New Horizons Solvay Lectures
The "New Horizons Solvay Lectures" are given by brilliant young scientists with already high visibility and well established stature. They deliver one broad lecture at the Solvay Institutes on their current research and the challenges they see for their discipline. A second, complementary lecture is given in another Belgian university. More lectures are encouraged whenever possible.
There are each year "New Horizons Solvay Lectures in Chemistry" and
"New Horizons Solvay Lectures in Physics".
New Horizons Lectures in Chemistry
- 2023 Lecturer: Danna Freedman from MIT, USA
- 2024 Lecturer: Alexis Komor from University of California, San Diego, USA
- 2025 Lecturer: Todd Gingrich from Northwestern University, USA
New Horizons Lectures in Physics
- 2023 Lecturer: Alexander Zhiboedov from CERN, Switzerland
Lecture on 23 May 2023 at 4:00 pm
(ULB - Campus Plaine)
Workshop on 25 May2023 at UMONS
- 2024 Lecturer: Netta Engelhardt from
MIT, USA
- 2025 Lecturer: Kareem J. El-Badry from
Caltech, USA
PAST NEW HORIZONS LECTURES
New Horizons Lectures in Chemistry
2018 Lecturer: Alexandre Tkatchenko
from U. of Luxemburg
30 May at ULB - view abstract
31 May at Mons University
1 June at Ghent University - view abstract
View video clip filmed at Ghent University
- 2019 Lecturer: Rafal Klajn from
Weizmann Institute, Israel
27 March at ULB - View abstract
29 March at Ghent University
- 2020 Lecturer: Hans Jakob Wörner from
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Please click here to view the abstracts
- 2022 Lecturer: Cornelia Meinert from
University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
21 - 25 February 2022
Lecture on 24 February at 4 p.m. (Solvay Room - ULB) - View abstract
- 2021 Lecturer: Ying Diao from
University of Illinois, USA (Postponed in 2023)
Lecture on 2 May 2023 at 4:00 pm
(ULB - Campus Plaine) View abstract
New Horizons Lectures in Physics
2018 Lecturer: Zohar Komargodski from Weizmann Institute, Israel & Simons
Center U. of NY, Stony Brook, USA
15 - 19 October 2018
16 October at ULB - View abstract
17 October at KU Leuven
2019 Lecturer: Aleksandra Walczak from LPT ENS, Paris, France
29 April - 3 May 2019
Lecture on 29 April 2019 at KU Leuven
Lecture on 30 April 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Salle Solvay (ULB): View abstract
- 2020 Lecturer: Douglas Stanford from Stanford University, California, USA
Online Lectures: View abstracts
- 2021 Lecturer: Maria Bergemann from Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
18 October 2021 at 4 p.m. (Solvay Room)
Please click here to view the abstract
- 2022 Lecturer: Nir Navon from Yale University, USA
Lecture on 20 March 2023 at 4:00 pm
(ULB - Campus Plaine)
Lecture on 23 March at 2:00 pm
(Fondation Universitaire, Brussels)
Please click here to view the abstract