From 15 to 19 June, the international Einstein Telescope community met in Aachen for the XVI Einstein Telescope Symposium, hosted by RWTH Aachen University. Astrocent was represented in both the scientific and communication parts of the programme.
– Mariusz Suchenek contributed with the talk “Infrasound Newtonian Noise Estimation at the…
On 23–24 April 2026, our Expert in Commercialization and Intellectual Property Management, Adam Kaźmierczak, was representing Astrocent at the 19th National PACTT Conference, an event bringing together representatives of universities, technology transfer centres, public institutions and industry.
This year’s conference focused on key topics such as commercialization of research results,…
On 9–13 March 2026, researchers from around the world gathered at the University of Manchester for this year’s DarkSide‑20k Collaboration Meeting.
Astrocent was represented by Marcin Kuźniak and Rita Antonietti, whose participation was supported by NCN. Their contributions reflect Astrocent’s ongoing commitment to the DarkSide‑20k project – a next‑generation, argon‑based…
On 25 February, Astrocent had the pleasure of taking part in the inaugural meeting of the Polish Teaming Club (PTC), hosted by the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw.
The Polish Teaming Club unites all Polish Centres of Excellence implementing Teaming for Excellence projects under HorizonEU and Horizon2020. Its…
On 19 January 2026, Astrocent had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Matthias De Moor, General Representative of Flanders, and Mr. Tijs Verstraete, Policy Officer, from the Delegation of Flanders in Poland and the Baltic States, Embassy of Belgium. The meeting took place in…
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Astrocent is proud to acknowledge the support of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under the programme “International Projects Co-financed” (Projekty Międzynarodowe Współfinansowane) for the implementation of “Probes of new physics and technological advancements from particle and gravitational wave physics experiments. A cooperative Europe–United…
An international study published in Nature Astronomy has identified a significant potential impact of interactions between dark matter and neutrinos on cosmological data, offering a fresh perspective on constraining the universe’s “dark sector.”
On December 16th, the Astrocent team came together to celebrate the holiday season at our annual Christmas Party. It was a joyful afternoon filled with festive spirit, delicious food, and warm conversations.
From 24–26 November 2025, Astrocent participated in the IUVSTA Workshop 109 / APPEC Technology Forum in Maastricht, NL — a unique event bringing together researchers and industry to address cutting‑edge challenges in vacuum and cryogenics technologies for astroparticle physics.
Astrocent is proud to acknowledge the support of the “Wektory Nauki” programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, which made possible the organisation of the 6th CERN-DRD1 Collaboration Meeting, held in Warsaw on 6–10 October 2025.
In mid-November, Astrocent’s Communication Specialist Yuliya Hoika participated in the 4th Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting in Opatija, Croatia (11–14 November). As a member of the Einstein Telescope Organisation (ETO) Communication Office, Yuliya contributed to the plenary programme with…
From 17–21 November 2025, Astrocent participated in the DarkSide-20k Fall Collaboration Meeting hosted by the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila, Italy. The event brought together researchers working on one of today’s most ambitious dark matter search experiments.
We are happy to announce that Dr. Azam Zabihi received the MINIATURA‑9 grant from the National Science Centre.
Her project, “Preparing Cryogenic Infrastructure for Xenon Doping in LAr-Based Scintillation Studies”, has already officially kicked off – marking an exciting step forward in her career. We are delighted…
We are proud to share that our former postdoctoral researcher Dr Masato Kimura (supervised by Prof. Masayuki Wada) has received the 20th Young Encouragement Prize of the Physical Society of Japan for his academic dissertation “Search for dark matter annual modulation…
Astrocent researchers participated in the 9th International Workshop on Light Detection in Noble Elements (LIDINE 2025), held from 21 to 24 October 2025 at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IHEP, CAS), and the Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese…
15–17 October 2025, Leszek Roszkowski, Director of Astrocent, and Marta Borowiec, Project Manager, represented Astrocent at the 4th Teaming Club Conference, held at BIOPOLIS-CIBIO in Vairão, Portugal.
The annual Teaming Club Conference is one of the most important gatherings for all European Centres of Excellence created under…
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We cordially invite you to a popular science lecture with an astrophysicist on the occasion of Dark Matter Day 2025. Our colleague, Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski, a theoretical physicist specialising in…
On Wednesday, 22 October 2025, we were very pleased to host at Astrocent Dr Grzegorz Brona, President of the Management Board and CEO of Creotech Instruments. This insightful visit provided an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas on the future of space technology, innovation, and the growing role…
On October 11th, our Communication Officer, Magda Jakubiak, took part in the Illustrated Communication Festival ILUSTRATOR, an international industry conference for illustrators in Poland. Its goal is to strengthen the illustrator community, regardless of your focus: books, comics, 3D, advertising, education, or artistic projects.
Between October 6 and 10, Astrocent became a meeting point for the 6th edition of the CERN-DRD1 Collaboration Meeting. On Monday, the collaboration was welcomed by Prof. Rafał Moderski, Director of Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK), and Prof. Leszek Roszkowski, Director of Astrocent. Later on, it…
From 22–25 September 2025, Astrocent participated in the APPEC Town Meeting: Preparation of the 2027–2036 Strategic Roadmap, hosted by the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Prof. Leszek Roszkowski, Deputy Chair of the APPEC General Assembly and member of the Organizing Committee, and Prof. Marcin Kuźniak, member of…
10–13 August — The DEAP-3600 collaboration convened at Carleton University for its twice-yearly meeting, held in hybrid format, to review recent results, define objectives, and discuss future prospects in the search for dark matter.
DEAP3600is one of the world’s most sensitive experiments for Weakly Interacting Massive…
Our researcher Dr. Azam Zabihi is currently visiting the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, as part of the PROBES Project – an international collaboration uniting Europe, the United States, and Asia to advance particle and gravitational-wave physics.
On June 26, 2025, the public defense of the doctoral dissertation by Sarthak Choudhary took place at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Title of the dissertation: Optimisation of Light Collection in Liquid…
From 2–6 June 2025, the Astrocent team participated in the DarkSide-20k summer collaboration meeting, held in Geremeas, Sardinia. This annual gathering brought together researchers and engineers from institutions around the world to discuss progress, challenges, and plans for the DarkSide-20k experiment — one of the most advanced dark matter…
On Thursday, 29 May 2025, one of Astrocent’ s PhD students, Wathela Alhassan, PhD, successfully defended his thesis titled “Einstein Telescope: Detection of Binary Black Hole Gravitational Wave Signals Using Deep Learning”.
Congratulations to Dr. Alhassan and his supervisors:
Prof. Tomasz Bulik (Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw)
Piotr Kalaczyński, member of ASTROCENT and contributor to the KM3NeT Neutrino experiment, is the main author of a recent paper published in Computer Physics Communications journal.
The article, titled “gSeaGen code by KM3NeT: An efficient tool to propagate muons simulated with CORSIKA”, introduces an…
12-16 May our leader, Professor Leszek Roszkowski, paid a working visit to the Baltics.
The travel had several goals:
– to presented Astrocent Plus at Deep Tech Atelier 2025 – the region’s premier deep-tech event – bringing together entrepreneurs, scientists, investors and industry leaders for two days of world-class talks, pitch…
With nearly two decades of success securing and managing Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020 and NCN National Science Centre projects, Kasia brings deep expertise…
The scientific collaboration between Astrocent and the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw grows, driven by a shared commitment to advancing fundamental research and exploring real-world applications of cutting-edge technologies. As part of the High Energy Physics Seminar series organised by the Faculty, two Astrocent scientists recently presented…
From 6 to 9 March, Yuliya Hoika and Michal Olszewski visited Riverside to participate in the DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting, hosted this time by University of California, Riverside.
DEAP-3600 is a dark matter experiment located at SNOLAB, Canada’s deep underground laboratory. It uses a 3.3-ton liquid argon…
On March 12, 2025, a joint event of the National Contact Point at NCBR (KPK) and the National Council of EU Research Project Coordinators (KRAB) took place at the Warsaw University of Technology, titled “Widening in Horizon Europe – Instruments and Polish Successes.” The event aimed…
We are pleased to announce another successful PhD defense from our team at Astrocent! On February 28, 2024, Paul Zakhary defended his PhD thesis, Measurement of Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon for Dark Matter Searches.
On 3 and 4 March, Prof. Leszek Roszkowski, Head of Astrocent, visited Kopernik High School and Stanisław Staszic High School No. 1 in Lublin to share his knowledge and passion for the universe with young audiences. During his lecture, “The Universe AD 2025,” he captivated…
Astrocent team members Prof. Masayuki Wada, Dr. Azam Zabihi, and Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, alongside collaborators from various institutions, have recently published a groundbreaking article on an innovative medical technology poised to revolutionize PET scans. This new approach, called 3Dπ (Three-Dimensional Positron Imaging), introduces a total-body PET scanner that offers…
On February 12, 2025, The KM3NeT Collaboration has announced the detection from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea of a cosmic neutrino with a record-breaking energy of about 220 PeV.
From 5 to 11 January 2025, Prof. Masayuki Wada participated in the TMEX-2025 conference in Vietnam, where he presented an update on the DarkSide-20k experiment, sharing insights into its construction and engaging in discussions on the future of dark matter direct and indirect detection methods.
From January 12 to 25, Clea Sunny, a PhD student at Astrocent, participated in hands-on training at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy. She joined the expert team working on the DarkSide-20k Mockup Experiment, a crucial step in validating the DS-20k TPC detector.
We are happy to share that our PhD student, Iftikhar Ahmad, successfully defended his thesis titled “Investigating backgrounds in dark matter searches: Argon-37 activation and cosmogenic neutron suppression in the DarkSide experiments” on Friday, January 24, 2025.
Iftikhar conducted his research under the supervision of Prof. Masayuki Wada and Prof….
Last Wednesday, January 15, 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Wojciech Dominik and Dr. Mikołaj Cwiok from the University of Warsaw at Astrocent and our lab facilities at CEZAMAT.
The discussions focused on exploring synergies and…
Since 22 December 2024, Prof. Wada has been in Japan for scientific collaboration with Prof. Shingo Kazama at Nagoya University. Their work focuses on characterizing SiPMs sensitive to xenon scintillation light and developing cryogenic readout electronics as part of the Probes project, funded by the European…
Dr. Azam Zabihi from Astrocent is currently on a 1.5-month scientific secondment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy. She is actively participating in the assembly of the DarkSide-20k mockup, a crucial phase in the development of this next-generation dark matter detection experiment.
While virtual collaboration has become a cornerstone of modern research, some tasks require hands-on efforts that can only be accomplished in person. Alessio Caminata from INFN Genova visited Astrocent for three days to collaborate with our team on the DarkSide-20k experiment — a major international initiative in the search for dark matter,…
Our colleague Dr. Cortez, a member of the Astrocent team and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, visited the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at the Czech Technical University (CTU) last Thursday. He delivered an IEEE seminar on the latest advancements in novel optical amplification structures for dark matter searches.
Thanks to funding from the Office for International Cooperation of the Polish Academy of Sciences, AstroCeNT (CAMK PAN) had the opportunity to host Prof. Filipa Borges from the Physics Department of the University of Coimbra from 18–22 November 2024.
During her visit, Prof. Borges collaborated with the research…
A new article published in Physical Review D showcases the remarkable contribution of AstroCeNT researchers Theo Hugues (Group 1) and Masato Kimura (Group 4) as part of the DarkSide-50 collaboration.
The study explores the possibility of detecting dark matter through its predicted annual modulation effect caused by the Earth’s…
Tatsuki Washimi, a physicist affiliated with the Gravitational Wave Science Project (GWPS) at the Kamioka branch of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), recently visited Astrocent. A leading expert in gravitational wave research, Dr. Washimi discussed challenges related to the KAGRA experiment and shared insights on advancing detector…
Form 18 to 22 November, members of Astrocent attended the DarkSide-20k collaboration meeting held in Assergi, Italy. Organized by the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), the event brought together collaborators to discuss the progress and challenges of the DarkSide-20k experiment.
The meeting featured in-depth discussions on key challenges, proposed hypotheses,…
Last week, Astrocent had the privilege of hosting Prof. Fernando Ferroni, a renowned physicist and a former president of INFN (Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics).
Prof. Ferroni, currently a senior professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila, is well known for his leadership in cutting-edge research….
From November 12–15, Warsaw hosted the 3rd Telescope Meeting Annual Einstein, bringing together over 500 participants from Europe and beyond in a hybrid format. The event was organized by the University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Centrum Astronomiczne im. M. Kopernika PAN).
Last week, Dr Masayuki Wada and Dr Andre Filipe Ventura Cortez visited the University of Coimbra to explore new collaborations with two internationally renowned research institutes, LIP and LIBPhys. During the visit, they toured the lab facilities and workshops of the Physics Department, identifying shared research interests and key…
The Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT2024) workshop, hosted in the Jagiellonian University, took place in Krakow from October 1 to 4. The event examined topics in low-radioactivity materials and techniques fundamental to quantum information science and rare-event searches, including dark matter,…
Prof. Marcin Kuźniak and PhD student Sarthak Choudhary recently represented Astrocent at the LIDINE 2024 conference, held on the August 26-28 in São Paulo, Brazil. Hosted by the Principia Institute and supported by UNICAMP, UTFPR, UNIFAL, CTI, ITA, and CBPF, this year’s…
Dr. Michał Olszewski, a member of Research Group 1 led by Prof. Marcin Kuźniak, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Centre in the Miniatura competition. His project, titled ‘Determination of the Sensitivity of the ARGO, DarkSide-20k, and DEAP-3600 Experiments to Supermassive Charged Gravitinos,’ will focus on…
From 13 to 16 August, the DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting took place at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. The DEAP-3600 collaboration is focused on the direct detection of dark matter using liquid argon, with the DEAP-3600 experiment being one of the significant projects in this field.
From 8-12 July, our PhD student Iftikhar Amad (group 4 led by dr. Masayuki Wada) participated in the 15th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM 2024). The event was held in L’Aquila, Italy, and organized by the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), the Laboratori Nazionali…
Prof. Piotr Gawron, leader of Astrocent’s Group 5, attended the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024). The event was held from 7 to 12 July 2024, in Athens, Greece and was hosted by the National Observatory of Athens, specifically the Operational Unit “BEYOND Centre…
One of the most important scientific collaborations in which Astrocent participates is DarkSide, an international affiliation of universities and labs seeking to directly detect dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles. The collaboration is planning, building and operating a series of liquid argon time projection…
From June 30 to July 4, Dr. André Cortez represented our team at the 2024 International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (iWoRiD) held in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop is held annually and provides an international forum for discussing current research and developments in the area of position-sensitive detectors…
In June 2024, our PhD student Sarthak Choudhary had the remarkable opportunity to attend GRIDS-2024 summer school held in Vancouver, Canada. The event was organized by TRIUMF and the Arthur B. McDonald Institute with the aim of providing hands-on lab experience to PhD students and early…
On June 19, AstroCeNT had the honor of hosting a delegation from Germany in Warsaw. The delegation included scientists Prof. Günter Hasinger (director of Science at ESA and director of German Center for Astrophysics (DZA)), Prof. Christian Stegmann (
From June 4 to 7, 2024, members of the AstroCeNT group 5 — Dr. Piotr Kalaczynski, Dr. Tomasz Rybotycki, and group leader Prof. Piotr Gawron — participated in the WMLQ2024 workshop. The workshop was organized by the National Centre for Nuclear Research in collaboration with scientists from the University…
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Barbara Jasiulis-Gołdyn, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Wrocław, a visiting scientists at AstroCeNT/NCAC PAS in 2023, was recently awarded the prestigious Intelligent Development Leader Award. This distinction is dedicated…
On April 29-30, Marcin Kuźniak, the leader of group 1, participated in the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee meeting, marking the beginning of its current…
On April 22-27 our PhD student Clea Sunny travelled to Vienna, Austria to attend the “VIEnna Workshop on Simulations 2024″ (VIEWS24). The goal of VIEWS24 was to provide an overview of the current state and challenges of low-energy particle background simulations using Geant4 for rare event searches.
From April 18th to 20th, members of the AstroCeNT team participated in the PP-RAI conference, one of the largest scientific and business events in Poland dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. This year, it was hosted at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences of the Warsaw University of…
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One of the important aspects of scientific activity is to share knowledge with society, to inspire and set an example, to participate in discussions with representatives from different fields from outside the “scientific bubble”.
On April 3rd to 7th, Dr Masayuki Wada, leader of research group 4, participated in the ALpine Particle Physics Symposium-Dark Matter Workshop (ALPS-DM) in Obergurgl, Austria. Dr. Wada gave a presentation on the topic “Low mass dark matter searches with liquid argon”.
An important milestone – the first defense of a doctoral thesis at AstroCeNT!
On March 22, Theo Hugues, a joint (cotutelle) student of AstroCeNT/NCAC and Laboratoire AstroParticule & Cosmologie / Université Paris Cité, successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Search for Dark Matter with Liquid Argon Detectors” under the…
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From March 3rd to 9th, Masayuki Wada, the leader of the Astrocent group 4, participated in the Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste conference held in the picturesque mountain village of La Thuile, Italy. This gathering organised by Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare united around 120 experimentalists…
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From February 26 to March 16, 2024, Dr. André Filipe Ventura Cortez, a member of AstroCeNT’s group 4, is visiting Princeton University’s Physics Department in the US.
During his time at Princeton, Dr. Cortez will be involved in an experiment measuring the…
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From February 19th to 23rd, 2024, Astrocent group leader Mariusz Suchenek and PhD student Mateusz Pietrzak visited the Einstein Telescope Pathfinder for sensors installation. The installed seismometers were developed by Innoseis company and modified by University of Warsaw scientists. Infrasound microphones were created at Astrocent/NCAC, particularly by Prof. Tomasz…
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We are pleased to announce that, according to American Physical Society, the paper to which Dr. Masayuki Wada (AstroCeNT/NCAC), Dr. Masato Kimura (AstroCeNT/NCAC), and Dr. Davide Franco…
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On February 14-16, 2024, Dr. Masayuki Wada, the leader of group 4 at AstroCeNT, participated in the international workshop hosted by the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute (KMI) at Nagoya University.
The workshop, titled “Technology and Instrumentation in Future Liquid Noble Gas Detectors,” provided a platform for experts to discuss recent advancements in…
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The objective of this award is to support researchers’ careers and foster excellence in research. The Postdoctoral Fellowships action targets researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry…
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We are pleased to announce that the DarkWave project, implemented by AstroCeNT/NCAC in collaboration with GSSI, INFN, CNRS, and TUM, has been selected for publication in the ‘Results in Brief’ section of the European Commission’s CORDIS website.
From January 30 to February 1, the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre (NCAC) held its yearly meeting at Bartycka 18. This time, the NCAC team gathered under the motto: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
The meeting kicked off with Director Rafał Moderski…
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We are happy to announce that a member of our team, Piotr Kalaczyński, has just defended his doctoral thesis titled: “The Measurement and Modelling of Cosmic Ray Muons at KM3NeT Detectors”. The thesis was defended at the National Centre for Nuclear Research under the supervision of…
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Our colleague, Maciej Kuzwa, has recently successfully defended his Master’s thesis in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Machine Design with a specialization in Computer-Aided Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. The title of his thesis was “Analysis of the Feasibility and Optimization of a…
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From January 17 to 21, Mariusz Suchenek, the leader of AstroCeNT Group 3, undertook a scientific visit to Virgo.
Virgo is an interferometric gravitational-wave antenna with two 3-km-long arms housing a laser interferometer. The interferometer output is susceptible to various seismic sources, making it beneficial to have numerous seismometers and…
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From December 11 to 15, AstroCeNT PhD student Paules Zakhary is participating in the 8th CYGNUS Workshop on Directional Recoil Detection hosted by the University of…
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AstroCeNT PhD student Wathela Alhassan has been awarded the 2024 PRELUDIUM grant from the NCN National Science Centre. The project involves procuring GPUs and establishing a lab for training deep learning models, focusing on the detection and parameter…
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From November 14 to 16, Dr. Masato Kimura, member of group 4, undertook a significant visit to Princeton University with dual objectives.
Primarily, the purpose of the trip was to deliver a seminar at Princeton University, illuminating the recent findings stemming from the DarkSide experiment. Dr. Kimura engaged in…
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From 7 to 10 November, our colleague Piotr Kalaczyński from group 5 took part in the JuliaHEP 2023 workshop. The workshop took place online and in person over four days at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics in Erlangen, Germany, with plenty of time for talks, discussions, and tutorials.
The Einstein Telescope, one of the most important projects in which AstroCeNT members participate, hosted its 2nd Annual Meeting. More than 500 scientists convened both online and in…
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Professor Piotr Gawron, leader of group 5, recently attended the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) conference organized by the European Space Agency (ESA)….
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On the 23rd to 27th of October, the leader of group 4, Dr. Masayuki Wada, was invited to present the status of DarkSide-20k at the first edition of the ACHEP conference that took place in Rabat, Morocco.
ACHEP is a biennial international conference series on High Energy Physics…
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On the 25-31th of October, our colleague Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski from the Particle Astrophysics group in AstroCeNT took part in the AstroParticle Symposium 2023, organized at the Pascal Institute of the Paris-Saclay University. The series of meetings discusses recent progress in studies related to the dark sector of the…
On the 23-27th of October our colleague Dr Marek Walczak from research group 1 attended DarkSide Collaboration meeting that took place in L’Aquila, Italy. The DarkSide-20k experiment, searching of dark matter with liquid argon, is currently under construction at Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). Meetings in-person provide a great…
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Last week the call for the A&A Awards 2024 (4th call) was issued by the Board of Directors of A&A.
With two yearly awards for outstanding research, the Board wishes to express its appreciation, and contribute to the enthusiasm, of the new generation of researchers who will be shaping…
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AstroCeNT/NCAC PhD students Paules Zakhary and Iftikhar Ahmad recently attended the Gran Sasso Hands-On PhD School on Astroparticle Physics, held at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in L’Aquila, Italy from September 25 to October 6, 2023.
The school was jointly organized by LNGS, the Department of Physical and…
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On the 19-21st of September Dr Masato Kimura, member of AstroCeNT group 4, attended the Light Dark World 2023 conference organized by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
The primary objective of his attendance was to present out the recent progress of the DarkSide experiment, especially focusing on the light dark matter….
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The LIDINE conference series is dedicated to cutting-edge technologies relevant for noble element detectors, particularly in the fields of dark matter and neutrino research. This annual event rotates through different countries, with LIDINE 2022 being organized in Warsaw by the AstroCeNT team as part of the DarkWave…
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CERN has always been at the frontier of new physics searches, and AstroCeNT is following the same path! From September 18th to 19th, Dr Sebastian Trojanowski from the Astroparticle Physics group in AstroCeNT participated in the Forward Physics Facility (FPF) Theory Days organized at the CERN Theory Department….
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On September 18-19, AstroCeNT / NCAC PAS hosted scientists from various institutes, including INFN Torino, University of Warwick, University of Edinburgh, Lancaster University, and Royal Holloway University of London. They gathered for a topical workshop dedicated to testing the vPDUs (veto photodetector units) for the DarkSide-20k experiment. The event…
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From September 13th to 16th, Dr Sebastian Trojanowski from the Astroparticle Physics group participated in the international SCALARS 2023 conference organized at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw.
The goal of the series of SCALARS conferences is to provide an opportunity to discuss various aspects of physics…
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From September 11th to 15th, Professor Leszek Roszkowski, the Head of AstroCeNT, had the honor of participating in the 26th International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology (COSMO’23), which…
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From September 2nd to September 10th, Dr Azam Zabihi embarked on an extensive journey to South Africa to participate in the 6th Conference, “Technologies and Instrumentation in Particle Physics” (TIPP…
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From 5th to 8th of September 2023, our visiting scientist Andre Filipe Ventura Cortez participated as an invited keynote speaker in in the XVIIth Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics (IBER 2023), which was attended by 100 research scientists.
His talk entitled “Strategies for improved light…
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Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski from the Particle Astrophysics group of AstroCeNT attended the 48th Congress of Polish Physicists organized by the Polish Physical Society at the Gdańsk University of Technology between the 1st and 7th of September. The congress continued the meetings initiated by the Founding Congress of the…
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From 27 August to 2 September 2023, Dr. Rafał Wojaczyński travelled to Trieste, Italy, to participate in the ‘Cosmology 2023 in Miramare’ conference. This scientific event oganized by Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) serves as a platform for researchers from various fields, including observational, computer simulation,…
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From 27 August to 2 September three AstroCeNT members — Prof. Marcin Kuźniak, Dr Masayuki Wada and PhD student Theo Hugues — were attending the TAUP 2023 international conference in Vienna, Austria.
Our team from AstroCeNT contributed significantly to the conference. They presented several talks, including an insightful discussion…
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“…We are entering a promising era of astronomical development. Many new instruments are being created. … Many things can still surprise us, and that is good news.”
From July 26th to August 3rd, Nagoya University hosted the ICRC conference, a global gathering of astroparticle physicists. Commission C4 (Astroparticle Physics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied…
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On the 17-21th of July, Prof. Leszek Roszkowski, Head of AstroCeNT, took part in the 30th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions held in University of Southampton Highfield Campus, UK.
The SUSY is among the largest international events where particle physicists come together to discuss innovative…
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Today, we proudly congratulate Mikołaj Boroński, a former AstroCeNT scholarship holder, on successfully defending his bachelor’s thesis at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics.
Thesis Title: “The impact of initial parameters on the learning of spiking neural networks”.
Degree Obtained: Bachelor’s degree in Applications of Physics in Biology and Medicine.
From the 17th to the 21st of July, our colleagues, postdoc Michał Olszewski and PhD student Sarthak Choudhary, had the valuable opportunity to attend the DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting held at Read more
From July 17th to July 21st, Dr. Masato Kimura, a member of research group 4, led by Dr. Masayuki Wada, participated in the 31st International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies (LeptonPhoton2023), held at Monash University in Melbourne. The symposium encompassed a wide…
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InIn June and July 2023, our PhD student Clea Sunny spent a very intensive time in Italy. Her scientific travel was divided into three parts, each of which contributed to her growth as a researcher and the development of international cooperation.…
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We are pleased to share that two visiting scientists have joined the AstroCeNT team in June 2023. Their experience and contributions promise to greatly benefit our ongoing research efforts.
On the 7th of July 2023 at 3-6 p.m. CEST Dr Azam Zabihi (AstroCeNT / NCAC), Dr Michela Lai (INFN) and PhD student Alejandro Ramirez (University of Houston) will arrange online course titled “The Liquid Argon PET: A Journey from the Dark Matter Search to Medical Physics.” The masterclass…
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The annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society will take place on July 10-14, 2023. The meeting is organized by the European Astronomical Society (EAS) in cooperation with the Polish Astronomical Society (PTA). The EAS organizes annual meetings in…
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Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski from the Particle Astrophysics group has recently been invited to present progress and plans for far-forward studies at the LHC at the PASCOS 2023. The conference took place at the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, between June 26th and 30th, 2023. It was the 27th…
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Dr Andrew Cheek, a member of group 6, attended the international workshop NEHOP (New Horizons in Primordial Black Hole physics) in Naples which which took place from 19 to 21 June.
This three-day event aims to nurture discussions and bring together experts…
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On the 12-16th of June 2023 DarkSide-20k collaboration meeting took place at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Assergi, Italy.
The meeting saw almost complete representation from the AstroCeNT groups 1 and 4, including group leaders Prof. Marcin Kuźniak and Dr. Masayuki Wada, postdocs Marek Walczak, Rafał Wojaczyski, Azam…
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AstroCeNT, the Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre, marked its fifth anniversary this summer with a gathering of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) on the 26th of June. While most ISC members participated remotely via Zoom, the event was graced by the presence of Prof. Barbara Erazmus (CNRS, Nantes,…
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On the 22d of June prof. Barry Barish, a prominent physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his significant contributions to gravitational wave research and leadership in the construction of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), visited AstroCeNT second time this year.
In a relaxed and informal atmosphere,…
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On the week between the 5th and 9th of June, Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski from the Particle Astrophysics group at AstroCeNT was invited to visit the Physics Division of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS) in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and attended the workshop “The future is non-perturbative,” which was the…
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On the 5-8th of June 2023 Dr Azam Zabihi, member of group 4, took part in the 6th “International Workshop on Application of Noble Gas Xenon to Science and Technology” (XeSAT2023) at the SUBATECH laboratory in Nantes, France, hosted by the IMT Atlantique. The conference brought together physicists, chemists,…
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In pursuit of scientific advancement and collaborative research, AstroCeNT team members (two PhD students, Paules Zakhary and Iftikhar Ahmad, and Dr. Masato Kimura) visited INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) – Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, a renowned research center at the forefront of nuclear physics research and our…
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From 8 to 12th of May 2023 Prof. Tomasz Bulik and Dr Mariusz Suchenek took part in the XIII Einstein Telescope Symposium held in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). During the conference, they presented three research presentations dedicated to acoustic noise studies and poster titled “Reconstructing…
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Maciej Kuźwa, technician working for AstroCeNT’s group 1, recently participated in DarkSide collaboration working meeting in Canada. The meeting was held in Edmonton from March 19 to 21, 2023.
On the 13-16th of March Prof. Bulik and Dr Suchenek paid scientific visit to the Northwestern University’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics – CIERA (USA, Illinois) to take part in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration meeting. As part of the event, presentations on the Newtonian noise reduction…
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On the 10th of March Dr Marek Walczak came back from a scientific travel to INFN Naples. The goal of his travel was to participate in tests of a veto photodetector unit for the DarkSide-20k experiment, which is one of the project tasks.
On the 2-8th of March, the leaders of two AstroCeNT research groups – Prof. Tomasz Bulik and Dr Mariusz Suchenek went to Italy to install seismic sensors (developed by AstroCeNT) in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso).
At the boundary of February and March two AstroCeNT PhD students Iftikhar Ahmad and Clea Sunny spent two fruitful weeks in the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) at Catania, Italy. The purpose of the trip was to familiarize with the REcoil Directionality (RED) experiment setup and to see…
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The 5th “Particle Astrophysics in Poland 2023” conference held in 2023 (13-16th of February), brought together researchers from multiple institutes and research facilities across the country.
This year, several of our colleagues attended this conference and made presentations on the successes…
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In early 2023, the AstroCeNT team embarked on an extensive project at CERN, spending the majority of January and half of February conducting a data-taking campaign to explore the properties of wavelength shifting PEN foils in liquid Argon. This endeavor aimed to enhance our understanding of these foils and…
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In February 2023 Dr Marek Walczak and PhD student Theo Hugues had a scientific trip to Mexico City. The reason for such a long journey was to attended DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting, where scientists…
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In the first half of February, group leaders Prof. Marcin Kuźniak and Dr Masayuki Wada made a long trip to the DarkSide-20k collaboration meeting, which was held at Princeton University, USA.
The DarkSide Collaboration is a research collaboration aimed at detecting dark matter,…
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On the 23-26 of January AstroCeNT team members visited 2nd Site Preparation Board (SPB) Workshop in Maastricht (Netherlands). The meeting was organized by the Einstein Telescope collaboration to discuss and review the progress of the site preparation activities for the Einstein Telescope. The agenda of the workshop included presentations…
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On January 11-12, the traditional annual meeting of Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre’s (NCAC) employees was held at Bartycka 18. This year, the meeting was arranged in person with the possibility of connecting via Zoom platform.
On the first day, Director of the NCAC Prof. Rafał Moderski presented an extensive…
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On the 5-11th of January Prof. Tomasz Bulik, leader of AstroCeNT group nr 2, participated in the conference titled „Theory meeting experiments: particle astrophysics and cosmology” (TMEX) in Vietnam.
The conference brings together leading theoreticians and experimentalists to discuss forefront topics in the field of particle astrophysics and…
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Support the best, so that they can become even better! Guided by this ambitious motto, the International Research Agendas program launched in 2015 resulted in the establishment of a number of independent research units (innovative centers of excellence) in Poland. One of them (as well as AstroCeNT) was…
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The European Commission has announced the pre-publication of the Work Program for Cluster 4 in the Horizon Europe Program for 2023-2024. As part of competitions and other activities planned for funding in the area of space technologies, EUR 491 million has been allocated for 2023-2024.
AstroCeNT’s activity, from the beginning of the project, has been associated with the Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska). We use their office and laboratory space (CZIiTT and CEZAMAT), WUT also supports us in…
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On December 6, 2022, Dr. Masayuki Wada, the leader of the Ultrapure SiPMs and Associated Readout Electronics group, took part in the Joint Seminar of the National Centre for Nuclear Research and the Faculty of Physics of the University of WarsawRead more
On November 28-30, the XXV National Conference on Photointerpretation and Remote Sensing was held, organized by the Warsaw University of Technology and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The subject of the conference covers all current issues of satellite…
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21-23rd October, 2022 AstroCeNT members took part in the „Standard Model and Beyond” conference. The event was organized jointly by the Polish Physical Society and the Institute of Physics of the University of Silesia in Katowice as the 5th Symposium of the Division for Physics of Fundamental Interactions…
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Prof Tomasz Bulik, leader of AstroCeNT Group 2, is taking part in preparation for the construction of the SWGO – Southern Wide-field Gamma Observatory.
Currently a site visit is taking place. The Site Committee is now in Peru but will visit also sites in Chile and Argentina. As…
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The European Joint Undertaking EuroHPC has selected sites to host new European quantum computers. The LUMI-Q consortium is among the selected projects. New quantum computer will be located in Czechia at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre in Ostrava.
Our colleague, Sebastian Trojanowski from the Particle Astrophysics group in AstroCeNT, was invited to give a talk at the international scientific conference Physics in Collisions (PIC) 2022 held in Tbilisi, Georgia on Sep, 5-9. The series of PIC conferences, which was…
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On the 21-26 of August Wathela Alhassan, AstroCeNT PhD student (supervisor – Prof. Tomasz Bulik) took part in Deep Learning Indaba 2022, the annual meeting of the African machine learning community held in Tunis.
In 2022, Indaba intended to meet 350 members of the African AI community…
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One of the important projects in which CAMK/AstroСeNT is involved is the development of photo sensors and electronics for the Water Cherenkov Test Experiment (WCTE)….
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On August 15-20, Dr. Masayuki Wada, the leader of AstroCeNT research group nr 4 (Ultrapure SiPMs and Associated Readout Electronics), paid visit to Canada, Edmonton to participate in DardSide Collaboration workshop. The workshop was organized by the University of Alberta.
The DarkSide Collaboration is an international affiliation of…
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On August 2-16, the XXXI General Assembly of the IAU was held in Busan, Republic of Korea.
Professor Tomasz Bulik, co-author of the AstroCeNT project and leader of the Seismic Sensors research group, visited Busan to take part in the sessions and to represent Poland on the world…
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22 July 2022 the Coordinators of the Disciplines of the National Science Centre (NSC) presented the ranking lists of activities qualified for funding under the MINIATURA 6 competition for individual scientific activities announced by the NSC on February 1, 2022.
On 18-22 July head of AstroCeNT Prof Leszek Roszkowski and two postdocs Dr Andrew Cheek (group 6 led by Prof Leszek Roszkowski) and Dr Masato Kimura (group 4 led by Dr Masayuki Wada) visited Vienna to attend the 14th conference on the identification of dark matter (IDM2022) hosted…
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Dr Sebastian Trojanowski from the Astroparticle group at AstroCeNT has been recently invited to give an overview talk about the far-forward research program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the workshop at CERN dedicated to discussing synergies between the hadron collider at the French-Swiss border and the…
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AstroCeNT/NCAC PhD candidate Wathela Alhassan (supervisor – Prof. Tomasz Bulik) got a grant from the International Astronomical Union for doing outreach project in one of the refugee’s camps in Sudan. The grant aim is to promote astronomy in Africa for social good.
Wathela’s project “Astronomy outreach for peace sustainability”…
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We are pleased to announce that the international LIDINE 2022 in Warsaw is scheduled for September 21-23. We invite you to register for the event and send your abstracts for submitting!
DarkWave funds (implemented by AstroCeNT/NCAC) will be used to support participation of early stage researchers in…
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On March 24-27, 2022 AstroCeNT PhD student Mateusz Pietrzak took part in the 14th Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference TYGIEL 2022 “Interdisciplinarity as the key to development”. The event for students, PhDs and scientists took place in a hybrid mode – stationary in the Polish city of Lublin and online.
Scientific exchange, advanced training and the possibility of cooperation with colleagues in other countries is one of the key activities supported by the DarkWave project.
In February and March 2022, AstroCeNT/NCAC was happy to host Teena Vallivilayil John, an astroparticle physics…
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February and March 2022 have been very productive months at AstroCenNT. Dr Sebastian Trojanowski, member of Group 6 led by Prof. Leszek Roszkowski, has been awarded the SONATA BIS grant funded by the National Science Center (NCN). The grant program aims…
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Recently, Dr. Masayuki Wada‘s proposal was selected in the SONATA-BIS call. SONATA BIS is a competition funded by the National Science Center (NCN) and intended for research projects aimed…
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Thanks to DarkWave funding, PhD candidate Paules Zakhary (AstroCeNT, NCAC) will spend a 6-month (January to mid-July) secondment at the INFN-LNS…
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On the 1th of February 2022 AstroCeNT PhD student Wathela Alhassan (Seismic Sensors research group led by Prof. Tomasz Bulik) presented his poster at the 56th Rencontres de Moriond 2022 conference. The title of his presentation was “Binary Black Holes detection in Einstein Telescope using Convolutional Neural Networks”.
On 17 January 2022 APC and AstroCeNT members met online to sum up the cooperation done in 2021. The main idea of this annual event was to share the results of work, strengthen cooperation and possibly develop new directions.
During the meeting, 14 reports were presented that described the work…
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On December 9-16, 2021, Prof. Tomasz Bulik, Dr. Mariusz Suchenek and PhD student Mateusz Pietrzak made a scientific trip to VIRGO detector. Scientific visit was devoted to the servicing and conservation of infrasound sensors network in the detector area. This network is required to increase the detector’s sensitivity at…
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On 17 November 2021 the Scientific Council of the National Center for Nuclear Research granted a habilitation degree to dr Marcin Kuźniak (Leader of the Astrocent Group 1).
In Poland (also some other European countries) habilitation is is the highest scientific degree. It is awarded for significant research contributions…
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Our colleague, dr Sebastian Trojanowski from the Particle Astrophysics group, has been recently invited to present his work at the Iranian Conference on High Energy Physics (IRCHEP 2021): Deciphering the Universe Ciphers. The conference gathered more than 250 physicists (both locally in Iran and internationally from Europe and…
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The meeting on Einstein Telescope site studies and characterization took place in Nuoro, Sardinia. In October 2021, Dr Ensing, member of research group 2, worked at the Sos Ennatos site on studying the seismic noise and its dependence on the wind in the area. Read more
To successfully lead a research project, knowledge of the scientific subject is not enough. Understanding how to properly set up processes, how to most effectively organize teamwork so that it turns into synergy, is essential for every research project.
From October 21 to November 10 team members of NCAC and…
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On October 29, the PolSCA Webinar on Horizon Europe: Widening Participation & Spreading Excellence will be held. The event will be organised by the Office of Science Promotion of PolSCA PAN in Brussels.
On 1 October one more PhD student joined AstroCeNT.
Mateusz Pietrzak is not a newcomer to AstroCeNT: he has been working in our team as a technician for some time. Cooperation with scientists has inspired him to continue his path in science, and after successfully passing his entrance exams, he…
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On 17-26 September, the 25th edition of Warsaw Festival of Science is taking place. The mission of the Festival is to promote science by presenting it in an accessible way. Meetings are conducted by people who, in addition to their scientific achievements, are characterised by the ability to…
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On 23 September, Dr Sebastian Trojanowski, a postdoc at the Particle Astrophysics research group (AstroCeNT), will give a talk at the XLVII Congress of Polish Physicists. At the meeting didactics and popularisation of physics will be discussed, as well as topics in nanophysics, high-energy physics, cosmology and astrophysics,…
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On 17 October, the last day of the LIDINE 2021 conference (LIght Detection In Noble Elements), it was announced that Warsaw was chosen as the location for the next conference in the series!…
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LIDINE 2021 will be held at University of California San Diego on September 14-17, 2021. The conference will be fully online with remote participation.
Started from 2013, the LIDINE conference series promoted the discussion between members of the particle and nuclear physics community about detector technologies based on noble elements and…
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The 17th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP), one of the main biennial conferences of the experimental particle astrophysics community, will be held from August 26th to September 3rd. The conference covers recent experimental and theoretical developments in astroparticle physics, in particular:
In July 2021, AstroCeNT team members Dr Marek Walczak (Research Group 1, SiPM Systems for Astroparticle Physics and Medical Physics) and Theo Hugues (joint APC-AstroCeNT (cotutelle) student) visited the APC Lab in Paris to work with Davide Franco, DarkSide Software Development Team Leader.
On 4-10th of July, AstroCeNT team members (prof. Tomasz Bulik, dr Mariusz Suchenek and Mateusz Pietrzak) visited the VIRGO detector in order to contribute to the Newtonian-noise cancellation system work.
The main purpose of that trip was to install a network of 38 infrasound microphones that have…
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On June 30th, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) decided to include the Einstein Telescope (ET) in the 2021 upgrade of its roadmap. This fact confirms the relevance of this major international project for a next generation gravitational waves observatory for the future of research infrastructures in…
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The Virgo, LIGO and KAGRA scientific collaborations today announced the first observation ever of binary systems consisting of a neutron star (NS) and a black hole (BH). This was made possible by the detection, in January 2020, of gravitational signals (nicknamed GW200105 and GW200115 from the dates of their…
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On May 25, 2021, the Polish Information Society hosted the World Information Society Day Conference. During the event, prof. Piotr Gawron, leader of the Scientific Computing & Information Technology group at AstroCeNT, gave a lecture entitled “What is quantum computing?”
Being a small part of a large system does not mean playing a small role in it. Even a tiny cog is incredibly important to a successful and rewarding huge enterprise.
The development of a low-cost Autonomous Seismic Sensor for science and…
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On March 8, Mateusz Pietrzak, a student of the Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology), defended his master’s thesis.
The work entitled “Monopulse acoustic radar” was carried out under the supervision of Dr.
Mariusz Suchenek, leader of the Electronics and Data Acquisition and Processing group. From September 2020, Mateusz has been working at AstroCeNT as a technician and dealing with sensors and measurements. He is working on improving the stability of quartz in clock oscillators.
A few days ago Jan Ruhland, a master’s student of Technical University of Munich, came to Warsaw. Jan is currently writing a master’s thesis at the Department of Physics at TUM. This is the first student visit to AstroСeNT, financed from the DarkWave project.
On 1 March 2021 Dr Eng. Barbara Wajnchold joined the AstroCeNT taking the newly created position of the Director for Scientific Affairs. Barbara is an experienced professional who profits from the experience of a scientist to be a high-level manager.
Her research interests include mainly physics, in particular optics as…
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The kick-off meeting of the Instrument Science Board of Einstein Telescope project took place today. More than 60 participants took part in it.
ISB was established in December 2020 by the Einstein Telescope Steering Committee. Our colleague, dr Mariusz Suchenek, leader of AstroCeNT research group 3, is one of…
On December 11th Robert Szymko, a member of AstroCeNT team, became Robert Szymko, M.Sc.! He defended his master thesis in physics.
The thesis was prepared at AstroCeNT under the supervision of prof T. Bulik and dr M. Denys. The title of the thesis was “Seismic characterization of the Virgo detector”.
On 29th of October the kick-off meeting of the DarkWave (a project supported by the European Commission from the Horizon 2020 Twinning scheme, grant agreement No 952480) took place.
What is the nature of the mysterious dark matter, which is the dominant form of matter present in the Universe and which has given it its current shape? Why is there more matter than antimatter? What information about the Universe can be found in gravitational waves? Which technologies are…
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At the fourth edition of the Intelligent Development Forum, the economic event dedicated to new technologies, innovations, inventions and innovative investments, Leszek Roszkowski, together with Marcin Kuźniak and Mariusz Suchenek, introduced the International Research Agenda as a partner of the forum. Professor Roszkowski was awarded as a “scientist…
On 23 October 2019 AstroCeNT will host a discussion with expert dr Soumen Koley from the National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam (NIKHEF) in the field of seismic noise characterization at GW detector…
On 2 October 2019 AstroCeNT will host a meeting between experts in the field of machine learning. The goal of the of the meeting is to establish a scientific collaboration aiming at finding new methods and applications of machine learning for tele-detection and understanding of images obtained using Earth…
Co-organized by Astrocent, the conference Astrophysics with Gravitational Wave Detections will take place in Warsaw after the September LIGO Virgo Collaboration Meeting.
The goal of the event is to discuss the challenges of the observation process, such as the models of origin…
The LIDINE (LIght Detection In Noble Elements) conference series is one of the top experimental physics and noble liquid detector technology-oriented conferences internationally and the place where main advances in SiPM and light collection technology are presented.
The objective of LIDINE is to promote discussion between members of the particle…
Poland is one of the founders and an active member of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Collaboration. CTA is currently in the process of constructing high energy telescope arrays at two sites: on La Palma in the Canary islands and near the Paranal Observatory in…
Poland is one of the founders and an active member of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Collaboration. CTA is currently in the process of constructing high energy telescope arrays at two sites: on La Palma in the Canary islands and near the Paranal Observatory in…
The 4th biennial conference “Particle Astrophysics in Poland” will be held on 20-21 May 2019 in Warsaw. It will gather members of the particle astrophysics community, and related areas of astronomy and particle cosmology, in our…
The 4th biennial conference “Particle Astrophysics in Poland” will be held on 20-21 May 2019 in Warsaw. It will gather members of the particle astrophysics community, and related areas of astronomy and particle cosmology, in our…
Dr Sebastian Trojanowski received scholarships from the Foundation of the Weekly Polityka 2021.
Sebastian Trojanowski is a chemist, physicist, and mathematician whose research interests lie in the field of theoretical and experimental science exploring the nature of dark matter and its properties.
In 2021, Dr. Sebastian joined AstroCeNT Particle Astrophysics research…
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On 31 October, the world celebrates the hunt for the unseen—something that scientists call dark matter. Dark Matter Day is an annual celebration involving laboratories around the world. Organized events focus on exploring the mysteries of dark matter and highlighting experiments that may bring us closer to resolving them.
17–22 October 2021 the 32nd Rencontres de Blois on Particle Physics and Cosmology was held. This series of annual international multidisciplinary meetings was created in 1989 by Jean Trân Than Vân and has covered many topics in physics, astronomy and biology. All sessions take place at the Château of…
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At the end of 2021 Dr Marek Walczak from AstroCeNT research group 1 paid second three-week visit to the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) Genova in Italy.
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