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Elementary Particle Physics
17/01/2018 - 08:45

At a plenary meeting of the European Committee for Future Accelerators
(ECFA) held at CERN on 16–17 November, Jorgen D’Hondt of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium was elected ECFA chairperson.

22/12/2017 - 10:00

A consortium of Belgian, British and French scientists, including physicists from the VUB, has deployed a new kind of neutrino detector at the BR2 research reactor of SCK•CEN in Mol. After the discovery of the Higgs boson, the researchers are getting closer to achieve one of the biggest challenges in Science: detecting a new kind of elementary particle, the sterile neutrino. 

20/12/2017 - 18:00

20 december 2017 : De CMS collaboratie op CERN is verheugd de release bekend te maken van de derde reeks hoge-kwaliteit open data van de CMS-detector bij de Large Hadron Collider (LHC), beschikbaar op de CERN Open Data-portal . 

Deze versie bevat datasets die zijn gebruikt om het Higgs-deeltje te ontdekken en de gegevens zijn beschikbaar in hetzelfde formaat dat CMS-wetenschappers gebruiken voor onderzoek. CMS levert ook kleinere, vereenvoudigde gegevensreeksen voor educatief gebruik. De gegevens zijn vrijgegeven voor het publieke domein onder de Creative Commons licentie.

15/09/2017 - 16:00

On September 15 2017 Kevin Deroover obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
A search for flavor changing neutral currents involving a top quark and a Higgs boson with the CMS experiment
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Jorgen D'Hondt

27/06/2017 - 16:00

On June 27th 2017 Giuliano Maggi obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Obscured Flat Spectrum Radio AGN using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Nick van Eijndhoven

13/03/2017 - 16:00

On March 13 2017 Lana Beck obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
The Search for the Standard Model Production of Four Top Quarks
Joint PhD with University of Bristol
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Freya Blekman & Prof. Dr. Joel Goldstein

03/03/2017 - 12:00

On March 3 2017 Pedro Parra Rivas obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Dynamics of dissipative localized structures in driven nonlinear optical cavities
Promotors: Prof. Jan Dackaert, Prof. Lendert Gelens & Prof. Damia Gomila
Joint PHD with Universitat de les Illes Balears

20/01/2017 - 12:00

On January 20th 2017 Nolwenn Lemaïtre obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences (VUB) and Doctor in Marine Sciences (UBO-IUEM)
with the following doctoral thesis:  Multi-proxy approach (234Th, Baxs) of export and remineralisation fluxes of carbon and biogenic elements associated ith the oceanic biological pump
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Frank Dehairs & Dr. Geraldine Sarthou
Joint PhD with Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

26/09/2016 - 17:00

On September 26th 2016 Alexandra Vandervelde obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Mechanisms of transcription regulation in prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin modules
Promotors: Prof. Dr. ir. R. Loris & Prof. Dr. J. Danckaert & Prof. Dr. H. De Greve

21/06/2016 - 10:00

Op de Fellowship Ceremony donderdag 16 juni heeft de Vrije Universiteit Brussel de namen van dertig nieuwe Fellows bekendgemaakt. Het gaat om topmensen uit het bedrijfsleven, overheid of maatschappelijke organisaties. Daaronder drie Science Fellows: Jan Bogaerts, Patrick Roggemans en Els Torreele.

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