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On May 18 2016 the Prize of the Belgian Physical Society for the best Master thesis was awarded to two PhD students of the TENA group: Saskia Demulder for her thesis “Integrability in the AdS/CFT correspondence” made at the VUB with Alexander Sevrin and Daniel Thompson as advisors and Sibylle Driezen for her thesis “T-dualiteit en N = (4,4) supersymmetrie op het wereldvlak” made at the University of Antwerp with  Alexander Sevrin as advisor.

The @CMSvoices project allows members of the public to engage with members of the CMS Collaboration via Twitter.  Every month, a CMS physicist takes control of the CMSvoices twitter account and talks about their work and everything to do with life at CMS. In May 2016, the month the accelerator starts taking data at unprecedented intensities, the CMS voice is VUB professor Freya Blekman.

Systematic development of LC×LC methods

In a unique Dutch-Flemish cooperation analytical chemists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) aim at substantially improving liquid chromatography (LC). In their DEBOCS project they will combine high-tech instrumentation with intelligent optimization strategies. A particular challenging aspect is the incorporation of microfluidic chips with nested nanostructures in state-of-the-art chromatography equipment.