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jaargang 43, 5 oktober 2000 English page

Serious Fun with Technology TU/e is throwing its doors open wide to all curious bystanders this Sunday. In an ‘Open House’ from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., there will be surprising lectures, spectacular demonstrations, theatre and magic shows on campus. Don’t be surprised if you see explosions, flashing lights or strange-looking smoke. This is all just serious fun. The day is entitled ‘The Magic of Technology’. The Open House is a great opportunity for newcomers at TU/e to get to know other departments in an informal way. TU/e staff and students are encouraged to invite friends or family to come and have a look behind the scenes of the university. Hundreds of TU/e staff are involved in Open House activities. In past years, TU/e’s Open House attracted as many as 8000 visitors. TU/e’s PR department has been putting a lot of time and effort into co-ordinating this large-scale annual project. “We start putting things together at least half a year beforehand,” says co-ordinator-in-chief Corine Legdeur. “Most departments have contributed to ‘The Magic of Technology’ in some way. It’s a real joint effort,” says Legdeur. Toothpaste Some of the activities during the Open House are especially, but not exclusively, for children. Try your hand at producing toothpaste and shampoo in a special ‘sorcery lab’. Design your own homepage in the world’s largest computer game ‘Magic Balls’. Or see robots play football. A ‘chemical show’ bridges the gap between alchemy and modern chemistry with a number of mysterious and exciting experiments. Collegezaal 1 features an ongoing film called ‘Lauf der Dinge’. The main characters in the film are water, gravity, steam, friction, fire and explosions. The film shows a gigantic domino experiment with hundreds of consecutive events. The activities for children aged 8-12 years will be concentrated in the Auditorium, but in past years many adult visitors have been just as interested in these demonstrations and magic acts as their children. Some of the things happening in the Auditorium are serious enough, for instance a stimulating selection of works from the ‘media art’ exhibition ‘Exposed!’ can be viewed. Exciting Research Two other locations on campus besides the Auditorium will also be open to the public on October 8: IPO and Matrix. Activities there will focus on new and exciting research. Explore the technological possibilities of tomorrow in a form of digital travel at IPO. Or discover extraordinary properties of ordinary materials including plastic, metal and ceramics at Matrix. A few other parts of the campus, besides the three main points where activities will be concentrated (Auditorium, IPO and Matrix) will also be open during ‘The Magic of Technology’. Since recently ‘Beeldenstorm’, a group of artists who use all kinds of technology, has occupied a workshop at TU/e. Their workshop space is especially suited to 3D images. The group also offers facilities to other artists who want to experiment with materials and technology. Beeldenstorm’s workshop will be open to the public on October 8. The group is planning to show works by various artists. Technology Week TU/e’s Open House is part of a larger national Science and Technology Week from October 7 to 15. Universities, colleges, museums, libraries and many other organisations all over the Netherlands are taking part. They will also offer lectures and demonstrations. In Eindhoven, the observatory ‘Dr A.F. Philips Sterrenwacht’ has an exposition on time, rotation and the earth’s place in the solar system, also on October 8. The city of Eindhoven is organising activities centring on the theme ‘sports and technology’. This includes a conference on ‘improvement of performance in sports due to technological innovation’ in the PSV stadium on October 6 and 7. The Eindhoven marathon follows on October 8. Special minibuses will be available to drive you and your guests around TU/e campus during Open House. Photo Bram Saeys

Listening Exhibition Student Rowing Association Thêta has organised a ‘listening’ exhibition, on view since Friday on the ground floor of the main building. The idea of this ‘invisible exhibition’ is to have people enjoy sports by using their ears. Thêta made a composition of various sports sounds that can be heard in a dark box. When someone enters the 3 x 3m black box, the ‘music’ starts to play. According to Ruben Steins, chairman of Thêta’s exhibition committee, the collection of sounds is certainly music. “The piece has structure and tension. Just sit down, close your eyes and listen.” The exhibition is one of the activities commemorating Thêta’s 25th anniversary. Royal Medal for Peter Schmid Prof.mag.arch. Peter Schmid, TU/e professor of architectural completion, has been awarded a royal medal. He was decorated during a symposium organised in honour of his retirement. Schmid was awarded the medal for his excellent work in environmentally sound architecture, both nationally and internationally. Schmid received the medal from Eindhoven’s deputy mayor Hans Scherf. Schmid’s wife pinned the medal on. Schmid said he was pleased with the decoration and that it was a '‘big surprise”. “I don’t know what to say,” he commented. European Network for Applied Mathematics There is still a large gap between the knowledge available at universities and knowledge in business of what applied mathematics could mean commercially. MACSI-net was founded on October 1 to bridge this gap. Mathematics Computing and Simulation for Industry is a European network of eighty companies and twenty academic institutes. The network aims to promote mathematical and numerical tools in industry. Mathematical methods can be applied in various areas, for example in both engineering and flow problems. TU/e is one of the important intersections in the MACSI-net. MACSI-net is organising a number of ‘industrial days’ on aviation industry, materials processes, chemistry, the environment, biomathematics, medicine, telecommunications and energy. Participants are encouraged to exchange information and this may in turn lead to (research) projects. Young researchers will be offered temporary jobs in industry and specialists from industry will be invited to the participating universities.

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