The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) takes place online July 20-24, 2020.

The programme offers supporting grants and coaching sessions to talented BIST female researchers to recognise their roles as scientists and mothers, and to support them along their way to attaining positions of greater responsibility. This year’s winners come from all seven BIST centres. Malgorzata Siudek, Postdoctoral Researcher at IFAE, obtained one of the grants.

The ICHEP conference is taking place online from Tuesday 28th July until Thursday 6th August. Most members of the IFAE-ATLAS group are participating and attending various of the many sessions. Several new ATLAS analysis results carried using the full Run 2 data and mainly or entirely by members of IFAE.

A team of researchers led by Prof. José Ignacio Latorre (UB), and including Dr. Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), and Dr. Artur Garcia (BSC), have created Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech SL , a spin-off of the UB, the IFAE, and the BSC.

The Portal de la Recerca de Catalunya (PRC), opened to the public in January 2017, aims to visualize and disseminate from a single place the research activity carried out in Catalonia. The portal is an initiative of the Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca (CSUC). All CERCA centres are now included in the PRC. You can find IFAE’s information [here](https://portalrecerca.csuc.cat/08070544)

[Deep Detection](https://www.deepdetection.tech/), the spin-off company created from the LINDA project in the innovation program The Collider (Mobile World Capital Barcelona) was featured in the “Start-Ups” section of [La Vanguardia](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1r_qhDydZ830ZKJ9pz__Jan9gVhGht5NQ&authuser=sgrinschpun%40ifae.es&usp=drive_fs). Mokhtar Chmeissani and José Gabriel Macias are the entrepreneur scientists of the project.

Virgo and LIGO have announced the detection of an extraordinarily massive merging binary system: two black holes of 66 and 85 solar masses, which generated a final black hole of around 142 solar masses.

A joint observational campaign with the MAGIC telescopes and the VERITAS array , has detected a new source emitting very-high-energy gamma rays from an unusual system consisting of a massive star and a pulsar

IFAE just became a new member institution inside the VIRGO collaboration. This opens a new long-term research line in IFAE related to GWs detection using terrestrial interferometry.

The LIGO and Virgo collaborations have now confidently detected gravitational waves from a total of 10 stellar-mass binary black hole mergers and one merger of neutron stars, which are the dense, spherical remains of stellar explosions. Six of the black hole merger events had been reported before, while four are newly announced.

The European project ESCAPE, funded with 16 million euros, will provide open data from astrophysics and particle physics large facilities, such as the LHC or the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)

On 19 December 2018, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) signed the final agreements needed for CTA’s southern hemisphere array to be hosted near ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.