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The ICCUB member Domènec Espriu was awarded Professor Honoris Causa of the State University of Saint Petersburg. The cerimony took place in 16. September 2014.
Earlier in December 2013 the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Physics of the University of S. Petersburg had proposed Prof. Domènec Espriu as honorary professor for his outstanding contribution to the development of high-energy physics and for his achievements in strengthening EU-Russia cooperation.
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Domenec Espriu became honorary professor of the State Univer
Unraveling the misteries of the universe has made experimental scientists around the world to be searching for the particles in deep underground laboratories.
This duty has to be well thought in order to get the best possible results and detect elusing particles. It is a challenge discriminating a dark matter signal from similar background signals produced by neutrons, neutrinos, and other particles.
Recently, a theoretical study carried at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the University of Lyon, France, highlights the best strategies for identifying weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in dark matter detectors.
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Best strategies implemented in dark matter detectors
The second edition of the Ranking of scientists in Catalonian Institutions according to their GSC public profiles is now available. Google Scholars Citations is a tool for setting up author profiles of individuals and their publications as covered by GS. Profiles are ranked, first by h-index in decreasing order and, when ties appear, then by the total number of citations as a secondary criteria.
ICCUB scientists appearing in the top 100:
6 Ricardo Graciani Díaz (H: 77, Citations: 21858)
32 Licia Verde (H: 54, Citations: 38462)
39 Raúl Jiménez (H: 52, Citations: 8188)
59 Roberto Emparan (H: 46, Citations:8594)
83 José Ignacio Latorre (H: 43, Citations: 7883)
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ICCUB researchers appear in the New Google Scholars Ranking
Què tenen a veure els acceleradors de partícules amb la lluita contra el càncer o la caracterització d'obres d'art? I el llenguatge amb què ens comuniquem per Internet o els sistemes d'encriptació per al comerç electrònic amb les partícules subatòmiques?
Aquestes són algunes de les aplicacions de la física que s’expliquen a "La física a les nostres vides" , una exposició itinerant en què es mostren al públic els principals beneficis i desenvolupaments tecnològics sorgits de la recerca bàsica.
"La física a les nostres vides", ha estat produïda pel Centre Nacional de Física de Partícules, Astropartícules i Nuclear (CPAN) i arriba a Catalunya mitjançant l'Institut de Ci[encies del Cosmos (ICCUB). La mostra, es podrà visitar a l'Atri Solar de la Facultat de Física (Diagonal, 645) des del 14 de gener fins a l'11 de març.
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Exposició "La física a les nostres vides"
CERN today launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will be of high value for the research community, and also be used for education purposes.
The first high-level and analysable collision data openly released come from the CMS experiment and were originally collected in 2010 during the first LHC run. Open source software to read and analyse the data is also available, together with the corresponding documentation. The CMS collaboration is committed to releasing its data three years after collection, after they have been thoroughly studied by the collaboration.
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CERN makes public first data of LHC experiments
For the most unexpected discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, rather than slowing as had been long assumed, the Supernova Cosmology Project Team, to which Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente belongs, has been awarded with the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2015.
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Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente is awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fun
For the first time, researchers using ALMA have detected a streamer of gas flowing from a massive outer disc toward the inner reaches of a binary star system. This never-before-seen feature may be responsible for sustaining a second, smaller disc of planet-forming material that otherwise would have disappeared long ago. Half of Sun-like stars are born in binary systems, meaning that these findings will have major consequences for the hunt for exoplanets. The results are published in the journal Nature on 30 October 2014.
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Planet-forming Lifeline Discovered in a Binary Star System
Two astronomers, Tsvi Piran of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Raul Jimenez of the University of Barcelona, argue that some regions of the galaxy are less friendly to life than others. Their interest in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are the most energetic phenomena yet discovered in the universe, has lead them to analyze how this powerful events could affect the chances of developing life in Earth-like planets. The idea is that a GRB occuring nearby (nearby, in this context, means within about 10,000 light-years) to an Earth-like planet, can wreck its biosphere.
The pattern of GRBs shows that they have got rarer over the course of time an also that they are more likely to happen around the center of the Galaxy. The studies show that GRBs would be common enough so that a planet, almost anywhere in the galaxy, would have suffered from at least one in the past billion years. They estimate that even now, only 10% of the universe’s galaxies would host sufficiently few GRBs to give the evolution of complex life a fair run.
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The history of life in the universe may have been governed b
La mayor mancha solar del actual ciclo solar está girando hacia la Tierra. La anchura de la mancha es de 125.000 km, casi tan grande como Júpiter. Hace pocos días AR2192 produjo una fulguración de tipo X1. Desde entonces la manch casi ha doblado su tamaño y ha producido un campo magnético muy inestable. Todo apunta a que en los próximos días se produzcan de nuevo fuertes fulguraciones.
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Una mancha solar enorme!
The anual Astronomy camp organized by ESO at Aosta Valley (Italy) is back!
Dates: During the Christmas holidays of 2014, from Friday 26th of December to Thursday the 1st of January.
Students: A maximum of 56 high school students aged between 16 and 18 years old (courses of 1996, 1997 and 1998).
Registration: To register, applicants should fill a form and upload it together with a video or text (pictures allowed) on the topic "Astronomy and I". Registrations close the 20th of October.
The applicant that the organizers decide has made the best participation entry will win a free trip sponsored by ESO. This means the full cost of the camp and the transportation are included in the prize.
Moreover, the Spanish Society of Astronomy offers a grant to a Spanish student aimed at covering the travel , campus and accomodation expenses.
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ESO ASTRONOMY CAMP 2014