The lustrum excursion will go to Mol, in Belgium. There, we will visit an underground institute that does research on safely storing highly radioactive waste in clay. The institute is located 225 meters beneath the surface and has the appropriate name HADES (High Activity Disposal Experimental Site). We will reach this exotic destination by bus which will leave from the Huygens building.

Lay back and relax in the North canteen during a Superhero movie. Which movie will be decided in a facebook poll, but it will definitely be fun.

High magnetic fields are an extremely powerful tool to investigate, to control and to manipulate the quantum properties of matter. In this talk I will present some recent results on the electronic properties of 2D materials (transition metal dichalcogenides MoS2 and WS2) which can be accessed by the combination of high magnetic and electric fields. In particular, I will show how you can transform an electrically insulation material into a superconductor with zero resistance and how this superconductivity surprisingly survives the high magnetic field of HFML.

On the first Thursday of the lustrum we will make a trip to a different location: starting at 19:00 all of you are welcome at Next Level, to make good use of a real karaoke set where you can showcase your singing skills! Beer prices are quite generous at €1,50, so you have no excuse not to come to the city centre and enjoy this evening.