Tag: Spain
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25th IPPOG spring meeting in Sofia
Another wonderful international meeting has just finished. We were in Sofia, Bulgaria. From May 9th to May 13th, 2023, one of the most dynamic and lively IPPOG events took place at the marvelous district of Sofia Tech Park. The afternoon of May 9th was dedicated to the International Masterclasses meeting led by the two coordinators,…
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GREAT CHALLENGES OF KNOWLEDGE / II CIEMAT Science Week Conference
Within the II Jornadas Científicas organised by CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) on the occasion of Science Week 2020, lectures on the fundamental structure of matter, on dark matter and on the Cosmos, bringing together research from the very small to the very large
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24th IPPOG Autumn Collaboration Meeting at CERN
“Everything happens, but we don’t know why” S. Goldfarb The aim of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) is to inspire the young generations to pursue a career in STEM, especially particle physics. IPPOG does it engaging students in classrooms, laboratories, experimental halls, music festivals, art exhibitions, office buildings and government offices across the…
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WINNERS
First Prize #girlsdophysics + #girlsdoparticlephysics Sara Heidari18 years old, IranSara made an experiment with LEDs applying the Ohm’s law: (V/I=R) She built an electronic board with a photocell, a battery, some resistors, LED lights and a switch. When the ambient light increases, the photocell detects and collects it. The current generated causes the resistance to decrease,…
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COSMIX
INTRO COSMIX is a project developed at CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan aiming at providing high-school teachers with easy-to-use atmospheric-muon detectors. These detectors enable one to simply and quickly evidence the existence of cosmic rays. They take advantage of the recycling of Cesium iodide scintillator logs (CsI) and their associated electronics, used for tests preceding the launch of…
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Explaining Particle Physics to the Public
IPPOG forum members regularly discuss how to explain complex particle physics topics to the public. This specific working group took up the challenge to extract, from a long tradition, a wide range of working documents and even more ideas, the following stories: More are expected by the end of 2024, and will be grouped in…
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Cazadores de Rayos Gamma
INTRO Cazadores de Rayos Gamma is a high energy astrophysics web application where students can analyse data from the MAGIC telescopes using a python programming environment. This outreach application combines a storytelling approach with science and programming challenges for the users. 4 PhD students introduce the user into high energy astrphysics research and the observations and…
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Winners
Winners of the 2018 Particles4U Competition Congratulations to all participants of this year’s Particles4U Competition. We received a total of 77 entries from 15 countries spanning the globe: Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. The jury was impressed by the quality of…
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iGrav
The inaugural IGrav meeting was held in July 2019, following the Amaldi meeting in Valencia, Spain. IGrav brings together members of different collaborations and experiments from the broad field of gravity research. MISSION The mission of IGrav (the International Gravity Outreach Group) is to engage people throughout the world in exploring the exciting field of…
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Spain
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:CPAN outreach webpage The Spanish particle physics community invests a sizable effort in science outreach and promotion. Most research institutions and universities in this field carry out numerous activities, both at local level and national level. The coordination of national activities is a responsibility of the National Center…