News
Worskhop
ATLAS Higgs and Diboson Searches workshop
September 2, 2020
The ATLAS Higgs and Diboson Searches workshop is taking place virtually this week. Several members of the IFAE ATLAS team are attending and giving talks.
No-tag
To the Mothers of Science 2020 grant winners
July 29, 2020
The programme offers supporting grants and coaching sessions to talented BIST female researchers to recognise their roles as scientists and mothers, and to support them along their way to attaining positions of greater responsibility. This year’s winners come from all seven BIST centres. Malgorzata Siudek, Postdoctoral Researcher at IFAE, obtained one of the grants.
Conference
The IFAE-ATLAS group at the ICHEP conference 2020
July 29, 2020
The ICHEP conference is taking place online from Tuesday 28th July until Thursday 6th August. Most members of the IFAE-ATLAS group are participating and attending various of the many sessions. Several new ATLAS analysis results carried using the full Run 2 data and mainly or entirely by members of IFAE.
Institutional
IFAE 2015-2019 scientific production in Portal de la Recerca de Catalunya
July 29, 2020
The Portal de la Recerca de Catalunya (PRC), opened to the public in January 2017, aims to visualize and disseminate from a single place the research activity carried out in Catalonia. The portal is an initiative of the Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca (CSUC). All CERCA centres are now included in the PRC. You can find IFAE’s information here
In the Media
Deep Detection featured in La Vanguardia
July 29, 2020
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 “Start-Ups” section of La Vanguardia . Mokhtar Chmeissani and José Gabriel Macias are the entrepreneur scientists of the project.
New appointment
Thorsten Lux appointed co-convener of the ND280 Upgrade project
July 22, 2020
Thorsten Lux has become co-convener of the overall ND280 Upgrade project. He is substituting Masashi Yokoyama, full professor at the University of Tokyo, and will lead the ND280 Upgrade project together with Claudio Giganti from LPNHE Paris.
In the media
The AVaQus project featured in the Superconductor Week magazine
July 22, 2020
The AVaQus FET Open project coordinated by Pol Forn-Diaz was featured in the July issue of the Superconductor Week magazine . You can read the article here
Publication
New Neutrino Group Publication
July 22, 2020
“Exhaustive neural importance sampling applied to Monte Carlo event generation has been published in Physical Review D (Vol. 102,No. 1)
Collaboration meeting
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) meeting
July 22, 2020
The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) takes place online July 20-24, 2020.