"<div class="" style="font-family: Montserrat, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: &quot;open sans&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="line-height: 24px;">The&nbsp;<em class=""><strong class="">Big Bang Day,</strong></em>&nbsp;in honour of Professor Georges Lemaître, will take place on<strong class="">&nbsp;Thursday, 23 May 2019</strong>.</span></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Montserrat, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: &quot;open sans&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="line-height: 24px;"><br></span></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Montserrat, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: &quot;open sans&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="line-height: 24px;">The programme of the<em class=""><strong class="">&nbsp;Big Bang Day</strong></em>&nbsp;starts in Louvain-la-Neuve with the official opening of the&nbsp;<strong class=""><em class="">Big Bang Route</em></strong>. This route is a thematic sustainable, educational and touristic cycling track developed by the sister universities UCLouvain and KU Leuven, the cities of Leuven and Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, as well as the provinces of Brabant-Wallon and Vlaams-Brabant.</span></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Montserrat, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: &quot;open sans&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="line-height: 24px;"><br></span></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Montserrat, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></span></span></div>"

Registration and Abstract submissions are open for the 2019 BPS Annual Scientific Meeting which will take place at ULB on May 22.

All the information can be found at the BPS 2019 Conference page.

Some important deadlines:

• 12th of April: deadline for young speaker and poster contest applications
• 30th of April: closing of call for abstracts
• 8th of May : deadline for early registration

This year plenary speakers are:

• Prof. Vladimir Tikhonchuk (Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications, University of Bordeaux, France and Extreme Light Infrastructure, Prague, Czech Republic ) about intense lasers
• Prof. Hamid Abderraim (SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium), about the MYRRHA project

Each parallel session will also feature prestigious invited speakers, and do not forget to participate to the various contests (see the full program here).