Welcome to the BPS Belgian Physical Society website!

As a national physical society, and member of the European Physical Society, our goal is to promote physics and support physicists. For this purpose, we organise a range of activities and membership benefits. On these pages you will find information about membership, and about the BPS general meeting. Also archived issued of B-Phy, our electronic magazine, can be downloaded.

500,000 watts, four seconds: Successful start for the heating system with radio waves in Wendelstein 7-X

Great success for German-Belgian fusion research: An innovative heating system with radio waves was used for the first time in the world's largest stellarator Wendelstein 7-X at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald. Using a new type of antenna, the power of more than 500,000 watts could be radiated into a helium plasma for four seconds without any disruption to the plasma operation. The new ion heating system for the Greifswald fusion experiment is based on the design of the Laboratory for Plasma Physics at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels and was built in close cooperation with the Institute for Plasma Physics and the Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

The new heating system includes some improvements over traditional designs based on previous research in the TEXTOR tokamak experiment at Forschungszentrum Jülich. 

Read more.

KU Leuven is organising for the first time a 'Summer of Science', a three day summer camp which will take place from 16 to 19 July 2023 at Campus Heverlee (and the dorms De Vesten).

This new summer school gives you a perfect opportunity to learn, sample, and perform real science as a researcher for three days. This summer school is open to all high school students; its primary audience is Flemish high school students. However, the courses (and this website) are in English as most of the teachers are researchers of international origin. 

Deadline for applications is Wednesday 8 March 2023.

Read more information about this science summer camp and apply now !

On Sept 14, the Interuniversity Institute for High Energy (IIHE, ULB-VUB) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary.

Venue: Royal Academies, from 10h00

Registration is requested.

More info: https://indico.iihe.ac.be/event/1593/

Registration is closed. 

The final programme is available from this link. 

Practical info on the location of the meeting can be found here.