Also this year, the ECAP summer fair took place in splendid weather conditions. On 19th of July, the research, administrative, and technical groups of ECAP and Physics Institute came together for scientific exchanges, and discussed the latest developments in the field of astrophysics and astropartic...
In the middle of the large Chilean Atacama desert, a team of Polish astronomers monitors millions of celestial bodies night after night with the help of a modern robotic telescope. In 2013, the team was surprised when they discovered, in the course of their survey, stars that varied much faster...
The die is cast: during the upcoming 3-year funding period on “Ground-based Astro- and Astroparticle Physics”, scientists from the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) will receive more than 2 million Euros of federal funding through “Verbundforschung”, a funding ...
Das „Schaufenster Ozean“ präsentiert von 21.4. bis 10.5. 2017 in Erlangen Unterwasser-Videos als Beitrag zum Wissenschaftsjahr 2016*17 – Meere und Ozeane Die Stadt wird farbenfroh – und nein, es ist ausnahmsweise nicht der Frühling gemeint. In Erlangen können bald leuchtende Korallen und quietschbun...
We congratulate our Post-Doc Jannik Hofestaedt to he award of first best poster presented at the XVII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes 2017 in Venice, Italy. With his poster ‘Event reconstruction in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector‘, Jannik presented the details of his highly performant shower ...
Like last semester, we are organizing again an observing night with the gamma-ray telescope FACT which will take place Wednesday 18.1.2017 in STRL 307. We will start at 18h and operate the telescope via internet from Erlangen. We are planning to order pizza during the evening. Full Poster
This year’s Xmas lecture of the Department of Physics will be on the Star of Bethlehem. ECAP astronomers from Remeis-Observatory will discuss the different theories that have been brought forward to explain this phenomenon, including close planetary conjunctions, comets, or even stellar explos...
On December 2 the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics presents itself at the ECAP Open Day, where you will get the opportunity to learn everything about research and projects running at the ECAP. This means you can talk to scientists from various research areas in astroparticle-, astrophysics ...
On October 21 the FRANCI meeting took place at ECAP. This annual workshop is organized by the Universities of Würzburg (JMU) and Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and was hosted this time at the ECAP. Around 60 students and scientists from the University sites of Bamberg, Erlangen and Würzburg came together t...
A meeting on run-away and hyper-velocity star will be held at Bamberg 2016, August 16.-19. More information on the website below! Website
