Studies of Cosmic Transient Phenomena related to Observed Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Ray Bursts with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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This research project aims to examine the presence and effect of ancient Greek comedy in British modernist literary culture. The dominant view of modernist literature as a profoundly serious endeavor has so far prevented a sustained study of the status of comedy in modernism’s literary legacy. By focusing on the reception of Aristophanic comedy, this project proposes an untrodden path into this field. It uncovers the keen interest modernist ...
The way the heaviest elements of the table of Mendeleev are constructed from their building blocks (the
electrons, protons and neutrons) and how they are formed in the Universe remains puzzling. Also, what can be
learned in that repect from the merging of two neutron stars, as recently observed through gravitational and
electromagnetic waves, is a highly unexplored terrain.
We propose an interlaced experimental and ...
The heaviest elements of Mendeleev's table form an intriguing research laboratory of interest for nuclear, atomic and astro-physics. The heaviest element experimentally produced on earth is Oganesson (118 protons). Such heavy atoms are radioactive and short lived but theory predicts an island of stability when going to even heavier elements. Their atomic structure is influenced by strong relativistic effects making it challenging to predict ...
ian partners of KULeuven, ULB, UGent, ULiège and of SCKU+2022CEN, together with the international partners from GANIL, CEA-Saclay, GSI and UKöln aggregate common scientific activities in the Belgian Research Initiative on eXotic nuclei (BriX network). The prime research theme focuses on the study of far-unstable radioactive isotopes. Nuclear physics aspects, related to the structure and reactivity of exotic nuclei; nuclear astrophysics ...
Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics - newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels - provide valuable insight into the transformation fo collective consciousness. This project advances the hypothesis that children in comics are distinctive embodiments of the complex experience of modernity, channeling and tempering modern anxieties and incarnating the freedom denied to adults. In testing this ...