BNEN Opening of the 15th academic year 2016-2017

15:30   Registration

16:00   Welcome address

            Prof. William D’haeseleer, Chairman of the BNEN Steering Committee, KU Leuven

16:15   Gravitational Waves Exist: The inside story of the first sounds of merging black holes

            Prof. Thomas Hertog, Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven

17:00   The Politics of Hypothesis - An Inquiry into the Ethics of Scientific Assessment

            Gaston Meskens, Science and Technologies Studies Group, SCK•CEN & Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Ghent

17:45   The BNEN programme

            Prof. William D’haeseleer, Chairman of the BNEN Steering Committee, KU Leuven

18:00   Reception