Nieuws 2008

On 12 December the 40th anniversary of the KVI and the 60th anniversary of KVI Director Muhsin Harakeh were celebrated with a symposium at the Academy Building of the University of Groningen .

Symposium on occasion of 40 years of physics research at the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI) and the 60th birthday and the farewell of our long-time director Muhsin N. Harakeh.

End of November the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has decided to grant the requested 8.8 M€ for the KM3NeT project, a European research infrastructure for astroparticle physics in the Mediterranean Sea .

Inauguration of the southern site of their observatory in Malargüe , Argentina , Friday, November 14, 2008

FOM has awarded funds for a post-doc position for two years, a PhD-position (OIO) and a running budget of k€ 65.

On 29th September 2008 , Europeans presented to the world their strategy for the future of astroparticle physics. The KVI is participating in two of these projects.

Bijaya Sahoo received the grant for his application Atomic parity violation as a high-precision test of the unified electroweak theory.

In the night of 29 to 30 May a submarine has installed the final detector lines of the Antares neutrino telescope at the bottom of the Mediterranean .

The Kamerlingh Onnes prize 2006-2007, for the best cum laude student in physics at the University of Groningen in the academic year 2006-2007, has been awarded to Duurt Johan van der Hoek from KVI.

KVI Director Muhsin Harakeh was decorated with Royal Honours as Officer in the Order of Orange - Nassau