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SUMMARY:Belgian Physical Society general scientific meeting 2025
DESCRIPTION:View the full programme and Book of Abstracts\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				General Program \n8:30 Registration and coffee  \n9:00 – 12:30 Plenary session  \n9:00  Welcome address \n9:10   Plenary lecture 1 – Dr Antoine Browaeys Assembling quantum matter one atom at a time \n10:00 Plenary lecture 2 – Prof. Tim Palmer Chaos\, noise and uncertainty: enemies or allies for predicting weather and climate? \n10:50 Coffee break \n11:15-12:25 Young Speaker Contest \n11:15   Introduction of the European Physical Journal (EPJ) \n11:25  Elena Petrova (KULeuven) High-frequency waves in the upper solar atmosphere as observed by Solar Orbiter/EUI \n11:45  Anupama K Xavier (KMI) Comparative predictability of eastern and western north pacific blocking events \n12:05 Jonathan Mauro (UCLouvain) Model-agnostic interpretation of the first KM3NeT Ultra-High-Energy event within the Global Neutrino Landscape \n12:25 Conference picture \n12:30 – 14:30 Walking lunch and posters \n14:30 – 17:15 Parallel sessions (14:30-15:45 & 16:00-17:15)(see below for the full programme of the parallel sessions) \n\nEarth and Planetary Sciences\, and Plasma Physics\nCondensed Matter and Nanostructure Physics\nAstroparticle Physics and Cosmology\nFundamental Interactions\, Nuclear and Particle Physics\nAtoms\, Molecules\, Optics and Photonics\nBiological\, Medical\, Statistical and Mathematical Physics\nPhysics and Education\n\n17:30 – 18:30 Closing ceremony: Master Thesis\, Best Poster & Young Speaker prizes and reception \n \nPlenary lectures \nDr Antoine Browaeys\, Research Director CNRS\, Laboratoire Charles Fabry\, Institut d’Optique and Université Paris-Saclay (France) \n“Assembling quantum matter one atom at a time” \nOver the last twenty years\, physicists have learned to manipulate individual quantum objects: atoms\, ions\, molecules\, quantum circuits\, electronic spins… It is now possible to build “atom by atom” a synthetic quantum matter. By controlling the interactions between atoms\, one can study the properties of these elementary many-body systems: quantum magnetism\, transport of excitations\, superconductivity… and thus understand more deeply the N-body problem. More recently\, it was realized that these quantum machines may find applications in the industry\, such as finding the solution of combinatorial optimization problems. \nThis seminar will present an example of a synthetic quantum system\, based on laser-cooled ensembles of individual atoms trapped in microscopic optical tweezer arrays. By exciting the atoms into Rydberg states\, we make them interact\, even at distances of more than ten micrometers. In this way\, we study the magnetic properties of an ensemble of more than a hundred interacting ½ spins\, in a regime in which simulations by usual numerical methods are already very challenging. Some aspects of this research led to the creation of a startup\, Pasqal. \nAntoine Browaeys is a research director of the CNRS at the Charles Fabry laboratory\, Institut d’Optique\, France. He is one of the pioneers of quantum computing and simulation with arrays of individually controlled ultracold atoms excited to very high Rydberg states. The start-up Pasqal\, which he co-founded in 2019\, is now steering fundamental research in quantum simulation towards industrial applications. The French Academy of Sciences has awarded Antoine Browaeys the Alfred Verdaguer – Fondation de l’Institut de France 2021 prize\, and elected him as a member of the Institut de France in 2023.  He also received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2021. \nProf. Tim Palmer\, Oxford University\, Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics\, Senior Alumni Fellow\, Oxford Martin Institute; Professorial Fellow at Jesus College (United Kingdom) \n“Chaos\, noise and uncertainty: enemies or allies for predicting weather and climate?” \nThe solutions to the physical equations that govern the dynamics of weather and climate exhibit chaotic behavior. In this lecture\, Prof. Palmer will explore how chaos\, noise\, and uncertainty\, initially seen as obstacles\, can be exploited as constructive resources to enhance prediction capabilities from days to decades. \nProf. Tim Palmer is a Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute. He has significantly contributed to advance our understanding of climate predictability and extreme event forecasting. He pioneered ensemble methods for uncertainty prediction and has developed practical applications of climate forecasts for public health\, agriculture\, and flood management. Tim Palmer’s recent work focuses on high-resolution climate simulations. He has been recognized by his election to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He recently authored “The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change\, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World” (Oxford University Press\, 2022). \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Parallel sessions - click on the session to see the full programme\n				Please click on the titles below to see the full programme of that session. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Earth & Planetary Sciences and Plasma Physics\n				Chairs: Kristel Crombé (UGent) and François Massonnet (UCLouvain) \nParallel session \n14:30   Laurent Masse (CEA\, France) Inertial Confinement Fusion: Ignition and What Next? \n15:00   Yangyang Zhang (UGent) Bayesian Techniques for Optimization of Nuclear Diagnostics: A Case Study on the WEST Tokamak                                                \n15:15   Alexander Haumann (Alfred Wegener Institute/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München\, Germany) What goes around comes around: A changing Southern Ocean      \n15:45   break \n16:00   Benjamin Richaud (UCLouvain) Does increased spatial resolution improve the simulation of Antarctic sea ice? \n16:15   Eva Lemaire (UCLouvain) Investigating Iceberg–Sea Ice Interactions in the Southern Ocean Using NEMO-ICB \n16:30   Jerome Sauer (UCLouvain) Extreme Arctic sea ice lows investigated with a rare event algorithm \n16:45   Noé Pirlet (UCLouvain) Impact of a representation of Antarctic landfast ice on the shelf water properties simulated by NEMO4-SI³ \n17:00   Antoine Honet (ULB) Estimation of atmospheric lifetime and emissions of NH3 sources from 15 years of satellite data \nPosters                       \nFeba Francis (UCLouvain) Antarctic Sea Ice Response to Wind Perturbation Experiments \nAnnelies Sticker (UCLouvain) Drivers of Arctic Rapid Sea Ice Loss Events in CESM2 \nAlison  Delhasse (UCLouvain) Towards improved seasonal to interannual predictions of Arctic sea ice through Data Assimilation and dedicated reanalysis \nAlexandre Tytgat (UCLouvain) Block minima modeling of Antarctic’s sea ice extent extremes \nMichel Crucifix (UCLouvain) The WarmAnoxia project \nAugustin Lambotte (UCLouvain) Arctic landfast ice simulation with brittle rheology and probabilistic grounding \nPatricia DeRepentigny (UCLouvain) How predictable was the recent decade-long pause in Arctic summer sea ice retreat? \nPierre Dumortier (ERM/KMS) 40 Years of ICRF Operation on JET: Achievements and Challenges \nDirk Van Eester (ERM/KMS) Almost-off-the-shelf tools for ICRH modelling \nDirk Van Eester (ERM/KMS) ICRH modelling of the Baseline D-T scenario in JET \nBernard Reman (ERM/KMS) Integral dielectric kernel implementation to model RF heating in toroidal plasmas \nArthur  Adriaens (ERM/KMS) Predicting Wall Conditioning \nLuis Daniel López Rodríguez (ERM/KMS) Characterization of a microwave reflectometer for edge density profile measurements at the ICRH antenna on Wendelstein 7-X \nCyrille Sepulchre (EPFL) Suprathermal ion transport and toroidal helicon wave studies in the low-temperature plasma device TORPEX \n \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Condensed Matter and Nanostructure Physics\n				Chairs: Clément Merckling (KULeuven/IMEC) and Benoît Hackens (UCLouvain) \nParallel session \n14:30   Maëlle Kapfer (Univ. Paris-Saclay\, France) Programming twist angle and strain gradient in two-dimensional materials \n15:00   Oriane de Leuze (UCLouvain) Charge transport in 2D flakes networks: the case of Ti3C2Tx \n15:15   Yaojia  Wang (KU Leuven) Supercurrent interference in a kagome superconductor \n15:30   Amirmostafa Amirjani (KU Leuven) Inverse design of plasmonic metasurface using machine learning \n15:45   break \n16:00   Vincent Meunier (Pennsylvania State University\, USA) Electromechanical coupling at the nanoscale: The ubiquitous case of flexoelectricity \n16:30   Danny Vanpoucke (U Hasselt) Straining group-IV color centers in diamond: Using density functional theory to model the Zero-Phonon-Line shift \n16:45   Matthew Houtput (U Antwerpen) First principles theory of nonlinear long-range electron-phonon interaction \n17:00   Simon Dubois (UCLouvain) Inference based model Hamiltonians balancing accuracy\, interpretability and data efficiency \nPosters \nSerghei Klimin (U Antwerpen) Analytic Methods for Polarons in a Non-Parabolic Conduction Band \nWu Heng (KU Leuven) The global critical current effect of superconductivity \nDiego Fossion (UCLouvain) Properties of Kondo cloud modulations in quantum dots coupled to cavities \nPauline Castenetto (U Hasselt) Identification and characterisation of the reaction path of β-O-4 dimerisation of monolignols by means of first-principles calculations \nAylin Melan (U Hasselt) From DFT to GW: Benchmarking the Electronic Structure of Diamond \nLisa Siciliani (Sciensano/U Antwerpen) Physicochemical characterisation of iron oxides and hydroxides applied as food additive E 172 \nEmerick Y. Guillaume (U Namur) Multiscale modelling of LTO PVD growth \nFernando Massa Fernandes (UCLouvain) Real-time gas sensing with lead-sulfide quantum-dots \nThijs van Wijk (U Hasselt) Calculating the vibrational spectrum of the GeV defect in Diamond \nCélia Delaive (ULiège) Creating NOON states with ultracold atoms using time crystals \nMichael Tzvetkov (UCLouvain) Study of out-of-plane electronic transport in multilayer graphene films by C-AFM \nSofiane Arib (UCLouvain) Estimation of electrical conductivity anisotropy in MXenes by CAFM modeling \nArnaud Dochain (UCLouvain) Observation of fast atom diffraction through suspended graphene \nValentin Fonck (UCLouvain) A Scanning Thermal Microscope at cryogenic temperatures \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology\n				Chairs: Juan Antonio Aguilar Sánchez (ULB/WISC) and Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige (UCLouvain) \nParallel session \n14:30   Aart Heijboer (NIKHEF/University of Amsterdam) Observation of the first ultra-high energy cosmic neutrino \n15:00   Soumen Roy (UCLouvain) Parametrized test of general relativity with gravitational waves including higher harmonics and precession \n15:20   Leonardo Ricca (UCLouvain) Multi-Messenger Search for Neutrino and Gravitational-Wave Emissions from Binary Black Holes Near Active Galactic Nuclei \n15:40   Jef Heynen (UCLouvain) Using the null stream to detect strongly lensed gravitational waves \n16:00   break \n16:15   Emile Moyaux (UCLouvain) Neutrino energy distributions of astrophysical sources: the GRB example \n16:35   Nhan Chau (ULB) Dark matter search in the Galactic Center with IceCube Upgrade \n16:55   Guillaume Lhost (UMons) Late inspiral of eccentric asymmetric binaries \nPosters \nEliot Genton (UCLouvain) Prospective Sensitity to WIMP Dark Matter with the IceCube Upgrade \nChristoph Raab (UCLouvain) Low-latency neutrino follow-up combining diverse IceCube selections \nMathieu Lamoureux (UCLouvain) Multi-messenger astrophysics with the ACME consortium \nMarco Scarnera (UCLouvain/Université Paris Cité) Probing neutrino yield from different gamma-ray burst populations using the entire ANTARES data set \nThomas Delmeulle (ULB) Studying Muon Bundles for Improved EHE Neutrino Identification in IceCube \nMarine Vilarino (ULB) Cosmic Ray Simulation for Background Rate Estimation in the ARA Detector using the FAERIE Framework \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Fundamental Interactions\, Nuclear and Particle Physics\n				Chairs: Nick Van Remortel (UAntwerpen) and Alberto Mariotti (ULB) \nParallel Session \n14:30   Agi Koszorus (KULeuven\, invited) Laser spectroscopy of radioactive probes: study of the nuclear force and searches for new physics \n15:05   Martin  Delcourt (CERN) How Belgium is ensuring the CMS tracker data performance \n15:25   Aloke Kumar Das (ULB) The Belgian contribution to the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker Upgrade \n15:45   break \n15:55   Sumaira Ikram (UCLouvain) Development of a portable particle detector for imaging with cosmic ray muons \n16:15   Felipe Figueroa Vilar del Valle (UMons) Dual Models revisited: A bootstrap perspective \n16:35   ZeQiang Wang (UCLouvain) The Brief Talk of τ g-2 for Future Colliders \n16:55   Cyrille Chevalier (UMons) Glueballs with two and three constituent gluons within the helicity formalism \nPosters \nArjun Chaliyath (CERN) High precision automated metrology of the 2S modules for the CMS phase-II tracker upgrade \nDora Geeraerts (VUB) The ScIDEP Muon Radiography Project at the Egyptian Pyramid of Khafre   \nZahraa Zaher (UCLouvain) Differentiable Optimization of Muon Scattering Tomography Detector Designs          \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Atoms\, Molecules\, Optics and Photonics\n				Chairs: Tatevik Chalyan (VUB) and Matthieu Génévriez (UCLouvain) \nParallel session \n14:30   John Fourkas (University of Maryland\, USA) Is visible light the way forward for cutting-edge nanolithography? \n15:00   Spencer Jolly (ULB) Propagation of space-time optical beams in multimode fibers \n15:15   Sélim Chaabani (Uliège) Going to 2.1 µm for Space Quantum Key Distribution \n15:30   Julien Grondin (UCLouvain) Construction and Characterization of a Ca Magneto-Optical Trap for Rydberg Physics \n15:45   break \n16:00   Robbe Van Duyse (KU Leuven) High precision optical spectroscopy using trapped Sr ions \n16:15   Alexandr Bogomolov (UCLouvain) High resolution spectrum of D2O-CO2 van der Waals complex around the 3OD vibrational excitation \n16:30   Mhamad Hantro (UMons) Impact of Higher Order Effects in the Far-field for Dipole‐Forbidden Transitions near Plasmonic Structures \n16:45   Adrien Debacq (UNamur) Finite-Difference Time-Domain Analysis of Stimulated Emission in NZI Materials \n17:00   Sébastien Mouchet (UMons) Nature-Inspired Strategies for Infrared Control and Thermal Insulation \nPosters \nArthémise Altman (UCLouvain) Spectroscopy of methanol in the near-infrared at the 10-13 level \nYves Caudano UNamur) Weak values as stereographic projections \nSimon Dengis (ULiège) NOON states creation with ultracold atoms via geodesic counterdiabatic driving \nJulien Bouchat (UNamur) Weak measurements and Goos-Hänchen effects in the case of uniaxial anisotropic media \nAlisée Bouillon (UCLouvain) Electron transfer between ultra-long range Rydberg molecules and heavy-Rydberg molecules \nSteve Smeets (UMons) Two-photon molecular emitters enhanced with nanoantennas \nHippolyte Stassart (Uliège) Study of the optical coupling between luminescent quantum dots and gold nanorods \nLoris Cavenaile (UMons) Achieving Optical Transparency: Simulations of Light Scattering in Biological Tissues \nSimon Collignon (UCLouvain) Rest frequency determination of the 12.2 GHz methanol maser line with sub-kHz accuracy \nXavier Urbain (UCLouvain) Resolving the fine structure branching ratio in K– photodetachment \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Biological\, Medical\, Statistical and Mathematical Physics\n				Chairs: Bart Cleuren (UHasselt) and Edmond Sterpin (UCLouvain) \n14:30  Enrico Carlon (KU Leuven) DNA Topology: from single molecules to chromosomal structure \n15:00  Bram Carlier (KU Leuven) Towards in vivo radiation sensing using radiation-sensitive ultrasound contrast agents \n15:30  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 \n15:45  Khalil El Achi (UCLouvain) Design of a new 2D amorphous Silicon-based detector for Particle Therapy \nPosters \nÉléonore Martin (UMONS) Monte Carlo study of high-field transverse relaxation induced by iron oxide nanoparticles coated by a slow water diffusion layer \nGijs Vanoppen (U Hasselt) Electrical stress on metallic nanoring based networks for flexible transparent electrodes \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Physics and Education\n				Chair: Gabriel Dias de Carvalho Junior (UCLouvain) \n14:30    Michaël Lobet (UNamur) Interaction between students and AI in a physics course: Towards modelling a learning practice \n15:00    Carlos Fiolhais (Coimbra University) “The Fun of Physics”: a book for informal education \n15:45  break \n16:00    Anna Benecke (UCLouvain) The Physics Project Days – A workshop to promote gender equality in physics \n16:25    Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Science History Institute\, Philadelphia) “Women in their element” – What happens when the history of the periodic system focuses on women? \n16:50    Gabriel Dias de Carvalho Junior (UNamur\, UCLouvain) and Elsa Tartinville (UCLouvain)Understanding Nuclear Physics at different stages or education: looking for operational invariants \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				The Belgian Physical Society General Scientific Meeting 2025 is supported by
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LOCATION:Auditoires Croix du Sud – Louvain-la-Neuve\, place Croix du Sud\, Louvain-la-neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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