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VATLY
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VATLY IN A NUTSHELL
VATLY is the name of a cosmic ray laboratory located in Ha Noi (Viet Nam) in the premises of the Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INST), an institute of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission (VAEC).
VATLY means "physics" in vietnamese but stands also
for "Vietnam Auger Training LaboratorY", an acronym that summarizes its main
features. Vietnam underlines our determination to play a
role - however modest it may be - in the development of fundamental research in
the country and in the national effort to fight the heavy brain drain that
Vietnam is suffering. Auger, for the Pierre Auger Observatory that
studies cosmic rays at extreme energies and of which a first site is currently
under completion in Argentina, defines the frame in which, and the aim toward
which, we are working. Presently observers in the Auger Collaboration, we hope
to gain sufficient knowledge and expertise to become full members in a not too
distant future. Training is the main purpose of VATLY,
training through research of young physicists from undergraduate to postdoc
levels, requiring the establishment of close relations with the vietnamese
universities and physics institutes. And finally Laboratory describes precisely what we are trying to build, with what this implies in terms of scientific environment, facilities and instrumentation. MEMBERSHIP Pham Ngoc Diep,
Pham Ngoc Dong, Pham Thi Tuyet Nhung, |
