Interviews
Science journalist Senne Starckx interviews astrophysicist Khalid Barkaoui from the SPECULOOS project, led by Michaël Gillon (2017 Balzan Prizewinner for The Sun’s Planetary System and Exoplanets). The project, involving six universities, uses robotic telescopes in Chile, Tenerife and Mexico to find Earth-like planets around red dwarf stars using the transit method.
Interviews
In this interview with journalist Evgeny Utkin, Luigi Ambrosio, winner of the 2019 Balzan Prize, talks about his life as a mathematician, touching on his areas of research, his career in education, and the responsibilities of scientists today.
Forum
Video link to Robert Langer’s account of his career during the 2022 Balzan Prizewinners Forum at the Accademia dei Lincei.
Research project
Langer’s research project envisions fellowships for four graduate students from Hong Kong, the USA, and the Middle East to do research in biomaterials for nanomedicine and tissue engineering and organize travel symposia to present results.
Research project
Damour’s project will involve a group of international young scientists and high-level senior scientists in frontier research on some of the key theoretical challenges currently left open in the field of gravitation.
Research project
Buonanno’s project is on the history of the two-body problem in General Relativity (approx. analytical solutions, interface with numerical relativity, analytical/numerical relativity methods in LIGO’s and Virgo’s 2015 discovery of gravitational waves).
Forum
Alessandra Buonanno and Thibault Damour
Buonanno and Damour present the field of gravitational-wave astronomy, opened in 2015, 100 years after Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, when gravitational waves were first observed using laser interferometers.