ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - Universiteit Utrecht

ANNUAL REPORT 20053 PhD programmeF. van Lunteren (UU): Lorentz, Einstein, Ehrenfest and the rise of theoretical physicsIn addition to these lectures, poster presentations were held on both days. Forty-six(46) posters were presented. A panel discussion was held (19 May) with the topic:Gigabits wiser or just a bit by S. de Leeuw (TUD, chair), G. Barkema (UU), E.Pallante (RUG) and P.R. ten Wolde (AMOLF).Further information is given in appendix D.3.1.3 Guest lecturersProf. dr. D. Weitz (Harvard) occupied the Van der Waals Chair at the Universiteitvan Amsterdam. He taught a series of seminars on Highlights in soft condensed matterin March 2005.Prof. dr. P. Zoller (Innsbruck) occupied the Lorentz Chair at Leiden University fromMarch to June 2005. He taught a lecture on Quantum optics and quantum information.Prof. dr. P. Grassberger (Jülich) occupied the Kramers Chair at Utrecht Universityfrom September until the end of December 2005. He taught a lecture course on Phasetransitions and anomalous scaling in non-equilibrium systems.3.2 PhD degrees and subsequent employmentIn 2005 nineteen (19) PhD students received their PhD degree.Nine (9) of them received postdoctoral positions in theoretical physics (in Belgium,Germany, Switzerland and the UK), five (5) a position at a commercial company, two(2) a position as scientist at a non-physics public research institute, one (1) a positionwith the government and one (1) became high school teacher. Of one (1) student thesubsequent employment is not known. More information on career moves of formerPhD students during the last six years can be found in appendix E.3.3 PhD degrees granted in the DRSTP in 2005In this section a short summary of the PhD theses published in 2005 is given. Thesummaries are written by the students themselves.Baggio, C. (UL)thesis title: Dynamics of vortex fronts in type II superconductorsadvisor: prof. dr. ir. W. van Saarloosdate: 22 November 2005present position: pricing actuary assistant, PartnerRe, Zürich, SwitzerlandIn this thesis we have described and analysed some out-of-equilibrium pat terns intype II superconductors. The main issue on which this work focused was the propaga-