The ninth international symposium on “Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection” will be held in Paris on the 12th-14th of December 2018. The purpose of the meeting is an extensive discussion of present and future projects using a large TPC for low energy, low background detection of rare events (low-energy neutrinos, double beta decay, dark matter, solar axions). There […]
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On Saturday 1st December 2018, scientists attending the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop in College Park, Maryland, presented new results from searches for coalescing cosmic objects, such as pairs of black holes and pairs of neutron stars, by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. The LIGO and Virgo interferometers have now confidently detected gravitational waves from a total of 10 […]
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The APC wil welcome 3 colloquia this December, whose subjects are of great interest to UnivEarthS members and others! . Please find in the poster below all the necessary informations, locations and dates, speakers’ names, titles and abstracts. The first meeting is on (this coming) Thursday Dec 6, at 2pm in 454A (on gravitational waves!), followed by Friday Dec 7 […]
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Sandrine Peron, doctoral student of the team I6 : De la poussière aux planètes, is pleased to invite you to her thesis defence entitled : Origin of terrestrial volatile elements: contribution of rare gas geochemistry. The defense will take place on Tuesday, December 4 at 14:00 in the IPGP amphitheatre in front of the jury composed of : Sujoy Mukhopadhyay […]
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In just over 24 hours, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will complete its seven-month journey to Mars. It will have cruised 301,223,981 miles (484,773,006 km) at a top speed of 6,200 mph (10,000 kph). Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which leads the mission, are preparing for the spacecraft to enter the Martian atmosphere, descend with a parachute […]
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