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Enthusiasts and experts for the Julia programming language gathered at ECAP from 6th-9th November to pave the way for the use of Julia in High Energy Physics (HEP) in the first JuliaHEP workshop. Organized by experts from the field, four days were dedicated to tutorials, short presentations an...

Long Night of Science: Big success at ECAP Laboratory with more than 1100 visitors

Anna Nelles, who is both a professor at ECAP and a scientist at DESY, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth 1.5 Mio EUR for 5 years. With the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) she is building a network of radio antennas to eavesdrop on extremely energetic neutrinos from space. E...

The Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics turned 15 years old in May 2023, time to celebrate the anniversary in our new ECAP Laboratory. “The ECAP is just in its adolescence and I will be glad to come back and see it in adulthood five years from now” Prof. Christian Stegmann said in his jubilee...

From May 8th to May 12th ECAP hosted the first in a series of two workshops in multi-messenger high-energy astrophysics between the Astroparticle Physics groups of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and the São Carlos Institute of Physics – University of São Paulo. The workshops are jointly funded by the Bav...

Twice yearly the H.E.S.S. Collaboration meets to discuss recent progress, both scientific and technical, and to discuss future plans for the H.E.S.S. experiment. At each collaboration meeting, the H.E.S.S. prize is awarded to an early career researcher who has made outstanding contributions to the e...

From April 2023, Prof. Dr. Claudio Kopper joins the ECAP. He takes over the Chair for Experimental Astroparticle Physics and will strengthen the research at ECAP with his work on the detection and analyses of high-energy neutrinos. The research of the group will span astroparticle physics in genera...

At the current Collaboration meeting, the KM3NeT Collaboration awarded the first-ever Giorgos-Androulakis-Prize to ECAP early-career scientist Tamás Gál. The KM3NeT Collaboration meets online this week to discuss the progress and future plans of construction, operation and analysing the data of its ...

ECAP had the opportunity to welcome the science and technology counsellor from the Indian Embassy in Berlin, Dr. Madhusudan Reddy Nandineni, during his visit to FAU. International collaboration is a key aspect of many of ECAP's activities and we had a valuable discussion to strengthen scientific coo...

The Meter-wavelength radio astronomy community in Germany is organized in the German Long Wavelength Consortium (GLOW). One particular priority of GLOW is the operation of the German LOFAR stations. LOFAR is the world's largest low-frequency radio telescope and will remain so for the foreseeable fut...