The promise and Rise of Machine Learning in Chemistry and Physics

mercredi 30 mai 2018 @ 16h00 > 18h00 – New Horizons Solvay Lecture This is a new program that will be inaugurated in 2018. The « New Horizons Solvay Lectures » are given by brilliant young scientists with already high visibility and well established stature. They deliver one broad lecture at the Solvay Institutes on their current research and the challenges they see for their discipline. […]

The Discovery of Gravitational Waves : The Sound of Black Holes

mardi 8 mars 2016 @ 18h30 > 21h00 – In order to celebrate the first observation of Gravitational Waves and its revolutionary implications to the multi-messenger astronomy, the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies IIHE(ULB-VUB) is hosting a seminar in English for the general public “The Discovery of Gravitational Waves: The Sound of Black Holes” on Tuesday March 8th at 6.30 pm at VUB campus […]

Science & Cocktails #4 : Seeing with New Eyes

mercredi 7 février 2018 @ 20h30 > 23h30 – Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Gravitational Waves What are gravitational waves and where do they come from? Why couldn’t we see them before? Which new things can we learn about the Universe? The new season of Science & Cocktails in Brussels begins with the story of some of the most violent events in […]

Pint of Science

lundi 14 mai 2018 au mercredi 16 mai 2018 @ – Pint of Science is an annual science festival that takes place every May and brings researchers to your local pub to show you the latest happenings in the world of science. In 2017, the festival held 574 events across 10 countries, involving over 80.000 attendees. This year the festival will be held simultaneously in 21 countries, including […]

PechaKucha Night

jeudi 24 novembre 2016 @ 19h00 > 23h00 – L’ASBL GOTORO en collaboration avec le réseau interuniversitaire Scité est fière de vous présenter la prochaine édition du PechaKucha Night Liège! Envie de visionner une des dernières éditions? Suivez le lien : http://bit.ly/1peZ8be Thème “Open Science” L’Open Science est le concept d’ouvrir tous les aspects de la démarche scientifique ; de la formulation de questions et d’hypothèses scientifiques à la diffusion/vulgarisation […]

Science & Cocktails #5 : Big brother is driving you

mardi 27 mars 2018 @ 20h30 > 23h30 – What can computers do to safeguard our public goods? How will they do it? Who will be in charge of writing the codes? Is this the beginning of a new democracy 3.0? Do we really want it? What will be the role of artificial intelligence in all of this? Only information technology is capable of […]

Science & Cocktails #3 : Is your data private?

mercredi 13 décembre 2017 @ 20h30 > 23h30 – Using data while protecting privacy in the digital era Privacy, does it still matter? What can mobile phone data be used for? How do we safely use big data while moving forward? This last episode of this first season of Science & Cocktails in Brussels is a simultaneously fantastic and terrifying experience that will both […]