From 31 May to 2 June, almost 300 participants came together to exchange on topics including dark matter, particle astrophysics, cosmology of the early and late universe, and gravitational waves.
Professor Avi Loeb, who heads the Galileo Project and is the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University, was awarded the .
UvA physicists Gianfranco Bertone and Samaya Nissanke have received an NWO ENW-M2 grant for their research project ‘Searching for dark matter with gravitational waves’. The grant allows them to create a small team of researchers to develop new method
Already very successful in Italy, the Cosmos Book Prize initiative has now kicked off in the Netherlands. High school students get to read popular science books for free, and together elect a prize winner. A professional jury elects a second winner.