MoviesFilmhuis Lumen:An Ideal Husband, directed by Oliver Parker, thurs to wed, 19:45: Enjoyable romantic comedy based on a play by Oscar Wilde.

Promood, the Delft association of PhD students, started an e-mail group for foreign PhD students as a result of a recent survey.Most foreign PhD students would like to have more social contacts with other people within the university, according to a recent survey by Promood.

Staying in Holland during the summer months? Wondering what to do in July and August when the Dutch go on holiday en masse and much of the country becomes a ghost town? For a magical music experience, check out the three-day North Sea Jazz Festival, which is held on July 14th, 15th, 16th and features many of the stars of jazz, blues, soul, world music..

Opening positron centre DelftThis afternoon a symposium at the IRI will mark the official opening of its positron centre.

In July and August even Holland has days when it’s so warm that – as the Dutch say – “the sparrows fall from the roof.” On such days, Delft offers a possibility for refreshing the body and cooling down overheated brains: the lake in ‘Delftse Hout’, east of the city centre.

Whilst one poster gathers dust in the corner of a TU workplace, another serves as scientific wallpaper in the corridor. A poster on the wall of a department’s coffee room is the academic version of a pin-up in a garage.

MoviesFilmhuis Lumen:Kurt &Courtney, directed by Nick Bloomfield, fri. 15:30: Did Courtney, the scheming, gold-digging bitch kill Kurt? Does it matter? A fascinating pop-documentary neverthelessApollo:Gladiator, thurs to wed, 18:30 and 21:30, also sun.

One hundred more applicants for MSc coursesMore than 350 foreign students want to follow MSc courses at TU Delft, an increase of more than one hundred compared to last year.

Shell wasn’t happy with the state of the internet domain names of its various business units. They asked Amina Bacar, a MSc student in Informatics at TU Delft, for advice.

Together with his supervisors, Adi Hascaryantono developed a new method for examining the growth of cracks in aluminium alloy in a corrosive environment, such as seawater.