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Research Van Swinderen Institute

Outreach and Media

The VSI's research in particle physics and gravity resonates very well with the general public. VSI staff members are thus actively and enthusiastically reaching out to a wider audience, especially connecting with children and prospective students as shown on this page.


13 July 2023
Dipartimento Fisica i Astronomia, Universitá di Padova: "What's Next: A new setup to study haevy, Neutron-rich, EXotic nuclei produced in multinucleon Transfer reactions"
Juia Even

1 June 2023
"Een gastdocent in de klas"
Julia Even


8 February 2023
Stichting Weer- en Sterrenkunde Eemsmond: "De Oerknal: van snaartheorie naar het Heelal"
Diederik Roest

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7 December 2022

"Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

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3 November 2022

ExaMedia: "El desafío tecnicar 2022 Ilega a Corrientes"
Anastasia Borschevsky


1 November 2022

DOT PLANETARIUM: Zwarte Gaten
Eric Bergshoeff

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21 October 2022

KIJK Magazine: "Bouwsteen van materie blijkt elektrisch enigma"
Steven Hoekstra

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17 August 2022

De Volkskrant: "Proton bevat een wonderlijk extra deeltje: de 'charm quark'"
Daniel Boer

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2 May 2022
Astronomy on Tap: "Cosmology by Eye"
Daan Meerburg

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22 March 2022

Scientias: "Vinden we dankzij minuscule zwevende bolletjes eindelijk donkere materie?"
Steven Hoekstra


16 March 2022
De Ingenieur: "Deeltjes vertragen levert nieuwe Natuurkunde"
Steven Hoekstra

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14 March 2022

De Ingenieur: "Stilstand is vooruitgang"
Steven Hoekstra


8 March 2022

"Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff


16 February 2022
KIJK Magazine: "Is het Heelal een Donut"
Daan Meerburg

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19 December 2021

Jio Forme: "Cosmologists approach the Big Bang logic"
Daan Meerburg


19 December 2021

Times News Express: "Cosmologists Close in on Logical Laws for the Big Bang"
Daan Meerburg


19 December 2021

HWCol: "Los cosmólogos se acercan a las leyes lógicas para el Big Bang"
Daan Meerburg


1 December 2021

Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff


23 November 2021
DOT Live Planetarium: "Einstein and Black Holes"
Eric Bergshoeff

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10 November 2021
Quanta Magazine: "Laws of Logic Lead to New Restrictions on the Big Bang"
Daan Meerburg

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8 November 2021
Natuurwetenschappelijk Genootschap Assen: "Kosmologie"
Daan Meerburg

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1 November 2021
Dutch Newspaper NRC: "Zware moleculen stilgezet voor precisiemeting"
Steven Hoekstra

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29 October 2021

"Atrapando moléculas para encontrar nueva física"
Steven Hoekstra


15 June 2021

Space Daily: "Discovery of the largest rotation in the universe"
Anupam Mazumdar

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9 June 2021

"De alarmas antirrobo a detectores de agujeros negros: Supersensores como posibles salidas de un experimento de gravedad cuántica"
Anupam Mazumdar


8 June 2021

"Un interferómetro de chip de átomo que podía detectar la gravedad cuántica"
Anupam Mazumdar


18 May 2021

"Op reis door het Heelal ...."
Diederik Roest


6 May 2021
KIJK Magazine: "Ultralicht uranium blijkt mini-stralingslab"
JuliaEven

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17 April 2021

"Kijken met een ijsklont - zoektocht naar neutrinos."
Gerco Onderwater


7 April 2021
Dutch Newspaper NRC: "Opnieuw barstje in standaardmodel van deeltjesfysica"
Gerco Onderwater

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17 February 2021
Engineersonline.nl: "Moleculen stilzetten om nieuwe fysica te ontdekken"
Steven Hoekstra

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14 February 2021
Interview at NPO radio 1: "Hoe voelt het om een zeldzaam atoom te maken?
Julia Even

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11 February 2021
Nederlandse Natuurkunde Vereniging: "Een gastdocent in de klas"
Julia Even

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8 December 2020
Popular presentation Phys.org: "Experiment to test quantum gravity got a bit less complicated"
Anupam Mazumdar

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11 November 2020

"Antimatter in the lab - What we know & how we figured it out."
Gerco Onderwater


10 November 2020
UKrant: "Opposites solve the mystery of matter"
Anastasia Borschevsky and Steven Hoekstra

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6 October 2020
Studium Generale Lecture: "The origin of Time"
Eric Bergshoeff

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8 September 2020
Presentation Popular Mechanics: "Experiment to test quantum gravity got a bit less complicated"
Anupam Mazumdar

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18 August 2020
Popular presentation for Eurekalert: "A stepping stone for measuring quantum gravity"
Anupam Mazumdar

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27 July 2020
Dutch Newspaper NRC: "Zwaartekrachtsgolfdetector kan 4000 keer kleiner"
Steven Hoekstra and Anupam Mazumdar

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22 July 2020
Popular presentation New Scientist: "Experiment op tafelformaat moet zwaartekrachtsgolven kunnen meten"
Anupam Mazumdar

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30 June 2020
Popular presentation Scientific American: "Tiny gravitational wave detector could search anywhere in the sky"
Anupam Mazumdar

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4 March 2020

"Mislukt experiment? Nee joh!"
Gerco Onderwater


12 October 2019
Presentation at Theater Arto, Schoonhoven
Eric Bergshoeff

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16 August 2019
Noorderzon Arts Festival: "Met Einstein in de achtbaan"
Diederik Roest

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11 June 2019
Popular talk at DOT Live Planetarium: "De Zwaartekracht volgens Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

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13 May 2019
Science article in Nemo Kennislink: "Geen limiet aan nieuwe elementen"
Julia Even

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8 May 2019

"The elusive neutrino / Het ongrijpbare Neutrino"
Gerco Onderwater


3 March 2019
VHTO / Topsport Talent School Groningen: "Speed dating with school girls"
Julia Even

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22 February 2019
Popular presentation for FORBES: "The WIMP Miracle Hope for dark matter is dead"
Anupam Mazumdar

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11 December 2018

"Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff


30 November 2018

"Mislukt experiment? Nee joh!"
Gerco Onderwater


17 November 2018
Jongerenwerkgroep Sterrenkunde Groningen: "Hoe groot is het heelal"
Diederik Roest

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5 October 2018
Zpannend Zernike, Groningen: "De droom van de Alchemist"
Julia Even

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20 August 2018
Popular science presentation at Noorderzon arts festival: "Het heelal, de stand van de sterren en ons zonnenstelsel"
Diederik Roest

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15 August 2018
Popular Science presentation for Scientific American: "Is gravity quantum?"
Anupam Mazumdar

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10 June 2018
Article: Interview in "Dagblad van het Noorden" with Prof. Eric Bergshoeff

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31 May 2018
Studium Generale lecture, Groningen: "Steven Hawking as inspirer"
Eric Bergshoeff

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12 May 2018
Popular presentation at Sterrenwacht Midden-Nederland: "Wat is licht"
Eric Bergshoeff

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1 May 2018
Nedelands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, Cover page story: "De zoektocht naar het electrisch dipoolmoment"
Steven Hoekstra

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27 April 2018
Demonstration experiments at 'Kennis is Koning', Koningsdag Science Market with Young Academy Groningen
Steven Hoekstra

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27 April 2018
Co-initiator and co-science coordinator of children's science fair "Kennis is Koning", Koningsdag
Diederik Roest

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24 April 2018
Article: Riding the waves of science - Eric Bergshoeff

Eric Bergshoeff
Eric Bergshoeff


15 March 2018
NPO Focus, interview on death of Stephen Hawking
Daan Meerburg

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2 March 2018
Popular Science article De Volkskrant: "Het Monster van Oganessian"
Julia Even

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1 March 2018

"Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff


24 February 2018
Spoorwegmuseum Utrecht: "Experiment Event"
Diederik Roest

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1 January 2018
Popular presentation at Leidse Weer- en Sterrekundige Kring: "De Zwaartekracht volgens Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

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2018
Lecture and tutorial for high School Students visiting UG: "Groepentheorie & Symmetrie in de Natuur"
Daniel Boer


2018
Guest lesson at primary school "De Petteflet", group 3 + 4: "Wat is licht?"
Steven Hoekstra


2018
Initiated collaboration with artists in residence D. Gelfand and E. Domnitch for NWA startimpulse project
Steven Hoekstra


8 December 2017

"Einstien's Ballerina - de ontdekking van zwaartekrachtsgolven"
Gerco Onderwater


1 December 2017

"Gravity according to Einstein".
Eric Bergshoeff


15 November 2017
Popular science presentation at TED-X Groningen: "The Universe - a failed love story"
Diederik Roest


6 November 2017
Popular science presentatio for Inside Science: "A Tabletop experiment for quantum gravity"
Anupam Mazumdar

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31 October 2017
Popular science presentation Sterrenwacht Hellendoorn: "Het laatste nieuws van de Oerknal"
Diederik Roest

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15 October 2017

"Einstein's Ballerina - de ontdekking van zwaartekrachtsgolven"
Gerco Onderwater


13 October 2017
NRC: "Wij leven in een lappendeken van mini-heelallen"
Diederik Roest

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1 September 2017

"Einstein en de Relativiteitstheorie"
Eric Bergshoeff


11 July 2017
Popular science video for Dagblad van het Noorden: "Het heelal groeit, maar hoe snel eigenlijk?"
Diederik Roest

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17 june 2017
Oerol Arts Festival, Terschelling: "Het Heelal op Oerol"
Diederik Roest

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30 May 2017
Science LinX: "Witches' cauldron prepares magic nucleus for weigh in"
Julia Even

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1 April 2017
"Waar komen de zwaartekrachtsgolven vandaag?
Eric Bergshoeff


15 February 2017
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde: "Ken uw Klassieken: Het Groenewoldproduct"
Daniel Boer

14 February 2017
"Wat is massa?"
Gerco Onderwater


3 February 2017

Where do gravitational waves come from?
Eric Bergshoeff


1 February 2017
UKrant: "Standing still is progress"
Steven Hoekstra

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05 December 2016
Article on our electron-EDM project in Dutch Newspaper 'De Volkskrant'

Volkskrant article
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11 February 2016
RTV Noord interview with Eric Bergshoeff (in Dutch) about the discovery of gravitational waves from a merger of two Black Holes:

Groningse wetenschappers sidderen na aantonen zwaartekrachtgolven



26 February 2015
The fiber link between the VSI experimental group and the Free university of Amsterdam is in the news.

Grondtemeperatuur beïnvloedt nauwkeurigheid netwerktijd


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Logo of the VSI

If you need them, here is a zip-file with the logo of the Van Swinderen Institute, in various formats.

Last modified:06 October 2023 12.29 p.m.