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The Department of Applied Physics and Photonics at the VUB (TONA/TW/VUB) belongs to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences of our University. It consists of a group of about twenty researchers -engineers and physicists- who are working together on materials, components, devices and subsystems for bringing light into communication and information processing systems.These research themes go from fundamental research to near the market ...
The mission statement of the department captures its drive to advance scientific knowledge about the physical Universe, from its smallest subnuclear building blocks, across the complex intermediate scales, and up to its largest extragalactic structures and the Universe itself. This endeavour is fundamentally driven by the department’s curiosity and rooted in contemporary experimental, computational and theoretical explorations and ...
In the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Faculty of Sciences at the KU Leuven, the Institute for Theoretical Physics covers various areas of mathematical and theoretical physics, including quantum gravity, cosmology, string theory, biophysics, nonequilibrium physics, statistical mechanics and quantum many-body theory.. Key-words include: Elementary Particle Physics. Quantum field theory and applications Mathematical structure of ...
The Materials Physics (IMOMAF) research group focuses on developing innovative solutions to successfully bridge the gap between fundamental research and industrially compatible materials systems and processes. This is done in a wide range of fields, from nano and quantum physics to electronics, advanced sensing, and healthcare materials. Cooperation with industrial partners plays a crucial role in the IMOMAF research group.
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The research of the ELEM team is developed in the framework of the Inter-University Institute for High Energies - IIHE (VUB- ULB). At present experimental work is carried out at the accelerator complexes of CERN (Geneva) and DESY (Hamburg) as well as in a neutrino observatory installed at the South-Pole (IceCube experiment). The preparation of the experiments (design and construction of particle detectors) as well as the final data analysis ...
The unit DNTK develops research activities in the following domains: 1. Astronomy; 2. Elementary Particle Physics; 3. Physical and medical instrumentation; 4. Optics; 5. Theoretical and mathematical physics; 6. Research on education in physics.
The Main research subjects are: 1. Aspects of non-lineair dynamics: - integrability and chaos - Direct methods for the investigation of integrable and nearly integrable systems; - Analysis of integrable hierarchies and their reductions; - Spectral decomposition of chaotic maps, perturbations of integrable maps involving transition to chaos. 2. Elementary particle physics beyond the standard model: from supersymmetry to strings - Study of ...