The 10th of July marked the BE’s final day in Canada, featuring one more visit before crossing the US border later on in the day. Our last Canadian visit was to particle physics research institute TRIUMF. Originally constructed in 1968 as a collaboration between the University of British Columbia, Simon Read more…
The central themes of today’s visits could be summed to the area of material physics, which was well-received by the students and supervisors of the study tour. We started the day with a crash course quantum computing by one of our supervisors to explain some professional jargon used in these Read more…
The first visit of the study tour was to the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. UBC was established in 1908, making it the oldest university in British Columbia. Nevertheless, the two research centers that we visited were established more recently. These research centers are the Fluid Mechanics Lab Read more…
Day 3 was the day which allowed us the freedom of movement around: we picked up the cars which were reserved for us. The group was split in two, with 12 drivers and 2 committee taking the Canada metro line back to Vancouver airport to pick up the cars. The Read more…
This was our first full day in Vancouver, which was completely free for the participants. Everyone was still recovering from their jetlag and so we were all awake quite early. Some went running early and others tried to get some more sleep. A large portion of the group rented bikes Read more…
Hello everyone! This is the first of the daily updates we will gave during the whole Study Trip. I will describe how the first day was. First of all the day was very long. It started when we all assembled at the Spiegel on campus of the University of Twente. Read more…