Past Events
CLYMB – Team Activity
December 30, 2020 The Astroparticle Lab members spent their afternoon on December 30, 2020 at CLYMB Abu Dhabi to de-stress and enjoy wall-climbing at the region’s tallest indoor climbing wall, measuring a mountainous 138 feet in height. It was a great group activity as the lab members cheered for one another as they reached the […]
Continue readingWorkshop with Weizmann Institute
December 22, 2020 Member of the Weizmann Institute for Science and of NYU Abu Dhabi had a collaborative workshop on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary basic research institutions in the natural and exact sciences. It is located in Rehovot, Israel, just south of Tel […]
Continue readingOur participation in the APPEAR project with the Louvre Abu Dhabi
May, 2020 Started in 2013 by the Getty Museum's Department of Antiquities Conservation, the APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis and Research) project aims to increase the understanding of Egyptian funerary portraits of the Roman era. The general idea is to promote quantitative analyses on these portraits, kept in various museums of the world and […]
Continue readingLIGHT-1 payload completed
After 45 days of hard working, thinking and problem solving, the LIGHT-1 assembling was eventually completed at the Age Scientific Head Quarter (Capezzano Pianore(LU), Italy). The onsite team together with the remote support of the NYUAD team in Abu Dhabi, reached the historical milestone of making the payload ready for the integration in the satellite […]
Continue readingSaadiyat Island: A Measurement of the Muon Flux at Sea Level
March 15, 2018 The Astroparticle Lab put quite a significant effort into the design, building, and characterization of the muon telescope detector over the last couple of years. Today marked the time to perform a scientific measurement. The goal is to provide the absolute muon flux angular distributions at sea level (Abu Dhabi latitude). The […]
Continue readingMs. Shelby White Visits the Astroparticle Lab
March 12, 2018 The Astroparticle Lab was pleased to welcome Ms. Shelby White and her crew to their lab and discuss the various research activities of the lab. Ms. White is the Founding Trustee of the Leon Levy Foundation, which was created from the estate of her late husband, who died in 2003. Its largest […]
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