As of September 1st, Bart Weber has been appointed as tenure-track group leader of the Contact Dynamics group at ARCNL, through an appointment as assistant professor at the Institute of …
Last week two ARCNL students won prizes for their contribution to international conferences. At the ELENA conference in Leuven (Belgium) Neha Thakur got the prize for Best Student Talk. Thakur …
ARCNL and UvA postdoc Bart Weber (Contact Dynamics group) has been awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his proposal ‘Friction on demand: To slide or …
The concept of friction was already investigated five hundred years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. His most important result, the proportionality of friction to the normal force, is still used …
