Parallel Sessions Program
- Astrophysics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Plasma Physics
Chairs: Kristel Crombé (UGent) and François Massonnet (UCLouvain)
Invited speaker: Dr Laurent Masse (Plasma physics group leader at CEA, France)
Inertial Confinement Fusion: Ignition and What Next?
Invited speaker: Dr F. Alexander Haumann (Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
What goes around comes around: A changing southern ocean
- Condensed Matter and Nanostructure Physics
Chairs: Clément Merckling (KULeuven/IMEC) and Benoît Hackens (UCLouvain)
Invited speaker: Prof. Vincent Meunier (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Electromechanical coupling at the nanoscale: The ubiquitous case of flexoelectricity
Invited speaker: Dr Maëlle Kapfer (postdoctoral researcher, Univ. Paris-Saclay, France)
Topological states in 2D systems
- Fundamental Interactions, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Chairs: Nick Van Remortel (UAntwerpen) and Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige (UCLouvain)
Invited speaker: Prof. Aart Heijboer (Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Observation of the first ultra-high energy cosmic neutrino
Invited speaker: Prof. Agi Koszorus (KULeuven)
Laser spectroscopy of radioactive probes: study of the nuclear force and searches for new physics
- Atoms, Molecules, Optics and Photonics
Chairs: Tatevik Chalyan (VUB) and Matthieu Génévriez (UCLouvain)
Invited speaker: Prof. John Fourkas (Millard Alexander Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland, USA)
Is visible light the way forward for cutting-edge nanolithography?
- Biological, Medical, Statistical and Mathematical Physics
Chairs: Bart Cleuren (UHasselt) and Edmond Sterpin (UCLouvain)
Invited speaker: Prof. Enrico Carlon (KULeuven)
DNA Topology: from single molecules to chromosomal structure
Invited speaker: Dr Bram Carlier (KULeuven)
Towards in vivo radiation sensing using radiation-sensitive ultrasound contrast agents
- Physics and Education
Chair: Gabriel Dias de Carvalho Junior (UCLouvain)
Invited speaker: Prof. Carlos Fiolhais (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
The use of history of science in physics education