Third Quantum Universe Symposium

The third 'Quantum Universe' (QU3) symposium will take place on Wednesday March 27 and Thursday March 28 2013, i.e. the week before Easter, at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

The event is part of the new track The Quantum Universe of the Physics and Astronomy Master programmes, a collaboration between the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CTN), the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,  the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI) and the Johann Bernoulli Institute (JBI).  The aim of the symposium is to present new developments, both theoretical and experimental, in (astro-)particle physics and astronomy and to stimulate interactions between the different institutes.

Invited speakers are
- Dick Bond (CITA, University of Toronto)
- Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)
- Piet Mulders (VU University of Amsterdam)
- Nicolo de Groot (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Heino Falcke (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Herbert Edelsbrunner (IST Austria)
- Laura Covi (University of Göttingen, Germany)
- David Wands (University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom)
- Belen Gavela (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

The program will further contain a number of  contributed talks.