Preparatory activities have been ongoing for a few years now, however, the International Axion Observatory (IAXO) has recently reached an important milestone with the formal constitution of the collaboration in a meeting that took place on 3-4 July 2017 at DESY, Hamburg. An initial set of 17 institutions from around the world have approved a […]
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Location: Kapuzinerkloster, Cochem, Germany Date: 10/12/2016, all day The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) is a program currently under development at The Pennsylvania State University, in collaboration with a growing list of U.S. and international observatories. AMON seeks to perform a real-time correlation analysis of the high-energy signals across all known astronomical messengers – photons,
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Location: Kapuzinerkloster, Cochem, Germany Date: 07/12/2016 – 09/12/2016, all day We are happy to announce the international workshop ‘Monitoring the non‐thermal Universe’, taking place from Dec 7‐9, 2016 in Cochem, Germany.
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15 November 2016 Antonio Masiero, deputy head of INFN in Italy and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Padua has been appointed by the APPEC General Assembly as the new Chair of the APPEC organisation commencing in January 2017. Professor Masiero was elected Chair of APPEC (Astroparticle Physics European Consortium) by representatives of
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28 October 2016 In the lovely surroundings of the Carl-Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich the SENSE Kick-off workshop took place on 27 September. Scientists, international experts and company representatives gathered to signal the start to the SENSE project, which is funded as FET-Open in Horizon 2020. Dr Thomas Berghöfer, the general
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4 October 2016 From 29 August – 3 September, 60 scientists from across the world gathered in the village of Listvyanka at the shore of Lake Baikal during The Three Messenger Conference writes Dr Vladimir Bozhilov Somewhat contrary to your first expectations, Siberia – a tremendously vast region that accounts for 77% of the land
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Location: Carl-Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich, Germany Date: 27/09/2016, all day More information online The SENSE project will be funded by the European Commission as a Coordination and Support Action in the domain of Future Emerging Technologies (FET-Open) with the aim of coordinating the research and development efforts in academia and industry in low light
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Location: Villa Finaly, Florence, italy Date: 08/09/2016 – 10/09/2016, all day While ESA’s Planck mission was a resounding success, and its data are still being analysed, we now face a gap before the next space-based CMB mission. It is currently believed that the next space mission will happen at the earliest in the late twenties-early
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7 September 2016 By Katharina Henjes-Kunst and Thomas Berghöfer In April, we had reported that the SENSE project will be funded by the European Commission as a Coordination and Support Action in the domain of Future Emerging Technologies. After successful negotiations the three-year project, which can be seen as a satellite activity of APPEC, will
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31 August 2016 APPEC mourns the loss of Roberto Petronzio, who passed away on 28 July 2016. Roberto was one of our founders, a member of the General Assembly from 2000 to 2011 and chair of APPEC from 2004-2005. He studied physics under Nicola Cabibbo at the University of Rome La Sapienza and went on
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