Christmas issue FOM expres online
The last issue of FOM expres in 2011 has been published. The Christmas issue is once again full of interesting news articles and background information about the FOM Foundation, the FOM institutes and the Administrative Unit for Research Groups at Universities.
In this December issue you can read a farewell interview with Prof. Carlo Beenakker, vice chair of the FOM Executive Board, as well as a review marking 40 years of the Projectruimte programme at FOM. You can also find a report about the workshop Physics with Industry and about the Biophysics congress 2011. This FOM expres also contains extra articles about the winners of the Minerva Prize 2011 and the FOM Physics Thesis Prize 2011, this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, and research that uses fluid dynamics to interpret blood spatters. Elsewhere in this edition you will find an update on the Top sectors and the cutbacks at NWO as well as a report on the 20th anniversary of the free-electron laser FELIX. Finally, this FOM expres closes with a fascinating article about neutrinos and the speed of light.
You can download the December issue yourself at www.fom.nl/fomexpres. If you would rather receive a copy of FOM expres by post then please send an e-mail to info@fom.nl.