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After 2 years of working on the joint project DarkPIX/MemPHIS together with the IEAP from the CTU in Prague, we had our third collaboration meeting at ECAP mid April 2026. The week started with some software updates for the Timepix3 detectors to improve the data rate, and some first measurements wi...

Just after Easter, 22 High School students visited ECAP to participate in this years IceCube Masterclass (https://masterclass.icecube.wisc.edu/, https://indico.ecap.work/event/194/). The day started with lectures in particle and astroparticle physics. After lunch the students visited selected ECAP ...

ECAP was the local organising institute of this years' Annual Conference of the DPG and DPG Spring Meeting of the Matter and Cosmos Section which took place 15th - 20th of March 2026. We were able to welcome around 2000 physicists around the Schlossgarten in Erlangen. The scientific programme...

Under this year’s motto “Maximum Perspective”, the renowned German youth science competition Jugend forscht is currently in its 61st round. For the third time, the regional competition for Middle Franconia was hosted by the Department of Physics at the FAU. On 24th and 25th of February, the young r...

39 physics students joined Anna Nelles and Robert Lahmann for two days in Zeuthen and Hamburg to learn about large experiments, accelerators and photon science.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole has taken a major step forward with the successful deployment of the IceCube Upgrade. From November to February an international team installed more than 600 new optical sensors into the Antarctic ice, completing six of the seven planne...

The Green Office of the FAU organised the Public Climate School 2025 and also came to the ECAP Laboratory with a PV upcycling workshop. This event was held by the SteckerSolaer working group of the association Energiewende ER(H)langen, in which participants learned how to make used photovoltaic mod...

The Long Night of Science (25th of October 2025) was a very successful outreach event. Scientists at ECAP showed their research topics and physics phenomena to more than 1600 interested visitors. The ECAP Laboratory building was full of visitors from early afternoon to after midnight, that also had...