Category: About
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Finland
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER The Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) is a physics research institute that is operated jointly by the University of Helsinki, Aalto University, the University of Jyväskylä, the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, and the Tampere University. The research activity at the institute covers an extensive range of subjects in theoretical physics…
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Denmark
Denmark JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Representative Ian Bearden I am a faculty member at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. I came to Copenhagen in 1994 as a post-doc in high spin gamma ray spectroscopy after receiving my PhD from Purdue University based on research performed as a graduate assistant at Argonne National…
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Czech Republic
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Particle physicists in Czech Republic are curious and keen on discovering of all beauties and secrets of the microworld – pretty much like their colleagues all over the macroworld. There are teams of tens Czech physicists on ATLAS and ALICE experiments at CERN, studying collisions of protons and heavy ions.…
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International Masterclasses Coordination
While in graduate school, Ken Cecire found that his greatest satisfaction was a teaching assistant in undergraduate introductory courses. Upon receiving an MA in Physics at City College, New York in 1981, Ken became a high school physics teacher. After several years of summer research at Jefferson Lab, Ken left the classroom in 1999 and…
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CMS Collaboration
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:CMS resources website The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment is one of the two large, general-purpose particle physics detectors at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) . It’s a major international scientific collaboration, involving over 6000 particle physicists, engineers, and technicians from across the globe . The CMS Collaboration…
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CERN
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE(S):CERN Public websiteCERN Educational Resources CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s leading laboratories for particle physics. The Organization is located on the French-Swiss border, with its headquarters in Geneva. At CERN, physicists and engineers probe the fundamental structure of the universe, by…
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Bulgaria
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Sofia Tech Park develops activities to support start-ups, small and medium enterprises, science, education and innovation. There are few main components included in the park: Incubator – The incubator community includes start-ups and developed companies, investment funds and educational organizations.Forum – A venue for events in the field of science,…
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Brazil
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE: IPPOG-Brasil Brazil is represented in IPPOG by the National Network of High Energy Physics (Rede Nacional de Física de Altas Energias, RENAFAE, in Portuguese), officially created by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology to coordinate the national effort in High Energy Physics. The country has a…
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Belle II Collaboration
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE(S):KEK outreach websiteBelle II The Belle II experiment is a particle physics experiment designed to study the properties of B mesons (heavy particles containing a beauty quark) and other particles. The Belle II spectrometer, located on the interaction point of the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider, Tsukuba, Japan, started data…