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We are happy to announce that our new group member Dr. Elisabeth Schopf has been elected as the next ATLAS-Germany Higgs convenor for a three-year term.

In the upcoming winter term 2024/25 physics students are invited to participate in the course "Machine Learning in High-Energy Physics" with practical exercises.  The course comprises 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of hands-on exercises per week.  The course will be taught in English.  Further details are found in ...

The Experimental Particle Physics Group has received continued funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for its involvement in the ATLAS experiment. Click the link to read more about the involvement from Siegen in the ATLAS experiment, spanning all the way from hardware to data analysis: https://www.uni-siegen.de/start/news/forschungsnews/1033740.html

Two members of the group, Tim Fehler and Adam Warnerbring, have been awarded House of Young Talents scholarships starting on the 1st of April, to support their doctoral projects. Congratulations!

A news article about the the SHiP experiment has been published on the university web-page. Click on the following link to read about the experiment and Siegen's involvement: https://www.uni-siegen.de/start/news/forschungsnews/1031661.html 

We offer the electronics lab course again this summer term.  It consists of a lecture and practical exercises. The course is taught in English and open to all physics students from the 3rd semester upwards.

As places in the lab are limited interested students are requested to sign up for ...

The University of Siegen has achieved a significant success in the current round of the Excellence Strategy by the Federal Government and the States. The outline for an excellence cluster in the field of elementary particle physics was selected in a crucial German research competition from 143 submitted proposal sketches ...

A new article about the Pierre-Auger-Observatory has been published on the university web-page: https://www.uni-siegen.de/start/news/forschungsnews/1026630.html

Prof. Dr. Markus Cristinziani introduced the children from the 'Kinderuni' to research with accelerators and detection devices (Original article in German by Katja Knoche).

The children from 'Kinderuni' embarked on an experimental journey into the Geneva underworld together with physicist Prof. Dr. Markus Cristinziani. CERN, the European Organization ...

Markus will try to motivate very young students to study physics in some years. He will deliver a talk about CERN, the smallest particles and its connection to the Big Bang, today starting at 5pm at Campus Unteres Schloss. About 200 interested kids aged 8-12 are expected to join. Read ...