Preliminary program

         8:30 Registration and coffee (Atrium Building I)

       9:00 -12:30 Plenary session (Room I.2.03)

• 9:00 Welcome address (BPS President, J. Ongena)

• 9:10 Plenary lecture 1 – Prof. Marc Van Montagu, The Physics of the living World

• 10:00 Plenary lecture 2 – Prof. Nick Van Remortel, Einstein Telescope: a new window on the universe

• 10:50 Coffee break

• 11:15 Young speaker contest (Chair: F. Louche)

  • • Lucas Levrouw,
Exploring the curious dynamics of vortices in superfluid Fermi gases
    • Maria Luisa Alonso, Tagle 
Unlocking atmospheric escape to model oxygen loss on Earth
    • Robin Van Den Abeele,
Topology-guided solution for treating atrial tachycardia 

  
  12:30 - 14:30 Walking Lunch and Poster (Atrium Building I)

  14:30 - 16:45 Parallel sessions:

• Astrophysics, Geophysics and Plasma Physics (Room I.1.04)

  Chairs: Kristel Crombé (UGent)

• Biological, Medical, Statiscal and Mathematical Physics (Room I.1.05)

  Chairs: Yves Gossuin (UMons), Bart Cleuren (UHasselt)

• Condensed Matter and Nanostructure Physics (Room I.1.06)

  Chairs: Frank Renner (UHasselt), Marc Debliquy (UMons)

• Fundamental Interactions, Nuclear and Particle Physics (Room I.2.03)

  Chairs: Barbara Clerbaux (ULB), Stijn Buitink (VUB)

• Atoms, Molecules, Optics and Photonics (Room I.1.07)

  Chair: Xavier Urbain (UCLouvain)

• Physics and Education (Room I.1.08)
  Chair: Mieke De Cock (KUL)

  16:45 - 17:15 Poster Session
  17:15 - 18:30 Closing ceremony: prizes and reception (Atrium Build. I)