Arrival at the Gothenburg City Airport |
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Met by Lars-Erik Svensson, a Professor at Hogskolan Vast (University West), and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Chalmers University |
This is Lars' new Volvo car |
Arrival at Chalmers University |
The tram service |
Colleagues from Udeholm |
On the left is Professor Hans-Olof Andren of the Applied Physics Department, Chalmers University. |
A delicious lunch at the Persian Palace |
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Beautiful foliage |
Seasonal colour changes |
Gothenburg is an elegant city |
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Chalmers University |
Chalmers University. Sweden has a large wood and cellulose industry |
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.... and bicycles |
Chalmers University and Gothenburg University share some facilities and collaborate in research |
From 4 p.m. onwards, Harry was at a meeting with another set of people, at the house where Chalmers himself lived |
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William Chalmers lived here |
This and the next photograph represents the members of the Advisory Board of a new materials science initiative at Chalmers University |
Chalmers has obtained perpetual funding to establish an interdisciplinary activity entitled "Materials for Tomorrow" |
The day after the Board meeting was a conference, with five presentations of research by external members of the Advisory Board, followed in the afternoon by presentations from the group leaders of the Initiative |
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Professor Kirster Holmberg introduces Harry. He is the Director of the new initiative |
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The next talk, on very small gold particles was by Professor Marie-Paule Pileni of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in France |
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Coffee break |
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Professor Borje Johansson of the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden then explained the importance of first principles calculations. |
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Professor Helmuth Mohwald of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces then described thin films and capsules |
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This is James Kirkpatrick, giving the final in the series of lectures by the External Members of the Scientific Advisory Board. He explained repair mechanisms in the body |
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A doodle, which was there before the current proceedings began, presumably by a confused member of the audience. |
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Kasper Moth-Poulsen is a new Assistant Professor at Chalmers, beginning January, who will work on single electron electronics using molecular transistors |
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This is Fredrik Hook, who works on biological sensors |
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Anders Palmqvist gave a nice talk on thermoelectric materials based on revelations from fundamental physics |
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A poster on polycrystalline cubic boron nitride |
Mikael Rigdahl talked about making polymers from cellulose |
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Sten Eriksson has participated in the creation of the best spallation source at ISIS |
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Goran wahnstrom finished by giving a wonderful example how a combination of first principles, thermodynamics and insight can lead to a complete story, from science to technology |
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