THESE ARE THE ENGLISH LECTURES spring 2025
AI on the battlefield
Investing in a better world
Digital footprint
The future of aviation
The aviation industry has fully recovered from the corona dip and is going sky high again: worldwide passenger numbers and aircraft movements are growing. At the same time, the climate impact is increasing. Engineers are striving to make aircraft more efficient, but will that be enough? Will Sustainable Aviation Fuels, which can be made from green electricity, offer a solution? Or is flying on hydrogen and electricity the future? Fasten your seat belts as aviation expert Ir. Joris Melkert (TU Delft) takes you on a journey!
Is there life after the Higgs-boson?
In 2012 the Higgs-boson was discovered at CERN. Since then, it seems to be relatively quiet in the Geneva accelerator, or are appearances deceiving? Prof dr Tristan du Pree, Professor of High Energy Physics (UT) and particle physicist at NIKHEF, dreams of discovering a new particle. There seem to be subtle clues for new particles and unknown forces. Will a Future Circular Collider be able to expose them? Du Pree also explains the so-called “Higgs-factory”, which might be able to create dark matter particles out of Higgs-bosons. Will this shed light on the dark side of our universe?
