News
14 October 2021: Announcement:
BNCPAP Colloquium, April 2, 2022
Gravitational Waves and Exoplanets
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Due to Covid-19: postponed to April 2, 2022
2021 BNCPAP Colloquium on:
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES and EXOPLANETS
27 February 2020:
In Memoriam
Professor Jacques Lemonne
Chairman of the BNCPAP from 2004-2008
Professor Jacques Lemonne passed away in Brussels on February 27, 2020. Born in Oostende on July 9th, 1938, Jacques Lemonne was professor of physics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, co-founder of the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies IIHE (ULB-VUB) and co-director for 31 years. For many years, he has been an active member of several national and international committees, including the board of the European Physical Society and the CERN council.
Jacques Lemonne has been one of the most active members of the Belgian National Committee for Pure and Applied Physics of which he was president from 2004 until 2008. Under his leadership, the Committee started publishing the review series on Research in Physics in Belgium, with contributions from eminent experts from all domains in pure and applied Physics and which are since periodically updated.
The Belgian physics community owes much to the vision and leadership of Jacques Lemonne. We lost a dear colleague and friend who has inspired generations of physicists.
2 January 2020:
In Memoriam
Professor Roger Serneels
Honorary Member of BNCPAP
Professor Roger Serneels passed away in Hasselt on January 2nd, 2020. Born in Vilvoorde on March 7th, 1944, Roger Serneels was professor of physics at the Universities of Hasselt and Maastricht.
30 March 2019:
2019 BNCPAP Colloquium on:
23 May 2018:
" for developing a self-consistent theoretical framework, based on tensor networks, which has elucidated the quantum states of matter. The framework is powerful and general enough to apply to many areas in quantum physics, including high-temperature superconductors, topological phases of matter, and engineered quantum many-body systems."
22 April 2017:
2017 BNCPAP Colloquium on:
20 October 2016:
In Memoriam:
Chairman of the BNCPAP from 1987-2004
24/10/2015:
Presentation of an EPS Historic Sites Award to Hotel Metropole in Brussels
28/03/2015:
2015 BNCPAP Colloquium on:
A Colloquium dedicated to François Englert and Robert Brout
23/12/2013:
United Nations proclaims an
International Year of Light in 2015
Coordinated by the European Physical Society under the auspices of the United Nations, the International Year of Light is a global initiative highlighting to the citizens of the world the importance of light and light-based technologies in their lives, for their futures, and for the development of society.
08/10/2013:
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to our compatriot
François Englert and the British physicist Peter W. Higgs
"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider".