Overview anniversary activities
Overview anniversary activities
Overview of events to be organised by the Anniversary Committee or activities relating to the 170th anniversary of TU Delft.
Dies Natalis 2012
10 January 2012
The Dies Natalis ceremony will be held on Tuesday 10 January 2012 in the universary Aula Congress Centre (Mekelweg 5) and will begin at 15.00. Read more
Holiday Course
13 January 2012
This year, the theme of the 64th Drinking water and Wastewater Holiday Course, the annual network event of the Netherlands drinking and wastewater sector, is ‘NL Water to the TOP: excellence in a time of cuts!’ More information
60th anniversary Dutch National Student Orchestra
21 February 2012 (De Doelen in Rotterdam)
Every year our orchestra is composed of students from all Dutch universities who are being selected by auditions. For these students, the NSO represents a unique chance of performing like a professional musician. More information
Exhibition Sweet&Salt (Zoet&Zout) at Kunsthal Rotterdam
February - June 2012
TU Delft is one of the sponsors of the exhibition Sweet&Salt that is to take place in Kunsthal Rotterdam. Sweet&Salt is an exhibition with more than 100 top art works and iconic media images on the significance of water in the lowlands. Students and staff members of TU Delft can visit the exhibition with a discount. More information
Kick-off TU Delft Climate Institute
1 March 2012
Delft University of Technology has recently established a new scientific institute on climate: the TU Delft Climate Institute. To mark the launch of this new Institute a kick-off event will be organized on the 1st of March. During this scientific event internal and external stakeholders will discuss important challenges for the future and the role of TU Delft Climate Institute. With a number of inspiring lectures by invited national speakers we will discuss the long term perspective on the climate change research, the multidisciplinary approach and cooperation opportunities with the TU Delft Climate Institute.
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Kick-off TU Delft Process Technology Institute
2 March 2012
On Friday 2 March the newly established TU Delft Process Technology Institute organizes a conference on process technology for the future world. The leitmotif of the conference is the role of multidisciplinary research in advancing progress in process technology. Among the speakers are Gregory Stephanopoulos of MIT and Alberto Fangareggi of Dow Chemical Company. All students and staff who are interested in the subject are welcome to participate in the conference. Participation is free, though registration is obligatory. For more information and to register: www.process.tudelft.nl
Symposium KIVI NIRIA: Artic Battle
8 March 2012
The battle for the Arctic is heating up now that global warming is turning the Arctic into an undiscovered resource hotspot. Also, the famous North-West Passage will become the new highway for cargo to the East within a few years. This symposium will be the first Dutch maritime platform to give an overview on current challenges, economic opportunities and future trends. This symposium will be hosted by KIVI NIRIA offshore and marine technologies and involves speakers who have accepted the challenge of going beyond Nova Zembla. More information
Lecture KIVI NIRIA Student Delft
8 March 2012
KIVI NIRIA Students Delft has organised a double lecture, 'Energy from waste water' and 'Serious game: Watertown', in TU Delft Library. More information
Round Table "Value of Water"
13 March 2012
On March 13th 2012, the Department of Technology, Policy, and Management of Delft University of Technology will host a one-day round table "Value of Water." More information
Delft Culture concert 2012 / Playing together
31 March 2012
The Delft Symphony Orchestra will be playing a special concert on 31 March 2012 at the Aula Congress Centre of the TU Delft. For the occasion youthful guest performers from in and around Delft will complement the orchestra. The total line-up of over 100 musicians will perform the following works: Finlandia - Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 8 "Unvollendete" - Franz Schubert, Water Music Suite - Georg Friedrich Händel and Lord of the Rings – Howard Shore. More information (website in Dutch).
Delta Programme Knowledge Conference
3 April 2012
On 3 April the second Delta Programme Knowledge Conference will be held. TU Delft organizes this year’s conference together with other knowledge institutions and the Delta Commissioner’s staff. The conference is centered on three themes: Advances in knowledge development, Knowledge questions that arise in practice and Delta development and management abroad. More information (website in Dutch)
EPSI Conference 2012
18 - 20 April 2012
In April the 2nd European Conference on Sports Innovation will take place at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. This international conference provides a forum for research organisations, companies, sports organisations and national contact points active in the field of sports, sporting goods and sports innovation from all over Europe to exchange information, to present new information, to discuss the future directions and priorities in the areas of sports innovation and to nucleate partnerships and joint projects. More information (website EPSI)
Art&Drinks after work in Kunsthal in Rotterdam
20 April 2012
With Live water experiment by Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University and Guided tour Sweet&Salt. More information
Smart measuring with rubber ducks and floats
21 May 2012
Pupils from Year 8 of the Openbare Montessorischool Jan Vermeer will be helping TU Delft to chart the flow of water through the city’s canals. On the morning of Monday 21 May they will hold a rubber duck race as a warming-up exercise, and then they will help to track 1,100 floats – which have been fitted with special tags – as they float through the canals of Delft, to see exactly where they go when floodgates are raised. On 1 June the children will present the measurement results to the Municipality of Delft and the Delfland District Water Board during TU Delft’s Zomerfestival. The measuring experiment is part of the project ‘Smart measuring and monitoring’ from engineering and consultancy firm Witteveen+Bos, Munisense BV, the Municipality of Delft, Delfland District Water Board and TU Delft.
TU Delft Water Week
28 May - 1 June 2012
Various water-related activities are to be held for employees, students, associates of TU Delft and Delft residents during TU Delft’s Water Week from 28 May to 1 June, including the announcement of the winner of the TU Delft Urban Water Movie Contest. The Summer Festival on Friday 1 June will be a big event, and local residents are once again very welcome to attend this year. More information
TU Delft Summer Festival
1 June 2012
On Friday June 1st 2012, the seventh ZOMERfestival will be held in the grounds of Sport & Culture. In this special anniversary year, the Zomerfestival will cater to a wider audience and be accessible to at least 6,000 visitors. TU Delft will celebrate its 170th birthday with a party that will appeal to the entire TU Delft community, and the residents of Delft and its surroundings areas. More information
Kennisfestival
13 Juni 2012
Delft will be hosting this year’s Kennisfestival (festival of knowledge). Delft is home to the regional Knowledge Alliance, and Delft is the knowledge centre for the Zuidvleugel area. The name Delft is synonymous with both history and innovation. Delft excels in water technology, for instance. A lot of widely-used innovative technology hails from Delft, and Delft keeps on adding to this. Delft invests a lot in science and research, and TU Delft and local colleges have sound international reputations. Theme of this year’s knowledge festival is 'Water'. More information (website is in Dutch)
TU Delft scientific congress: ‘Water & the City’
14-15 June 2012
During the ‘Water & the City’ congress, international scientists from the fields of Science, Design and Engineering will congregate to actively work on actual cases involving cities and their specific water problems: Singapore, Jakarta, Rotterdam and New Orleans. More information
Braindrops
June and autumn 2012
As part of the university anniversary activities, Delft Outlook has got together with TU Library to create the new web-TV programme Braindrops. In each episode we will be talking to a world-class TU Delft academic about their life’s work. The first episode will feature Mark van Loosdrecht. We will also be looking at a societal problem through the eyes of the engineer. The presentation is in the capable hands of science journalist Desiree Hoving. You can watch Braindrops on your computer or tablet; the first episode will be available in June via the anniversary website: http://www.lustrum.tudelft.nl. If you would like to receive the latest information on Braindrops, please send an e-mail to delftintegraal@tudelft.nl stating 'Braindrops' in the Subject line.
TU Delft Alumni symposium
12 October 2012
Jubilee symposium to mark the 90th anniversary of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
22-26 October 2012
In oktober 2012 vieren we de 90e verjaardag van de IAHS en het einde van het ‘IAHS decade on Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB)’. In het symposium wordt verslag gedaan van de wetenschappelijke ontwikkelingen in de afgelopen tien jaar en van de inzichten die we in die tijd hebben verworven. Ook kijken we vooruit naar de grote wetenschappelijke uitdagingen voor de komende periode. More information
A Night on Water
How fascinating water can be,
Wednesday November 7th
Students meet experts in the field of technology and philosophy at a round table. They will share their professional ambition and their common interest in the future.
10th anniversary of MoTiv, in cooperation with student associations. More information
Opera Carmen
14, 15 and 16 November 2012
