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27/01/2015 - 16:15

On January 27th 2015 David Catteeuw obtained the academic degree of DOCTOR in SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis:

Emergence of Honest Signaling through Learning and Evolution.

Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bernard Manderick

23/01/2015 - 16:15

On January 23rd 2015 Joeri DE KOSTER obtained the academic degree of DOCTOR in SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis:

Domains: Language Abstractions for Controlling Shared Mutable State in Actor Systems.

Promotor: Prof. Dr. Theo D'Hondt & Dr. Tom Van Cutsem

12/01/2015 - 13:00

Onderzoekers van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Universiteit Antwerpen en Universiteit Gent werken mee aan een nieuw neutrino experiment aan de Belgische BR2 kernreactor van het SCK-CEN in Mol (België).

08/01/2015 - 16:15

On January 8, 2015 Liesbeth Van Oeffelen obtained the Academic degree of
DOCTOR in BIO-ENGINEEERING SCIENCES with the thesis:

Protein-DNA interactions and solid-state nanopores.
Promotor: Prof. dr. Daniël Charlier

18/12/2014 - 16:15

On December 18, 2014 Sarah Triest obtained the academic degree of
DOCTOR in BIO-ENGINEEERING SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis:

A nanobody-enabled platform for the stabilization of transient protein-protein interactions for structural biology.

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. Jan Steyaert

16/12/2014 - 15:45

On December 16, 2014 AKTER Mossamat Salma obtained the academic degree of
Doctor in BIO-ENGINEERING SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis:

Mining the reactive-oxygen-species signal transduction proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana: a sulfenomic approach.

promotor : Prof. Dr. Joris Messens
co-promotor: Prof. Dr. Frank Van Breusegem

VUB physicists are preparing CMS for LHC Run 2
12/12/2014 - 16:15

Geneva, 12 December 2014. CERN announced today at the 174th session of the CERN Council that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is gearing up for its second three-year run. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world and the whole 27-kilometre superconducting machine is now almost cooled to its nominal operating temperature of 1.9 degrees above absolute zero. All teams, including the VUB particle physicists working in the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies are at work to get the LHC and CMS back online. Run 2 of the LHC will start in March 2015 and follows a 2-year technical stop that prepared the machine for running at almost double the energy of the LHC’s first run.

Professor Stijn Buitink
12/12/2014 - 14:45

Kersverse VUB professor in de sterrenkunde Prof. Dr. Stijn Buitink heeft een van de prestigeuze ERC grants ontvangen. Met hulp van de Europese Reseach Council gaat Buitink onderzoek doen naar korte uitbarstingen van radiostraling afkomstig van kosmische deeltjes in de atmosfeer, met behulp van de LOFAR-telescoop. De precieze herkomst van deze hoog energetische kosmische deeltjes is nog onduidelijk. Buitink wil te weten komen of ze uit onze eigen Melkweg afkomstig zijn of van bronnen veel verder van ons vandaan, zoals actieve zwarte gaten. Bovendien gaat hij een nieuwe observatietechniek ontwikkelen om radiopulsen te vinden van extreem hoogenergetische deeltjes die op de maan terecht komen. Op die manier zou hij een gigantische kosmische deeltjesdetector kunnen maken van de hele maan!

06/12/2014 - 15:30

Geneva, 20 November 2014. CERN1 launched today its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by the LHC experiments will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will be of high value for the research community, and also be used for education purposes.
”Launching the CERN Open Data Portal is an important step for our Organization. Data from the LHC programme are among the most precious assets of the LHC experiments, that today we start sharing openly with the world. We hope these open data will support and inspire the global research community, including students and citizen scientists,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.

05/12/2014 - 15:30

Sophie Viaene, doctoraal onderzoekster bij de Applied Physics Research Group van de VUB, staat op de shortlist voor de EOS Scriptieprijs: een prijs van het populair-wetenschappelijk met dezelfde naam voor de beste eindverhandeling uit de exacte wetenschappen.

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