Spencer Jolly

At the BPS Scientific Meeting (28/05/2025) in the UCLouvain, we are organizing the traditional BPS Young Speaker Contest. Are you a PhD student? Or a post-doc with no more than 3 years since you got your PhD? Do you want to present your research work in front of the audience?

Abstract submission and registration just opened up for the 2025 BPS annual meeting!

Webpage of the conference: belgianphysicalsociety.be/belgian-phys...

Abstract submission page: belgianphysicalsociety.be/belgian-phys...

Become a member of BPS: belgianphysicalsociety.be/join-us/

The BPS meeting for 2025, taking place on May 28th in Louvain-la-Neuve, is officially open for abstract submission and registration.

Webpage of the conference: belgianphysicalsociety.be/belgian-phys...

Abstract submission page: belgianphysicalsociety.be/belgian-phys...

Me today in my head when running:

Start
10% of the way
20% of the way
1/4 of the way
1/3 of the way
40% of the way
halfway
60% of the way
2/3 of the way
1 km left
1/2 mile left
400 m left
200 m left
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Finish

How I keep myself from going crazy

This year the FNRS in Belgium will reward a doctoral thesis in Physics and/or Mathematics (defended in 2023 or 2024) with the Antonella Karlson award, including a 5000 EUR cash prize for personal use. The deadline is March 3rd!

www.frs-fnrs.be/docs/Prix/FR...

Space-time couplings in ultrashort lasers with arbitrary nonparaxial focusing Space-time separability is commonly assumed in the theoretical description of laser beams. However, recent progresses have demonstrated that this assumption often breaks down for ultrashort realistic ...

New paper "Space-time couplings in ultrashort lasers with arbitrary nonparaxial focusing" out in Nanophotonics: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The BPS masters thesis prize 2025 is open for submissions! This is for theses submitted and defended in 2024, and will result in a cash prize for up to three students presented at the annual BPS meeting on May 28th at UCLouvain. Deadline February 10th. belgianphysicalsociety.be/activities/c...

There is a very interesting and unique experience happening again this summer, the KU Leuven Summer of Science! Applications for this summer will open in a few days, but in the meantime read about the offer and the experiences from last year: wet.kuleuven.be/welcomeatsci...

In the meantime, please check out again our recently overhauled website, which will also change to reflect or active and growing society! --> belgianphysicalsociety.be

The most important aspect of the BPS is our annual meeting, which will take place this year on the 28th of May in Louvain-la-Neuve, organized by Xavier Urbain and colleagues. Abstract submission will open in early February.

The board of the Belgian Physical Society and members of Young Minds chapters throughout Belgium met together this past Monday for the annual board meeting. We were hosted at the incredible von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics just outside of Brussels (thanks to Peter Simkens).

Wow :/

A post for the history books

Is Prof. Agrawal on a European tour?

Hear from the BPS president (in Dutch) about the ITER project and Nuclear fusion energy: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Last day or two to register as a BPS member for 2024! do so at www.belgianphysicalsociety.be

BPS board and members got the pleasure to visit ASML on January 23rd to see the fantastic work being done there, just across the border. Thanks to Piet Menting for welcoming us there.

Two more weeks to sign up for your 2024 BPS membership --> open until February 15th.

do so at www.belgianphysicalsociety.be

Me too, but the solutions are either in a table (Gradshteyn) or I can't solve them haha.

A good sign! You don't want to get stuck in a rut like some academics do.

Learning about electrons and light at EBSN 2023 in Antwerp today through Friday :)

Boop.