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Jean Van Schaftingen awarded the Jacques Deruyts Prize

Jean Van Schaftingen, professor at the Institut de Recherche en Mathématique et Physique and Head of the School of Mathematics, is the recipient of the Jacques Deruyts Prize(for the 18th annual period 2016-2020) for his distinguished research contributions on nonlinear...
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Chaire de la Vallée Poussin 2020/21

Since its creation in 2001, the "Chaire de la Vallée Poussin" is awarded every year to a world-renowned mathematician. It is held in the form of a 4-day-series of lectures with international public. (Outside of pandemics, they take place at Louvain-la-Neuve in the lecture hall that carries the...
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The Scientific Heritage of Coimbra Group Universities

An event celebrating the “scientific heritage” of the Coimbra Group universities will take place at the Institut de Recherche en Mathématique et Physique on 22 October 2021. This workshop is the final meeting of a project Fonds d’Appui à l’Internationalisation, funded by the UCLouvain,...
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UCLouvain officially joins the IceCube Collaboration!

The IceCube Collaboration has accepted the membership application of the astroparticle group at IRMP, led by Gwenhael De Wasseige. UCLouvain becomes the fourth university in Belgium, with ULB, UGent, and VUB to join IceCube. IceCube is a neutrino telescope buried in the ice of the South...
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The EPS honors the UCLouvain cyclotron

The European Physical Society (EPS), upon nomination by the Belgian Physical Society, has decided to confer a Historic Site Award to the Cyclotron Hall in Louvain-la-Neuve. This place hosted in 1990 a world-leading nuclear-astrophysics experiment involving for the first time the...
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