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Secondary school students get hands on experience with particle physics
24 secondary school students attended the 2015 International Particle Physics Masterclasses at Maynooth University, Friday 20 March. The day included lectures about particle physics theory and experiment, analysis of data from the ALICE experiment at CERN, and a video conference with other students from Italy, France and Germany, hosted by CERN.
Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Maynooth University congratulates Peter Higgs and François Englert on Nobel Prize in Physics
Maynooth University today congratulated Peter Higgs and François Englert on their Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded today "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider".
Date: Tuesday, 08 October 2013
EPS Poster Prize, Elena Green at XXXIII Dynamics Days Europe
Ms. Elena Green a PhD student at the Mathematical Physics wins first prize for her poster at Dynamic Days 2013.
Date: Friday, 28 June 2013