supergravities, Research Seminar, Ahrenshoop Meeting Recent Developments on String/M Theory and Field Theory, Berlin, Germany, 23-27 August 2010. – Vandoren, S.J.G., Quaternion-Kahler geometry from string theory, Research Semi- nar, DAMTP, Cambridge, UK, 23 November 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Gravity in the world of the elementary particles, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers Lecture, Bremen, Germany, 27 January 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., The unique beauty of the subatomic landscape, Max Planck Lecture, Bremen, Germany, 28 January 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., De ultieme uitdaging in de Theoretische Natuurkunde: quantumg gravitatie, NSA Symposium, Wetenschap: Werk in Uitvoering, Science Park, Am- sterdam, the Netherlands, 21 February 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Classical cellular automata and quantum field theory, Conference in Honor of Murray Gell-Mann’s 80th Birthday, Singapore, 22-27 February 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Black holes and quantum mechanics, Lectures and Panel Discussion, 48e Int Univ. wochen fuer Theor. Physik Masses and Constants. Schladming, Austria, 2-6 March 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Emergent quantum mechanics, Conference, Parts and Whole in Phy- sics, Leiden, the Netherlands, 21-23 March 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., HUTAC Conference, Excellence, Huygens Talent Circle, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10 April 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Conference, Fysica, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 April 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Black holes and quantum physics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 6 May 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Black holes in elementary particle physics, Lecture, Guangzhou, China, 26 May 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Conceptual foundations of quantum field theory and aspects of quantum gravity, Lectures, Guangzhou, China, 27 May 2011; 1, 3, 4 June 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Topological toys in field theory and gravity, Lecture, Sander Bais Farewell Colloquium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 16 June 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., The great challenges, 3rd Interdisciplinary Meeting, 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany, 30 June 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Quantum mechanics, discretization, and local determinism, ESOF Workshop INRIM, News in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Torino, Italy, 2 July 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., The emergence of quantum mechanics, Plenary Lecture, FFP11 Fron- tiers of Fundamental Physics, Paris, France, 8-11 July 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., The black hole correspondence principle, Turkish Physical Society 27th International Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 16 September 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Black hole complementarity, Seminar, Ankara, Turkey, 21 September 110 Annual report 2010

2010. – ’t Hooft, G., The Higgs particle, Ankara, Turkey, 22 September 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Black hole complementarity, CP-Origins, 3rd Winter School Geometry and Physics, Odense, Denmark, 1 November 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Black holes in elementary particle physics, Colloquium, Pierre et Marie Curie, Sous le haut patronge de Jean-Charles Pomerol, Parijs VI, France, 8 November 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., The black holes complementarity, Seminar, Paris, France, 8 November 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Black holes in elementary particle physics, Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland, 17 November 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Bèta’s:broodnodig of overbodig?, Symposium, NWSV Helix, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 November 2010. – Vandoren, S.J.G., Non-perturbative effects in classical and quantum field theory, Lectures, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics, Drieber- gen, the Netherlands, 8-12 February 2010.

Nikhef Theory Group – Fleischer, R., Precision B physics in the LHC era, Colloquium, Institute for Theo- retical Physics, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 24 February 2010. – Fleischer, R., B Physics in the LHC era: selected topics, 3rd Workshop, Heavy Flavour Physics, Capri, Italy, 5 July 2010. – Fleischer, R., A fresh look at Bs,d− > pipi, piK, KK decays, 6th International Workshop, CKM Unitarity Triangle - CKM2010, Warwick, UK, 9 September 2010. 0 – Fleischer, R., Extracting gamma and penguin parameters from Bs − > J/psiKS, 6th International Workshop, CKM Unitarity Triangle - CKM2010, Warwick, UK, 9 September 2010. – Fleischer, R., Towards new frontiers in B physics in the LHC era, Symposium, Fla- vour Physics: Strong Dynamics, Rare Decays and New Phenomena, Berg, Starn- berger See, Germany, 9 October 2010. – Fleischer, R., B physics perspectives in the LHC era, International Conference, Flavor Physics in the LHC Era, Singapore, 9 November 2010. – Fleischer, R., Towards new frontiers in precision B physics in the LHC era, Collo- quium, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25 Novem- ber 2010. – Fleischer, R., B physics perspectives in the LHC era, VIII Latin American Sym- posium on High-Energy Physics, SILAFAE 2010, Valparaiso, Chile, 7 December 2010. – George, D.P., Stability of gravity-scalar systems for domain-wall models with a soft wall, PASCOS 2010: The 16th International Symposium, Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Valencia, Spain, 19 July 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Top quark physics at the LHC, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 26 February 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., The ubiquitous top, Belgian HEP Meeting, National Belgian Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 8 April 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Magnea, L., Stavenga, G. and White, C.D., Contribution to 7. Scientiﬁc activities 111

the Proceedings of 10th DESY Workshop, Elementary Particle Theory: Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory 2010, Woerlitz, Germany, 25-30 April 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Next-to-eikonal exponentiation, Conference, Loops and Legs 2010, Woerlitz, Germany, 29 April 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Zwakke wisselwerkingen (1999 Nobelprijs ’t Hooft en Veltman), Student Symposium on Nobel Prizes, Studentenvereningen, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 21 May 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Concluding remarks, International Conference, Loopfest 2010, Stony Brook, New York, USA, 23 June 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Next-to-eikonal exponentiation, Workshop, HO10 CERN Theory Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, 1 July 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Recent developments in QCD resummation, Seminar, Freiburg, Germany, 6 July 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Heavy ﬂavor: from top to bottom (and charm), Workshop, Impli- cations of First LHC Data, MIT-Berkeley, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 12 August 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., QCD resummation (large x), Workshop, Perturbative and Non- Perturbative Aspects of QCD at Collider Energies, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA, 15 September 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Some recent developments in resummation, Conference, QCD at the LHC (ECT*), Trento, Italy, 27 September 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Developments in (next-to)-eikonal exponentiation, Symposium, Levinfest, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 7 October 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Soft gluon resummation for squark and gluino hadroproduction, Mini-Workshop, Soft Gluons and New Physics at the LHC, Manchester, UK, 1 November 2010. – Maio, M., Simple current extensions and permutation orbifolds, Workshop, Beyond the Standard Model, Bad Honnef, Germany, 8 March 2010. – Maio, M., Extensions in permutation orbifolds, Cargese Summer School, Corsica, France, 24 June 2010. – Maio, M., Extensions and the permutation orbifold, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA, 27 July 2010. – Schellekens, A.N., The emperor’s last clothes?, Evening lecture, DRSTP Postgra- duate Course Theoretical High Energy Physics, Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1-12 February 2010. – Schellekens, A.N., Heterotic weight lifting, Workshop, GUTs and Strings, Munich, Germany, 10 February 2010. – Schellekens, A.N., Heterotic weight lifting, KITP Program, Strings at the LHC and in the Early Universe, Santa Barbara, USA, 8 April 2010. – Schellekens, A.N., Exploring the string theory landscape, Freiburg University, Frei- burg, Germany, 19 May 2010. – Schellekens, A.N., Heterotic weight lifting, String Phenomenology, Paris, France, 6 July 2010. – van Holten, J.-W., Deeltjesfysica en de LHC, Leiden, the Netherlands, 22 March 2010. – van Holten, J.-W., The realization of conformal symmetry in non-relativistic QFT, 112 Annual report 2010

Workshop, Non-Commutative Structures and Non-Relativistic Supersymmetries, University of Tours, France, 23 March 2010. – van Holten, J.-W., HiSPARC, EPPOG Meeting, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 15 October 2010. – van Holten, J.-W., Gravitational waves, Groningen, the Netherlands, 22 November 2010.

7.2 Theme 2

University of Amsterdam – Caux, J.-S., In- and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in integrable systems, Winter Workshop, Physics in the Plane, Les Houches, France, 28 February-5 March 2010. – Caux, J.-S., In- and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in integrable systems, INSTANS Workshop, Time-Dependent Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 19-22 May 2010. – Caux, J.-S., In- and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in integrable systems, Workshop, Recent Advances in Quantum Integrable Systems, Annecy, France, 15-18 June 2010. – Caux, J.-S., Cold atoms in 1d: results, perspectives and challenges from integrability, Les Houches School, Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms, France, 28 June-3 July 2010. – Caux, J.-S., In- and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of integrable models, STATPHYS 24, XXIV International Conference, Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Cairns, Australia, 19-23 July 2010. – Caux, J.-S., In- and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of integrable models, Theoretical Physics Colloquium, Freibourg University, Switzerland, 12 May 2010. – Caux, J.-S., One-d quantum systems in- and out-of-equilibrium: new exact results, their applications, and overall perspectives, Johan van der Waals Colloquium, Lei- den, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010. – Caux, J.-S., Atomic, molecular and optical physics I, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Estienne, B., Quantum matter in low dimensions, Workshop, Stokholm, Sweden, 6-18 September 2010. – Estienne, B., Interactions, disorder, and topology in quantum Hall systems, Dres- den, Germany, 7-11 June 2010. – Estienne, B., NB, LPTENS, Paris, France, 14 December 2010. – Nienhuis, G., Operators in classical and quantum optics, Lectures, DRSTP Post- graduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 12-22 April 2010. – Nienhuis, B., Tilings of irregular hexagons, International Conference, Conformal Maps from Probability to Physics, Ascona, Switzerland, 23-28 May 2010. – Nienhuis, B., Hexagonal domain wall structures, International Conference, Combi- natorics and Mathematical Physics, Brisbane, Australia, 12-14 July 2010. – Nienhuis, B., Solvable models of hexagons, International Conference, Exactly Sol- 7. Scientiﬁc activities 113

vable Models in Statistical Physics, Brisbane, Australia, 14-17 July 2010. – Nienhuis, B., Correlation in percolation model though qKZ equations, International Conference, STATPHYS24, Cairns, Australia, 19-23 July 2010. – Nienhuis, B., Boundaries in loop models, Group Meeting, Amsterdam, the Nether- lands, 8 December 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., Black holes with hair as a normal state of matter, Conference, Physics of Quantum Electronics 34, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 4 January 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., New cosmology for freshman; advanced new cosmology, UCSD, La Jolla, California, USA, 13 January 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., Do non-relativistic neutrinos constitute the dark matter?, Colloquium, KITP Santa Barbara, California, USA, 14 January 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., Black holes with hair as a normal state of matter, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 19 January 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., Neutrino hot dark matter and hydrodynamics of structure formation, Colloquium, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 22 January 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., Hydrodynamics of large scale structure formation, Condensed Matter Group Meeting, ITFA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2 February 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., Minimal work principle: proof and counter-examples, Work- shop, Quantum Thermodynamics: Energy and Information Flow at the Nano- Scale, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 14 September 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., Brownian entanglement: entanglement in classical Brow- nian motion, Workshop, Optimization in Stochastic Nano-Systems, Hanse Wis- senschaftszentrum Delmenhorst, Germany, 12 October 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., Brownian entanglement entanglement in classical brownian motion, Workshop, Fluctuations, Information Flow and Experimental Measure- ments, Complex Systems Institute ESPCI Paris, France, 27 October 2010. – Nieuwenhuis, Th.M., The two bright faces of dark matter, Colloquium, IPhT, CEA Saclay, France, 15 December 2010. – Palacios, G., Scattering Bethe Ansatz approach to the Anderson impurity model, ITP, Hannover, Germany, April 2010. – Palacios, G., Geometric quenches in quantum integrable models, Workshop, Time- Dependent Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems, Budapest, Hun- gary, May 2010. – Palacios, G., The Anderson impurity model: correlations, out-of-equilibrium transport and integrability, LPTM, Cergy, France, June 2010. – Palacios, G., (Charge) transport through a topological defect, LPS, Orsay, France, November 2010. – Pozsgai, B., Finite temperature correlations in massive integrable QFT, Workshop, Physics in the Plane, Les Houches, France, 28 February-5 March 2010. – Pozsgai, B., The exact g-function: solution of a puzzle, Workshop, Recent Advances in Quantum Integrable Systems, Annecy, France, 15-18 June 2010. – Pozsgai, B., The exact g-function: solution of a puzzle, Workshop, Finite Size Technology in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems, Benasque, Spain, 27 June-10 July 2010. 114 Annual report 2010

– Pozsgai, B., On O(1) contributions to the free energy in Bethe Ansatz solvable models: the exact function, Workshop, From Sigma-Models to 4D QFT, Hamburg, Germany, 29 November-3 December 2010. – Pruisken, A.M.M., Multifractality and electron-electron interactions in the quantum Hall regime, Seminar, Condensed Matter, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 26 May 2010. – Pruisken, A.M.M., Multifractality and electron-electron interactions in the quantum Hall regime, Theory Colloquium, Landau Days, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia, 21-24 June 2010. – Pruisken, A.M.M., The problem of macroscopic charge quantization in single-electron devices, New Frontiers in the Physics of Quantum Dots, Chernogolovka, Russia, 20-24 September 2010. – Schoutens, K., Topological phases: from quantum Hall to quantum computation, Theory Seminar, Pisa, Italy, 20 May 2010. – Schoutens, K., Skyrmions over the Moore-Read state, Workshop, Topological Order and Quantum Computation, Moorea, French Polynesia, 31 May-6 June 2010. – Schoutens, K., How entangled are fractional quantum Hall states?, Workshop, Quantum Information Concepts in Condensed Matter Physics, MPI Dresden, Ger- many, 24 June 2010. – Schoutens, K., Skyrmions over the Moore-Read state, Kavli-Royal Society Work- shop, Topology and Physics, Chicheley Hall, UK, 16 July 2010. – Schoutens, K., Paired quantum Hall states at filling 5/2, NanoScience Seminar, Kavli Institute for NanoScience, Delft, the Netherlands, 3 November 2010. – Schoutens, K., Charged spin textures over the Moore-Read quantum Hall state, Theory Seminar, Oxford University, UK, 5 November 2010. – Snoek, M., Magnetic order of ultracold atomic mixtures in optical lattices, NewSpin, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 8 January 2010. – Snoek, M., Ultracold atoms in optical lattices: quantum simulators of strongly correlated matter, National Seminar, Condensed Matter Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25 March 2010. – Snoek, M., Effect of interactions on harmonically confined Bose-Fermi mixtures in optical lattices, Seminar BEC-Group, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 26 November 2010.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Das, M., Micromechanics of F-actin and microtubule composites, KNAW Meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 2010. – Das, M., Mechanics and force transmission in the cell cytoskeleton, Colloquium, Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, September 2010. – Das, M., Mechanics and force transmission in the cell cytoskeleton, Colloquium, Leiden, the Netherlands, September 2010. – Das, M., Touchy feely living matter: mechanics and force transmission in biological composites, Seminar, Maastricht, the Netherlands, October 2010. – Das, M., Mechanics and force transmission in biological composites, Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, December 2010. – MacKintosh, F.C., Non-equilibrium ﬂuctuations and mechanics of active gels and 7. Scientiﬁc activities 115

living cells, Dynamics Days 2010, Evanston, USA, 4 January 2010. – MacKintosh, F.C., Active gels and the cytoskeleton: non-equilibrium mechanics and fluctuations, Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, USA, 7 January 2010. – MacKintosh, F.C., Active diffusion and long-time relaxation in the cytoskeleton, Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Transport: from Optics to Biology, Haifa, Israel, 23 May 2010. – MacKintosh, F.C., Active fluctuations and self-assembly in cytoskeletal networks, School on Living Mechanics, Bangalore, India, 4 November 2010. – MacKintosh, F.C., Active, non-equilibrium mechanics, fluctuations and self-assembly, Colloquium, Department of Physics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen,Germany, 13 December 2010. – Visser, T.D., SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, California, USA, 27 January 2010. – Visser, T.D., University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA, 1 July 2010. – Visser, T.D., Workshop, Frontiers of Nanoscale Spectroscopy and Tomography, Inlet, New York, USA, 22 October 2010. – Visser, T.D., Annual Meeting, Optical Society of America, Rochester, New York, USA, 27 October 2010.

University of Groningen – van Enter, A.C.D., Evolving Gibbs measures, Gibbs or not?, Workshop, Space-Time Phases for Spatially Extended Systems, University of Warwick, UK, 9 January 2010. – van Enter, A.C.D., Gibbs states versus ground states, Workshop, Dynamical Sys- tems and Symbolic Dynamics, Universit¨atBielefeld, Germany, 7 May 2010. – van Enter, A.C.D., First-order phase transitions in the presence of continuous symmetries, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10 June 2010.

Leiden University – Barkema, G.T. (see under Utrecht University). – Beenakker, C.W.J., Relativity meets superconductivity in graphene, KITPC Pro- gram, Progress in Graphene Research, Beijing, China, 5 May 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Majorana fermions in topological superconductors, Initial Trai- ning Network Meeting, Nanoelectronics-Concepts, Theory and Modeling, Bremen, Germany, 17-21 May 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Majorana fermions in topological insulators, CEA Saclay, France, 16 June 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., How to use a ﬂux qubit to read out a Majorana qubit, Delft, the Netherlands, 24 June 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Majorana bound states without vortices in topological superconductors with electrostatic defects, Workshop, Advanced Research, Fundamentals of Electronic Nanosystems, St. Petersburg, Russia, 26 June-2 July 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Majorana fermions in topological insulators, International Work- shop, Correlated Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Systems, Dresden, Germany, 12- 16 July 2010. 116 Annual report 2010

– Beenakker, C.W.J., Majorana-Shockley states in topological superconductors, NOR- DITA Conference, Quantum Matter in Low Dimensions, Stockholm, Sweden, 6-10 September 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Physics to the limit: Nanokippengaas, Symposium, Science to the Limit, Leiden, the Netherlands, 24 September 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Andreev reflection and Klein tunneling in graphene, Graphene International School, Cargèse,Corsica, France, 11-23 October 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Majorana fermions in topological insulators, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 8 November 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Towards quantum computation with Majorana fermions, Freie UniversitätBerlin, Germany, 12 November 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Science of fiction? Tijdreizen, wormgaten en de grootvaderpa- radox, Spinoza te Paard, Den Haag, the Netherlands, 16 November 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., What is special about graphene?, Delft University of Techno- logy, the Netherlands, 6 December 2010. – Blöte,H.W.J., Potts models with long-ranged interactions, Satellite Conference, Statphys 24: Monte Carlo Algorithms in Statistical Physics, Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 July 2010. – Gomez, L.R., Nonlinear waves in disordered granular media, FOM-Shell Progress Meeting, Rijswijk, the Netherlands, 9 November 2010. – Gomez, L.R., Nonlinear waves and quasi-localized resonances in disordered granular media, FOM-Shell Progress Meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 26 May 2010. – Gomez, L.R., Sound propagation in jammed solids, Jamming and Rheology, Car- gese, France, 8 April 2010. – Hassler, F., Majorana bound states in nanowires, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 12 November 2010. – Hassler, F., From Fermi’s golden rule to Rabi oscillations: dynamical unbinding transition in a Mott insulator, Correlated Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Sys- tems, Max-Planck-Institut fr Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, 6 July 2010. – Hou, C.-H., Effect of surface curvature on conductivity in 3D topological insulator, APS March Meeting 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA, 15-19 March 2010. – Juricic, V., Conference, New Frontiers in Graphene Physics, Trento, Italy, 12-14 April 2010. – Juricic, V., Quantum criticality in graphene, Lorentz Seminar, Leiden, the Nether- lands, May 2010. – Juricic, V., Quantum criticality in graphene, 3rd Annual UK-NL Condensed Matter Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 September 2010. – Juricic, V., Quantum criticality in graphene, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 22 September 2010. – Juricic, V., Quantum criticality in graphene, Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, USA, 24 September 2010. – Juricic, V., Quantum criticality in graphene, The 28th Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics, Topological States in Condensed Matter Physics, 27 December- 4 January 2011. – Nienhuis, G., Vortices and angular momentum of twisted modes, International 7. Scientific activities 117

Conference, Optical Angular Momentum, York, UK, 23-25 March 2010. – Nienhuis, G., Operator methods in quantum and classical optics, Lectures, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 19-21 April 2010. – Nienhuis, G., Causal understanding in quantum optics, Lorentz Workshop, Un- derstanding and the Aims of Science, Leiden, the Netherlands, 31 May-4 June 2010. – Overbosch, B.J., Shaking off the fermionic minus signs to unravel novel superconductors, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Overbosch, B.J., Shaking off the fermionic minus signs in quantum critical states, Gordon Research Conference, Correlated Electron Systems, Mount Holyoke Col- lege, Massachusetts, USA, 13-18 June 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, Soft Matter Seminar, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, February 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, JPS 2010, Spring Meeting, Okayama, Japan, March 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, International Workshop, DNA and Chromatin, Kyoto University, Japan, April 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, Chromatin Workshop, Ta- keyasu Lab./Yoshikawa Lab., Kyoto University, Japan, April 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, April 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, Physics Colloquium, Martin Luther Universit at, Halle, Germany, May 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, Gordon Research Conference, Single Molecule Approaches to Biology, Lucca, Italy, June 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, Advanced Summer School 2010, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico, July 2010. – Schiessel, H., Some questions concerning the electrostatics of DNA and chromatin, Workshop, New Perspectives in Strongly Correlated Electrostatics in Soft Matter, Aspen, USA, August 2010. – Schiessel, H., Chromatin: a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle, LASSP Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, September 2010. – Schiessel, H., Nucleosome breathing sliding and force-induced unwrapping, IRI Chro- matin Days 2010, Lille, France, October 2010. – Tighe, B.P., Flows on the brink of unjamming, APS March Meeting 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA, 18 March 2010. – Tighe, B.P., Flows on the brink of unjamming: rheology of foams and other disordered materials, This Week’s Discoveries, Leiden, the Netherlands, 13 April 2010. – Tighe, B.P., Granular dynamics, Particulate Matter Workshop, Dresden, Germany, 3 June 2010. – Tighe, B.P., Flow on the brink of jamming, Gordon Conference, Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow, Waterville, Maine, USA, 20-25 June 2010. – Tighe, B.P., Model for the rheology of viscous soft spheres, Workshop, Recent Pro- gress in Physics of Dissipative Particles, Kyoto, Japan, 24-26 November 2010. – Vitelli, V., Statistical physics and soft condensed matter II, Physics@FOM, Veld- 118 Annual report 2010

hoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Vitelli, V., From soft matter to dark matter: the statistical physics of lensing, Colloquium, Colloquium Ehrenfestii, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 10 March 2010. – Vitelli, V., Sound attenuation in jammed solids, Soft Matter Day, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 14 April 2010. – Vitelli, V., Geometry and elasticity, Lectures, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Sta- tistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Ne- therlands, 12-22 April 2010. – Vitelli, V., Can one hear the shape of a jammed solid?, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, 20 August 2010. – Vitelli, V., Frustrated crystal and liquid crystal order in complex geometries, Com- plexity and Patterns Meeting, Enschede, the Netherlands, 16 October 2010. – Vitelli, V., From soft matter to dark matter: the statistical physics of lensing, Theoretical Physics Colloquium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 9 December 2010. – Wimmer, M., Theory of the topological Anderson insulator, DPG Conference, Re- gensburg, Germany, 21-26 March 2010. – Wimmer, M., Is it possible to detect edge states in graphene quantum dots?, DPG Conference, Regensburg, Germany, 21-26 March 2010. – Wimmer, M., Quantum transport in nanostructures: from numerical algorithms to spintronics in graphene, DPG Conference, Regensburg, Germany, 21-26 March 2010. – Wimmer, M., Theory of the topological Anderson insulator, Seminar and Workshop, Correlated Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Systems, Dresden, Germany, 5-23 July 2010. – Wimmer, M., Majorana bound states without vortices in topological superconductors with electrostatic defects, Seminar and Workshop, Correlated Phenomena in Low- Dimensional Systems, Dresden, Germany, 5-23 July 2010. – Wimmer, M., Edge states in graphene quantum dots, 457th WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Graphene Electronics - Material, Physics and Devices, Bad Honnef, Germany, 15- 18 August 2010. – Wimmer, M., Majorana bound states in nanowires, Physics Colloquium, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 3 November 2010. – Wimmer, M., Majorana bound states in nanowires, Seminar Group, Complex Quantum Systems, UniversitätRegensburg, Germany, 11 November 2010. – Wimmer, M., Majorana bound states in nanowires, Seminar Group, Mesoskopische Physik, UniversitätWürzburg,Germany, 12 November 2010. – Wimmer, M., Graphene edge states and spin detection, EuroGRAPHENE Sympo- sium, Strasbourg, France, 17 November 2010. – Zaanen, J., (UL) Het Universum in een korreltje roest, Natuurkundig Genootschap, Assen, the Netherlands, 12-13 January 2010. – Zaanen, J., A black hole full of answers, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Nether- lands, 19-20 January 2010. – Zaanen, J., A black hole full of answers, Physics Colloquium, Loughborough Uni- versity, UK, 27 January 2010. – Zaanen, J., Een zwart gat vol met antwoorden, NSA Symposium, Amsterdam, the 7. Scientific activities 119

Netherlands, 16 February 2010. – Zaanen, J., Mott collapse and statistical quantum criticality, Seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA, 10 March 2010. – Zaanen, J., Anti-de-Sitter to condensed matter theory: an update, Workshop, Theo- retical Institute of Photon Science, Stanford University, USA, 11 March 2010. – Zaanen, J., Holography and the mystery of the quantum critical metals of condensed matter physics, MI Workshop, String Theory Approach to QCD Thermodynamics and Kinetics, Institut f¨urTheoretische Physik, Heidelberg, Germany, 15-19 March 2010. – Zaanen, J., AdS/CFT and the fermions of condensed matter physics, Theory Group Colloquium, Imperial College London, UK, 29 March 2010. – Zaanen, J., Quantum criticality, high Tc superconductivity and the AdS/CFT correspondence, Colloquium, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 7 April 2010. – Zaanen, J., A black hole full of answers, Colloquium, London Centre for Nanotech- nology, UK, 5 May 2010. – Zaanen, J., The conference summary, Conference, Spectrocopies in Novel Super- conductors (SNS2010), Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 23-28 May 2010. – Zaanen, J., The AdS to condenses matter correspondence, European Workshop, String Theory, Institute of Theoretical Physics and University of Oviedo, Madrid, Spain, 14-18 June 2010. – Zaanen, J., Quantum criticality high Tc superconductivity and the AdS/CFT correspondence of string theory, Superstripes 2010 Conference, Erice, Italy, 19-25 July 2010. – Zaanen, J., AdS/CFT and the fermions of condensed matter physics, NORDITA Program on Quantum Solids, Liquids and Gases, Stockholm, Sweden, 28-30 July 2010. – Zaanen, J., Mott collapse, statistical quantum criticality and high Tc superconductivity, 197th Zhong-Guan-Cun Forum on Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 11 August 2010. – Zaanen, J., Quantum criticality, high Tc superconductivity and the AdS/CFT correspondence, Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University, Bei- jing, China, 16 August 2010. – Zaanen, J., Focus session AdS/CFT, UK-NL Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 Sep- tember 2010. – Zaanen, J., Mott Collapse, statistical quantum criticality and high Tc superconductivity, Physics Department, University of Tokyo, Japan, 24 September 2010. – Zaanen, J., Quantum criticality, high Tc superconductivity and the AdS/CFT correspondence of string theory, Opening Symposium of QS2C Forum, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan, 27 September 2010. – Zaanen, J., Quantum criticality, high Tc superconductivity and the AdS/CFT correspondence, Physics Colloquium, University of Tennesee, Knoxville, USA, 11 Oc- tober 2010. – Zaanen, J., Quantum criticality, high Tc superconductivity and the AdS/CFT correspondence, Physics Colloquium, University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, New Or- leans, USA, 14 October 2010. – Zaanen, J., The holographic (non) Fermi-Liquids, First String Meeting, University 120 Annual report 2010

of Groningen, the Netherlands, 5 November 2010. – Zaanen, J., Condensed matter for string theorist, Fermionic Quantum Criticality, Department of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Normale Superieur Paris and University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 10 November 2010. – Zaanen, J., Quantum criticality, high Tc superconductivity and the AdS/CFT correspondence, Another Workshop on Aspects of Gauge/Gravity Duality, Depart- ment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, 15 November 2010. – Zaanen, J., Condensed matter for string theorist, The Experimental Jungle, De- partment of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Normale Superieur Paris and University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 17 November 2010. – Zaanen, J., Condensed matter for string theorist, The AdS/CFT Correspondence, Department of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Normale Superieur Paris and University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 24 November 2010. – Zaanen, J., Snaartheorie in de echte wereld, Cleveringa Lezing, Brussel, Belgium, 25 November 2010. – Zaanen, J., Snaar theorie in de echte wereld, Studium Generale, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, 2 December 2010. – Zaanen, J., Van der Waals, de toestand vergelijking en de 21ste eeuwse fysica, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, the Netherlands, 9 December 2010.

Radboud University Nijmegen – Akhukov, M.A., Efficient DFT calculations, Siesta School, Satander, Spain, 1-6 June 2010. – de Wijn, A.S., Fusco, C. and Fasolino, A., The nonlinear dynamics of transport on surfaces, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven 2010, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – de Wijn, A.S., Fusco, C. and Fasolino, A., Periodic orbits in the sliding friction of graphite flakes and other nanocrystals, DPG Spring Meeting, Division Condensed Matter, Regensburg, Germany, 21-26 March 2010. – de Wijn, A.S., Fasolino, A. and Fusco, C., Stability of low-friction sliding of nanocrystals on substrated with hexagonal and rectangular symmetry, 14th Workshop, Dynamical Phenomena at Surfaces (WDPS), Ringberg Castle, Germany, 18-22 July 2010. – de Wijn, A.S., The nonlinear dynamics of surface transport, 27th European Confe- rence, Surface Science, Groningen, the Netherlands, 29 August-3 September 2010. – de Wijn, A.S., Nonlinear dynamics of the internal degrees of freedom and transport of benzene on graphite, Institut f u Physik, Technische Universit at Chemnitz, Germany, 3 October 2010. – de Wijn, A.S., Lattice geometry and stabililty of low-friction sliding of nanocrystals, Center for Nanotechnology, University of M unster, Germany, 19 November 2010. – Colonna, F., Fusco, C. and Fasolino, A., Stability of graphitic materials by accurate computer simulation, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Fasolino, A., The structure of single and bilayer graphene, Seminar, Modena, Italy, 19-23 March 2010. – Fasolino, A., Mechanism and free energy of the zigzag edge reconstruction of gra- 7. Scientific activities 121

phene, 27th European Conference, Surface Science ECOSS27, Groningen, the Ne- therlands, 30 August-3 September 2010. – Fasolino, A., Structure and thermodynamics of graphene from atomistic simulations, ACMM Symposium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 18 November 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Gauge fields in corrugated graphene, Colloquium, University of Hamburg, Germany, 10-15 January, 2010. – Mentink, J.H., Fasolino, A., Katsnelson, M.I., Kimel, A., Kirilyuk, A. and Ra- sing, T., Angular momentum conservation and light-induced magnetization reversal, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Zakharchenko, K., Los, J.H., Katsnelson, M.I. and Fasolino, A., Structural properties of bi-layer graphene: comparison to single layer graphene and bulk graphite, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Electron transport in graphene, Seminar, Moscow State Univer- sity, Russia, April 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Graphene: CERN on the desk, Lebedev Physical Institute, Mos- cow, Russia, 4-26 April 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Itinerant electron magnetism, Colloquium, University of Cologne, France, May 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Gauge fields in corrugated graphene, Colloquium, Utrecht, the Netherlands, May 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Towards ab initio spin dynamics, Workshop, Computational Ma- gnetism, Bonn, Germany, 9-13 May 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Electron transport in graphene, Nobel Symposium, Physics of Graphene, Stockholm, Sweden, 27-31 May 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Corrugations, defects and scattering mechanisms in graphene, Meeting, European Materials Research Society (EMRS), Strasbourg, France, 6-10 June 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Electron transport in graphene, Colloquium, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 21-29 June 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Electron scattering mechanisms in graphene, WE-Heraus-Seminar, Graphene Electronics, Bad Honnef, Germany, 15-18 August 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Itinerant electron magnetism, Conference, Realistic Theories of Correlated Electrons in Condensed Matter, Moscow, Russia, 30 July-9 August 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Graphene: CERN on the desk, 23rd General Conference, Conden- sed Matter Division of the European Physical Society CMD23, Warsaw, Poland, 30 August-3 September 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Graphene: Dirac electrons in magnetic and pseudomagnetic fields, 2nd EuroMagNET Summer School, Science in High Magnetic Fields, Ame- land, the Netherlands, September 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Graphene: CERN on the desk, Conference, Materials Science and Condensed Matter Physics (MSCMP) 2010, Chisinau, Moldova, Russia, 10-15 September 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Electron scattering mechanisms in graphene, Seminar, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 19-23 September 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Yuan, S. and Toro, R., Graphene: CERN on the desk, Nanoe- 122 Annual report 2010

lectronics Days 2010, Forschungszentrum J ulich, Aachen, Germany, 4-7 October 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Graphene: CERN on the desk, Colloquium, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Graphene: CERN on the desk, Colloquium, University of Ant- werpen, Belgium, 30 November-1 December 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Graphene: CERN on the desk, Symposium, Condensed Matter Physics and Optics, Institute of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria, 19-21 December 2010.

Utrecht University – Barkema, G.T., Theory and simulation of polymer translocation, Theoretical Phy- sics Colloquium, University of G ottingen, Germany, 13 April 2010. – Barkema, G.T., Physical chemistry of affymetrix microarrays, Utrecht, the Nether- lands, 18 March 2010. – Duine, R.A., Spin drag in Bose and Fermi gases, Theoretical Physics Colloquium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 4 March 2010. – Duine, R.A., Spin drag in Bose and Fermi gases, APS March Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA, 15 March 2010. – Duine, R.A., Non-universal aspects of electromotive forces induced by domain-wall motion, 2nd NWO-NRF Korean-Dutch Workshop, Trends in Spintronics, Eindho- ven, the Netherlands, 24 June 2010. – Duine, R.A., Non-universal aspects of electromotive forces induced by domain-wall motion, Cambridge-Leiden Easymeeting, Cambridge, UK, 3 September 2010. – Lazarides, A., Pokrovsky-Talapov model at finite temperature: a renormalization group analysis, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 19-20 January 2010. – Lazarides, A., Competing superconducting states for ultracold atoms in optical lattices with artificial staggered magnetic field, Graphene Day, Delft, the Netherlands, 2 March 2010. – Lazarides, A., Ultracold atomic gases: Statics, dynamics and dimensionality, Two days of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, De Panne, Belgium, 29-30 May 2010. – Lim, L.-K., Strongly interacting 2D Dirac fermions, Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 20 January 2010. – Lim, L.-K., Strongly interacting 2D Dirac fermions in a cold atomic system, Semi- nar, Quantum Gases Group, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 3 February 2010. – Lim, L.-K., Cold atoms in 2D optical lattices under staggered rotation, Seminar, Theorie de la Matiere Condensee sur le Plateau, Laboratoire de Physique des So- lides, CNRS, Orsay, France, 9 February 2010. – Lim, L.-K., Cold atoms in 2D optical lattices under staggered rotation, Seminar, Quantum Optics Theory Seminar in the group of Peter Zoller, University of Inns- bruck, Austria, 10 May 2010. – Lim, L.-K., Cold atoms in 2D optical lattices under staggered rotation, Seminar, Complex Quantum Systems Informal Seminar in the group of Allan MacDonald, University of Texas, Austin, USA, 24 May 2010. – Lim, L.-K., Strongly interacting 2D Dirac fermions, APS DAMOP Meeting, Session 7. Scientific activities 123

on Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases II, Houston, Texas, USA, 29 May 2010. – Lim, L.-K., Cold atoms in 2D optical lattices under staggered rotation, Seminar, Graduate School Colloquium, Physics with New Coherent Radiation Sources, Uni- versity Hamburg, DESY Germany, 29 June 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Will cold atomic systems help us to understand high-Tc superconductivity?, Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 24 March 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Analogs of graphene using ultracold atoms, International Work- shop on New Frontiers in Graphene Physics, Trento, Italy, 12-14 April 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Dissipation in quantum systems, Lectures, DRSTP Postgraduate Course Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (SPTCM), Driebergen, the Netherlands, 19-21 April 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Ultracold atoms under staggered rotation: bosons, fermions, and mixtures, Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Freiburg University, Switzer- land, 17 May 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Cold atoms under staggered rotation, Workshop, Critical Beha- vior of Lattice Models in Condensed Matter and Particle Physics, Aspen, Colorado, USA, 30 May-13 June 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Will cold atomic systems help us to understand high-Tc superconductivity?, William Phillips Group Seminar, NIST, Maryland, USA, 14 June 2010. – Morais Smith, C., The magic world of electrons in two dimensions, Utrecht Summer School 2010, Science for Secondary School Students, University College Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2 July 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Effect of staggered gauge fields on cold atoms in optical lattices, Physics Department Seminar, Catania University, Italy, 8 July 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Will cold atoms help us to understand high-Tc superconductivity?, Superstripes 2010: Quantum Phenomena in Complex Matter, Erice, Italy, 19-25 July 2010. – Morais Smith, C., The mysteries of High-Tc superconductors, Summer School, Ju- lius Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 23 August 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Creating staggered magnetic fields in optical lattices - new insights into high-Tc superconductivity, Workshop, Cold Atoms in Synthetic Gauge Fields, Beijing, China, 25-27 August 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Staggered rotation out of non-equilibrium condensates, Ultracold Quantum Gases beyond Equilibrium, Natal, Brazil, 27 September-1 October 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Extremely thin, Masterclass Physics, Fascination for Extreme Worlds, University College Utrecht, the Netherlands, 28 October 2010. – Morais Smith, C., Will cold atomic systems help us to understand high-Tc superconductivity?, International Conference, Conducting Materials, Sousse, Tunisia, 3-7 November 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Liquid crystals: an introduction, Winter School, Physical Chemistry, Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium, 25-29 January 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Physical regulation of viruses, CRPP, Bordeaux, France, 6 April 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Isotropic-nematic interfaces: surface tension vs elasti- 124 Annual report 2010

city, CRPP, Bordeaux, France, 22 April 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Connectivity percolation of polydisperse nanofillers, Che- mOnTubes Meeting, Arcachon, France, 12-14 April 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Alignment of carbon nanotubes in liquid crystal media, Workshop, Playing Colloidal Mikado II, Luxembourg, 27-29 May 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Physics of viruses, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, 31 May 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Physics of viruses, Philips-TU/e Meeting, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 31 May 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Chirality amplification in supramolecular polymers, Sym- posium, Supramolecular Optoelectronics Polymers, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 7 June 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Kraft, D., and Kegel, W., Assembly kinetics of tobacco mosaic virus, Workshop, Mathematical Virology, Ambleside, UK, 16-19 August 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Tactoids large and small, University of Leeds, UK, 12 November 2010. – van Roij, R.H.H.G., Non-aqueous electrolytes: Bjerrum pairs, screening, and pola- risation, Soft Matter Seminar, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 5 February 2010. – van Roij, R.H.H.G., Acid nanoparticles in sweet oil and salty water, Soft Matter Colloquium, Oxford University, UK, 13 May 2010. – van Roij, R.H.H.G., Mixtures of semi-flexible colloidal rods: orientational ordering, stretching and demixing, Workshop, Playing Colloidal Mikado II, Luxembourg, 28 May 2010. – van Roij, R.H.H.G., DDFT for ionic double layers, Cecam Workshop, Mesoscale Methods for Colloidal Hydrodynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 20 July 2010. – Yin, S., DRSTP PhD Day 2010, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 October 2010. 8 Science-related activities

This chapter presents an overview of the science-related activities of DRSTP staﬀ members and postdoctoral fellows. Here we list publications about or related to physics in a variety of printed media in Section 8.1 and public lectures are given in Section 8.2. All other outreach activities such as forum discussions, television interviews, personal columns in newspapers etc. are listed in the paragraph ‘other contributions’ (Section 8.3). Science-related activities of PhD students can be found in Chapter 4 (Sections 4.5 and 4.6).

8.1 Physics-related publications

– Bais, F.A., Une relativit´ebien particuli`ere, Editions desiris, Paris, France, 2010. (book). – Bais, F.A. In praise of science: Curiosity, understanding and progress, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 2010. (book). – Bais, F.A. Greek translation of The equations, Katopro Publishers, Athen, Greece, 2010. (book). – Bais, F.A. Greek translation of Very special relativity, Katopro Publishers, Athen, Greece, 2010. (book). – Bais, F.A. and van der Schaar, J.P. Introduction to new edition of Kosmos by Willem de Sitter, Amsterdam Academic Archive, Amsterdam University Press, 2010. (book) – Bais, F.A. Kwanta, kwinkslagen & kwakzalvers, Amsterdam University Press. 2010. (book). – Bakker, B.L.G., Few-body systems, 47(1-2) (2010) 1-2 editorial. – Blokhuis, E.M., Boon, N.J.H., van den Ende, H.T.M., Krumer, Z., Nienhuis, B., van Roij, R., Schaafsma, M.C. and Tromp, R.H., Water-water interfaces, in ‘Pro- ceedings Physics with Industry 2010’, Lorentz Center Leiden, the Netherlands, 11-15 October 2010. – Duine, R.A., van Driel, H.J. and Stoof, H.T.C., Koude atomen bieden weerstand, NTvN 76 (2010) 292. – Duine, R.A.,, Fysica 2010, focussessie Nanofysica, NTvN 76 (2010) 114. – Loll, R., Dimensions vanish in quantum gravity, by Rachel Courtland, New Scien- tist, 2779, September 2010, pp. 14-15. – Loll, R., Met quantummechanica ons heelal doorgronden, by Marion de Boo, in Synthese, NWO-Jaaroverzicht, July 2010, pp. 26-27. 126 Annual report 2010

– Loll, R., Quantumzwaartekracht om het heelal te begrijpen, by Bauke Vermaas, in FOM Expres 23, no.1, April 2010, p. 11. – Loll, R., Twee smaken is te weinig, by Robert Visscher, in Transfer 17, no. 5, February 2010 (Nuﬃc, Den Haag). – ’t Hooft, G., Gravity and the quantum: the world may not be what it seems, Fron- tiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics: 10th International Symposium, Hartnett, Abbot, Am. Inst. Phys. (ISBN 978-0-7354-0793-0) pp. 4-15. – van Enter, A.C.D., Gemiste Nobelprijzen, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuur- kunde, 76-03, March 2010, p. 90 (article). – van Enter, A.C.D., Waar doen we het voor, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuur- kunde, 76-04, April 2010, p. 95 (article). – van Enter, A.C.D., Waarom volgens mij de 1e geldstroom relatief wel zou moeten groeien, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, 76-11, 2010, p. 381 (article).

8.2 Public lectures

– Bais, F.A., Keerpunten in de natuurwetenschap, Lecture, Physica Society, Alk- maar, the Netherlands, 11 January 2010. – Bais, F.A., Wetenschap en angst, Lecture, Studium Generale, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 10 February 2010. – Bais, F.A., Relativity, Lectures, Museon, Den Haag, the Netherlands, 8-10 June 2010. – Bais, F.A., Symmetrie als kosmische code, Valedictory Lecture, University of Am- sterdam, the Netherlands, 16 June 2010. – Bais, F.A., Het natuurwetenschappelijk perspectief op tijd, Lecture, Benecke Mee- ting on Time, Maarssen, the Netherlands, 16 September 2010. – Bais, F.A., Keerpunten in de natuurwetenschappen, Lecture, HOVO Radboud Uni- versity, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 29 September 2010. – Bais, F.A., Keerpunten in de natuurwetenschappen, Lecture, Natuurkundig Gezel- schap, Middelburg, the Netherlands, 1 October 2010. – Bais, F.A., Waarom wetenschap, Lecture, Varendonck College, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 13 November 2010. – Bais, F.A., Gedachte-experimenten in de relativiteitstheorie, Lecture, Studium Ge- nerale, Leiden, the Netherlands, 22 November 2010. – Bais, F.A., Keerpunten: momenten van waarheid in de natuurwetenschap, Lecture, Genootschap Adriean Poirters, Oisterwijk, the Netherlands, 27 November 2010. – Bais, F.A., Keerpunten: momenten van waarheid in de natuurwetenschap, Lec- ture, the Soci eteit voor Culturele Samenwerking, Den Haag, the Netherlands, 6 December 2010. – Beenakker, C.W.J., Nanokippengaas, Alumnidag, Leiden University, the Nether- lands, 13 February 2010. – Bergshoeﬀ, E.A., Relativiteitstheorie, ‘Een dag student’, Groningen, the Nether- lands, March 2010. – Bergshoeﬀ, E.A., Het mysterie van tijd en ruimte, First Amstel lecture on Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2010. 8. Science-related activities 127

– Bergshoeff, E.A., Einstein: tijd en ruimte, Ouderdag, Natuurkunde en Technische Natuurkunde, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, May 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Het Higgs deeltje, Koninklijk Instituut voor Ingenieurs (KIVI), Den Haag, the Netherlands, September 2010. – Bergshoeff, E.A., Waar blijft de tijd?, Dies Natalis-lezing ter gelegenheid van de 51ste verjaardag van de Fysisch-Mathematische Faculteitsvereniging FMF, Gro- ningen, the Netherlands, November 2010. – de Wit, B., De LHC deeltjesversneller: waarom en hoe? [The LHC Particle Acce- lerator: Why and How?], Presentation for 5-th and 6-th grade students, Christelijk Lyceum Zeist, the Netherlands, 29 January 2010. – Duine, R.A., Meer is anders, Beta onder de Dom, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 11 June 2010. – Duine, R.A., Van ’t Hooft-Polyakov-monopool naar Ipod, Voordracht tijdens werk- bezoek vaste tweede kamercommissie voor OCW aan de landelijke onderzoeksscho- len, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 12 February 2010. – Katsnelson, M.I., Quanta, nano and graphene, Polytechnique Museum, Moscow, Russia, April 2010. – Laenen, E.L.M.P., Fysica bij de large hadron collider, Studium Generale, Maas- tricht University, the Netherlands, 18 March 2010. – Loll, R., Searching for the quantum origins of space and time, PION-Dutch Physics Olympiad, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 4 June 2010. – Loll, R., What is time?, 50th Anniversary Studium Generale, Utrecht, the Nether- lands, 13 September 2010. – Loll, R., Physics as a journey through scales - from the very large to the very small, Lecture for Master Class for High-School Students, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 29 October 2010. – Loll, R., A 21st-century look at space, time and the universe, Descartes College - Honours Program, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2 November 2010. – Mulders, P.J.G., Veranderende concepten over materie, ruimte en tijd, ITS Regio- nale Bijeenkomst, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25 March 2010. – Prokopec, T., The dark side of cosmology, Information Fair, (Open Days) for Pros- pective Bachelor Students, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 27 November 2010. – Schoutens, K., Quantuminformatie, Lezingen tijdens Comeniusleergang, 26, Er- melo, the Netherlands, 18 March 2010 and Comenius leergang 27, Arnhem, the Netherlands, 3 December 2010. – Schoutens, K., Quantumwereld, Lezing op netwerkbijeenkomst docenten VWO, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 September 2010. – Schoutens, K., Kwantum kwesties - over de fundamentele rol van de kwantum- theorie in de natuurkunde, Mini-College, Open Dag Science Park Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 9 October 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., 40 years of subatomic particle physics, Nederlandse Club, St. Peters- burg, Russia, 5 May 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Lecture, Masterclass Theoretical Physics, Fascinatie voor Extreme Werelden: Extremely Small, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9 June 2010. – ’t Hooft, G., Beta onder de Dom, Lecture and Museum Tour for Lecturers, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 11 June 2010. 128 Annual report 2010

– ’t Hooft, G., Zwarte gaten in elementaire deeltjes, Publiekscollege, Antwerpen, Belgium, 4 October 2010. – van Holten, J.W., Versnellers en de kosmos, VWO tutors presentation, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 21 January 2010. – van Holten, J.W., Materie en krachten, VWO students presentation, Leiden Uni- versity, the Netherlands, 5 February 2010. – van Holten, J.W., Versnellers en de kosmos, Hisparc teachers and students presentation, Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 16 April 2010. – van Holten, J.W., Deeltjesfysica bij de LHC, RINO (Bachelor Student Association), Leiden University, the Netherlands, 22 April 2010. – van Roij, R.H.H.G., Zure nanodeeltjes in zoete olie en zout water, Natuurkundig Gezelschap, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 6 April 2010. – van Roij, R.H.H.G., Extreem ﬂuctuerend: colloids, nanodeeltjes, en druppels in vloeistoﬀen, Masterclass for Secondary School Pupils, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10 June 2010 and 29 October 2010. – Vandoren, S.J.G., Snaartheorie, Lecture, Rotary Club Haarlem, the Netherlands, 13 October 2010. – Vandoren, S.J.G., Op zoek naar de oerknal, Lecture, Cultureel Centrum de Kimpel, Bilzen, Belgium, 29 November 2010. – van der Schoot, P.P.A.M., Introduction to physics, Parents Day, Eindhoven, 29 March 2010. – Verlinde, E.P., Zwaartekracht, 20x20 Presentation, Discovery Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26 September 2010.

8.3 Other contributions

– Bais, F.A., Entropie, informatie en emergentie, Broodje kennis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2 March 2010, talk. – Bais, F.A., Kwanta, kwinkslagen em kwakzalvers, Boekenkrant, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 7 June 2010, interview. – Bais, F.A., NB, Radio program Noorderlicht, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 11 June 2010, interview. – Bais, F.A., NB, TROS News-show, Hilversum, the Netherlands, 19 June 2010, interview. – Bais, F.A., Studeren is meer dan leren, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2 September 2010, panel discussion. – Bais, F.A., Jacht op de oorsprong, Spui, Hilversum, the Netherlands, issue 33, 2010, interview with Arnoud Veilbrief. – Bais, F.A., Answer to questions, NOS/Teleac radio program Hoe? Zo!, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 30 September 2010, interview. – Bais, F.A., Keerpunten in de natuurwetenschap, Award Ceremony for Peter Zee- man Prize, Zierikzee, the Netherlands, 26 November 2010, talk. – Barkema, G.T., NWO-proposal entitled: The little green machine, PI dr. Lex Wolters (Leiden) and Prof. Simon Portugies Zwart (Leiden), further information available at: http://www.littlegreenmachine.org, co-initiator. 8. Science-related activities 129

– Bergshoeff, E.A., Art Project Time what makes us tick, Noorderzonfestival, Gro- ningen, the Netherlands, August 2010, participation. – Caux, J.-S., Quantum cryptografie en quantum computers, Proefcollege Natuur- kunde (for prospective physics students), University of Amsterdam, the Nether- lands, 21 January 2010, lecture. – Morais Smith, C., Fysica 2010, 23 April 2010, Utrecht, the Netherlands, main organizer. – Nienhuis, G., Special relativity, Proefstuderen voor scholieren, Leiden, the Nether- lands, 19 February 2010, lecture and class work. – ‘t Hooft, G., Boekpresentatie aan ondergetekende: Isaac Newton en het ware weten van Floris Cohen, Boerhaave Museum, Leiden, the Netherlands, 9 March 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Unofficial opening University Museum Utrecht exhibition Master the Universe, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht, the Netherlands, 19 April 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Radio-interview about University Museum Utrecht exhibition on RTV, the Netherlands, 24 April 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Avond Vrienden van het University Museum Utrecht, Presentation, the Netherlands, 27 April 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Dubble interview with Robbert Dijkgraaf for Folia, 12 May 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Planetenbiljart - Science Fiction en Echte Wetenschap, Paradiso Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 16 May 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Television program Goedemorgen Nederland, KRO, the Netherlands, 17 May 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Official opening exhibition Master the Universe, University Museum Utrecht, the Netherlands, 19 May 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Interview with newspaper Algemene Dagblad about University Mu- seum Utrecht exhibition, the Netherlands, 20 May 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Torino, Interview with Tanja Traxler of Der Standard, and with RTE, Independent Radio Production, Ireland, Today with Pat Kenny, 3 July 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Playing with planets, Radio Show Science Fantastic, 9 August 2010, interview with Michio Kaku. – ‘t Hooft, G., 48th Course What is known and unexpected at LHC, Erice, Italy, 29 August-7 September 2010, deputy director. – ‘t Hooft, G., Answer to questions from children, Klokhuis Vragendagen, Science Center NEMO, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14 November 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., TEDx Amsterdam, lecture about Science Fiction and Real Science, followed by interviews with Achmea, RTLZ and BRN (Paul v. Liemt), 30 Novem- ber 2010. – ‘t Hooft, G., Recordings for documentary The Dream of Symmetry, about Ab- dus Salam, Giuseppe Mussardo, SISSA & ICTP Strada Costiera, Trieste, Italy, 3 December 2010. – Taylor, M.M., Black holes, Outreach movie made with the company Fast Facts. This movie was made as part of de Jonge Akademie activities at the KNAW. It is available on the KNAW website, and also through various internet portals, such as De Volksrant online and YouTube, 2010, movie. 130 Annual report 2010

– Vandoren, S.J.G., was co-organizer (with B. Pioline, Jussieu, Paris) of the Work- shop Advances in String Theory, Wall Crossing, and Quaternion-Kahler Geometry, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, France, 30 August-3 September 2010. – Zaanen, J., Lorentz Center Workshop, Inter-Phase: Novel Electronic States at Interfaces in Oxides, Leiden, the Netherlands, 28 April 2010, disc. leader: theory. 9 Research funding

Below an overview is presented of funding organizations that ﬁnancially supported the research of the DRSTP in 2010. Regular university funding is not listed.

9.1 Personal grants

University grants – High Potentials grant UU, R.H.H.G. van Roij (UU) (2005-2010) – The phases of gauge theories with many ﬂavours NCF-grant for computing time (E. Pallante) (RUG)

KNAW – Academy professorship, G. ’t Hooft (UU) (2005-2011) – Academy professorship, E.A. Bergshoeﬀ (RUG) (2010-2015)

NWO – Spinoza grant (1999) C.W.J. Beenakker (UL) – Spinoza grant (2006) J. Zaanen (UL) – VICI grant (2004) R. Loll (UU) (2005-2010) – VICI grant (2007) C. Morais Smith (UU) (2008-2013) – VICI grant (2008) K. Skenderis (UvA) (2009-2014) – VICI grant (2009) S. Vandoren (UU) (2010-2015) – VICI grant (2009) G. Arutyunov (UU) (2010-2015) – VICI grant (2010) J-S. Caux (UvA) (2011-2016) – VIDI grant (2004) M.M. Taylor (UvA) (2005-2010) – VIDI grant (2005) K. Peeters (UU) (2006-2011) – VIDI grant (2007) R.A. Duine (UU) (2008-2013) – VIDI grant (2007) M. Postma (Nikhef) (2008-2013) – VIDI grant (2008) D. Roest (RUG) (2008-2013) – VIDI grant (2010) C. Castelnovo (UvA) (2011-2016) – VENI grant (2006) J. Baptista (UvA) (2006-2010) – VENI grant (2007) M. Das (VUA) (2007-2011) – VENI grant (2008) P.L. McFadden (UvA) (2008-2011) – VENI grant (2008) M. Snoek (UvA) (2009-2012) – VENI grant (2009) S.P. Miao (UU) (2010-2013) – VENI grant (2009) N. Banerjee (UU) (2010-2013) – VENI grant (2010) V. Juricic (UL) (2010-2012) – VENI grant (2010) B. Tighe (UL) (2010-2012) 132 Annual report 2010

– VENI grant (2010) B. Pozsgay (UvA) (2011-2014) – VENI grant (2010) I. Khavkine (UU) (2011-2014)

ERC – ERC Advanced investigator grant, C.W.J. Beenakker (UL) Search for mechanisms to control massless electrons in graphene (2009-2014) – ERC Advanced investigator grant, B. de Wit (UU) Supersymmetry: a window to non-perturbative physics (2010-2015) – ERC Starting grant, R. Duine (UU) New frontiers in spintronics (2008-2013)

EU Marie Curie fellowships – P. Sulkowski (UvA) Black holes - BPS - black holes, BPS states and topological string theory (1 October 2009 - 30 September 2012) – M. Arzano (UU) Beyond local QFT (15 September 2009 - 15 September 2011)

Other fellowships – R.N. Caldeira Costa (UvA) Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology PhD, research fellowship (1 October 2008 - 1 October 2012) – K. Hristov (UU) KNAW Huygens Scholarship (1 September 2008 - 1 September 2010) – M. Taylor (UvA) FOM/v Stimuleringsprogramma, overbruggingsaanstelling (2009 - 2012)

9.2 FOM funding

– FOM-A-01 (group leader F.A. Bais) Fundamental interactions (FOM program 31) 02FI10: Fundamental interactions (F.A. Bais)

– FOM-A-05 (group leader B. Nienhuis) Collective and cooperative statistical physical phenomena (FOM program 46) 04CCSPP26: Correlations in groundstates without ﬁnite size corrections (B. Nienhuis)

– FOM-A-20 (group leader E.P. Verlinde) String theory and quantum gravity (FOM program 57) 01STQG01: Thermodynamics of strings, ﬂuxes and branes (R.H. Dijkgraaf and J. de Boer) 01STQG05: Persoonlijk materieel budget programmaleider A String theoretic approach to cosmology and quantum matter (FOM program 121) 09CQ01: Dynamical aspects of black holes (J. de Boer, M. Taylor, E.P. Verlinde) 09CQ02: Holography and cosmology (K. Skenderis, J.P. van der Schaar) 09CQ09: Program management, workshops and guests (E.P. Verlinde) Projectruimte 9. Research funding 133

03PR2266: Supersymmetric gauge theories and matrix models (R.H. Dijkgraaf and J. de Boer) 04PR2387: Connecting gauge interactions with gravity through string theory (R.H. Dijkgraaf and E.P. Verlinde) 06PR2510: Cosmological vacua in string theory (R.H. Dijkgraaf and E.P. Verlinde) 08PR2647: Topological computations for supersymmetric theories (J. de Boer) 10PR2818: An entropic view on gravity and the cosmos (E.P. Verlinde)

– FOM-A-25 (group leader K. Schoutens) Collective and cooperative statistical physical phenomena (FOM program 46) 04CCSPP24: Collective behavior vs entanglement in atomic matter (K. Schoutens) Solid state quantum information processing (FOM program 73) 08QIP07: Topological quantum computation in fractional quantum Hall eﬀect devices (K. Schoutens) 10ODE02: New linear Luttinger liquid response functions (J.-S. Caux) Projectruimte 08PR2566: Cracking the quantum quench (J.-S. Caux) 08PR2585: Topological quantum registers (K. Schoutens) 08PR2627: A new launch pad for renormalization (J.-S. Caux) FOM-Springplankplaatsen 02SP002: Dynamica van sterkgecorreleerde systemen in de gecondenseerde materie (J.-S. Caux)

– FOM-V-01 (group leader P.J.G. Mulders) Theoretical particle physics in the era of the LHC (FOM program 104) 07TPP04: Theoretical particle physics in the era of the LHC (D. Boer and P.J.G. Mulders) Projectruimte 04PR2302: Exposing the color glass condensate (D. Boer) 05PR2422: Time reversal odd phenomena in quantum chromodynamics (P.J.G. Mulders) 07PR2547: Color ﬂow in hard hadronic scattering processes (P.J.G. Mulders)

– FOM-V-13 (group leader F.C. MacKintosh) Biomolecular physics (FOM program 60) 03BMP23: Micromechanics and active response of biopolymer networks (F.C. MacKintosh) Material properties of biological assemblies (FOM program 90) 05BMPA04: Cytoskeletal/ﬁlamentous protein networks and assemblies (F.C. Mac- Kintosh) 05BMPA06: Microrheology and non-equilibrium ﬂuctuations of active cytoskeletal networks (F.C. MacKintosh/ G. Koenderink) 05BMPA10: Guest budget (F.C. MacKintosh) 05BMPA11: Personal budget, program leader (F.C. MacKintosh) Rheophysics: connecting jamming and rheology (FOM program 102) 134 Annual report 2010

07CJR03: Modelling of non-aﬃne deformations and ﬂow (F.C. MacKintosh) Projectruimte 07PR2680: Cell-inspired design of polymer networks with tailored mechanical properties (G.H. Koenderink/ F.C. MacKintosh) Mechanosensing and mechanotansduction by cells (FOM program 117) 09MMC08: Force transmission in the extracellular matrix (F.C. MacKintosh)

– FOM-V-16 (group leader T.D. Visser) Singular plasmonics 07PLSM02: Singular plasmonics (T.D. Visser)

– FOM-G-01 (group leader E.A. Bergshoeﬀ) String theory and quantum gravity (FOM program 57) 01STQG03: String theory and quantum gravity (E.A. Bergshoeﬀ/M. de Roo) A string theoretic approach to cosmology and quantum matter (FOM program 121) 09PR2720: Massive gravity: the road to quantum gravity? 09CQ05: Unfolding matter with terascale computers (FOM projectruimte) (E. Pallante) 07PR2533: Theoretical particle physics in the era of the LHC (FOM program 104) (E. Pallante)

– FOM-L-05 (group leader C.W.J. Beenakker) Photons in complex media (FOM program 45-2) 07WCM09: Photons in complex media: theory (C.W.J. Beenakker) Graphene-based electronics (FOM program 101) 07GE02: Quantum transport in graphene (C.W.J. Beenakker) Solid state quantum information processing (FOM Focusgroep) 08SSQIP: Nonlocally encoded qubits in topological insulators and graphene (C.W.J. Beenakker) Projectruimte 04PR2285: Controlled quantum entanglement in the Fermi sea (C.W.J. Beenakker) 05PR2407: Antibunched and entangled microwaves in nanostructures (C.W.J. Beenakker) 06PR2504: Mesoscopic physics in graphene (C.W.J. Beenakker) 08PR2601: Electronic shot noise in fractal conductors (C.W.J. Beenakker) 09PR2659: Mesoscopic physics in topological insulators (C.W.J. Beenakker)

– FOM-L-07 (group leader W. van Saarloos) Collective and cooperative statistical physical phenomena (FOM program 46) 04CCSPP15: Eﬃcient statistical physical models for simulating macroscopic visco- elastic ﬂow instabilities and turbulence (W. van Saarloos) 04CCSPP18: Quantum phases of ultracold strongly interacting atoms (P.J.H. Denteneer) Physics of granular matter (FOM program 63) 07PGM17: Response and scaling behavior of dense granular media near the jamming transition (W. van Saarloos) 9. Research funding 135

Rheophysics: connecting jamming and rheology (FOM program 102) 07CJR07: Competition of jamming and shear banding (W. van Saarloos) Innovative physics for oil and gas (FOM/SHELL program 116) 08iPOG02: Nonlinear waves and quasi-localized resonances in disordered granular media (W. van Saarloos & M. van Hecke) Projectruimte 05PR2438: When soft condensed matter gets hard: the “jamming transition” in granular media (W. van Saarloos)

– FOM-L-15 (group leader J. Zaanen) Collective and cooperative statistical physical phenomena (FOM program 46) 04CCSPP13: Quantum phase transitions and fermion signs (J. Zaanen) A string theoretic approach to cosmology and quantum matter (FOM program 121) (A. Ach´ucarro & K.E. Schalm) Projectruimte 04PR2295: Stripe fractionalization: the quest for emergent gauge principle (J. Zaanen) 10ER2795: Fermionic quantum criticality and anti-de Sitter string theory: black- hole answers for condensed matter questions (K.E. Schalm/J. Zaanen) 09PR2657-2: Strike while the iron is hot: uncovering the electronic structure of the new Fe-pnictide high temperature superconductors (J. van den Brink)

– FOM-L-26 (group leader H. Schiessel) Material properties of biological assemblies (FOM program 90) 05MPBA09: Theory of the role and behavior of membranes in composite systems (H. Schiessel) 06PR2465: Statistical mechanics of semiﬂexible biopolymers under tension and compression (H. Schiessel)

– FOM-L-30 (group leader J. van den Brink) Collective and cooperative statistical physical phenomena (FOM program 46) 04CSSPP31: Orbital physics in oxides: novel types of quantum order (J. van den Brink) Projectruimte 04PR2358: Does spontaneous symmetry breaking limit quantum coherence? (J. van den Brink) FOM-Springplankplaatsen 02SP001: FOM-Springplankplaats (J. van den Brink) From soft matter to dark matter: the statistical physics of lensing (V. Vitelli)

– FOM-N-01 (group leader R.H.P. Kleiss) Theoretical particle physics in the era of the LHC (FOM program 104) 07TPP02: Higgs+SuSy (R.H.P. Kleiss)

– FOM-N-09 (group leader M.I. Katsnelson) Graphene-based electronics (FOM program 101) 136 Annual report 2010

06PR2481: Graphene: the two dimensional crystal that should not exist (A. Fasolino) 07GE03: Graphene - based electronics (M.I. Katsnelson)

– FOM-U-01 (group leader G. ’t Hooft) Theoretical particle physics in the era of the LHC (FOM program 104) 07TPP03: Naturalness and fundamental vs composite scalars (G. ’t Hooft) Projectruimte 07PR2522: What curves the space-time at large scales? The quest for the origin of dark energy of the universe (T. Prokopec) 09PR2744: The 4D/5D connection for black holes and black rings (G. ’t Hooft)

– FOM-U-05 (group leader H.T.C. Stoof) Projectruimte 08PR2587: Ultracold Fermi gases and neutron stars (H.T.C. Stoof) 10PR2783-2: Spin drag in Bose gases (H.T.C. Stoof/R.A. Duine/ P. van der Straten)

– FOM-U-29 (group leader B. de Wit) String theory and quantum gravity (FOM program 57) 01STQG02: New approaches to hypermultiplets/local ﬁeld theory couplings of BPS states (B. de Wit) A String Theoretic approach to cosmology an quantum matter (FOM program 121) 09CQ03: Fixed point CFT’s for condensed matter systems (S.J.G. Vandoren) 09CQ04: Moduli stabilization and cosmological vacua (S.J.G. Vandoren) Projectruimte 09PR2731: Statistical versus thermodynamic black hole entropy (B. de Wit)

– FOM-U-31 (group leader R. van Roij) Innovative physics for oil and gas (FOM/SHELL program 116) 08iPOG08: Electrokinetics and electroacoustics near oil-water interfaces in porous media (R. van Roij) Projectruimte 07PR2592: Do smectic nuclei exist? (R. van Roij/M. Dijkstra)

– FOM-U-34 (group leader R. Duine) Controlling spin dynamics in magnetic nanostructures: combining fast time and short length scales for tomorrow’s technology (FOM program 109) 80SPIN03: Theory domain walls (R. Duine)

– FOM-U-35 (group leader R. Loll) Projectruimte 08PR2578: A reality check for quantum cosmology (R. Loll) 10PR2765: Ironing out the quantum wrinkles of spacetime (R. Loll) 9. Research funding 137

9.3 FOM-Nikhef

– FOM program (group leader E. Laenen) Theoretical Particle physics in the era of the LHC (FOM program 104) 07TPP06: Tools, methods and applications for new physics predictions for the LHC (J.W. van Holten, E. Laenen, J.A.M. Vermaseren)

– FOM program (group leader E. Verlinde) String theory and quantum gravity (FOM program 57) 01STGQG04: Conformal ﬁeld theory (A.N. Schellekens)

– FOM program (group leader J. van den Brand) String theory and quantum gravity (FOM program 57) 01STGQG04: Conformal ﬁeld theory (J.W. van Holten)

– FOM-Nikhef (group leader J.A.M. Vermaseren) Projectruimte 07PR2556: Precision phenomenology at the LHC (J.A.M. Vermaseren)

– FOM-Nikhef (group leader A.N.. Schellekens) Projectruimte 05PR2435: Standard model interactions from open string theory (A.N. Schellekens)

– FOM-Nikhef (group leader R. Fleischer) Projectruimte 05PR2435:

9.4 EU-networks

– Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HadronPhysics2) Duration: 2009-2012 Netwerk coordinator: C. Guaraldo (Frascati) Scientist in charge for VUA: P.J.G. Mulders

– Flavour Physics Training network FLAVIAnet Duration: 2006-2010 Network coordinator: A. Pich (Valencia U., Spain) Scientist in charge for RUG (associated with Valencia): E. Pallante

– Nanoelectronics: Concepts, Theory and Modelling (7th framework program, Initial Training Network) Duration: from 01-06-2010 until 01-06-2014 Network coordinator: C.J. Lambert, Lancaster (UK)) Scientists in charge: C.W.J. Beenakker (UL) 138 Annual report 2010

– HEPTOOLS (MRTN-CT-2006-035505) Duration: from 01-12-2006 until 30-11-2010 Network coordinator: Dr. C.G. Papadopoulos (NRCS Dimokritos, Greece) Scientist in charge for RU: R.H.P. Kleiss

– HEPTOOLS (MRTN-CT-2006-035505) Duration: from 01-12-2006 until 30-11-2010 Network coordinator: Dr. C.G. Papadopoulos (NRCS Dimokritos, Greece) Scientist in charge for Nikhef: E. Laenen

9.5 ESF

– Interdisciplinary statistical and ﬁeld theory approaches to nanophysics and low dimensional systems (INSTANS) Duration: 2005-2010 Network coordinator: G. Mussardo (SISSA, Trieste) Scientist in charge for UvA: K. Schoutens

– EUROGRAPHENE (Eurocores network) Duration: 2010-2014 Network coordinator: P. Hakonen, Helsinki (Finland) Scientist in charge: C.W.J. Beenakker (UL)

9.6 Other

NWO – Top-talent: (T. van Dijk) (VUA) – NWO Mozaikbeurs C. Wever (2008-2012) – NWO ECHO grant: Charged colloidal rods in suspension: screening, twisting, demixing, and ordering, R. van Roij (UU) (2008-2012)

STW – VTF 7803 (T. Visser) (VUA): Using light better (T. Stegeman and S. Raghuna- than) 10 Organization (per 31-12-2010)

Governing Board: prof. dr. M. de Roo (RUG), 050-3634956, [email protected] prof. dr. R.H.P. Kleiss (RU), 024-3653283, [email protected] prof. dr. E.L.M.P. Laenen (Nikhef), 020-5925127, [email protected] prof. dr. F.C. MacKintosh (VUA), 020-5987857, [email protected] prof. dr. C. Morais Smith (UU), 030-2533062, [email protected] prof. dr. K. Schoutens (UvA) (chair), 020-5255664, [email protected] prof. dr. J. Zaanen (UL), 071-5275506, [email protected]

Scientiﬁc director: prof. dr. R. Loll (UU), 030-2535903, [email protected]

Managing director: drs. J.M. van Zee, 030-2537549, [email protected]

Bureau: W.L. Verweij, 030-2535916, [email protected]

Scientific Advisory Committee: prof. dr. J. Fröhlich, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland prof. dr. D. Nelson, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA prof. dr. S. Sachdev, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA prof. dr. G. ‘t Hooft, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands 140 Annual report 2010

Educational Board: prof. dr. G.T. Barkema (UU), 030-2532954, [email protected] dr. W.J.P. Beenakker (RU), 024-3652803, [email protected] dr. P.A. Bobbert (TUE), 040-2474352, [email protected] dr. P.J.H. Denteneer (UL), 071-5275508, [email protected] prof. dr. P.J.G. Mulders (VUA) (chair), 020-5987863, [email protected] prof. dr. B. Nienhuis (UvA), 020-5255749, [email protected] prof. dr. E. Pallante (RUG), 050-3633420, [email protected] E. van der Bijl MSc (UU) (representative PhD Student Council) prof. dr. J.-W. van Holten (Nikhef), 020-5925131, [email protected]

PhD Student Council: drs. A.J. Beekman (UL), 071-5275530, [email protected] drs. R. de Adelhart Toorop (Nikhef), 020-5925011, [email protected] C.L.M. Mantz MSc (VUA), 06-24440686, [email protected] A.I.M. Niessen MSc (RU), 024-3652827, [email protected] J. Noordmans MSc (RUG), 050-3633600, [email protected] M. Smolic MSc (UvA), 020-5255705, [email protected] E. van der Bijl MSc (UU), 030-2532322, [email protected] 11 Partners and associate members

University of Amsterdam (UvA) Faculty of Science Institute for Theoretical Physics Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam P.O. Box 94485, 1090 GL Amsterdam tel.: 020-5255773 fax: 020-5255778 e-mail secretariaat: [email protected] (Anne-Marieke Crommentuijn); [email protected] (Jocelyn Kelly) website: http://www.science.uva.nl/research/itf/

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy Theoretical Physics De Boelelaan 1081 1081 HV Amsterdam tel.: 020-5987892 fax: 020-5987992 e-mail secretariaat: [email protected] (Marja Herronen) website: http://www.nat.vu.nl/en/research/theoretical-physics/index.asp 142 Annual report 2010

University of Groningen (RUG) Faculty of Mathematics and Applied Sciences Centre for Theoretical Physics Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen tel.: 050-3634950 fax: 050-3634947 e-mail secretariaat: [email protected] (Iris de Roo-Kwant); [email protected] (Annelien Blanksma); [email protected] website: http://www.rug.nl/natuurkunde/onderzoek/instituten/ctn/index

Leiden University (UL) Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics Niels Bohrweg 2 2333 CA Leiden P.O. Box 9506 2300 RA Leiden tel.: 071-5275505 fax: 071-5275511 e-mail secretariaat: [email protected] (Fran Ouwerkerk-Persaud) website: http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/

Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) Faculty of Science Theoretical Physics Heyendaalseweg 135 6525 AJ Nijmegen P.O. Box 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen 11. Partners and associate members 143

Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics tel.: 024-3652098 fax: 024-3652191 e-mail secretariaat: [email protected] (Gemma Koppers-Janssen; Annelies Oosterhof- Meij; Marjo Wees-Mobertz) website: http://www.ru.nl/imapp/

Institute for Molecules and Materials tel.: 024-3652981 fax: 024-3652120 e-mail secretariaat: [email protected] (Anja F¨ollings-Reuvers) website: http://www.ru.nl/imm/

Utrecht University (UU) Faculty of Science Department of Physics and Astronomy Institute for Theoretical Physics Leuvenlaan 4 3584 CE Utrecht P.O. Box 80.195 3508 TD Utrecht tel.: 030-2535928 fax: 030-2535937 e-mail secretariaat: [email protected] (Els Brochard); [email protected] website: http://web.science.uu.nl/itf/default.htm

Nikhef Theory Group (Nikhef) National Institute for Subatomic Physics Science Park 105 1098 XG Amsterdam P.O. Box 41882 1009 DB Amsterdam tel.: 020-5925127 fax: 020-5925155 e-mail secretariaat: [email protected] (Eveline Schram-Post); [email protected] (Eric Laenen) website: http://www.nikhef.nl/pub/theory/local.php 144 Annual report 2010

Associate members prof. dr. H.A. de Raedt University of Groningen Department of Applied Physics Materials Science Centre Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen prof. dr. ir. H. Dekker Science Park 904 1098 XH Amsterdam prof. dr. L.-F. Feiner Philips Research Lab High Tech Campus 4 5656 AA Eindhoven dr. B.J. Hoenders University of Groningen Department of Applied Physics Materials Science Centre Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen dr. ir. L.P.J. Kamp Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Applied Physics Den Dolech 2 5612 AZ Eindhoven prof. dr. J. Knoester University of Groningen Department of Applied Physics Materials Science Centre Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen 11. Partners and associate members 145 prof. dr. D. Lohse University of Twente Faculty of Science and Technology Physics of Fluids Drienerlolaan 5 7522 NB Enschede dr. M.V. Mostovoy University of Groningen Department of Applied Physics Materials Science Centre Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen

Theoretical and Polymer Physics Group Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Applied Physics Research Cluster of Functional Materials Den Dolech 2 5612 AZ Eindhoven P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven prof. dr. P.J. van Baal Leiden University Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics Niels Bohrweg 2 2333 CA Leiden Annual report 2010 146 Appendix A Mission statement

Objectives The Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) is a cooperation between the theoretical physics groups of six Dutch universities and of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef) with the following purpose:

• to implement a joint programme of graduate education in theoretical physics that draws upon a dynamic research environment;

• to maintain and strengthen research in theoretical physics from a broad unifying perspective that exploits the interrelationships between diﬀerent ﬁelds of theory;

• to strengthen, both in research and graduate education, connections with experimental physics, and other disciplines such as mathematics, computational science, astrophysics, earth science, physical chemistry and the life sciences.

The DRSTP is based on the conviction that a joint venture of all the moderately sized local theory groups, each with its own profile, offers added value for the achievement of these objectives. The DRSTP represents a sizable part of the national activity in theoretical physics, a field that has a strong tradition in the Netherlands. At present there exists no other organization that represents this field of research at the national level. The DRSTP welcomes further growth, for instance, by cooperation with institutions in neighboring countries that share these goals. Often its educational activities already attract students from neighboring countries and occasionally some of these activities are based on a close collaboration with partners abroad.

Mandate The Governing Board of the DRSTP, which consists of representatives of the partners, is responsible for undertaking any suitable initiative to further its goals. The Scientific Director of the DRSTP is responsible for implementing the overall policy on behalf of the Board and for coordinating the DRSTP activities. The mandate to carry out these tasks is based on an official agreement between the Boards of the participating partners, as a result of which the DRSTP has been accredited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in June of 1994 and reaccredited in 1999, 2004 and 2010. The agreement guarantees means for a six year period in terms of explicit staff commitments as well as graduate student positions. The Annual report 2010 148

DRSTP is assisted in its endeavor by an international Scientiﬁc Advisory Committee of distinguished scientists.

Research Theoretical physics is based on universal principles. New concepts often have a much wider validity than in the field in which they are discovered, and methods developed in one field are sometimes very useful in another. Hence theoretical physics is characterized by unity in diversity. The research fields of the DRSTP are highly diverse, ranging from the physics at the very smallest length scales to the large scale structure of space and time, and from the study of building blocks of matter to the intricacies of the many-body physics of condensed matter, be it quantum matter, soft matter or bio-matter. The methods employed in these various fields make up the universal language of theoretical physics: formalisms such as the renormalization group and quantum field theory, and various concepts of statistical, computational and mathematical physics are universally applied and establish cross-talk among the research fields. The research areas covered by the DRSTP can be grouped into the following broad and overlapping themes: • Theme 1: Particle physics, cosmology, quantum gravity and string theory

• Theme 2: Quantum matter, quantum information, soft condensed matter and biophysics 149 Appendix A

The specific content of the research programme depends on the responsible project leaders, on their creativity as well as their initiative to obtain research funding from their home universities, the Dutch research councils of NWO, or from international sources such as European Union programmes. The research programme is carried out under the responsibility of the Governing Board and the Scientific Director in accordance with the agreement. The Governing Board of the DRSTP safeguards the objectives of the Research School. It monitors the overall coherence and quality of the research programme. The Board discusses periodically whether the program remains on the forefront of international developments. The Scientific Advisory Committee plays an essential part in these matters. The DRSTP is also accountable to the faculties of the participating partners. There- fore it reports regularly on past and planned activities, both in research and graduate education, on the basis of information presented in its yearly reports.

Graduate programme The partners in the DRSTP offer a joint program of graduate education leading to a PhD. As part of the research training, under the supervision of a member scientist of the corresponding node, the Research School guarantees a wide range of educational opportunities for its PhD students. They consist of advanced courses, seminars and topical courses in the Netherlands, and international experience in the form of workshops, summer schools or extended research visits abroad. The Governing Board of the DRSTP decides on admission and monitors the evaluation of progress with a prognosis of ultimate success after the first year. This takes place on the basis of an ‘Education and Supervision Form’ [opleiding- en begeleidingsplan (OBP)] between each individual PhD student and its supervisor(s), to be submitted to and approved by the Board upon admittance. The Educational Board advises the Governing Board. It also assembles the content of the yearly programme of regular activities. Standard advanced courses are published in a nationwide survey. Special PhD courses are offered within the DRSTP, in quantum field theory, statistical physics and in theoretical condensed matter physics, or result from joint efforts with other research schools. The input of graduate students in the school takes place in the form of a PhD Student Council that meets regularly with the Scientific Director and the Chairman of the Go- verning Board and Educational Board (which also has one student member). Individual members of the DRSTP play a pivotal role in helping to organize many summer schools and workshops, in the Netherlands as well as abroad, and in serving as teachers in all the activities that the DRSTP undertakes by itself or in cooperation with others.

Other responsibilities The responsibilities of the DRSTP include:

• the promotion of a stimulating research environment in theoretical physics

• setting uniform standards of quality

• making educational supplements available tailored to individual research needs. Annual report 2010 150

The Board also develops a wide range of activities in order to support an exciting research climate from fund-raising, e.g. for postdoctoral fellows, guest teachers or international mobility of DRSTP students, to the selection of visiting professors, for example on the Kramers (UU), Lorentz (UL) or Van der Waals (UvA) Chairs. Appendix B Selection and supervision procedure of PhD students

Selection and supervision of PhD students When a PhD research position opens up with one of the participating partners, there is usually an open round of applications. Important criteria in the selection procedure are the potential of the student for doing independent scientific research and the level and skills demonstrated in the Master’s program. Admission to the DRSTP requires the submission of an ‘Education and Supervision Form’ [opleiding- en begeleidingsplan (OBP)], containing a global description of educational activities with details provided for the first year. The plan also specifies how individual guidance will be provided under responsibility of the thesis advisor. The Research School safeguards a consistent implementation of the agreement, with uniform standards. The plan has to be submitted to the DRSTP Bureau. Formal admission is subject to approval by the Governing Board. After one year the progress is evaluated, based on an interview with the thesis advisor and an independent second referee. The school safeguards this procedure without interfering with the responsibilities of the employer. Participation in the educational program is an explicit element of the evaluation: students are expected to attend at least two DRSTP postgraduate schools and the DRSTP symposium ‘Trends in Theory’. The outcome of the evaluation will reflect on whether the student will be able to complete the research program within the amount of time allotted. If the prognosis is negative, the student will be asked to leave the DRSTP. Such outcomes should be, and are, extremely rare provided proper care is given to the initial selection. Annual report 2010 152

A student can appeal a negative evaluation with the Governing Board of the school; a decision will be reached within one month. If a student does leave the school before completing the PhD program, a diploma, specifying the student’s accomplishments in the educational program, will be provided. After the ﬁrst year, throughout the duration of the PhD project, the progress will be closely monitored, for example by additional yearly evaluation interviews. Appendix C Postgraduate courses (AIO/OIO schools)

Theoretical High Energy Physics

Date: 1 - 12 February 2010

Location: Hotel Bergse Bossen, Driebergen, the Netherlands

Scientiﬁc organizers: A. Ach´ucarro (UL); J. Vermaseren (Nikhef)

Lectures (8 hours each): W. Beenakker (RU): Introduction to SUSY phenomenology R. Britto (Saclay): Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories B. Craps (VUB Brussels): Holography and cosmology S. Vandoren (UU): Non-perturbative eﬀects in classical and quantum ﬁeld theory

In addition to these lecture courses, daily discussion/problem sessions were held in the afternoon (each week 4,5 hours).

Evening seminars: B. Schellekens (Nikhef/RU): The emperor’s last clothes? Y. Levin (UL): Supermassive black holes

Twenty-eight students participated. Twenty-seven students were from the Nether- lands and one student came from Belgium (KU Leuven). Annual report 2010 154

Participants (28): Andringa, Roel (RUG) Malamos, Ioannis (RU) Baggio, Marco (UvA) Mooij, Sander (Nikhef) Borghese, Andrea (RUG) Niessen, Irene (RU) Budd, Timothy (UU) Noordmans, Jacob (RUG/KVI) Bzowski, Adam (UvA) Romanets, Olena (RUG/KVI) Coomans, Frederik (KU Leuven) Smolic, Jelena (UvA) de Vries, Jordy (RUG/KVI) Smolic, Milena (UvA) den Dunnen, Wilco (VUA) van den Broek, Thijs (RU) Dibitetto, Giuseppe (RUG) van der Aalst, Ted (UL) Franzen, Anne (UU) van Tongeren, Stijn (UU) Hartgring, Lisa (Nikhef) Weenink, Jan (UU) H¨ohn,Philipp (UU) Wever, Chris (UU) Jordan, Samo (UU) Yin, Yihao (RUG) Knegjens, Rob (Nikhef) Zhou, Daren (RUG/KVI)

Student presentations (15 minutes each): Andringa, Roel (RUG): Non-relativistic gravity Baggio, Marco (UvA): A test of the AdS/CFT correspondence Borghese, Andrea (RUG): Why (not) dS? Budd, Timothy (UU): Conformal trouble in quantum gravity Bzowski, Adam (UvA): Aspects of axiomatic QFT Coomans, Frederik (KU Leuven): Gauged supergravities and the field-antifield formalism de Vries, Jordy (KVI Groningen): Hadronic electric dipole moments den Dunnen, Wilco (VUA): Probing CP-violation beyond the standard model at RHIC Dibitetto, Giuseppe (RUG): De Sitter in N=4 compactifications Franzen, Anne (UU): Classical and quantum gravitational collapse Höhn,Philipp (UU): Diffeomorphism symmetry in discrete gravity Jordan, Samo (UU): Phase transitions of quantum geometry Knegjens, Rob (Nikhef): Supersymmetric single top production Mooij, Sander (Nikhef): Moduli stabilisation in SUGRA hybrid inflation Niessen, Irene (RU): Improving predictions for SUSY cross sections 155 Appendix C

Smolic, Jelena (UvA): Nonequilibrium QFT and holography Smolic, Milena (UvA): Nonequilibrium QFT and nPI effective actions van den Broek, Thijs (RU): Supersymmetry as a noncommutative geometry van der Aalst, Ted (UL): Inflation from string theory van Tongeren, Stijn (UU): Integrability in AdS/CFT Weenink, Jan (UU): The Higgs boson as the inflaton Wever, Chris (UU): Higgs mechanism for massive gravitons Yin, Yihao (RUG): Connecting 11 dimensions with 4 dimensions Annual report 2010 156

Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter

Date: 12 - 22 April 2010

Location: Hotel Bergse Bossen, Driebergen, the Netherlands

Scientiﬁc organizers: J.-S. Caux (UvA); C. Storm (TU/e)

Lectures: Y. Blanter (TUD): Theory of modern quantum transport C. Morais Smith (UU): Dissipation in quantum systems G. Nienhuis (UL): Operator methods in quantum and classical optics V. Vitelli (UL): Geometry and elasticity

In addition to these lecture courses, ‘crash courses’ were organized. K. van Druten (UvA): Understanding quantum gases: atom chips and one-dimensional Bose gases J. Goedkoop (UvA): Correlations in condensed matter systems M. Golden (UvA): Understanding experimental techniques in hard condensed matter H. Wyss (TU/e): Understanding experimental techniques in soft condensed matter

Evening seminars: S. Markoﬀ (UvA): The ins and outs of black holes: accretion physics from Stellar to supermassive scales E. Verlinde (UvA): Emergent gravity

Twenty students participated. Eighteen students were from the Netherlands; one student came from Belgium (Univ. of Antwerp) and one student came from Ireland (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies). 157 Appendix C

Participants (20): Akhukov, Mikhail (RU) Rademaker, Louk (UL) Baarsma, Jildou (UU) Ramezani Masir, Massoud (Antwerp) Belli, Simone (UU) Romers, Jesper (UvA) Beugeling, Wouter (UU) She, Jian-Huang (UL) Cioroianu, Adrian Radu (TU/e) Smits, Olaf (Dublin) Haaker, Shanna (UvA) Swaving, Aaron (UU) Lucassen, Mathies (UU) Tieleman, Olivier (UU) Mink, Martijn (UU) van der Bijl, Erik (UU) Mossel, Jorn (UvA) van Driel, Hedwig (UU) Panﬁl, Milosz (UvA) van Heugten, Jasper (UU)

Student presentations (15 minutes each): Baarsma, Jildou (UU): Imbalanced atomic Fermi gases Belli, Simone (UU): Theory and simulation of liquid crystal phases Beugeling, Wouter (UU): Chern-Simons theory of multi-component quantum Hall systems Cioroianu, Adrian Radu (TU/e): Non-affine deformations in biological networks van Driel, Hedwig (UU): Spin drag in rotating Bose gasses Haaker, Shanna (UvA): Landau levels for a non-Abelian vector potential Lucassen, Mathies (UU): Domain walls and spin motive forces Mossel, Jorn (UvA): Relaxation dynamics after a quantum quench Ramezani Masir, Massoud (Antwerp): Fabry-Perot resonances in graphene micro- structures Romers, Jesper (UvA): Skyrmions in the 5/2 fqH state She, Jian-Huang (UL): BCS superconductivity in quantum critical metals Rademaker, Louk (UL): Flux quantization in double layer exciton superfluids Smits, Olaf (Dublin): Probing the edges of the non-abelian fractional quantum Hall effect Swaving, Aaron (UU): Current-induced torques in continuous antiferromagnetic textures Tieleman, Olivier (UU): Dipolar bosons in a two-dimensional optical lattice with staggered flux van der Bijl, Erik (UU): Strongly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates van Heugten, Jasper (UU): Color superconductivity Annual report 2010 158 Appendix D PhD Day

Date: 15 October 2010

Location: Aardwetenschappen Groot, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Organizers: Members of the PhD Student Council

Lectures (35 minutes each): L. Ament (UL): What you should know about resonant inelastic x-ray scattering N. Boon (UU): Blue energy

S. Mooij (Nikhef): Various approaches to cosmological inﬂation J. Smolic (UvA): Nonequilibrium QFT and holography J. de Vries (RUG/KVI): Fundamental symmetries at low energy

External speaker: M. de Kok (McKinsey & Company): Working at McKinsey

Eighty-three people attended of which forty-nine were PhD students, thirty-one were Master’s students, two were postdocs and one participant was a former PhD student who is now employed at McKinsey & Company. Annual report 2010 160

Participants (83): Akhukov, Mikhail (RU) Ament, Luuk (UL) Andringa, Roel (RUG) Armaitis, Jogundas (UU) Baarsma, Jildou (UU) Baggio, Marco (UvA) Beekman, Aron (UL) Beugeling, Wouter (UU) Boon, Niels (UU) Borghese, Andrea (RUG) Budd, Timothy (UU) Buﬃng, Maarten (VUA) Catana, Catalin (Nikhef/UU) Cubrovi´c,Mihailoˇ (UL) de Adelhart Toorop, Reinier (Nikhef) de Haan, Sjoerd (RUG) de Kok, Mark (McKinsey & Co.) de Vries, Jordy (RUG/KVI) de Vries, Krijn (RUG/KVI) de With, Meike (Nikhef/UvA) den Dunnen, Wilco (VUA) Diederix, Jeroen (UU) Fokkema, Thessa (UU) Fraczek, Elisabeth (RU) Freire Sanchez, Javier (UvA) Garbali, Alexandr (UvA) Hardeman, Sjoerd (UL) Hartgring, Lisa (Nikhef) Hetzel, Jamil (RU) Karssemeijer, Leendertjan (RU) Kittinaradorn, Rakpong (UU) Knegjens, Rob (Nikhef) Koksma, Jurjen (UU) Kooiman, Marleen (UU) Koster, Rik (VUA) Kovacevic, Marija (RUG) Lisseveld, Bart (UL) Locht, Inka (RU) Maes, Jeroen (UU) Malamos, Ioannis (RU) Mantz, Christiaan (VUA) Merbis, Wout (UvA) Mooij, Sander (Nikhef) Mossel, Jorn (UvA) Niessen, Irene (RU) 161 Appendix D

Noordmans, Jacob (RUG) Nunes da Silva, Tiago (RUG) Oberreuter, Johannes (UvA) Ortiz, Pablo (UL) Panﬁl, Milosz (UvA) Rademaker, Louk (UL) Reijnders, Koen (RU) Romers, Jesper (UvA) Rosseel, Jan (RUG) Sars, Matthias (RU) Schooneveldt, Gerben (UvA) She, Jian-Huang (UL) Shevchuk, Olga (UvA) Shi, Bo (UvA/WZI) Sijtema, Auke (RUG) Smolic, Jelena (UvA) Smolic, Milena (UvA) Toldo, Chiara (UU) Troppenz, Thomas (UU) van de Meent, Maarten (UU) van den Boogaard, Jorrit (RU) van den Broek, Thijs (RU) van den Wollenberg, Wouter (RU) van der Aalst, Ted (UL) van der Bijl, Erik (UU) van der Leden, Andries (UvA/VUA) van Deurzen, Hans (Nikhef/UvA) van Dijk, Thomas (VUA) van Driel, Hedwig (UU) van Heijst, Tristan (UU) van Oirschot, Pim (RU) van Tongeren, Stijn (UU) van Waarde, Bob (UL) Wansbeek, Lotje (RUG) Weenink, Jan (UU) Wiechers, Michael (RU) Yin, Shaoyu (UU) Yin, Yinao (RUG) Annual report 2010 162

15 OCTOBER 2010

For all theoretical physicists that are young at heart!

jelena smolic nonequilibrium qft and holography

jordy de vries fundamental symmetries at low energy Sander mooij various approaches to cosmological inflation

luuk ament resonant inelastic x-ray scattering Niels boon blue energy

Mark de kok working at mckinsey

15 october 2010

lecture room - aardwetenschappen groot - de uithof, utrecht Du tch lunch and drinks included - sign up at: Research School of Theoretical http://www1.phys.uu.nl/drstp/Conferences/PhDDay/2010/info2010.html Physics deadline: 8 october 2010

Poster PhD Day 2010 Appendix E National seminars

Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) • Date: 26 March 2010 Location: Oude Manhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Scientiﬁc organizers: J.-S. Caux (UvA); K. Schoutens (UvA) Lectures: C. Castelnovo (Oxford): Magnetic monopole physics in spin ice materials M. Golden (UvA): On iron pnictide superconductors M. Snoek (UvA): Ultracold atoms in optical lattices: quantum simulators of strongly correlated matter U. Zeitler (RU): High magnetic ﬁelds for condensed matter science - Physics in quantum rings and graphene

• Date: 8 October 2010 Location: Gravensteen, Pieterskerkhof 6, Leiden, the Netherlands Scientiﬁc organizers: V. Juricic (UL); B. Overbosch (UL); J. Zaanen (UL) Lectures: M. Hasan (Princeton): Experimental discovery of topological insulators and superconductors in bulk solids M. Cubrovi´c(UL):ˇ Geometric encoding for Fermi statistics: strongly correlated electrons from AdS/CFT E. van Heumen (UvA): Electronic structure of iron-pnictide superconductors: just scratching the surface Z. Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins): High temperature superconductivity in the age of iron Annual report 2010 164

Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP)

• Date: 26 March 2010 Location: Nikhef-WCW, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Scientific organizers: A. Achúcarro (UL); D. Boer (VUA); J. de Boer (UvA) Lectures: E. Bergshoeff (RUG): Massive gravity in three dimensions M. Jackson (UL): Observing quantum gravity in the sky D. Lüst(Munich): Strings at the TeV scale G. Ross (Oxford): Testing SUSY

• Date: 19 November 2010 Location: Nikhef-WCW, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Scientific organizers: A. Achúcarro (UL); D. Boer (VUA); J. de Boer (UvA) Lectures: D. Tong (Cambridge): Is string theory useful? B. Gavela (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid): Neutrinos beyond the νStandard model E. Pallante (RUG): Conformality restored in gauge theories L. Roszkowski (Sheffield): What’s new in dark matter Appendix F Shell theoretical physics stipends

Date: 8 December 2010

Location: Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam (STCA), Grasweg 31, the Netherlands

In 2008 Shell, together with the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics (DRSTP), launched a new stipend scheme to support young talented theoretical physicists in the Netherlands. The scheme was laid out for a period of three years and incorporates approximately ten stipends per year which are granted to the best Master’s students in theoretical physics in the Netherlands.

Shell used to hire in the range of ﬁve to ten physicists in the Netherlands per year and is concerned about the decline in number of students in basic and applied science in the Netherlands and Europe over the last few years. With these stipends Shell wishes to emphasize the importance of science education in the Netherlands and in particular the role played by the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics.

On Wednesday, 8 December 2010 eleven Master’s students in theoretical physics were awarded a stipend from Shell. In the award ceremony held at Shell Technology Centre in Amsterdam, Chief Scientist and Vice President Exploration Technologies, Dr. Dirk Smit, handed over cheques of Euro 2,000 to the Master’s students who had obtained their MSc degree at one of the universities involved in the DRSTP. Annual report 2010 166

Award winners 2010

The following students received a stipend: Evert Bosdriesz (UvA) Jelle Brill (UL) Jason Dekdebrun (UvA) Lucas Ellerbroek (UvA) Cosma Fulga (UL) Ivano Lodato (UU) Wilke van der Schee (UU) Misha Veldhoen (UU) Bart Verouden (UvA) Pieter Cornelis van der Wijk (RUG) Lu Yang (UU) Appendix G Statistics

On 31 December 2010 ninety (90) PhD students were aﬃliated to the DRSTP. In 2010 twenty-six (26) PhD students joined the DRSTP.

Twenty-one (21) PhD degrees were granted in 2010 (4 to women). The average duration of their PhD research (from start of contract to PhD exam date) was 50,6 months (51,2 in 2009).

Statistics 2005-2010 PhDs (AIO/OIO) granted 1 January 2005 - 31 December 2010 (per theme)

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Total AIO + OIO

Theme 1 9 7 7 8 10 11 52

Theme 2 10 12 5 7 5 10 49

Total 19 19 12 15 15 21 101 Annual report 2010 168

PhD eﬃciency

In the period 1 January 2005 - 31 December 2010, 101 PhD degrees were granted. Of these students 77% ﬁnished their PhD research within four years and six months. The full distribution is as follows: within 4 years: 32 (32%) within 4 years and 6 months: 78 (77%) within 5 years: 95 (94%) more than 5 years: 6 (6%)

The fraction of PhD degrees granted to women in the period 1 January 2005 - 31 December 2010 is 9%.

To monitor the PhD eﬃciency at a slightly longer time scale, we also present some data for the period 1 January 2001 - 31 December 2010. In this period 191 PhD students have started their research work. At the end of this period (31 December 2010) 97 of them have graduated and 3 of them have prematurely discontinued their contract. One unfortunately died. Of the remaining 90, 84 students have started their PhD research after 1 January 2007. 169 Appendix G

Employment following the PhD

2005-2010 aantal % Postdoctoral positions in theoretical physics: the Netherlands 9 EU 27 USA 16 Abroad elsewhere 6 subtotal 57 57% Positions in academia and in public (research) institutions not related to theoretical physics: Medical research position 4 PhD position 1 Other research position 5 subtotal 10 10% Positions in the government and in government related organizations: Ministry of Justice 1 subtotal 1 1% Positions in commercial companies: Energy 2 Technology 7 Finance 7 ICT companies 5 Consultancy 5 subtotal 26 26% Teaching positions: High school teacher 4 subtotal 4 4% Other: Unknown 1 subtotal 1 1% Total 101