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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.

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

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.

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.

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

“Exhaustive neural importance sampling applied to Monte Carlo event generation has been published in Physical Review D (Vol. 102,No. 1)

The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) takes place online July 20-24, 2020.

Mario Martinez has been appointed as member of Virgo’s Organization Committee with the charge to define the “new Virgo Statute, a comprehensive document defining the Collaboration governance and the functioning rules for the governing bodies.”

Pol Forn-Díaz obtains a Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral grant. This is the most prestigious fellowship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for senior postdoc recruitment."