The 4th COMCHA School, held in Zaragoza from April 8–15, successfully brought together researchers and students for an intensive week of training in advanced computing technologies for High Energy Physics. The programme combined lectures and hands-on sessions on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, quantum computing, GPU programming, and simulations, led by experts […]
Particle physics and astrophysics with high-energy cosmic neutrinos Lecturer: Mauricio Bustamante, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen Abstract: High-energy cosmic neutrinos offer vast potential to test both particle physics and astrophysics. Discovered by IceCube, these neutrinos boast the highest detected energies—reaching 10^{15} eV—and travel gigaparsec distances, the size of the observable Universe. These extreme baselines
From April 8 to 15, Zaragoza will host the COMCHA School, bringing together cutting-edge expertise in computing for the next decade. The program features dedicated lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, programming on advanced accelerator platforms such as GPUs and FPGAs, real-time computing, event generation and simulation, differentiable programming, computing infrastructures, and sustainability. In
The 4th edition of the International INFN “School on Underground Physics: Theory and experiments” (SoUP2026) is addressed to PhD students, post-docs and young researchers involved in the field of Underground (or Underwater) Physics: Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and other rare-event searches. This year the School is organised by INFN-Bologna, and it will take place from October
CAPA is once again joining a new edition of the Particle Physics Masterclasses, an activity designed to spark scientific curiosity among secondary school and high-school students. Throughout the day, participants will have the opportunity to discover how matter is investigated at the subatomic scale and to work with real data from the ATLAS experiment at
Astronomers detected the ring of dark matter by studying the light distorted by the galaxy cluster ZwCl 0024+17. NASA, ESA, M. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) The Third Millennium supplement has devoted an article to the research carried out at CAPA (20/01/2026). What is the universe made of? Aragonese researchers question the cosmos
Lecturer: Rubén López Coto (IAA-CSIC). Scientific coordinator of the CTAO consortium Abstract: Our galaxy is filled with cosmic rays -particles traveling at nearly the speed of light through intergalactic magnetic turbulence. We generally understand how these particles gain energy, but a major mystery remains: How do some of them reach extreme ‘PeV’ energy levels in
Lecturer: Nahuel Ferreiro Lachellini (Max Planck Institute for Physics) Abstract: Cryogenic underground observatories based on transition-edge sensors (TES) provide a powerful and versatile platform for astroparticle physics, combining low energy thresholds, excellent energy resolution, and intrinsically low-background operation in deep underground environments. The RES-NOVA project exemplifies this approach through the deployment of PbWO₄ crystals grown
The IUI CAPA is organizing the 4th edition of the COMCHA School (Computing Challenges), which will take place in Zaragoza from April 8 to 15 It will take place at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Zaragoza. After Barcelona, Valencia, and A Coruña, the IUI CAPA of the University of Zaragoza is organizing
New talk in the Master’s in Physics of the Universe seminar series, Dark matter searches with fixed target experiments by Laura Molina Bueno (IFIC, Valencia) Abstract: Dark Matter is among the most pressing questions in particle physics. In this seminar, I will cover the potential of fixed target experiments to probe the Dark Matter origin
