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Stefano Terzo participated last week in a testbeam experiment at DESY, Hamburg measuring highly irradiated 3D pixel modules for the ATLAS upgrade at LH-LHC. The preliminary analysis of the data show a promising performance of these detectors even at large radiation doses.

Ricardo Zambujal has joined the Theory Division as a Postdoctoral researcher.

Boris Nedyalkov has just joined the QCT Group as a PhD student.

Sebastián Grinstein presented the ALTAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) project at the Vertex 2020 (online) conference.

The ATLAS Collaboration week is taking place online this week. Several members of the IFAE-ATLAS team are attending and Ilya Korolkov is presenting the status of the Tile Calorimeter for the Phase-II upgrade

Deep Detection, the spin-off company created from the LINDA project in the innovation program The Collider (Mobile World Capital Barcelona) was featured in the ‘Economy’ section of El Correo

The FET OPEN project launch took place virtually with a conference call between the 8 partner institutions on Wednesday October 14th, 2020.

Last week took place the equipment installation in the QCT lab, which includes a refrigerator (Bluefors), a compressor (Cryomech), and a water chiller, among others.

Ville Vaskonen has joined the Theory Division as a Postdoctoral researcher