{"id":2702,"date":"2026-05-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:27:53","slug":"professor-francis-halzen-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/professor-francis-halzen-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Francis Halzen visits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Prof. Francis Halzen, co-spokesperson and Principal Investigator of IceCube visited us for a meet-and-greet with our PhD students and postdocs, and to give a departmental colloquium on &#8220;The first decade of neutrino astronomy&#8221;. Among many awards and distinctions, Francis received an honorary doctorate from UGent in 2014. We were happy to host him again and hope he\u2019ll be back soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_e7bb67e7-2506-4eb1-9216-4cae2e0c1122-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_e7bb67e7-2506-4eb1-9216-4cae2e0c1122-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_e7bb67e7-2506-4eb1-9216-4cae2e0c1122-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_e7bb67e7-2506-4eb1-9216-4cae2e0c1122-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_e7bb67e7-2506-4eb1-9216-4cae2e0c1122-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_e7bb67e7-2506-4eb1-9216-4cae2e0c1122-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_e7bb67e7-2506-4eb1-9216-4cae2e0c1122-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Prof. Francis Halzen, co-spokesperson and Principal Investigator of IceCube visited us for a meet-and-greet with our PhD students and postdocs, and to give a departmental colloquium on &#8220;The first decade of neutrino astronomy&#8221;. Among many awards and distinctions, Francis received an honorary doctorate from UGent in 2014. We were happy to host him again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}