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 top, working together in pairs, as one person had to belay while the other person climbed the wall. It was a very wholesome experience.

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 Aviv. It was initially established as the Daniel Sieff Institute in 1934, by Israel and Rebecca Sieff of London in memory of their son Daniel. In 1949, it was renamed for Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first President of the State of Israel and Founder of the Institute.

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 share the results in a common database. More details can be found here.

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).

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 program, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, is a center for advanced research and graduate education at New York University established in 2007. The Foundation also supports organizations in the arts and humanities, nature and gardens, neuroscience research, human rights and Jewish culture (more information available here: http://leonlevyfoundation.org).

February 2-3, 2018

Prof. Auke-Pieter Colijn, of NIKHEF, Netherlands, visited the Astroparticle Lab from February 2-3, 2018 to work together with Dr. Marcello Messina on the Technical Design Report of the XENONnT detector. Both Dr. Messina and Prof. Colijn are Technical Coordinators of XENONnT.

December 18, 2017

The Astroparticle Lab had one day of `retreat’ on Dec. 18th, to discuss challenges and strategies for the future. The retreat happened in one of the meeting rooms of the Library, and there was a nice break at the Vasa Vasa gelato place in Al Muneera.

December 10, 2018

How (and Why) is it possible to detect a tiny little piece of the Universe? The talk “Interactions of particles with matter: the art of making visible the invisible” that  Dr. Adriano Di Giovanni gave at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Canadian University of Dubai (CUD) was about the most challenging endeavor of Science in the last 100 years. Physicists, not all of them of course,  are particle hunters: they push hard the knowledge and techniques to enlighten the most elusive and pretty much invisible traces of the Universe. Big accelerators, like the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), or underground, -water, -ice facilities are the common ways to solve the puzzle.  Not to mention that this is the most beautiful job.

December 5, 2017

On December 5th, Prof. Arneodo participated in the first meeting of the  Mohammed Bin Rashid Academy of Scientist, which was held in Dubai, in the beautiful venue of the Etihad Museum. The meeting was chaired by Science Minister Sara Amiri, and honoured by the presence of HH Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid, who gave two prizes to Emirati scientists. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss the challenges of research that UAE scientists are facing and to provide solutions. From NYUAD, two representatives were present, Prof. Naumov and Prof. Arneodo. They both participated in the `Natural Science’ panel.