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This year, the ECAP summer fair celebrated its tenth anniversary, in the decades-long tradition of this event dating back to its origins in the Physics Institute. On 11th of July, the research, administrative, and technical groups of ECAP and Physics Institute came together for scientific exchanges,...

The H.E.S.S. telescopes have surveyed the Milky Way in gamma-ray light for the last 15 years. To celebrate this anniversary, the H.E.S.S. collaboration has published its largest set of science results to date in a series of papers in a special issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The m...

Interstellar Medium in the Nearby Universe, a workshop on interstellar matter, light, and magnetic fields in our Milky Way and nearby galaxies, will be held at the ECAP institute at the Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte in Bamberg, March 26-28, 2018. Additional information at the workshop page http://www....

On Monday, 8th of January, 2018, Prof. Dr. Manami Sasaki, Professor of Multi-wavelength Astronomy at ECAP gave her inaugural lecture on "Shocks and Collisions: The Turbulent Life of Matter in Galaxies". Manami Sasaki studied physics at the Ruprechts-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. She received her do...

First-light in Berlin-Adlershof: a prototype mid-sized telescope for the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has observed first air showers in late September in Berlin-Adlershof, already in the first night after installing the newly-developed FlashCam camera into the telescope. This installation ...

At its annual meeting, held in Marseille 7-8 October 2017, the Board of the Global Neutrino Network (GNN) unanimously elected Prof. Dr. Uli Katz from the ECAP/FAU as its new chair. Uli Katz took over the chairmanship from Dr. Christian Spiering from DESY-Zeuthen, whose mandate as the first chair per...

In presence of FAU President Joachim Hornegger, State Secretary Stefan Müller of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) visited ECAP today to officially handover funding certificates worth over 2 million Euros. During the next three years, scientists from ECAP who are involved in the c...

On August 17, 2017, the gravitational wave interferometers Advanced Ligo and Advanced Virgo recorded a signal from the merger of a binary neutron star system, a type of signal that had never been seen before. Complementing this exciting discovery, dozens of telescopes worldwide observed the sky,...

Scientists from ECAP are largely involved in the design and construction of CTA, the Cherenkov Telescope Array, and in the preparations for data exploitation of this next-generation observatory for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. Contributions range from shaping CTA's science case and and prep...

We congratulate our Post-Doc Jannik Hofestädt to the 2017 dissertation prize of the Global Neutrino Network! Jannik defended his thesis in February 2017 at ECAP. He receives this award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the design and performance study for the KM3NeT / ORCA detector,...