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New appointment

Mario Martinez appointed as member of Virgo's Organization Committee

July 15, 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.”

New Fellowship

Pol Forn-Diaz awarded a Ramón y Cajal grant

July 8, 2020

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."

New appointment

Nicola Orlando appointed as convener of the Higgs Beyond-the-SM ATLAS subgroup

July 8, 2020

Nicola Orlando, a PROBIST postdoc in the IFAE-ATLAS group, has been appointed as convener of the Higgs Beyond-the-SM (HBSM) subgroup of the ATLAS Higgs and Diboson Searches (HDBS) working group.

Publication

New Neutrino Group Publication

June 3, 2020

“Likelihood-free inference of experimental neutrino oscillations using neural spline flows” has been published online in the 1 June 2020 issue of Physical Review D (Vol. 101, No. 11)

Publication

New Cosmohub paper

June 3, 2020

“CosmoHub: Interactive exploration and distribution of astronomical data on Hadoop” has been published in Astronomy and Computing (Volume 32, July 2020, 100391)

Institutional

IFAE Annual Report 2019 Online

May 27, 2020

The 2019 IFAE Annual Activities Report is now online. You can find the report here: http://annualreport.ifae.es

Project Update

The LINDA project is selected for the Venture Building Phase in the Collider program

May 26, 2020

The investment committee of the innovation program The Collider selected the LINDA project for its Venture Building Phase.The next step is the creation of a spin-off company including a seed capital investment of 50K€ from the Mobile World Capital Foundation to develop a minimum viable product.

Project update

PHIL project featured in the list of ATTRACT technologies to help fight Covid-19

May 13, 2020

The PHIL project featured in the list of ATTRACT technologies to help fight Covid-19 The PHIL project led by Thorsten Lux in collaboration with LEITAT to develop a Photonic System for Liquid Biopsy has been featured on the ATTRACT’s press release on ATTRACT technologies to help fight Covid-19