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MaNEP movie soon available on a 3-language DVD The 15-minute movie entitled "Superconductivity : A short story of an enduring enigma" was initially created for the MaNEP SupraFête back in June. The movie is as an all-public introduction to superconductivity covering its history and an overview of current and possible future applications. Nobel Prize winner Georg Bednorz and MaNEP director Oystein Fischer provide their own views in short pieces of interviews. From January on, the movie will be available on DVD (in French, English and German) for educational purposes only. If interested, please contact Anne Rougemont, by mail or phone : +41 22 379 64 99. MaNEP will be part of CERN celebrations for the LHC next year CERN will be setting up several events to celebrate the expected launch of its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2008. MaNEP has been asked to take part and will lend experiments (including the new SupraSurf) for Open Days in April. Later on, the MaNEP exhibition -illustrated by Swiss-French cartoonist Mix&Remix - will be shown at theGlobe (picture), CERN's exhibition centre, as well as the MaNEP movie on superconductivity (also read above) . More infos to come during next spring.	Collaboration with Swissneutronics renewed MaNEP has been collaborating with ETHZ and SwissNeutronics over Phase II to optimize neutron guides. Neutrons are expensive to produce so it is important to minimize losses during their transport to the targets. We are pleased to announce that the contract has just been renewed for Phase III. (MK) Contact : joel.mesot@psi.ch Nobel Prize winner Albert Fert visits MaNEP The 2007 Physics Nobel Prize winner Albert Fert was in Geneva on Friday, November 16, for a DPMC-MaNEP colloquium. The French physicist gave a talk entitled "Présent et futur de la spintronique" (Present and Future of spintronics). He carried on with more discussions with some of his Geneva colleagues and was introduced to MaNEP's activities. [ Left to right : Prof. Dirk van der Marel, Prof. Albert Fert and MaNEP director Prof. Oystein Fischer ] Albert Fert endend this busy day with interviews with some Swiss medias. Watch and listen (in French) : - 1st RSR interview : show Impatience - 2nd RSR interview : show Haute Définition - an interview on tsr.ch	TV show with MaNEP features aired on December 1st In 2006 the Geneva MaNEP group hosted a TV team from the famous French family-friendly science show called C'est pas Sorcier. They spent hours filming at one of the STM labs, before moving on to CERN. These features were used at the beginning of the programme which is entitled Voyage au coeur de la matière (A journey into the heart of matter) . It was aired on Saturday, December 1st on French TV channel France 3. [ see the corresponding web page ] Job opportunities MaNEP members publicise the following job positions : PhD position on nanoelectronics by scanning probe microscopy At the Institut Néel, CNRS - Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France. For students with a master degree obtained outside France [ download job offer in PDF ] highly motivated chemist, physicist, material scientist as Postdoctoral fellow at EMPA - Dpt of Solid State Physics and Catalysis [ download job offer in PDF ]