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16 January 2015 Caltech News Release – Fiona Harrison Awarded High-Energy Astrophysics Prize

16 January 2015 Symmetry Magazine – Scientists complete array on Mexican volcano

13 January 2015 Kavli IPMU News Release – Decoding the gravitational evolution of dark matter halos

10 January 2015 IHEP News Release – Groundbreaking at JUNO

9 January 2015 SLAC Press Release – World’s Most Powerful Camera Receives Funding Approval

9 January 2015 On January 9, 2015 the General Assembly of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium, APPEC1, elected Frank Linde (director of Nikhef2 from 2004 to 2014) as its new Chair. He is taking over from Stavros Katsanevas (director of APC3), who was chairing APPEC since November 2012. Thomas Berghöfer (DESY4) was reappointed as General

7 January 2015 Goals and Challenges for APPEC’s Scientific Advisory Committee One of the first actions undertaken by the APPEC consortium in 2013 was the appointment of its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). The main criterion for SAC membership, as established by the APPEC General Assembly (GA), was the internationally recognised competence of the chosen experts

6 January 2015 New Revelations on Dark Matter A number of astrophysical measurements on the scale of galaxies to the entirety of the visible Universe, point towards the existence of some sort of dark matter that appears to comprise roughly a quarter of the energy density of the Universe. The nature of the particles which

6 January 2015 The Times of India – Centre clears Rs 1,500 crore underground neutrino lab

4 April 2015 Scientific American – Troublemaker Lee Smolin Says Physics–and Its Laws–Must Evolve