Past Events
Professor Auke-Pieter Colijn’s NYUAD Visit
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.
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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. The lab started discussing the status of […]
Continue readingDr. Adriano Di Giovanni gave a talk at Canadian University in Dubai
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 […]
Continue readingProf. Francesco Arneodo participates in the first meeting of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Academy of Scientists
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 […]
Continue readingProf. Francesco Arneodo Participates in UNOOSA Workshop
November 20, 2017 Prof. Francesco Arneodo was invited to speak at the United Nations / Italy Workshop on the Open Universe Initiative, where the ambitious project of making all space science data available (and usable) to the public has been discussed. Prof. Arneodo presented his talk titled, “Open Data and Space Science in the UAE” which discusses […]
Continue readingThe Astroparticle Lab Welcomes Dr. Gianmarco Bruno
November 15, 2017 Dr. Gianmarco Bruno, formerly at Laboratori del Gran Sasso – Italy, and at the University of Munster, Germany, joined the Astroparticle Lab on November 15th. Dr. Bruno has an extensive experience in the experimental aspects of particle physics. He has collaborated in leading experiments on neutrino physics, namely the Large Volume Detector […]
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