Parallel Sessions Program

Chairs: Kristel Crombé (UGent) and François Massonnet (UCLouvain)

Parallel session

14:30   Laurent Masse (CEA, France) Inertial Confinement Fusion: Ignition and What Next?

15:00   Yangyang Zhang (UGent) Bayesian Techniques for Optimization of Nuclear Diagnostics: A Case Study on the WEST Tokamak                                               

15:15   Alexander Haumann (Alfred Wegener Institute/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) What goes around comes around: A changing Southern Ocean    

15:45   break

16:00   Benjamin Richaud (UCLouvain) Does increased spatial resolution improve the simulation of Antarctic sea ice?

16:15   Eva Lemaire (UCLouvain) Investigating Iceberg–Sea Ice Interactions in the Southern Ocean Using NEMO-ICB

16:30   Jerome Sauer (UCLouvain) Extreme Arctic sea ice lows investigated with a rare event algorithm

16:45   Noé Pirlet (UCLouvain) Impact of a representation of Antarctic landfast ice on the shelf water properties simulated by NEMO4-SI³

17:00   Antoine Honet (ULB) Estimation of atmospheric lifetime and emissions of NH₃ sources from 15 years of satellite data

Posters                      

Feba Francis (UCLouvain) Antarctic Sea Ice Response to Wind Perturbation Experiments

Annelies Sticker (UCLouvain) Drivers of Arctic Rapid Sea Ice Loss Events in CESM2

Alison  Delhasse (UCLouvain) Towards improved seasonal to interannual predictions of Arctic sea ice through Data Assimilation and dedicated reanalysis

Alexandre Tytgat (UCLouvain) Block minima modeling of Antarctic’s sea ice extent extremes

Michel Crucifix (UCLouvain) The WarmAnoxia project

Augustin Lambotte (UCLouvain) Arctic landfast ice simulation with brittle rheology and probabilistic grounding

Patricia DeRepentigny (UCLouvain) How predictable was the recent decade-long pause in Arctic summer sea ice retreat?

Pierre Dumortier (ERM/KMS) 40 Years of ICRF Operation on JET: Achievements and Challenges

Dirk Van Eester (ERM/KMS) Almost-off-the-shelf tools for ICRH modelling

Dirk Van Eester (ERM/KMS) ICRH modelling of the Baseline D-T scenario in JET

Bernard Reman (ERM/KMS) Integral dielectric kernel implementation to model RF heating in toroidal plasmas

Arthur  Adriaens (ERM/KMS) Predicting Wall Conditioning

Luis Daniel López Rodríguez (ERM/KMS) Characterization of a microwave reflectometer for edge density profile measurements at the ICRH antenna on Wendelstein 7-X

Cyrille Sepulchre (EPFL) Suprathermal ion transport and toroidal helicon wave studies in the low-temperature plasma device TORPEX

Chairs: Clément Merckling (KULeuven/IMEC) and Benoît Hackens (UCLouvain)

Parallel session

14:30   Maëlle Kapfer (Univ. Paris-Saclay, France) Programming twist angle and strain gradient in two-dimensional materials

15:00   Oriane de Leuze (UCLouvain) Charge transport in 2D flakes networks: the case of Ti3C2Tx

15:15   Yaojia  Wang (KU Leuven) Supercurrent interference in a kagome superconductor

15:30   Amirmostafa Amirjani (KU Leuven) Inverse design of plasmonic metasurface using machine learning

15:45   break

16:00   Vincent Meunier (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Electromechanical coupling at the nanoscale: The ubiquitous case of flexoelectricity

16:30   Danny Vanpoucke (U Hasselt) Straining group-IV color centers in diamond: Using density functional theory to model the Zero-Phonon-Line shift

16:45   Matthew Houtput (U Antwerpen) First principles theory of nonlinear long-range electron-phonon interaction

17:00   Simon Dubois (UCLouvain) Inference based model Hamiltonians balancing accuracy, interpretability and data efficiency

Posters

Serghei Klimin (U Antwerpen) Analytic Methods for Polarons in a Non-Parabolic Conduction Band

Wu Heng (KU Leuven) The global critical current effect of superconductivity

Diego Fossion (UCLouvain) Properties of Kondo cloud modulations in quantum dots coupled to cavities

Pauline Castenetto (U Hasselt) Identification and characterisation of the reaction path of β-O-4 dimerisation of monolignols by means of first-principles calculations

Aylin Melan (U Hasselt) From DFT to GW: Benchmarking the Electronic Structure of Diamond

Lisa Siciliani (Sciensano/U Antwerpen) Physicochemical characterisation of iron oxides and hydroxides applied as food additive E 172

Emerick Y. Guillaume (U Namur) Multiscale modelling of LTO PVD growth

Fernando Massa Fernandes (UCLouvain) Real-time gas sensing with lead-sulfide quantum-dots

Thijs van Wijk (U Hasselt) Calculating the vibrational spectrum of the GeV defect in Diamond

Célia Delaive (ULiège) Creating NOON states with ultracold atoms using time crystals

Michael Tzvetkov (UCLouvain) Study of out-of-plane electronic transport in multilayer graphene films by C-AFM

Sofiane Arib (UCLouvain) Estimation of electrical conductivity anisotropy in MXenes by CAFM modeling

Arnaud Dochain (UCLouvain) Observation of fast atom diffraction through suspended graphene

Valentin Fonck (UCLouvain) A Scanning Thermal Microscope at cryogenic temperatures

Chairs: Juan Antonio Aguilar Sánchez (ULB/WISC) and Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige (UCLouvain)

Parallel session

14:30   Aart Heijboer (NIKHEF/University of Amsterdam) Observation of the first ultra-high energy cosmic neutrino

15:00   Soumen Roy (UCLouvain) Parametrized test of general relativity with gravitational waves including higher harmonics and precession

15:20   Leonardo Ricca (UCLouvain) Multi-Messenger Search for Neutrino and Gravitational-Wave Emissions from Binary Black Holes Near Active Galactic Nuclei

15:40   Jef Heynen (UCLouvain) Using the null stream to detect strongly lensed gravitational waves

16:00   break

16:15   Emile Moyaux (UCLouvain) Neutrino energy distributions of astrophysical sources: the GRB example

16:35   Nhan Chau (ULB) Dark matter search in the Galactic Center with IceCube Upgrade

16:55   Guillaume Lhost (UMons) Late inspiral of eccentric asymmetric binaries

Posters

Eliot Genton (UCLouvain) Prospective Sensitity to WIMP Dark Matter with the IceCube Upgrade

Christoph Raab (UCLouvain) Low-latency neutrino follow-up combining diverse IceCube selections

Mathieu Lamoureux (UCLouvain) Multi-messenger astrophysics with the ACME consortium

Marco Scarnera (UCLouvain/Université Paris Cité) Probing neutrino yield from different gamma-ray burst populations using the entire ANTARES data set

Thomas Delmeulle (ULB) Studying Muon Bundles for Improved EHE Neutrino Identification in IceCube

Marine Vilarino (ULB) Cosmic Ray Simulation for Background Rate Estimation in the ARA Detector using the FAERIE Framework

Chairs: Nick Van Remortel (UAntwerpen) and Alberto Mariotti (ULB)

Parallel Session

14:30   Agi Koszorus (KULeuven, invited) Laser spectroscopy of radioactive probes: study of the nuclear force and searches for new physics

15:05   Martin  Delcourt (CERN) How Belgium is ensuring the CMS tracker data performance

15:25   Aloke Kumar Das (ULB) The Belgian contribution to the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker Upgrade

15:45   break

15:55   Sumaira Ikram (UCLouvain) Development of a portable particle detector for imaging with cosmic ray muons

16:15   Felipe Figueroa Vilar del Valle (UMons) Dual Models revisited: A bootstrap perspective

16:35   ZeQiang Wang (UCLouvain) The Brief Talk of τ g-2 for Future Colliders

16:55   Cyrille Chevalier (UMons) Glueballs with two and three constituent gluons within the helicity formalism

Posters

Arjun Chaliyath (CERN) High precision automated metrology of the 2S modules for the CMS phase-II tracker upgrade

Dora Geeraerts (VUB) The ScIDEP Muon Radiography Project at the Egyptian Pyramid of Khafre  

Zahraa Zaher (UCLouvain) Differentiable Optimization of Muon Scattering Tomography Detector Designs         

Chairs: Tatevik Chalyan (VUB) and Matthieu Génévriez (UCLouvain)

Parallel session

14:30   John Fourkas (University of Maryland, USA) Is visible light the way forward for cutting-edge nanolithography?

15:00   Spencer Jolly (ULB) Propagation of space-time optical beams in multimode fibers

15:15   Sélim Chaabani (Uliège) Going to 2.1 µm for Space Quantum Key Distribution

15:30   Julien Grondin (UCLouvain) Construction and Characterization of a Ca Magneto-Optical Trap for Rydberg Physics

15:45   break

16:00   Robbe Van Duyse (KU Leuven) High precision optical spectroscopy using trapped Sr ions

16:15   Alexandr Bogomolov (UCLouvain) High resolution spectrum of D₂O-CO₂ van der Waals complex around the 3OD vibrational excitation

16:30   Mhamad Hantro (UMons) Impact of Higher Order Effects in the Far-field for Dipole‐Forbidden Transitions near Plasmonic Structures

16:45   Adrien Debacq (UNamur) Finite-Difference Time-Domain Analysis of Stimulated Emission in NZI Materials

17:00   Sébastien Mouchet (UMons) Nature-Inspired Strategies for Infrared Control and Thermal Insulation

Posters

Arthémise Altman (UCLouvain) Spectroscopy of methanol in the near-infrared at the 10^-13 level

Yves Caudano UNamur) Weak values as stereographic projections

Simon Dengis (ULiège) NOON states creation with ultracold atoms via geodesic counterdiabatic driving

Julien Bouchat (UNamur) Weak measurements and Goos-Hänchen effects in the case of uniaxial anisotropic media

Alisée Bouillon (UCLouvain) Electron transfer between ultra-long range Rydberg molecules and heavy-Rydberg molecules

Steve Smeets (UMons) Two-photon molecular emitters enhanced with nanoantennas

Hippolyte Stassart (Uliège) Study of the optical coupling between luminescent quantum dots and gold nanorods

Loris Cavenaile (UMons) Achieving Optical Transparency: Simulations of Light Scattering in Biological Tissues

Simon Collignon (UCLouvain) Rest frequency determination of the 12.2 GHz methanol maser line with sub-kHz accuracy

Xavier Urbain (UCLouvain) Resolving the fine structure branching ratio in K^– photodetachment

Chairs: Bart Cleuren (UHasselt) and Edmond Sterpin (UCLouvain)

14:30  Enrico Carlon (KU Leuven) DNA Topology: from single molecules to chromosomal structure

15:00  Bram Carlier (KU Leuven) Towards in vivo radiation sensing using radiation-sensitive ultrasound contrast agents

15:30  Charlotte Rossi (U Namur) TOF-SIMS as a tool to study the alteration of membrane lipids in breast cancer cells after X-Ray and UHDR proton irradiation

15:45  Khalil El Achi (UCLouvain) Design of a new 2D amorphous Silicon-based detector for Particle Therapy

Posters

Éléonore Martin (UMONS) Monte Carlo study of high-field transverse relaxation induced by iron oxide nanoparticles coated by a slow water diffusion layer

Gijs Vanoppen (U Hasselt) Electrical stress on metallic nanoring based networks for flexible transparent electrodes

Chair: Gabriel Dias de Carvalho Junior (UCLouvain)

14:30    Michaël Lobet (UNamur) Interaction between students and AI in a physics course: Towards modelling a learning practice

15:00    Carlos Fiolhais (Coimbra University) “The Fun of Physics”: a book for informal education

15:45  break

16:00    Anna Benecke (UCLouvain) The Physics Project Days – A workshop to promote gender equality in physics

16:25    Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Science History Institute, Philadelphia)
“Women in their element” – What happens when the history of the periodic system focuses on women?

16:50    Gabriel Dias de Carvalho Junior (UNamur, UCLouvain) and Elsa Tartinville (UCLouvain)
Understanding Nuclear Physics at different stages or education: looking for operational invariants