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Scoring GOALS with Neutrinos from Starbursts
What do neutrinos and soccer games have in common? Check out Megan Masterson's article to see!James Webb Space Telescope research team, with the cooperation of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, detects radiation from nebula-concealed neutron star in the iconic supernova SN 1987A
Supernovas are the spectacular end result of the collapse of stars with a mass greater than 8-10 times that of the sun. This process creates chemical elements such as carbon, oxygen, silicon and iron that make life possible.interview with Golnaz Sherafatipour for the UNESCO international day of women in science
On the 11th of February UNESCO and UN-women celebrate The International Day of Women and Girls in science. At the occasion of this day our engineer Golnaz Sherafatipour was interviewed at CERN in her mother language, Farsi, with English subtitles.Ministers Dijkgraaf and Brouns visit ET pathfinder in Maastricht
Flemish Minister Jo Brouns and his Dutch counterpart Robbert Dijkgraaf made a quick but impactful visit to the ET Pathfinder in Maastricht.13 million euro for consortium coordinated by Jorgen D’Hondt
Prof. Jorgen D’Hondt, member of the VUB research group High Energy Physics (HEP@VUB), will coordinate a consortium of leading European laboratories and industrial partners to tackle the large power demands of particle accelerators.Dr. Alba Romero wins Virgo award 2023
The existence of gravitational waves (GW), predicted by Einstein in 2016 and experimentally discovered by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration (LVK) in 2015, gave rise to one of the fastest growing subfields in physics, e.g. recognized by the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2017.Juhee Song wins best poster prize
Juhee Song (IIHE) wins the best poster prize at the 16th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, TOP2023. The annual workshop was held from Sept 24 to 29 in Michigan, USA. The workshop brings together experimentalists and theorists to discuss the latest developments in the field.VUB professor Mairi Sakellariadou named as president of European Physical Society
Professor of theoretical physics Mairi Sakellariadou has been elected as the next president of the European Physical Society (EPS). She will lead the organisation from 2024. The EPS aims to strengthen the position of the natural sciences in Europe.Maria Knysh wins poster award at Eurostrings 2023
We are proud to announce that Maria Knysh (PhD student in DNTK/TENA, promotor: Prof. Dr. B.Einstein Telescope becomes priority for Europe!
Yesterday, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures announced that the Einstein Telescope project will be part of a short list of priority projects in Europe: https://www.esfri.eu/latest-esfri-news/new-ris-roadmap-2021.