AstroParticle Physics
Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, France
The field of astroparticle physics lies at the interface between the study of the infinitely large and infinitely small, between particle physics and astrophysics. The AstroParticle and Cosmology (APC) laboratory was designed to bring together the different communities (experimentalists, theorists and observers) involved in this field.
It was created in 2005 during the overhaul of the University of Paris 7 on the campus of Paris Rive Gauche with laboratories MPQ (Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques) and MSC (Matière et Systèmes Complexes).
APC brings together 75 permanent researchers, and over sixty engineers, technicians and administrative staff.Including non permanent staff (PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, visitors), there are some 200 people in this new structure.
APC maintains close contacts with the Paris Centre for Cosmological Physics (PCCP) that George Smoot, 2006 Nobel Prize in physics, has started to develop in Paris, in the mode of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP), to foster collaboration between the teams working in cosmology in Paris and develop training activities in this field.
http:www.apc.univ-paris7.fr