ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - Universiteit Utrecht

ANNUAL REPORT 2005 1 The DRSTP in 2005renowned physicists appointed on the guests chairs.Prof. 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 matter.Prof. dr. P. Zoller (Innsbruck) occupied the Lorentz Chair at Leiden University. Hetaught a lecture course on Quantum optics and quantum information.Prof. dr. P. Grassberger (Jülich) occupied the Kramers Chair at Utrecht University.He taught a lecture course on Phase transitions and anomalous scaling in nonequilibriumsystems.Visiting professorships held by DRSTP staffF.A. Bais (UvA) was visiting research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, USA (20 February- 20 May), a visiting professor at the Research School for Science and Engineering,Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (15 June - 28 August 28) and avisiting professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,Japan (20 September - 20 December).B. de Wit (UU) was a visiting professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics,Kyoto University, Japan (1 January - 31 March).F.C. MacKintosh (VUA) was a visiting professor of physics at the University of Edinburgh,UK (2004-2005).J. Zaanen (UL) was a visiting professor at the Physics Department, Stanford University,Stanford, USA (September 2004 - August 2005).Awards and distinctionsB. de Wit (UU) presented the Subashis Nag Memorial Lectures in Chennai, India,9-13 December.H. Sahlmann (UU) received the 2005 Physics Prize of the German Academy of Sciencesin Göttingen, Germany.F.S. Saueressig (UU) received the “Promotionspreis 2005” of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany) for his PhD thesis Topological phase transition in Calabi-Yau compactifications of M-theory.G. ’t Hooft (UU) became an honorary fellow of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomyand Astrophysics, Pune, India and a visiting fellow at STIAS (StellenboschInstitute for Advanced Study), South Africa.Visiting scientists (long term)I.S. Burmistrov (Landau Institute, Moscow, Russia) was a guest at the Institute forTheoretical Physics (UvA) in 2005.N. Mousseau (Montreal, Canada) was a guest at the Institute for Theoretical Physics(UU) from 10 June to 10 October.Y. Yamamoto (Tsuru, Japan) was a guest at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysicsand Particle Physics (RU) from 15 July to 25 August.S. Panda (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India) was a guest at theCentre for Theoretical Physics (RUG) during the month of September.F.A.P. Aquiar de Moura (Portugal Science and Technology Foundation/Instituto SuperorTécnico, Lisboa, Portugal) was a guest at the Institute for Theoretical Physics