Delft Outlook 2011-5
In this edition, Delft Outlook 2011 nr.5:
In Brief
- High-level lecture
- The pressure is on
- Smart power grid
- Operating theatre of the future
- Majority against merger
- In the press
- Egg beaters and ice caps
- Flying
- Nuna6 in second place
- Delft roots
- Nanomotor
- Beer crate bridge
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Science
Climate as an indicator
They both have Delft roots, but their standpoints in the climate discussion are by no means similar: Professor Pier Vellinga worried publicly, whereas Professor Salle Kroonenberg qualified climate change. Strangely enough, they do agree on the solutions. “If you take a long, hard look,” Prof. Vellinga says, “climate is an indicator of the need to adopt a different approach to nature.”
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Ultra-fast calculations using diamond
TU Delft researchers have managed to use a piece of diamond to hold four quantum bits that can be spun, flipped and entangled with each other. This is an important step towards a working quantum computer.
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Interview
'MIT pays nothing towards my research'
On 26 October, Professor Emeritus Walter Lewin (MIT) delivered one of his legendary lectures about rainbows and blue skies to a packed lecture hall at TU Delft. He himself studied here 45 years ago. How does he view the difference in quality between TU Delft and MIT?
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Column
'Ir.' Title
Tonie Mudde (1978) studied aerospace engineering and is a science journalist and writer. His work has been published in Quest, nrc.next, and Het Parool newspaper and elsewhere. In 2009 he was awarded a Tegel, the annual prize for journalism. Last year saw the publication of his debut novel, Spaghetti Spoetnik (Spaghetti Sputnik).
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NanoNextNL
Big in small things
With a total of 44 projects in ten different themes, TU Delft is a major participant in the NanoNextNL research programme, which was officially launched this summer. PhD students and postdocs are currently being recruited for research work due to last until 2016.
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The Firm
A refreshing liquer
This year Limoncello di Fiorito was acclaimed as one of the best limoncellos in the world. Benno Fiorito and his brother Franco are now looking to increase production of this lemon liqueur based on a family recipe.
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The view
Cars as power plants
Paid parking, who doesn’t hate it? Nevertheless, it will soon be a fact of life at TU Delft, too. Perhaps the only person who cannot wait for this is Professor Ad van Wijk. The newly endowed professor of Future Energy Systems predicts that the familiar scenario will be turned on its head and instead he will be paid to park his car.
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People
An overview of the most important awards, appointments and other remarkable personal milestones at TU Delft
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Alumni World
- Scholarships for top talent
- Top-level sports and science
- Architects in the background
- 'More than just the top sectors'
Hora est
The proposition
When PhD students regularly give lectures on their research, this enhances the progress they make towards gaining their PhD, both in terms of duration and quality.
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Life after Delft
Passion for water
This summer, in the heart of Amsterdam, next door to a climbing centre along the railway line, saw the opening of a slow food restaurant, Hannekes Boom. With thanks to three former TU Delft students. Pim Evers is one of them.
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Opinion Please
The meat fraud affair
The Dutch scientific world is staggered. The renowned psychologist Diederik Stapel, who recently told the world that he and some colleagues had found that meat-eaters were more egotistical than vegetarians, admitted to having made up the research data. He said that he had been making up data for years.
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