The BRICKS projects that started in 2004, can now look back on their first 3 years. The BRICKS open competition projects funded under the FOCUS grants started later, but many of them are already in full swing. We hope the BRICKS Midterm Symposium will provide everyone (in and outside BRICKS) the opportunity to meet and to get a good overview of the progress of the BRICKS project. We will focus on the research highlights of the first three years of BRICKS, and the future plans for the remaining three.

Special attention will be given to the work of junior researchers in BRICKS, who will not only get a chance to present their work during two extensive poster sessions, they will also be granted a one minute (!) slot to pitch their research and convince the audience to come see their poster. The researcher with the best pitch and poster will win the BRICKS Dissemination Award.

Program

10:15	Opening	Prof.dr. Jan Karel Lenstra (BRICKS president)
10:30	BRICKS Research Highlight	Prof.dr.ir. Karen Aardal (BRICKS IS3)
11:00	BRICKS Research Highlight	Prof.dr. Krzysztof Apt (BRICKS IS7)
11:30	BRICKS Research Highlight	Prof.dr. Martin Kersten (BRICKS IS1,4,5)
12:00	One-minute poster pitches	Poster presenters
12:20	Lunch & Poster session
13:30	BRICKS Research Highlight	Prof.dr. Mark Overmars (BRICKS MSV2)
14:00	BRICKS Research Highlight	Prof.dr. Harry Buhrman (BRICKS AFM1)
14:30	One-minute poster pitches	Poster presenters
14:50	Coffee & Poster session
15:15	Keynote	Prof.dr. Peter Sloot (Computational Science, UvA)
15:45	Keynote	Prof.dr. Emile Aarts (Scientific Program Director of Philips Research)
16:15	Drinks & BRICKS Dissemination
	Award Ceremony

Registration Please register before Friday February 23 by mail with name, affiliation and research project (and diet considerations if applicable) to info@bsik-bricks.nl.