Activities

 

Solvay Colloquia
   

Colloquia of general interest are held on a regular basis, usually in the Solvay room (ULB- Campus Plaine - Building NO - 5th floor).
Coffee and tea are served a quarter of an hour before the start of the colloquium.

2011
1 February
4pm		 Diana K. Buchwald (Caltech, Pasadena, USA)
2010
21 December
4pm		 Itamar Willner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
26 October
4pm		 Weitao Yang (Duke University, Durham, USA)
28 September
4pm		 Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA), "The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics"
4 May
4pm		 Robert Birgeneau (University of California at Berkeley, USA), "Superconductors: Old and New"
30 April
4pm		 Serge Haroche (CNRS/ENS/Collège de France/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France), "Power and Strangeness of the Quantum World"
27 April
4pm		 Michael Berridge (The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK), "Calcium signalling in health and disease"
30 March
4pm 		Giovanni Battimelli (University of Rome 1, Italy), "The physicist and the historian. Perspectives on the early Solvay conferences in physics"
23 February
4pm		 Graham Fleming (University of California at Berkeley, USA), "Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy: Coherence, Entanglement and Photosynthesis"
9 February
4pm		 Eberhard Bodenschatz (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen, Germany), "Going with the wind: single and multi-particle statistics in turbulence"
2009
15 December
4pm		 John Meurig Thomas (University of Cambridge, UK), "Sustainability through the Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis"
24 November
4pm		 Joseph Silk (University of Oxford, UK), "Dark Matters"
27 October
4pm		 Subir Sachdev (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA), "Quantum phase transitions: from antiferromagnets and superconductors to black holes"
29 September
4pm		 Valery Rubakov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia), "Particle physics and cosmology: towards understanding the Universe"
12 May
4pm		 Eiichiro Komatsu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA), "The Cosmic Microwave Background as a Probe of the Very Early Universe" - Slides
21 April
4pm		 Alexander Mikhailov (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany), “From Structure to Function: Chemistry in Transition”
17 March
4pm		 Jean-Luc Brédas (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), "Organic Semiconductors:A New Generation of Materials for Opto-Electronic Devices"
27 January
4pm		 Andre Geim (University of Manchester, UK)," Graphene: Magic of Flat Carbon"

2008
16 December
4pm		 Christian Amatore (Ecole Normale Supérieure), "Neurovascular Coupling: a Fine Tuning Between Neuronal Activity and Oxidative Stress in Brain"
25 November
4pm		 Edward van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam), "Gamma-Ray Bursts: The most energetic explosions known in the Universe"
28 October
4pm		 Michèle Adler (Université Paris Est), "The physics of champagne foam"
3 October
4pm - Forum A		 David Gross (KAVLI Institute, Santa Barbara, USA), "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics" - Campus Plaine, Forum A
21 May
2pm		 Nicolas Gisin (Université de Genève), "Quantum Teleportation and Nonlocality" - Campus Plaine, Forum A
21 May
10am		 Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute, Garching), "The massive black hole at the Center of the Milky Way" - Campus Plaine, Forum A
22 April
4pm		 Richard J. Saykally (University of California at Berkeley), "Water Music: The Latest Word on the Most Important Substance in the Universe"
12 February
4pm
 Frank Wilczek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity"

2007
18 December
4pm		 Antony Valentini (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille - France), "Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference"
27 November
4pm		 Jacques Prost (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris), "Physiological relevance of molecular motors"
30 October
4pm
Bernard Schutz (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam & LIGO Scientific Collaboration), "Gravitational Wave Searches: Progress Report"
2 October
4pm		 Michael Berry (University of Bristol), "Making Light of Mathematics"
8 May
4pm
24 April
4pm		 Johan Hofkens (KULeuven), "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and its Applications"
20 March
4pm		 Daan Frenkel (University of Amsterdam), "Do We Understand Crystal Nucleation?"
27 February
4pm		 Jean-Pierre Sauvage (Université de Strasbourg), "From Chemical Topology to Molecular Machines and Motors" - Poster - Abstract
6 February
4:30pm		 Viatcheslav Mukhanov (München), "Inflation: Confronting Predictions with Observations"

2006
5 December
4pm		 C.M. Will (Washington University, St Louis), "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment"
18 October
12:30
C. N. Yang (Chinese University, Hong Kong & Tsinghua University, Beijing), "Thematic Melodies of Twentieth Century Physics: Quantization, Symmetry and Phase Factor"
16 May
4pm		 Klaus von Klitzing (Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart), "From Micro- to Nanoelectronics- A Quantum Leap"

2005
13 December
4pm
Andrew Delano (Boulder & Hewlett-Packard USA), "The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator: History, Theory & Prototype", co-organized with the ULB and VUB Physics Departments.
8 June
4pm		 Pierre Ramond ( Gainesville ), "No Sunsets for Neutrino Eyes"