During the evening, cosmologists from UMONS will take the stage to deliver a performance like no other, one you won't find anywhere else but at MUMONS!

Get ready... They will carry out spectacular calculations right before your eyes—both incomprehensible and impressive—with nothing but a large blackboard and Japanese chalk (seriously, they say it glides better!), turning the classroom into a real theoretical physics laboratory!

The blackboard (with its miles-long calculation) will then become a new piece for our exhibition... an abstract approach to studying the Universe!

We’ll show you these calculations that allow researchers to explore invisible black holes and other mysteries of space-time.

A 2-day free event | One day online - One day hybrid online/on site @VUB

The goal of bePOM is to strengthen the Belgian photonics network, associating research groups from all the universities in Belgium working on fundamental and applied topics in photonics. It will give the opportunity to early career and established researchers to (re-)discover and learn about the ongoing research topics in the Belgian cities next-door, without moving from their home universities.

More info on https://www.bepom.org 

For those who want to know what the Einstein telescope is, what it looks like and how it works, there is an expo in FacThory in Thor Park from 1 October to 6 December. Organiser POM-Limburg wants to demonstrate the economic impact. Read more.

Construction of world first MYRRHA underway

Kick-off for the construction of MINERVA

On 25 June 2024, after the first concepts in 1998 and the government's decision in 2018 to build MYRRHA in phases, the moment has finally arrived. Minister of Energy Tinne Van der Straeten gave the starting signal for the groundbreaking ceremony at the MINERVA construction site, the first phase of MYRRHA. This opens the door for pioneering applications by MYRRHA IVZW/AISBL and the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), led by reactor physicist Hamid Aït Abderrahim. Think of improved cancer treatments, fundamental physics research, fusion materials research, accelerator technology and the optimal processing of radioactive nuclear waste.

Fashion designer Flora Miranda presented her textile artwork “Spectralization,” inspired by MYRRHA. Read more on the website of SCK CEN.

Check out the new open access paper by Kevin Anthony Kaw et al. from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Direct probing of low-energy intra d-band transitions in gas-phase cobalt clusters

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"<p>The next colloquium Belgian National Committee of Pure and Applied Physics will take place on April 20, 2024 at the University Foundation. </p><p><b>THE NATURE OF TIME IN PHYSICS</b></p><p>This topic is particularly timely, given the award of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter".<br></p><p><b><a href="https://www.belgianphysicalsociety.be/media/download/1698222425c32939afbe2dfa619f0b7fa054f99331.pdf" target="_blank">View programme</a></b>. More information will become available via the <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/physbel/About-BNCPAP/home" target="_blank">website of the BNCPHYS</a></b>.</p><p><img src="data:image/png;base64,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"></a></p></img>"

The next colloquium Belgian National Committee of Pure and Applied Physics will take place on April 20, 2024 at the University Foundation.

THE NATURE OF TIME IN PHYSICS

This topic is particularly timely, given the award of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter".

View programme. More information will become available via the website of the BNCPHYS.