Past Events
Guest Lecture in Professor Mazin Magzoub’s Course
November 9, 2017 Prof. Francesco Arneodo and Dr. Adriano Di Giovanni gave a guest lecture in the Core course “The 7 wonders”, showing to the class how to visualize cosmic rays particles with a `cloud chamber’. The students seemed to be quite excited and curious.
Continue readingXRF Lab Visit By Prof. Robert Parthesius and Prof. Denise Marie Teece
November 9, 2017 Prof. Robert Parthesius, Prof. Denise Marie Teece, and Isabelle Garachon (Head of the Ceramics and Sculpture Restoration Workshop at the Rijksmuseum) visited with their students visited the Astroparticle Lab's X-Ray Fluorescence laboratory (XRF). Undergraduate Capstone student Rodrigo Torres illustrated with great expertise the physics and the process of XRF.
Continue readingGuest Lecture at “Space”
November 1, 2017 Prof. Francesco Arneodo and Dr. Adriano Di Giovanni gave a guest lecture in the Core course of Prof. Dave Russell, “Space”, about cosmic rays, with a demo in the A1 Physics lab, with of course the presence of the Cosmic Ray Live Detector!
Continue readingGuest Lecture at “Quantum Theory and Relativity”
October 31, 2017 If you are looking for one of the most incredible, counter-intuitive and well-tested theory ever, please have a look at the Einstein’s special relativity. All the telecommunication systems (mobile phones, GPS) are the heritage of one of probably the most brilliant theory of the humankind. But how to prove that? Well, there […]
Continue readingAstroparticle Lab’s Visit to the University of Sharjah
October 19, 2017 On October 19th, Prof. Francesco Arneodo, with Dr. Marcello Messina and capstone student Rodrigo Torres, visited colleagues of the University of Sharjah and of the American University of Sharjah. The reason for the meeting was to visit the laboratory dedicated to the cultural heritage studies at UoS. The meeting involved Prof. Nasser Hamdam […]
Continue readingDr. Adriano Di Giovanni goes to the Neutrino and Nuclear Physics Conference in Catania
October 16, 2017 Dr. Adriano Di Giovanni presented the lab's work in his talk titled, "A Multi-Pixel Photon Counter detector prototype for direct detection of scintillation light in liquid xenon”. The conference registered a quite big attendance (209 scientists from all over the World) with the aim at discussing new advancements in Neutrino and Rare […]
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