Past Activities
2021
Workshops
30 August - 3 September 2021 - CANCELLED
Co-organised Solvay Workshop on "Amplitudes, Inflation and the Bootstrap (held in Capri, Italy)"
14 - 16 June 2021
Workshop in memory of Prof. Grégoire Nicolis on "Nonlinear phenomena and complex systems"
(Initially scheduled for 11 - 13 May 2020)
Colloquia
1 June 2021
Val Zwiller (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
18 May 2021
Pavel Kovtun (U. of Victoria, Canada)
11 May 2021
Dominique Lison (UCLouvain, LTAP, Belgium)
13 April 2021
Luigi Lugiato (Università dell'Insubria, Italy)
30 March 2021
Chairs
11 to 24 March 2021
2020 Jacques Solvay Int. Chair in Physics
Roger Blandford (Stanford U., USA)
22 April to 20 May 2021
2020 Solvay International Chair in Chemistry
2020
Workshops
25 - 28 May 2021
2 - 4 December 2020
Physics of living systems: from molecules, to cells, to whole organisms
23 - 24 November 2020
The asymptotic structure of spacetime
17 - 21 February 2020
Higher Spin Gauge theories, topological field theory and deformation quantization
Colloquia
8 December 2020 - CANCELLED
Jeremy Harvey (KU Leuven, Belgium)
1 December 2020 - CANCELLED
Zita Martins (IST, Lisboa, Portugal)
5 November 2020 - CANCELLED
James De Yoreo (PNNL,Washington, USA)
13 October 2020 - CANCELLED
Roger Blandford (Stanford University, USA)
26 May 2020 - CANCELLED
Peter Schreiner (Giessen University, Germany)
5 May 2020 - CANCELLED
Francis Halzen (U. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
31 March 2020 - CANCELLED
Luigi Lugiato (Università dell'Insubria, Italy)
30 March 2020 - CANCELLED
New Horizons Lecture in Chemistry
Hans Jakob Wörner (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
26 March 2020 - CANCELLED
New Horizons Lecture in Physics
Douglas Stanford (Stanford U., California, USA)
24 March 2020 - CANCELLED
Val Zwiller (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
17 March 2020 - CANCELLED
Helma Wennemers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
11 March 2020
Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize
Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford U., USA)
11 February 2020
Fiona Meldrum (U. of Leeds, UK)
New Horizons Lectures
26 October 2020 - CANCELLED
New Horizons Lectures in Chemistry
Hans Jakob Wörner (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Chairs
17 November 2020 - CANCELLED
International Solvay Chair in Chemistry
Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard U., USA)
2019
Workshops
25 - 27 November 2019
New frontiers in atomic, nuclear, plasma and astrophysics
3 - 5 April 2019
18 - 21 February 2019
Colloquia
10 December 2019
Giorgio Parisi (U. La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)
26 November 2019
Eline Tolstoy (U. of Groningen, The Netherlands)
1 October 2019
Sason Shaik (Hebrew University, Israel)
24 September 2019
Gary Gibbons (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK)
14 May 2019
Nicolas Reyes (Institut Pasteur, France)
7 May 2019
Christophe Grojean (DESY, Germany)
19 March 2019
12 March 2019
Gernot Frenking (Philipps-U. Marburg, Germany)
12 February 2019
Jean-Philippe Uzan (IAP, Paris, France)
5 February 2019
Roberto Bini (LENS, Florence, Italy)
29 January 2019
Public event
Solvay Public Lectures 20 October 2019
STRINGS 2019
Flagey, Brussels (9 to 13 July)
New Horizons Lectures
27 - 29 March 2019
New Horizons Lectures in Chemistry
Rafal Klajn (Weizmann I., Israel)
29 April - 3 May 2019
New Horizons Lectures in Physics
Chairs
International Solvay Chair in Chemistry
Gernot Frenking
(Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
15 September to 15 October 2019
Jacques Solvay International Chairs in Physics
Gary Gibbons
(DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK)
2018
Workshops
28 - 30 November 2018
Chiral Symmetry Breaking at Molecular Level
27 - 29 August 2018
28 May 2018
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
16 - 18 May 2018
14 - 16 May 2018
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
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
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
Chairs
Jacques Solvay International Chairs in Physics
Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris)
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
20 March 2017
Richard Henderson (Cambridge University, UK)
14 March 2017
Erik Verlinde (U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
2 March 2017
14 February 2017
Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem)
7 February 2017
Luisa Torsi (U. degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
24 January 2017
Public event
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
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
9 - 13 May 2016
19 - 21 April 2016
Bridging the gaps at the PCB interface - Multiscale modelling in physics chemistry and biology
12 - 13 April 2016
4 - 8 April 2016
Conceptual quantum chemistry: present aspects and challenges for the future
8 - 11 February 2016
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
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
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)
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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
Public event
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
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
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
Chairs
International Solvay Chair in Chemistry
Richard Royce Schrock (MIT, USA)
1 - 31 October 2014
International Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics
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