Preliminary programme
8:30 Registration and coffee (Atrium Building I)
9:00 -12:30 Plenary session (Room I.2.03)
9:00 Welcome address (BPS President, J. Ongena)
9:10 Plenary lecture 1 – Prof. Marc Van Montagu, The Physics of the living World
10:00 Plenary lecture 2 – Prof. Nick Van Remortel, Einstein Telescope: a new window on the universe
10:50 Coffee break
11:15 Young speaker contest (Chair: F. Louche)
Lucas Levrouw, Exploring the curious dynamics of vortices in superfluid Fermi gases
Maria Luisa Alonso, Tagle Unlocking atmospheric escape to model oxygen loss on Earth
Robin Van Den Abeele, Topology-guided solution for treating atrial tachycardia
12:30 – 14:30 Walking Lunch and Poster (Atrium Building I)
14:30 – 16:45 Parallel sessions:
Astrophysics, Geophysics and Plasma Physics (Room I.1.04)Chairs: Kristel Crombé (UGent)
Biological, Medical, Statiscal and Mathematical Physics (Room I.1.05)Chairs: Yves Gossuin (UMons), Bart Cleuren (UHasselt)
Condensed Matter and Nanostructure Physics (Room I.1.06)Chairs: Frank Renner (UHasselt), Marc Debliquy (UMons)
Fundamental Interactions, Nuclear and Particle Physics (Room I.2.03)Chairs: Barbara Clerbaux (ULB), Stijn Buitink (VUB)
Atoms, Molecules, Optics and Photonics (Room I.1.07)Chair: Xavier Urbain (UCLouvain)
Physics and Education (Room I.1.08)
Chair: Mieke De Cock (KUL)
16:45 – 17:15 Poster Session
17:15 – 18:30 Closing ceremony: prizes and reception (Atrium Build. I)