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Events (archive)

Events (archive)

We believe in our duty to share knowledge through weekly seminars, regularly workshops and other events. on this page you'll find events organized in the past. If you're interested in upcoming events visit the Events page. Our weekly seminars at DIFFER cover a wide range of topics and are open to everybody. Please, read more on our dedicated Seminars page. You can find specific information for external visitors and subscribe to our seminar mailinglist on this page.

PhD defense Bob Kool: Power exhaust control in novel divertor solutions - Exploring real-time power exhaust control in alternative divertors with implications for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP)

PhD defense, to
Bob Kool
On 5 March 2026 Bob Kool will defend his thesis called 'Power exhaust control in novel divertor solutions - Exploring real-time power exhaust control in alternative divertors with implications for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP)'.
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PhD defense Gijs Derks 'Dynamic exhaust modeling for fusion reactors'.

PhD defense, to
Gijs Derks
On 2 March 2026 Gijs Derks will defend his thesis called 'Dynamic exhaust modeling for fusion reactors'.
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DIFFER Seminar: Leveraging MBSE for equipment diagnostics

Seminar, to
Marco Vicari | Thomas Nägele - TNO-ESI
Abstract: This presentation will introduce and demo1 a methodology for equipment diagnostics that has been developed by TNO-ESI in collaboration with ASML and Canon Production Printing (CPP).
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DIFFER Seminar: Astrophysical instability: cool clouds and disk dynamos

Seminar, to
Nicolas Brughmans
Abstract: In laboratory plasmas, instabilities play a prominent role in predicting and explaining the governing dynamics. But also on much larger scales throughout the Universe, plasma instabilities crucially shape and drive many fascinating phenomena.
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DIFFER Seminar: Gender gaps in introductory physics courses may not represent gaps in physics knowledge

Seminar, to
Class GPA Gender Gap
Abstract: Prof. Cassandra Paul and David Webb have spent the last several years cataloguing ways that average grade differences between different demographic groups can be minimized or removed by changing the structure of the introductory physics course in question.
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