MaNEP goes (back) to college ! Since 2005, the University of Geneva has organized encounters between researchers and classes of young college students to discuss all kinds of scientific issues during one and a half hour.

Some teachers having specifically requested to present superconductivity to their students, MaNEP has of course accepted this opportunity to introduce an aspect of condensed matter physics to young people.

The levitating train demo will be showed and two Geneva professors - Dirk van der Marel and Thierry Giamarchi— have kindly accepted to play the game and answer the students ‘s questions during these 2 sessions.

We shall of course let you know more about this experience in a future issue of this E-Newsletter.

ESF-THIOX Meeting
in Trondheim (Norway)
March 19-21, 2006

The theme will be materials for thin film device applications, focusing on materials research aspects as well as novel device geometries.

For any question, please contact :

thomas.tybell@iet.ntnu.no jostein.grepstad@iet.ntnu.no

[find more in this PDF]

[Thiox website]

A Symposium will be held in honor of J.G. Bednorz and K.A. Müller at the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the discovery of High Tc superconductors.

Co-organizer : Hugo Keller keller@physik.unizh.ch

[all infos here]