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KM3NeT gathered online for its fall collaboration meeting

13 November 2024 – Last week , the KM3NeT Collaboration has met online for its fall meeting.

During the meeting, we reviewed the current status of data taking for both ARCA and ORCA detectors, discussed the advancements in their construction, the progresses in MC simulation and detector calibration, and outlined the plans for the ongoing data analyses.

It was also the occasion to celebrate our two last sea campaigns and thus the expanded configurations of the detectors, ARCA 33 and ORCA24. The deployment of new instrumentation on the ORCA site will allow for a precise monitoring of the detector position and water properties.

During the meeting Antoine Kouchner started his mandate as chairperson of the Institute Board, taking over from Uli Katz: with many thanks to Uli for all the work done in the past years, and good luck to Antoine for his new duty.

Also during the meeting, the process to elect the new Management Team of the Collaboration was started.

Finally, KM3NeT gave a heartfelt greeting to its new members. Juan Antonio Aguilar Sánchez of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Elisa Bernardini of Padova University, Italy, joined as Observers, while the team led by Arthur Ukleja from the University of Krakow, Poland, was endorsed as Full Member.

A warm welcome to everyone!

It was great to see the advancements in the physics analyses as well as the simulation and calibration works, to discuss recent scientific advancements and to see the Collaboration continue to grow.

The next Collaboration Meeting is scheduled for January, in Belgium, at Louvain-la-Neuve.

2-6 October 2017

KM3NeT and ANTARES Collaboration meeting in Marseille, France.

KM3NeT Collaboration meets in Bari

Last week, 12 – 16 June 2017, researchers and engineers of ANTARES and KM3NeT met in Bari, Italy for their yearly Spring meeting. The Collaboration meeting was organised by the colleagues of the local INFN team, coordinated by Marco Circella. Read more

12-17 June 2017

KM3NeT and ANTARES Collaboration meeting in Bari, Italy.

Meet the people of ANTARES and KM3NeT

27 February 2017 – Three times a year, the researchers of the ANTARES and the KM3NeT Collaborations come together for a week to discuss the latest physics results of ANTARES, to report on the technical progress of building KM3NeT and present latest developments in the KM3NeT simulations. In preparation for the upcoming conferences, scientific results are scrutinised and debated in detail until everyone is convinced and satisfied. At these Collaboration meetings, new members and institutes are welcomed and farewell given to those that move on in their career in or outside academia. In addition, new science and project management is elected, work group leaders are appointed and opportunities for funding in the various participating countries are exchanged.

But above all, the meetings are the opportunity to talk to each other face-to-face over a coffee, a beer or a nice Collaboration dinner. To get a flavour, watch this video by Eliza Gritsi. She recorded an impression of the ANTARES and KM3NeT Collaboration meeting hosted by the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics of the National Research Institute ‘Demokritos’ in Athens.

13-17 February 2017

KM3NeT and ANTARES Collaboration meeting in Athens, Greece

KM3NeT researchers meet in Athens

15 February – This week the researchers of KM3NeT are together in Athens to discuss physics and technical details of the observatories. The meeting is hosted by the Demokritos national research center of Greece. An appropriate classical name for our (astro)particle physics research facility.