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2 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN CMS EXPERIMENT AT CERN Colombia joined CMS in March 2006
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4 Total Population: 44 million Total Area : sq km Main Cities: Bogota (capital), Cali, Medellin Highest Altitude: m
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7 Universidad de los Andes -Colombia undergraduate students 2718 postgraduate students 83 Doctoral students 28 undergraduate programs 22 master programs 5 PhD programs : Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics. Founded in 1948
8 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS RANKING UNIANDES IS THE ONLY COLOMBIAN UNIVERSITY WITHIN THE TOP 500 UNIANDES IS COMMITTED TO HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
9 Physics Department Founded in full time professors, 23 with PhD, 2 with MSc. Areas of research: 1. Condensed matter theory 2. Particle Physics 3.Quantum mechanics and Information theory 4.Astronomy 5. Biophysics 6. Geophysics Students Enrrolled in 2009: 175 undergraduate students 33 MSc students 8 PhD students
10 Our physics students: 255 undergraduate students have already graduated from our department: - 69 have obtained PhD degrees from other universities - 64 are working towards their PhDs in other universities - 40 are full time university professors - 79 have obtained MSc degrees - 22 are pursuing MsC degrees 60 students have obtained their MSc degree from our department. 20 of them working in the High Energy Physics group. 3 students have obtained a PhD degree from our department. 1 in Experimental High Energy Physics.
11 History of the HEP group collaboration with E710 experiment at Fermilab started collaboration with D0 experiment Fermilab: - B physics group, - QCD group started collaboration with E811 experiment at Fermilab. 4. Jefferson Lab Collaboration: Photo fission of heavy nuclei, Vector meson photoproduction 5. Started collaboration in CMS in March Participating in CMS RPC group. 20 years participating in High Energy Physics experiments:
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