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Jacco Vink to use large grant to seek out the sources of gamma rays

GRAPPA member Jacco Vink received an NWO Large Investment grant for €1.5M that will enable the Netherlands to develop and manufacture highly specialised cameras for the future southern Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).

5/21/2021

Ejection nebula of supernova Cassiopeia A does not expand evenly

3/22/2022

Opening of GRAPPA Postdoctoral Fellowship!

12/14/2020

The Dutch Black Hole Consortium receives €4.9 million in funding

12/12/2020

Sera Markoff receives Diversity Initiative Award

12/4/2020

Dark matter even more elusive than previously thought

9/18/2020

NWA-ORC for neutrino observations

7/12/2020

LOFAR images cosmic radio monsters

3/5/2020

Top prize in high-energy awarded to Event Horizon Telescope

1/31/2020
Archived News (pre-2019)
  • Samaya Nissanke elected GRAPPA spokesperson
  • Gianfranco Bertone appointed founding director of EuCAPT
  • Kenny Ng to join GRAPPA on a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
  • Mass or interaction, but not both
  • A new era in the quest for dark matter
  • Another blow for the dark matter interpretation of the Galactic Center Excess
  • Bachelor workshop results in publication on neutrino decay
  • Welcome, Samaya Nissanke!
  • TeVPA 2018

Highlights

Samaya Nissanke receives Suffrage Science Award

3/8/2021

GRAPPA Postdoctoral Fellows: Lionel London and Oscar Macias

3/1/2021

Rare Blast’s Remains Discovered in Milky Way Center

2/10/2021

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  • Multimessenger Physics
  • Dark Universe
  • The Early Universe
  • Gravitational Waves and Strong Gravity

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  • Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Experimental neutrino physics: ANTARES, KM3NeT, DUNE
  • Experimental direct dark matter detection: XENON
  • Fast timing detectors for particle physics experiments
  • Detector R&D for gravitational wave instrumentation at Nikhef

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