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The ATLAS physics and performance Week is taking place online this week. Various members of the IFAE ATLAS team are attending it and giving talks.

Last week, the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector passed the LHCC/UCG reviews. The IFAE ATLAS Pixels group is playing a leading role in sensors (LGADs, with CNM), hybridization, module assembly and ASIC design. The group is also participating in several management positions.

Luis Fariña has joined the Gamma-Ray group as a PhD student. He graduated in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid got his Master’s degree in the Universitat de Barcelona.

Chiara Rizzi’s PhD Thesis with the title ‘Searches for Supersymmetric Particles in Final States with Multiple Top and Bottom Quarks with the ATLAS Detector’ has been published by Springer. She defended her work at IFAE in October 2018, and her supervisor was Aurelio Juste. After two years as a CERN Fellow, Chiara is starting a second postdoc at University of Geneva.

The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) has been installed in the Pay Load Module of Euclid’s Flight Model. This is an important milestone for the instrument.

The ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition collaboration week is taking place online this week. Several members of the IFAE ATLAS team are attending it and giving talks.

The MAGIC telescope’s first observation of a gamma-ray burst is featured in the Symmetry Magazine with quotes by Elena Moretti.

I-CERCA has included the Ecotags project (Project IP: JG Macias) in the Ginjol patent fund.

Two new papers have been published by the group