The national trip takes place in our beautiful capital city Amsterdam, where we will be visiting AMOLF, the institute for atomic and molecular physics. The story of AMOLF begins in 1946 when it was established by the Dutch government ‘to initiate fundamental scientific research in the Netherlands on matter in the general sense, and to support higher education’. Since then it has grown into an institute with 161 employees (FTE) and a yearly turnover of about 17 million euros. At their complex on the Amsterdam Science Park they conduct ground-breaking research into (roughly) four fields:

Nanophotonics: the interaction of light and matter at scales of single molecules and femtoseconds

Nanophotovoltaics: the ongoing pursuit of improving solar cells and panels, by downscaling and improving their light-capturing capabilities

Designer matter: the designing and producing of smart materials, which they hope could find applications from robotics to pharmaceuticals

Living matter: the physical approach to biology, in an attempt to answer some of the most basic yet most intriguing questions ever: how did life; tissues, organs, and organisms, come to be?

As you can see, AMOLF is a truly multidisciplinary institute where we feel all the studies involved with the SHA can find something to their liking. The trip will be worth 3 educational points and begins at 14:00. The AMOLF is located at Science park 104.

For more (and arguably better) information on the research, AMOLF conducts, visit their website at www.AMOLF.nl/research

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Kind regards,

The National Trip committee