Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Saskia Demulder, FWO fellow at TENA, received the Solvay Award on October 23 2016 during a ceremony in Studio 4 of the Flagey. She received this prize for her Master thesis “Integrability in the AdS/CFT correspondence” with Alexander Sevrin and Daniel Thompson as advisors.
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.
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On August 28th 2014 Nele Callebaut obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis: Background field and time dependence effects in holographic models
On July 1st 2014 Bettina Oexl obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:Gravitino production on colliders
On May 15th 2013 Federico Galli obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis: Applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to non-equilibrium physics at strong coupling
On May 22nd 2012 Alice Bernamonti obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis: Applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to strongly coupled dynamics
