News

On the 13th of April, the open session of the 141st meeting of the SPSC will take place remotely, Thorsten Lux will present the status and plans of the project NP07: The Upgrade of the ND280 Detector.

“Implications for first-order cosmological phase transitions from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run ” by Alba Romero, Katarina Martinovic, Thomas A. Callister, et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

The IFAE GW group is presenting 2 posters in the plenary poster session of the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra week

Sergio González from the IFAE ATLAS group will present the talk “Dark Matter - ATLAS and CMS results” at the online conference LCWS2021

The project “Simulating the expansion of the COVID-19 outbreak: a risk forecast tool considering socioeconomic and gender inequalities in Barcelona” led by Pere Masjuan awarded a Scientific Research Awards by the Barcelona city council.

IFAE was awarded financial support in the AGAUR call “Replegar-se per créixer: l’impacte de les pandèmies en un món sense fronteres visibles” (PANDÈMIES-2020) for the project ‘A powerful stochastic tool to assess the impact of the COVID-19 in Catalonia integrating detailed demographic and mobility data’

George Zahariade has joined the Theory Group. His research interests lie at the interface of general relativity and quantum field theory.

The ATLAS Trigger and Data acquisition week is taking place online this week.Several members of the IFAE team are attending and also giving presentations about the status of the Level-1 topological trigger simulation.

The GW group at IFAE is giving 2 presentations in the 55th Rencontres de Moriond 2021: Gravitation.