Activities

 

List of Past Activities
   
Activities for 2010
  
15 - 18 June Second Workshop on "Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics" co-organized with the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo - Canada) and APC (Université Paris VII) - For more information click here.
19 - 21 May Workshop on "Symmetries and dualities in gravitational theories" organized by Laurent Houart (ULB) and Axel Kleinschmidt (ULB).
30 April - 25 June Solvay Chair in Physics Serge Haroche (CNRS/ENS/Collège de France/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
4 May Solvay Colloquium Robert Birgeneau (University of California at Berkeley, USA) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
30 April Solvay Colloquium Serge Haroche (CNRS/ENS/Collège de France/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
27 April Solvay Colloquium Michael Berridge (The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
20 - 23 April Workshop on "Molecular Complexes in our Atmosphere and Beyond" organized by Michel Herman (ULB) and Richard Saykally (University of California at Berkeley).
6 - 10 April Workshop on " Sparsity and Modern Mathematical Methods for High Dimensional Data" organized with support from the Institutes by the Francqui Foundation and the following universities: VUB, ULB, UCL and UGent - Brussels. For more information click here.
30 March Solvay Colloquium Giovanni Battimelli (University of Rome 1, Italy) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
23 February Solvay Colloquium Graham Fleming (University of California at Berkeley, USA) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
9 February Solvay Colloquium Eberhard Bodenschatz (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen, Germany) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
Activities for 2009
  
15 December Solvay Colloquium John Meurig Thomas (University of Cambridge, UK) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
24 November Solvay Colloquium Joseph Silk (University of Oxford, UK) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
28 - 30 October Workshop on "Chemo-hydrodynamic patterns and instabilities" organized by Anne De Wit.
27 October Solvay Colloquium Subir Sachdev (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
4 October Solvay Public Event Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, "VIH/SIDA, une aventure scientifique et humaine en réponse à une réponse émergente" - Click here for more information.
29 September Solvay Colloquium Valery Rubakov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
20 September - 31 October Solvay Chair in Physics Valery Rubakov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia)
2 - 4 September Workshop on "Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs" organized by the ULB, with support from the Institutes - Brussels. For more information click here.
14 April - 13 June Solvay Chair in Chemistry Alexander Mikhailov (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany)
13 - 16 May Workshop on "Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics"

organized by Ben Craps (VUB), Thomas Hertog (Paris 6), Peter Tinyakov (ULB) and Michel Tytgat (ULB).

12 May Solvay Colloquium Eiichiro Komatsu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
8 - 10 May 5th Flemish Space Days "Vijfde Vlaamse Ruimtevaartdagen" organized by the Flemish Space Industries. For more information click here.
21 April Solvay Colloquium Alexander Mikhailov (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
17 March Solvay Colloquium Jean-Luc Brédas (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
12 - 14 February Workshop on "Sparsity, learning and computation" organized by Ingrid Daubechies (VUB & Princeton) and Christine De Mol (ULB). More details soon.
27 January Solvay Colloquium Andre Geim (University of Manchester, UK) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).

Activities for 2008

  
16 December Solvay Colloquium Christian Amatore (Ecole Normale Supérieure) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
25 November Solvay Colloquium Edward van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
1 - 31 October Solvay Chair in Physics David Gross (KAVLI Institute, Santa Barbara, USA)
28 October Solvay Colloquium Michèle Adler (Université Paris Est) - 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
12 October Solvay Public Event Wolfgang Ketterle, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physics & J.C. Séamus Davis, 2005 Fritz London Memorial Prize.
11 - 13 October 24th Solvay Conference on Physics "Quantum Theory of Condensed Matter" - by invitation only
22 - 26 July Conference on "Noncommutative Structures in Mathematics and Physics" organized by the ULB, the VUB and the Universiteit Antwerpen, with support from the Institutes - Brussels. For more information click here.
13 - 18 July Conference on "Oscillations and Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems" with support from the Institutes.
Colby College, Waterville (USA). For more information click here.
30 - 31 May Symposium René Thomas "The Logic of Gene Regulatory Networks" organized with the ULB and the VUB.
21 May Solvay Colloquium Nicolas Gisin (Université de Genève) - 2pm - Campus Plaine, Forum A
21 May Solvay Colloquium Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute, Garching) - 10am - Campus Plaine, Forum A
30 April to 3 May Workshop on "Bits, Quanta and Complex Systems: modern approaches to photonics information processing" organized with the ULB and the VUB.
22 April Solvay Colloquium Richard J. Saykally (University of California & Berkeley)- 4 pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
April Solvay Chair in Chemistry Richard J. Saykally (University of California & Berkeley)
6 - 8 March Symposium in Memoriam Professor Radu Balescu co-organized with "Association EURATOM - Etat Belge"
12 February Solvay Colloquium Frank Wilczek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 4 pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
10 - 11 January Conference-workshop on "Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems: the Quest for Beauty and Simplicity" co-organized with the Centro de Estudios Científicos - Valdivia (Chile).

Activities for 2007

  
18 December Solvay Colloquium Antony Valentini (Centre de Physicque Théorique, Marseille - France), 4 pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
2 December Solvay Public Lecture Jean-Marie Lehn, 1987 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, "De la Matière à la Vie: la Chimie? La Chimie!" (translations in English and Dutch will be provided).
28 November to 1 December 21st Solvay Conference on Chemistry
"From Noncovalent Assemblies to Molecular Machines" - by invitation only
27 November Solvay Colloquium Jacques Prost (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris), "Physiological relevance of molecular motors", 4 pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
30 October Solvay Colloquium Bernard Schutz (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam & LIGO Scientific Collaboration), 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
2 October Solvay Colloquium Michael Berry (University of Bristol), "Making Light of Mathematics", 4 pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB)
1 - 31 October International Solvay Chair in Physics Professor Michael Berry (University of Bristol, UK)
11-15 September Conference on "Random and integrable models in mathematics and physics" co-organized with the Mathematics Department of the UCL.
5-8 September Conference on "Computational Physics" ULB-Campus Solbosch- Institut de Sociologie (Salle Dupréel), organized by the ULB and the VUB, with support from the Institutes.
29 August to 4 September Postgraduate School on Mathematical Physics  
15 - 28 July Research Program "Magnetohydrodynamics Summer Program" organized with the support of the Institutes.
20 May Solvay Public Lectures
Stephen Hawking and Harry Kroto, 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - Heysel
9-11 May Workshop on "Gauge Theories, Strings and Geometry" organized with the ULB and the VUB.
8 May Solvay Colloquium
Curtis Callan (Princeton University), "Strings, gauge theory and integrablity: what old ideas from condensed matter are teaching us about fundamental physics", 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
24 April Solvay Colloquium
Johan Hofkens (KULeuven), "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and its Applications", 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
20 March Solvay Colloquium
Daan Frenkel (University of Amsterdam), "Do We Understand Crystal Nucleation?", 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
27 February Solvay Colloquium Jean-Pierre Sauvage (Université de Strasbourg), "From Chemical Topology to Molecular Machines and Motors", 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
6 February Solvay Colloquium
Viatcheslav Mukhanov (München), "Inflation: Confronting Predictions with Observations", 4:30pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).

Activities for 2006

  
5 December Solvay Colloquium
C.M. Will (Washington University, St Louis), "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment", 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
23 October International Solvay Chair in Physics
L. Faddeev - Inaugural Lecture "The Mass Problem in Yang-Mills Gauge Theory", 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
19-21 October Workshop "Bethe Ansatz: 75 years later" Workshop on quantum integrable models, organized with the ULB and the VUB.
18 October Solvay Colloquium
C. N. Yang (Chinese University, Hong Kong & Tsinghua University, Beijing), "Thematic Melodies of Twentieth Century Physics: Quantization, Symmetry and Phase Factor", 12:30 in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
6-12 August Postgraduate School on Mathematical Physics    
16 May Solvay Colloquium
Klaus von Klitzing (Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart), "From Micro- to Nanoelectronics- A Quantum Leap", 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
5-7 April International Conference on "Theoretical Aspects of Reactivity" coorganized with FWO.
22-25 March Workshop on "Work, Dissipation and Fluctuations in Non-Equilibrium Physics" organized with the ULB and the VUB.

Activities for 2005

  
13 December Solvay Colloquium
Andrew Delano (Boulder & Hewlett-Packard USA), "The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator: History, Theory & Prototype", 4:00 p m , Forum B (ULB, Campus Plaine) - co-organized with the ULB and VUB Physics Departments.
4 December Solvay Public Lectures Robbert Dijkgraaf and Brian Greene.
1-3 December 23rd Solvay Conference in Physics "The Quantum Structure of Space and Time" - by invitation only.
3-16 July Research Program "Magnetohydrodynamics Summer Program" organized with the support of the Institutes.
19-25 June Postgraduate School on Mathematical Physics  
22 June Special event
Academic Ceremony - Signature of cooperation conventions with the ULB and the VUB.
8 June Solvay Colloquium
Pierre Ramond ( Gainesville ), "No Sunsets for Neutrino Eyes", 4pm in the Salle Solvay (ULB).
18-20 May Workshop on "Dark Matters" organized with the ULB and the VUB.
16-19 March Conference "Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity"
organized by the "Service de Chimie Physique" (ULB) with support from the Institutes.

Activities for 2004

  
1-3 December Symposium "Time, Irreversibility and Self-Organization" in memoriam Ilya Prigogine.
8-9 October Symposium "Henri Poincaré"
workshop on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henri Poincaré.
12-14 May Workshop on "Higher Spin Gauge Theories"