The VSI's research in particle physics and gravity resonates very well with the general public. VSI staff members are thus actively and enthusiastically reaching out to a wider audience, especially connecting with children and prospective students as shown on this page.

13 July 2023
Dipartimento Fisica i Astronomia, Universitá di Padova: "What's Next: A new setup to study haevy, Neutron-rich, EXotic nuclei produced in multinucleon Transfer reactions"
Juia Even

1 June 2023
"Een gastdocent in de klas"
Julia Even

8 February 2023
Stichting Weer- en Sterrenkunde Eemsmond: "De Oerknal: van snaartheorie naar het Heelal"
Diederik Roest

16 January 2023
Eva zoekt uit: Als je in een gat naar de andere kant van de aarde valt, waar kom je dan uit?
Daan Meerburg

7 December 2022
"Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

21 November 2022
Eva zoekt uit: "Kun je een magneet onder een andere magneet laten zweven?"
Diederik Roest

5 November 2022
Examedia: "Primer Encuentro de directivos de Escuelas Primarias Rurales de 4a categoria"
Anastasia Borschevsky

3 November 2022
ExaMedia: "El desafío tecnicar 2022 Ilega a Corrientes"
Anastasia Borschevsky

3 November 2022
Chaco dia por dia: "Físics de la UNNE propone teoría que ayudaría a detectar efectos moleculares aún no observados"
Anastasia Borschevsky

1 November 2022
DOT PLANETARIUM: Zwarte Gaten
Eric Bergshoeff

21 October 2022
KIJK Magazine: "Bouwsteen van materie blijkt elektrisch enigma"
Steven Hoekstra

19 August 2022
De Morgen: "Oude bekende, het proton, blijkt na honderd jaar extra deeltje te bevatten: de 'charm quark'"
Daniel Boer

17 August 2022
De Volkskrant: "Proton bevat een wonderlijk extra deeltje: de 'charm quark'"
Daniel Boer

24 May 2022
Groninger Wetenschapsquiz: "Over vliegende heliumballonnen, emmers in de Tweede Kamer en puzzelen met de basis van ons bestaan"
Diederik Roest

2 May 2022
Astronomy on Tap: "Cosmology by Eye"
Daan Meerburg

2 April 2022
Saturday Science Series for High school Students
Daan Meerburg

22 March 2022
Scientias: "Vinden we dankzij minuscule zwevende bolletjes eindelijk donkere materie?"
Steven Hoekstra

16 March 2022
De Ingenieur: "Deeltjes vertragen levert nieuwe Natuurkunde"
Steven Hoekstra

14 March 2022
De Ingenieur: "Stilstand is vooruitgang"
Steven Hoekstra

8 March 2022
"Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

16 February 2022
KIJK Magazine: "Is het Heelal een Donut"
Daan Meerburg

19 December 2021
Jio Forme: "Cosmologists approach the Big Bang logic"
Daan Meerburg

19 December 2021
Times News Express: "Cosmologists Close in on Logical Laws for the Big Bang"
Daan Meerburg

19 December 2021
HWCol: "Los cosmólogos se acercan a las leyes lógicas para el Big Bang"
Daan Meerburg

1 December 2021
Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

23 November 2021
DOT Live Planetarium: "Einstein and Black Holes"
Eric Bergshoeff

10 November 2021
Quanta Magazine: "Laws of Logic Lead to New Restrictions on the Big Bang"
Daan Meerburg

8 November 2021
Natuurwetenschappelijk Genootschap Assen: "Kosmologie"
Daan Meerburg

1 November 2021
Dutch Newspaper NRC: "Zware moleculen stilgezet voor precisiemeting"
Steven Hoekstra

29 October 2021
"Atrapando moléculas para encontrar nueva física"
Steven Hoekstra

9 October 2021
Saturday Science Series for High school Students
Daan Meerburg

15 June 2021
Space Daily: "Discovery of the largest rotation in the universe"
Anupam Mazumdar

9 June 2021
"De alarmas antirrobo a detectores de agujeros negros: Supersensores como posibles salidas de un experimento de gravedad cuántica"
Anupam Mazumdar

8 June 2021
Phys.org.: "From burglar alarms to black hole detectors: Super sensors as possible outputs of a quantum gravity experiment"
Anupam Mazumdar

8 June 2021
"Un interferómetro de chip de átomo que podía detectar la gravedad cuántica"
Anupam Mazumdar

18 May 2021
"Op reis door het Heelal ...."
Diederik Roest

6 May 2021
KIJK Magazine: "Ultralicht uranium blijkt mini-stralingslab"
JuliaEven

17 April 2021
"Kijken met een ijsklont - zoektocht naar neutrinos."
Gerco Onderwater

7 April 2021
Dutch Newspaper NRC: "Opnieuw barstje in standaardmodel van deeltjesfysica"
Gerco Onderwater

17 February 2021
Engineersonline.nl: "Moleculen stilzetten om nieuwe fysica te ontdekken"
Steven Hoekstra

14 February 2021
Interview at NPO radio 1: "Hoe voelt het om een zeldzaam atoom te maken?
Julia Even

11 February 2021
Nederlandse Natuurkunde Vereniging: "Een gastdocent in de klas"
Julia Even

8 December 2020
Popular presentation Phys.org: "Experiment to test quantum gravity got a bit less complicated"
Anupam Mazumdar

11 November 2020
"Antimatter in the lab - What we know & how we figured it out."
Gerco Onderwater

10 November 2020
UKrant: "Opposites solve the mystery of matter"
Anastasia Borschevsky and Steven Hoekstra

6 October 2020
Studium Generale Lecture: "The origin of Time"
Eric Bergshoeff

8 September 2020
Presentation Popular Mechanics: "Experiment to test quantum gravity got a bit less complicated"
Anupam Mazumdar

18 August 2020
Popular presentation for Eurekalert: "A stepping stone for measuring quantum gravity"
Anupam Mazumdar

27 July 2020
Dutch Newspaper NRC: "Zwaartekrachtsgolfdetector kan 4000 keer kleiner"
Steven Hoekstra and Anupam Mazumdar

22 July 2020
Popular presentation New Scientist: "Experiment op tafelformaat moet zwaartekrachtsgolven kunnen meten"
Anupam Mazumdar

30 June 2020
Popular presentation Scientific American: "Tiny gravitational wave detector could search anywhere in the sky"
Anupam Mazumdar

4 March 2020
"Mislukt experiment? Nee joh!"
Gerco Onderwater

12 October 2019
Presentation at Theater Arto, Schoonhoven
Eric Bergshoeff

16 August 2019
Noorderzon Arts Festival: "Met Einstein in de achtbaan"
Diederik Roest

11 June 2019
Popular talk at DOT Live Planetarium: "De Zwaartekracht volgens Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

13 May 2019
Science article in Nemo Kennislink: "Geen limiet aan nieuwe elementen"
Julia Even

8 May 2019
"The elusive neutrino / Het ongrijpbare Neutrino"
Gerco Onderwater

3 March 2019
VHTO / Topsport Talent School Groningen: "Speed dating with school girls"
Julia Even

22 February 2019
Popular presentation for FORBES: "The WIMP Miracle Hope for dark matter is dead"
Anupam Mazumdar

11 December 2018
"Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

30 November 2018
"Mislukt experiment? Nee joh!"
Gerco Onderwater

17 November 2018
Jongerenwerkgroep Sterrenkunde Groningen: "Hoe groot is het heelal"
Diederik Roest

5 October 2018
Zpannend Zernike, Groningen: "De droom van de Alchemist"
Julia Even

20 August 2018
Popular science presentation at Noorderzon arts festival: "Het heelal, de stand van de sterren en ons zonnenstelsel"
Diederik Roest

15 August 2018
Popular Science presentation for Scientific American: "Is gravity quantum?"
Anupam Mazumdar

10 June 2018
Article: Interview in "Dagblad van het Noorden" with Prof. Eric Bergshoeff

31 May 2018
Studium Generale lecture, Groningen: "Steven Hawking as inspirer"
Eric Bergshoeff

12 May 2018
Popular presentation at Sterrenwacht Midden-Nederland: "Wat is licht"
Eric Bergshoeff

1 May 2018
Nedelands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, Cover page story: "De zoektocht naar het electrisch dipoolmoment"
Steven Hoekstra

27 April 2018
Demonstration experiments at 'Kennis is Koning', Koningsdag Science Market with Young Academy Groningen
Steven Hoekstra

27 April 2018
Co-initiator and co-science coordinator of children's science fair "Kennis is Koning", Koningsdag
Diederik Roest

24 April 2018
Article: Riding the waves of science - Eric Bergshoeff

15 March 2018
NPO Focus, interview on death of Stephen Hawking
Daan Meerburg

2 March 2018
Popular Science article De Volkskrant: "Het Monster van Oganessian"
Julia Even

1 March 2018
"Gravity according to Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

24 February 2018
Spoorwegmuseum Utrecht: "Experiment Event"
Diederik Roest

1 January 2018
Popular presentation at Leidse Weer- en Sterrekundige Kring: "De Zwaartekracht volgens Einstein"
Eric Bergshoeff

2018
Lecture and tutorial for high School Students visiting UG: "Groepentheorie & Symmetrie in de Natuur"
Daniel Boer

2018
Guest lesson at primary school "De Petteflet", group 3 + 4: "Wat is licht?"
Steven Hoekstra

2018
Initiated collaboration with artists in residence D. Gelfand and E. Domnitch for NWA startimpulse project
Steven Hoekstra

8 December 2017
"Einstien's Ballerina - de ontdekking van zwaartekrachtsgolven"
Gerco Onderwater

1 December 2017
"Gravity according to Einstein".
Eric Bergshoeff

15 November 2017
Popular science presentation at TED-X Groningen: "The Universe - a failed love story"
Diederik Roest

6 November 2017
Popular science presentatio for Inside Science: "A Tabletop experiment for quantum gravity"
Anupam Mazumdar

31 October 2017
Popular science presentation Sterrenwacht Hellendoorn: "Het laatste nieuws van de Oerknal"
Diederik Roest

15 October 2017
"Einstein's Ballerina - de ontdekking van zwaartekrachtsgolven"
Gerco Onderwater

13 October 2017
NRC: "Wij leven in een lappendeken van mini-heelallen"
Diederik Roest

1 September 2017
"Einstein en de Relativiteitstheorie"
Eric Bergshoeff

11 July 2017
Popular science video for Dagblad van het Noorden: "Het heelal groeit, maar hoe snel eigenlijk?"
Diederik Roest

17 june 2017
Oerol Arts Festival, Terschelling: "Het Heelal op Oerol"
Diederik Roest

30 May 2017
Science LinX: "Witches' cauldron prepares magic nucleus for weigh in"
Julia Even

1 May 2017
De Volkskrant: "Het heelal dijt steeds sneller uit, maar waarom, dat zit theoretici nogal dwars"
Diederik Roest

30 April 2017
Science LinX: "Heksenketel voor het wegen van magische kernen krijgt subsidie"
Julia Even

1 April 2017
"Waar komen de zwaartekrachtsgolven vandaag?
Eric Bergshoeff

15 February 2017
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde: "Ken uw Klassieken: Het Groenewoldproduct"
Daniel Boer

14 February 2017
"Wat is massa?"
Gerco Onderwater

3 February 2017
Where do gravitational waves come from?
Eric Bergshoeff

1 February 2017
UKrant: "Standing still is progress"
Steven Hoekstra

16 January 2017
De Volkskrant: "We leven toch misschien niet in het saaiste heelal dat je kunt bedenken"
Diederik Roest

05 December 2016
Article on our electron-EDM project in Dutch Newspaper 'De Volkskrant'

11 February 2016
RTV Noord interview with Eric Bergshoeff (in Dutch) about the discovery of gravitational waves from a merger of two Black Holes:

Groningse wetenschappers sidderen na aantonen zwaartekrachtgolven

26 February 2015
The fiber link between the VSI experimental group and the Free university of Amsterdam is in the news.

Grondtemeperatuur beïnvloedt nauwkeurigheid netwerktijd

See also the video about Diederik Roest on Unifocus

Logo of the VSI

If you need them, here is a zip-file with the logo of the Van Swinderen Institute, in various formats.