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UBTERM website has just incorporated "Termes d’astrofísica", a brief terminological compilation that offers solutions to denominate in Catalan some popular words in Astrophysics which are usually named in English. Some expressions are typically used in English instead of Catalan, either due to ignorance of its standard form in Catalan or just because it does not exist a satisfactory denomination reached by consensus.
The work has been developed by Jordi Miralda, ICREA researcher at ICCUB. The online edition has been carried out by the UB Language Services.
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"Termes d'astrofísica" by Jordi Miralda at UBTERM website
Licia Verde and Raul Jimenez, ICREA professors at the ICC, have been named Radcliffe fellows at Harvard University. It is the first time this very prestigious distinction has been given to a scholar based in Spain.
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Verde and Jimenez named Radcliffe fellows at Harvard Univers
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences has been awarded the distinction Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu in the first edition of the call organized by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO).
The distinction María de Maeztu consists on a new modality within the programme of Excellence Centres of MINECO started in 2011 with the only modality Severo Ochoa. The new modality recognizes the excellence of research entities which are included into more complex institutions like universities. The requisites, exigence levels, demands and procedures of evalutaion and selection related with the scientific excellence have been the same as for the Severo Ochoa, as stated in the press release published by the Ministry. The difference between the two modalities relies on the structure of the model of governance and on the organization and management squemmes of the institutions. As an institute belonging to the University of Barcelona, the ICCUB has received the accreditation of Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu.
Since its creation in 2006, the Institute of Cosmos Sciences has experienced a great development and nowadays it is a consolidated research institution. The progress of the institute has been noticed all along the previous Severo Ochoa calls where the ICCUB has always achived good positions in the rankings due to its high scientific level.
The ICCUB is a strong research institution in the fields of Theoretical Astrophysics and Particle Physics and even more in Cosmology, an area in which two members of the institute have been awarded the Gruber prize in 2008 and 2012. The ICCUB has developed an ambitious technological programme through its participation in the most relevant international collaborations in Observational Astronomy and Experimental Particle Physics over the last years. Examples of the renowed role of the ICCUB are its participation in Gaia, where the ICCUB team has been recognized by the ESA as a leader in the design of the setup for satelite data exploitation, or the participation in the LHCb experiment, for which ICCUB members led the construction and analysis of a specific section of the detector. Over the past years the ICCUB has given a new impulse to its technological programme by the recent creation of a spin-off located at the new centre BIC of ESA, and a new entity for electronic services (SiUB). Nowadays the institute has 161 members of 21 different nationalities, including permanent staff, post-doctoral researchers, pre-doctoral students and engineers. Besides, ICCUB is one of the research centers with more ICREA personnel (10) in Catalonia.
The distinction María de Maeztu means for the ICCUB a recognition for all the work done until the moment and also an important financial support for facing the challenges in the coming years. Concretely, the financial support of 500.000€ per year during 4 years will allow the institute to improve its scientific programme, enable the organization of more conferences and workshops, enhance the mobility of the members and visitors, strenghthen the technologic knowledge transfer, create new positions for researchers and engineers, as well as broaden the formation programmes by giving fellowships for master and pre-doctoral studies.
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ICCUB has been awarded the María de Maeztu distinction
The LHCb analysis presented at the Moriond Electroweak conference (La Thuile, Italy), shows deviations from Standard Model calculations.
The Standard Model describes elementary particles and their behaviour. Even though it is currently the best description there is of the subatomic world, it does not explain the complete picture. For this reason, theoreticians have developed models beyond the Standard Model, which would complete it. In this context, the LHCb experiment searches for new physics by looking for the effects of possible new particles in rare decays of particles that contain a beauty quark (B particles).
Recently, LHCb physicists have been studying the angular distribution of the particles coming from one of these rare B particle decays (B → K*μμ), a parameter that is highly sensitive to the effects of new particles. The new results are certain to draw the attention of physicists worldwide, as theorists consider the many possible implications.
See further details in the following link:
http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/Welcome.html#P5p
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Deviations from the Standard Model found at LHCb experiment
After a stop which lasted two years, the LHC placed at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), will start its activity again during this year 2015.
For this new stage the collision energy of the LHC has been rised from the initial 8 TeV to 13TeV, a significant increase that will allow to unravel many details about the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe.
The Experimental Particle Physics research group of ICCUB will keep participating in the LHCb experiment during this new phase, specializing on the analysis of b quarks . Members of this group are currently contributing to the design of electronical improvements as well as to the study of new radiative processes.
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ICCUB researchers participate in the 2nd phase of LHC projec
- On February
19, 2015, the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona appointed Dr. Jorge Núñez de Murga Director of the Fabra Observatory of Barcelona.
Jorge Nunez is Professor of Astronomy at the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology of the University of Barcelona and active member of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences. He follows Dr. Josep Maria Vidal Codina, UB professor emeritus who has benn director since 1970 until now.
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Jorge Núñez appointed director of the Fabra Observatory
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"