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MaNEP doc student's work featured in the Science Top 10 2007 breakthroughs
Nicolas ReyrenNicolas Reyren has good reasons to smile ! ! This doc student working with Jean-Marc Triscone in Geneva has seen his work on 'Superconducting Interfaces Between Insulating Oxides' mentioned among the "2007 Top 10 breakthroughs" of the Science magazine. Congratulations !
[ on Science website - Transition Metal Oxides ] - [ read Nicolas Reyren's Scientific Highlight in our September 2007 issue ]

MaNEP Doctoral Program on
The MaNEP Doctoral Program has recently started up and has related web pages (in English and French) now available. Contents will be added progressively but you can already find a general presentation and info as well as tutorials, seminars, etc.
[ www.manep.ch/phd ]

KTT : fruitful visits at MaNEP
Several fruitful visits have recently taken place in Geneva including Freescale Semiconductors. Freescale moved their European HQ in Geneva and are interested in academic collaborations in the Lake Geneva region; there is an interest on both sides to collaborate on high sensitivity sensors. Regarding Swatch, Mr. Hayek created a new holding dedicated to clean technologies: the Belenos Clean Power Holding AG. Technologies of interest concern the creation, use and storage of hydrogen generated by solarcells. With Prof.Yvon (UniGE)

joining MaNEP for Phase III, conditions are thus favorable for a collaboration. We also welcomed Montena EMC, a very innovative company based in Fribourg which is active in electromagnetic field testing and certification and looking for new market opportunities. With a deep knowledge in electric device design and assembly, this company would be perfectly geared to integrate novel MaNEP materials. (MK)

A new director for PSI
Dr Joël MésotProf. Joël Mésot has been appointed new director of the PSI by the Swiss Government on December 21, 2007. The leader of the Laboratory of Neutron Scattering at PSI and an professor at ETHZ, Joël Mésot is also a respected MaNEP Forum member. He will take up his new position at PSI on August 1, 2008. Well done !
[ Press Release - German / French ]

MaNEP sponsors exhibition on Geneva's scientists
genève et ses savantsAfter the Einstein exhibition in 2005, MaNEP sponsors a new exhibition by physicist and science historian Isaac Benguigui. The material is based on his book : "Genève et ses savants : physiciens, mathématiciens et chimistes des 18e et 19e siècles" (Ed. Stlatkine)
From April 9 to May 8, 2008 at UniMail (Bd Carl-Vogt, Geneva)
Reminders
LHC : MaNEP partner of CERN celebrations in April
Le Globe du CERN
For the last time before years, the public will be allowed to visit the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during Open Doors that will take place on April 5 and 6, 2008.
MaNEP will be a key-partner of this celebration by providing most of the activities illustrating the theme of superconductivity : a new version of the 'SupraSurf' (a human-scale levitating device) and other fun experiments, as well as its movie 'Superconductivity : a short story of an enduring enigma' and its humourous exhibition by Swiss cartoonist Mix&Remix will be on display. Come and visit us at the site of Meyrin, building Nr 163.
[ website ] - [ CERN Bulletin ]

DVD of MaNEP superconductivity movie available in 3 languages
You can order for free the 15-minute MaNEP movie "Superconductivity : a short story of an enduring enigma" for teaching uses or your public events. Available in English, German and French. Contact Anne Rougemont.
Job opportunities
Monaco ITER fellowships 2008
The Monaco ITER Postdoctoral Research Fellowships allows recent PhD graduates to join the ITER Organization. [ how to apply ]