International Solvay Institutes

Symposium on "Chemical Bonding in the 21st Century - A one day symposium in honor of Professor Roald Hoffmann" Organized by the VUB Quantum Chemistry Group under the auspices of the FWO Research Network on Quantum Chemistry, with support from the International Solvay Institutes

22 - 25 May 2018

Third ERC (HoloBHC) - Solvay Workshop on "Holography" organised by the ULB with
support from the Solvay Institutes

16 - 18 May 2018

Workshop on "Infrared Physics: Asymptotic & BMS symmetry, soft theorems, memory, information paradox and all that

14 - 16 May 2018

Joint ERC (HoloQosmos) Solvay/Perimeter/APC Workshop on "Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics"

2 - 4 May 2018

Workshop on "Dynamics of biological systems: Modelling genetic, signalling and microbial networks"

23 - 26 January 2018

Workshop on "SuGAR 2018: Searching
for the sources of galactic and extra galactic cosmic rays"

Colloquia

11 December 2018

Marina V. Rodnina (Max Planck I., Germany)

4 December 2018

Christopher Hunter (U. of Cambridge, UK)

29 November 2018

Cristobal Viedmar (UCM, Madrid Spain)

27 November 2018

Jo van den Brand (Nikhef,The Netherlands)

23 October 2018

Bernard Derrida (Collège de France)

24 September 2018

Ben Feringa (U. of Groningen, The Netherlands)

19 June 2018

John Pendry (Imperial College London, UK)

12 June 2018

Thomas Gregor (Princeton U., USA & Inst. Pasteur, France)

8 May 2018

David Tong (Cambridge U., UK)

24 April 2018

Avelino Corma (CSIC, Valencia, Spain)

27 March 2018

Edward Lemke (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)

8 March 2018 (CANCELLED)

Marina Rodnina (Max Planck Institute,Germany)

27 February 2018

Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University, USA)

6 February 2018

Claudio Zannoni (Universita' di Bologna, Italy)

20 February 2018

Luciano Rezzolla (FIAS, Germany)

New Horizons Lectures

30 May - 1 June 2018

New Horizons Lectures in Chemistry

Alexandre Tkatchenko (U. of Luxemburg)

30 May at ULB - view abstract

31 May at Mons University

1 June at Ghent University - view abstract

15 - 19 October 2018

New Horizons Lectures in Physics

Zohar Komargodski (Weizmann Institute, Israel & Simons Center U. of NY, Stony Brook, USA)

16 October at ULB - view abstract

17 October at KU Leuven

Public event

Solvay Public Lectures 21 October 2018

Chairs

15 October - 15 November 2018

Jacques Solvay International Chairs in Physics

Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris)

24 - 26 September 2018

9 - 11 April 2019

International Solvay Chair in Chemistry

Ben Feringa (U. of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Doctoral School

8 October - 21 December 2018

Brussels-Paris-Geneva Doctoral School

2017

Workshops

29 November - 1 December 2017

Workshop on Beyond the Standard model
with Neutrinos and Nuclear Physics

18 October 2017

The Future of Chemistry and Physics:
a one-day Workshop in Honour of
Jean-Marie Solvay - BY INVITATION ONLY

6 - 8 September 2017

Workshop on From physics of graphene to graphene for physics

19 - 21 April 2017

Workshop on Chemical reactions in flows

20 - 23 February 2017

Workshop on Ionic liquids: from fundamentals to applications

Colloquia

12 December 2017

Ludwik Leibler (ESPCI, France)

28 November 2017

Stefan Matile (Université de Genève)

8 November 2017

Kotohiro Nomura (Tokyo Metropolitan U. Japan)

10 October 2017

Uri Alon (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel)

6 June 2017

Frans Pretorius (Princeton University, USA)

30 May 2017

Sauro Succi (IAC-CNR, Rome, Italy)

9 May 2017

Clément Sanchez (U. Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

3 May 2017

Mark Akeson (U. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)

2 May 2017

Marek Abramowicz (U. of Gothenburg, Sweden)

25 April 2017

Sergio Ciliberto (ENS, Lyon)

20 March 2017

Richard Henderson (Cambridge University, UK)

14 March 2017

Erik Verlinde (U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2 March 2017

Jos Lelieveld (MPI, Germany)

14 February 2017

Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem)

7 February 2017

Luisa Torsi (U. degli Studi di Bari, Italy)

24 January 2017

Michael Mackey (McGill U., Montreal, Canada)

Public event

Solvay Public Lectures 22 October 2017

Chairs

10- 21 October 2017

Jacques Solvay Inter. Chair in Physics

Uri Alon (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel)

20 - 31 March 2017

International Solvay Chair in Chemistry
Richard Henderson (Cambridge University, UK)

2016

Workshops

15 - 17 November 2016

Charge, spin, and heat transport in organic semiconductors

11 - 13 July 2016

Nonequilibrium and Nonlinear phenomena in statistical mechanics - Statphys 26 Satellite Meeting

7-8 July 2016

International Workshop on "Fundamental Science and Society” - Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the “Rencontres de Moriond"

Organized by the Ministry for science and technology of Vietnam, the Popular Committee of the Province of Binh Dinh, the “Rencontres du Vietnam” and the “Rencontres de Moriond”, with support from the Solvay Institutes

14 -17 June 2016

Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics 2016 - Series of Workshops co-organised with APC, Paris and the Perimeter Institute and (held at Perimeter Institute, Canada)

9 - 13 May 2016

Second ERC/Solvay Workshop on "Holography for black holes and cosmology" - organised by the ULB with support from the Solvay Institutes

19 - 21 April 2016

Bridging the gaps at the PCB interface - Multiscale modelling in physics chemistry and biology

12 - 13 April 2016

Workshop organised by KULeuven with support from the Solvay Institutes: Modeling of chemically powered nanomotors

4 - 8 April 2016

Conceptual quantum chemistry: present aspects and challenges for the future

8 - 11 February 2016

Quantum Simulation with Cold Matter and Photons

Colloquia

13 December 2016

Karsten Danzmann (MPI, Germany)

22 November 2016

Tadashi Tokieda (Cambridge University, UK)

16 November 2016

Ron Naaman (Weizmann Institute, Israel)

4 October 2016

Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago, USA)

14 June 2016

Ilme Schlichting (Max Planck Institute, Germany)

19 April 2016

Raymond Kapral (University of Toronto, Canada)

12 April 2016

Jean-Loup Puget (U. Paris Sud, Orsay, France)

15 March 2016

Eric Gourgoulhon (LUTH, France)

1 March 2016

Philippe Walter (UPMC, France)

16 February 2016

Philippe Dubois (Université de Mons, Belgium)

26 January 2016

Alexei Smirnov (MPIK Heidelberg, Germany)

Public event

Solvay Public Lectures 23 October 2016

Click here to view an interview of Prof. Ben Feringa (Speaker at the Public Event 2016)

Chairs

4 - 29 April 2016

International Solvay Chair in Chemistry
Raymond Kapral (University of Toronto, Canada)

3 - 28 October 2016

1 - 7 October 2017

Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics

Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago, USA)

2015

Workshops

19 -23 October 2015

String - Pheno - Cosmo 2015 - Organised by GGI Florence with support from the Solvay Institutes

7 - 11 September 2015

"The String Theory Universe" - Organised by KULeuven with support from the Solvay Institutes

7 - 11 September 2015

"Nonlinear PDEs" - Organised by the ULB with support from the Solvay Institutes

6 - 9 July 2015

Joint ERC (SyDuGraM) - Solvay-Perimeter-APC Workshop on "Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics"

4 - 5 June 2015

"About various kinds of Interactions" - Organised by UMONS with support from the Solvay Institutes

27 - 29 May 2015

Solvay-Francqui Workshop on "Neutrinos: from Reactors to the Cosmos"

13 May 2015

"2015 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Belgian Physical Society" Organised by the University of Liège with support from the Solvay Institutes

30 March - 2 April 2015

"Atomic and Molecular Collision Mechanisms (ACME)"

28 March 2015

"Particle Physics after the 2013 NOBEL Prize: A colloquium dedicated to François Englert" - Organised by the Belgian National Committee for Pure and Applied Physics with support from the Solvay Institute

5 - 6 March 2015

"Le Charme Discret de la Symétrie - In Honour of Marc Henneaux"

Colloquia

8 December 2015

Luisa Bonolis (Max Planck Institute, Germany)

17 November 2015

Pekka Pyykko (University of Helsinki, Finland)

20 October 2015

Vincent Hilser (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

6 October 2015

Peter Zoller (Innsbruck, Austria)

31 August 2015

Andreas Manz (Saarbrücken, Germany)

7 July 2015

Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada)

26 May 2015

Peter Vekilov (University of Houston,USA)

19 May 2015

David DiVincenzo (RWTH Aachen & Peter Grünberg Institute Jülich, Germany)

28 April 2015

Roger Blandford (Stanford University, USA)

Please click here to see slides

31 March 2015

Jun Ye (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, USA)

24 March 2015

Martin Wikelski (Max-Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany)

4 March 2015

Thibault Damour (IHES, France)

10 February 2015

Lee Cronin (Cronin Laboratory, University of Glasgow, UK)

Public event

Solvay Public Lectures 18 October 2015

Chairs

23 August - 30 September 2015

International Solvay Chair in Chemistry

Andreas Manz (Saarbrücken, Germany)

5 - 18 October 2015 & 8 - 19 February 2016

International Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics

Peter Zoller (Innsbruck, Austria)

2014

Workshops

26 - 28 November 2014

"Directional Nucleation and Growth of Molecular Crystals"

3 - 5 September 2014

"Beta-Decay Weak Interaction Studies in the Era of the LHC"

14 - 18 July 2014

The Solvay Institutes sponsored the meeting "30th International Colloquium on Ghent", Belgium

10 - 13 June 2014

"Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics" Series of Workshops co-organised with the Perimeter Institute and APC, Paris (held at APC, Paris)

28 May 2014

"2014 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Belgian Physical Society" organised by the KULeuven with support from the Solvay Institutes

14 - 15 May 2014

"Fast is Beautiful: Supersymmetry and Strings in a Null Frame (in honour of Lars Brink)" co-organised with CECs (Valdivia) and with support from the ASC (Munich)

7 - 8 May 2014

"Modelling Complex Systems in Soft Matter" organised by the ULB with support from the Solvay Institutes

14 - 18 April 2014

"Holography for Black Holes and Cosmology" organised by the ULB with support from the Solvay Institutes

31 March - 2 April 2014

"Plasma for Environmental Applications"

Colloquia

16 December 2014

Michel Mayor (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

2 December 2014

Mischa Bonn (Max Planck Institute, Mainz, Germany)

24 November 2014

Frank Würthner (Universität Würzburg, Germany)

21 October 2014

Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU, Munich, Germany)

23 September 2014

Richard Royce Schrock (MIT, USA)

26 May 2014

Jennifer Thomas (University College London, UK)

13 May 2014

François Englert (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)

1 April 2014

Jean Dalibard (Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)

18 March 2014

Alex Webb (University of Cambridge, UK)

21 February 2014

Dan Shechtman (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)

11 February 2014

Thomas Ebbesen (University of Strasbourg, France)

4 February 2014

Lars Brink (Chalmers, Goteborg, Sweden)

28 January 2014

Riccardo Barbieri (SNS, Pisa, Italy)

Public event

Solvay Public Lectures 12 October 2014

Chairs

22 - 30 Sept. 2014

30 April - 5 May 2015

International Solvay Chair in Chemistry

Richard Royce Schrock (MIT, USA)

1 - 31 October 2014

International Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics

Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU, Munich, Germany)

Doctoral School

13 October - 19 December 2014

Brussels-Paris-Geneva Doctoral School

Solvay Conference

8 - 11 October 2014

26th Solvay Conference on Physics: "Astrophysics and Cosmology"

2013

Workshops

2 - 4 December 2013

"Thermodynamics of Small Systems"

4 - 6 November 2013

"Exploring Higher Energy Physics"

8 - 11 July 2013

"Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics"

29 - 31 May 2013

"Facing the Scalar Sector"

15 - 17 May 2013

"Patterns and Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Reactive Systems"

20 - 23 April 2013

"Physics and the Energy Challenge

2013 BNCPAP Colloquium" - organised by the Belgian National Committee for Pure and Applied Physics with support from the Solvay Institutes

16 March 2013

Workshop on "Theoretical Physics - Celebrating 60 years of Toine." Organised by the KUL physics theory group with support from the Solvay Institutes

5 - 8 February 2013

"Higher Spin Gauge Theories" - ERC Advanced Grant SyDuGraM Mid-Term Meeting

Colloquia

17 December 2013

David Avnir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

5 December 2013

Solvay et la France

Un partenariat pour la chimie Ernest Solvay - Albin Haller (ESPCI Paris Tech)

26 November 2013

Egbert W. Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

12 November 2013

Yves Couder (ENS, Paris)

10 October 2013

Gian Giudice (CERN, Switzerland)

11 June 2013

David Weitz (Harvard University)

14 May 2013

Shigeru Kondo (Osaka University, Japan)

7 May 2013

Ad Lagendijk (FOM-Institute AMOLF and University of Amsterdam)

30 April 2013

Tanja Weil (Ulm University, Germany)

26 March 2013

Immanuel Bloch (Max-Planck Institut, Germany)

12 March 2013

Gabriele Veneziano (CERN, Geneva & Collége de France, Paris)

5 February 2013

Patrick Maestro (Scientific Officer, SOLVAY)

29 January 2013

Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Public event

20 October 2013

New Chemistry and New Opportunities from the Expanding Protein Universe

Chairs

7 October - 30 November 2013

International Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics

Gian Giudice (CERN, Switzerland)

November 2013 - May 2014

International Solvay Chair in Chemistry

Egbert W. Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)

Doctoral School

7 October - 20 December 2013

Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam Doctoral School

Solvay Conference

16 - 19 October 2013

23rd Solvay Conference on Chemistry

New Chemistry and New Opportunities from the Expanding Protein Universe