Study of the 14N+159Tb reaction between 6 and 22 MeV/u.

The main aim of the research described in this thesis was to obtain a deeper insight into the evolution of the mechanism of light heavy-ion induced reactions from energies close to the Coulomb barrier to energies of several tens of MeV/u. ... Zie: Summary

3MeerLICHT and BlackGEM: custom-built telescopes to detect faint optical transients

We present the MeerLICHT and BlackGEM telescopes, which are wide-field optical telescopes that are currently being built to study transient phenomena, gravitational wave counterparts and variable stars. The telescopes have 65 cm primary mirrors and a 2.7 square degree field-of-view. The MeerLICHT and BlackGEM projects have different science goals, but will use identical telescopes. The first telescope, MeerLICHT, will be commissioned at Sutherland (South Africa) in the first quarter of 2017. It will co-point with MeerKAT to collect optical data commensurate with the radio observations. After careful analysis of MeerLICHT's performance, three telescopes of the same type will be commissioned in La Silla (Chile) in 2018 to form phase I of the BlackGEM array. BlackGEM aims at detecting and characterizing optical counterparts of gravitational wave events detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. In this contribution we present an overview of the science goals, the design and the status of the two projects