Lorentz Center Highlights Lectures

2019

• 19 Februari Jaco van de Pol Aarhus University + University of Twente:
  "Competitions – a healthy way to improve verification technology"
  

2018

• 16 Januari Gianfranco Bertone, University of Amsterdam:
  "Unravelling the mistery of dark matter"
  

• 6 March Bob Planqué, VU Amsterdam:
  "How do microbes adapt to changing conditions?"
  

• 20 March Maria Naya plasencia, INRIA Paris:
  "Symmetric Cryptanalysis: the Foundation of Trust"
  

• 29 May Olga Shishkina, Georg-August-Universität Göttingenn:
  "Natural Thermal Convection: Scaling Relations and Boundary Layers"
  

• 30 October Karin Oberg, Harvard University:
  "Making Habitable Worlds and the Chemistry of Planet Formation"
  

• 13 November Detlef Lohse, University of Twente:
  "Ultimate Rayleigh-Bénard and Taylor-Couette turbulence"
  

• 11 December Priya Subramanian, University of Leeds:
  "Quasicrystals: Minimal recipes to make them and tools to catalog them"
  

2017

• 21 February Imke de Pater, University of California:
  "Io, the Most Volcanically Active Body in our Solar System"
  

• 7 March Roberto Maiolino, University of Cambridge:
  "The Role of Massive Galactic Outflows in Galaxy Evolution"
  

• 18 April Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam:
  "Data Science with Human in the Loop: Harnessing User Semantics at Scale"
  

• 9 May Daniela Huppenkothen, New York University:
  "Unravelling the Long-Term Evolution of Black Holes with Machine Learning"
  

• 10 October Heidi Seibold, University of Zurich:
  "OpenML - An Online Platform for Collaborative and Open Machine Learning"
  

• 24 October Renske Smit, University of Cambridge:
  "Galaxies 800 Million Years after the Big Bang Seen with the Atacama Large Millimetre Array"
  

• 14 November Leonard Smith, London School of Economics and Political Science:
  "Why the Weather Forecasts of the Future Forecast will Not Forecast the Future?"
  

• 5 December Almut Schüz, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics:
  "What the structure of the cortex tells us about its particular function"
  

2016

• 2 February Chris Done, Durham University:
  "Black Holes, on the Black Background of Space - So How are You Meant to See Them?"

• 16 February Alessandra Palmigiano, Delft University of Technology:
  "Logics for Social Behaviour"
  

• 1 March Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University:
  "Breaking the Billion Variable Barrier in Real-World Optimization"
  

• 5 April Carlos Frenk, Durham University:
  "What is the Dark Matter?"
  

• 10 May Naomi Ellemers, Utrecht University:
  "Groups as Moral Anchors"
  

• 20 September Piero Martin, University of Padova:
  "Self-Organized Helical Fusion Plasmas: When Kinking Matters"
  

• 1 November Wioletta Ruszel, Delft University of Technology:
  "The Sandpile Model – A Simple Model for Cascades"
  

• 8 November Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology:
  "TMassivizing Computer Systems = Making Modern Computer Systems Scalable, Reliable, High-Performance, yet Efficient and Easy-to-Use"
  

2015

• 27 January Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh:
  "Macro-Economics of the Cell"
  

• 3 February Tamara Bogdanovic, Georgia Technological University:
  "When Galaxies Merge, What Happens to Their Supermassive Black Holes?"
  

• 27 March Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam:
  "Managing Socio-Economic Complexity"
  

• 13 April Vinod Subramaniam, University of Twente:
  "Amyloid Aggregation: Unraveling a Knotty Problem"
  

• 26 May Karel in 't Hout, University of Antwerp:
  "Models and simulation in contemporary option valuation"
  

• 6 October Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford:
  "How the Tropic Structure of the Economy Amplifies Growth"
  

• 27 October Russell Gray, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History:
  "Words as a Window on Our Past"
  

• 1 December Pinky Dua, Pfizer BioTherapeutics:
  "Modelling and Simulation in Drug Discovery and Development"
  

• 15 December Debora Sijacki, University of Cambridge:
  "Powerful Outflows from Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe"
  

2014

• 11 February Jan Sijbers, University of Antwerp:
  "Superresolution Reconstruction in Tomographic Imaging"
  

• 11 March Daniël Vanmaekelbergh, Utrecht University:
  "Geometric Semiconductors with Graphene-plus Properties"
  

• 18 March Raymond Shaw , Michigan Technological University:
  "Supercooled Clouds: Ece Crystal Power Laws and Orbits"
  

• 1 April Natalie Webb, XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre:
  "Searching for the Building Blocks of Galaxies"
  

• 6 May Marieke Huisman, University of Twente:
  "Challenges in the Verification of Concurrent Software"
  

• 13 May Jakob Hohwy, Monash University:
  "The Predictive Mind"
  

• 20 May Jessica Pierce, University of Colorado Denver:
  "At War with Animals"
  

• 7 October Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania:
  "Making the Cut: Kirigami Topology"
  

• 21 October Kartik Sheth, North America ALMA Science Center:
  "Reconstructing the Mass Assembly of Galaxy Disks Over the Last 12 Billion Years with ALMA, HST and Spitzer"
  

• 18 November Pieter Adriaans, University of Amsterdam:
  "Facticity, Creativity and Complexity"
  

2013

• 12 February Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
  "Shallenges to Move Forward a Aredictive Ecology"
  

• 12 March Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois:
  "Glass: The Cinderella Problem of Low-temperature Physics"
  

• 12 March Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
  "Superfluid Atomic Gases - Ultracold, Ultra Dilute"
  

• 16 April André de Roos, University of Amsterdam:
  "Small Contra Large: Implications of Ontogenetic Asymmetry for Fisheries Management"
  

• 14 May Steven Tingay, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy:
  "The Murchison Widefield Array: The Hunt for the First Luminous Objects in the Early Universe"
  

• 28 May Diego Garlaschelli, Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics:
  "Early Warning Signals of Interbank Collapse"
  

• 24 September Andy Howell, University of California:
  "New Types of Stellar Explosions and their Progenitors"
  

• 29 October Frank Wuerthner, The University of Würzburg:
  "Kinetically Trapped Dye Aggregates - New Perspectives For Photophysical Investigations and Materials Design?"
  

• 3 December Jonathan Citrin, FOM Institute DIFFER:
  "Shake, Rattle and Roll: New Discoveries in Fusion Plasma Turbulence"
  

• 17 December David Kaiser, MIT:
  "Testing Bell's Inequality with Cosmic Photons"
  

2012

• 14 February Roeland Merks, CWI:
  "Mathematical Modelling of Cellular Self-organization in Protein Gels: How Cells Can 'Read' and 'Write'"
  

• 10 April Susan Golden, Institute for Chronobiology University of California-San Diego:
  "How Bacteria Tell Time"

• 8 May Julyan Cartwright and Oliver Steinbock , University of Granada and Georg-August-University Göttingen:
  "Chemical Gardens"
  

• 12 June Neal Evans, Univ. of Texas at Austin:
  "The Formation of Planetary Systems: New Constraints from Observations"
  

• 6 November Tanja Lange, Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information:
  "Post-Quantum Cryptography: Long-term Confidentiality and Integrity for Communication"
  

• 27 November Petra Rudolf, University of Groningen:
  "See Atoms Move in Real Time"
  

2011

• 1 February Jane Calvert, INNOGEN, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh:
  "Biology as Engineering: From Lego to Life?"
  

• 15 March Isabelle Grenier, Univ. of Paris Denis Diderot/AIM, CEA Saclay:
  "New Gamma-ray Views of a Turbulent Universe"
  

• 5 April Xander Tielens, Leiden Observatory:
  "Stoned Stars"
  

• 26 April Steffen Lauritzen, Oxford University (UK), Dept. of Statistics:
  "Graphical Models for Forensic DNA"
  

• 14 June Ya-Wen Sun, Leiden Institute of Physics:
  "Black Hole Answers for Condensed Matter Questions"
  

• 22 November Matthias Heinemann, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechn. Inst. - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen:
  "With New Tools And Approaches To Novel Fascinating Insights About Microbial Metabolism"
  

2010

• 19 January Donald E. Ingber, Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, USA:
  "Biomimetic Microsystems: A Human Breathing Lung On A Chip"
  

• 23 March Leo Kadanoff, The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA:
  "Seeing Phase Transitions From Outside"
  

• 1 June Herman Verlinde, Physics Department Princeton University, USA:
  "On The Emergence Of Space And Gravity"
  

• 28 September Rudy Schild, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian, USA:
  "Why Are Some Quasars Radio Loud: Observations Of Quasar Central Structure"
  

• 5 October Roeland Merks, CWI and Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology, Amsterdam:
  "Culturing Blood Vessels In The Computer: How It Helps Biologists"
  

• 2 November Antoine van Oijnen, Single Molecule Biophysics, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, van Oijen Lab:
  "Life At The Molecular Scale: Single-Molecule Studies Of A Dna Copier"
  

• 30 November Joost Batenburg, CWI Amsterdam and Universiteit Antwerpen:
  "Imaging From Severely Limited Observations: Risks And Potential"
  

2009

• 10 March Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College, Mathematics Department, Bruinswick, USA:
  "Rhythms In The Pituitary"
  

• 31 March Tasios Melis , Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA:
  "The Road To Renewable Biofuels: Hydrogen, Biodiesel, Or Ethanol"
  

• 19 May Paolo Molaro, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy:
  "The Mysteries Of The Telescopes In The Jan Brueghel And P.P. Rubens'S Paintings"
  

• 13 October Jeroen Raes, VIB Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium:
  "Untangling Microbial Ecosystems Using Metagenomics: From The Oceans To Human Disease"
  

• 27 October Frank Bruggeman, VIB Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium:
  "Making Cell Biology Predictive With Constraint-Based Modeling"
  

2008

• 11 March Giora Hon, University of Haifa, Fellow at NIAS:
  "Symmetry - The Power Of A Modern Scientific Concept"
  
  
• 22 April Jan Gunneweg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Lorentz Fellow at NIAS:
  "Qumran, A Scientific Jigsaw Puzzle. The Dead Sea Scrolls And Archaeometry"
  
  
• 7 October Tom Millar, University of Manchester:
  "Negative Ions In Space"
  
  
• 21 October Roel van Driel, Netherlands Inst. for Systems Biology
  "Proteins Dancing On Our Dna To Fix The Damage: Quick Quick Slow"
  
  

2007

• 6 February Andre Geim, University of Manchester, UK:
  "Graphene: Emerging Matter"
  
  
• 13 March Paul van den Broek, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Minnesota, USA:
  "To Make Sense Or Not To Make Sense (Of Text): That's The Question"
  
  
• 20 March Wim van Saarloos, Instituut Lorentz, LION, and Lorentz Center:
  "A Decade Of Discoveries"
  
  
• 16 October Ute Ebert , CWI, Amsterdam and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven:
  "Streamers, Sprites, Leaders, Lightning: From Micro- To Macroscales"
  
  
• 4 December Erik Winfree, CalTech:
  "Learning How To Program Chemistry"
  
  

2006

• 7 March Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University, USA:
  "Interface Surfaces Of Molecular Complexes"
  
  
• 9 May Steve Gross, University of California, Irvine, USA:
  "Moving Cargos In A Cell: How Do Molecular Motors Work Together?"
  
  
• 30 May Gerard 't Hooft, Spinoza Instituut, Utrecht:
  "Determinism In Quantum Mechanics"
  
  
• 13 June Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University, USA:
  “Sums Of Squares And The 290-Theorem”
  
  
• 12 September Jan Hogendijk, Leiden and Utrecht Universities:
  "Geometric Patterns In Islamic Art"
  
  
• 10 Oktober George Miley, Leiden Observatory:
  "Universe Awareness"
  
  
• 24 October Ben Oppenheimer, American Museum of Natural History:
  "The Scientific Search For Life Outside The Solar System"
  
  
• 28 November David Healy, Cardiff University, UK:
  "Does Anything In Psychiatry Work? The Implications For Neuroscience If The Answer Is No"
  
  
• 12 December Jacob Israelachvili, University of California Santa Barbara, USA:
  "Adhesion And Friction Forces In The Life Of A Gecko"