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,…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn August 21-25, the DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting organized by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and the DEAP-3600 collaboration took…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn April 11 our PhD student Sarthak Choudhary (SiPM Systems for Astroparticle Physics and Medical Physics group, led by Prof. Marcin Kuźniak) left for about 1.5 months for a scientific visit to the University of Zurich and the Technical University of Munich to take part in…
Read moreDear friends! 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…
Read moreOn April 25-27 Prof. Piotr Gawron, leader of Scientific Computing & Information Technology group (AstroCeNT/NCAC), participated in PP-RAI’2022, 3rd Polish Conference on Artificial Intelligence organized by Gdynia Maritime University in cooperation with Polish Alliance for the Development of Artificial Intelligence, Pomeranian Students’ Coalition Foundation and…
Read moreOn 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. The…
Read moreFebruary 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…
Read moreOne of the objectives of the IRA AstroCeNT is to improve the skills of employees through their participation in various trainings. In February and March 2022, AstroCeNT team members took part in a certified training on PRINCE2 project management methodology. PRINCE2 is a…
Read moreScience requires investment. And, fortunately, European Union and Polish government supports research and innovation with numerous programs and grants. 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…
Read moreThanks to DarkWave funding, PhD candidate Paules Zakhary (AstroCeNT, NCAC) will spend a 6-month (January to mid-July) secondment at the INFN-LNS…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn November 15-19, AstroCeNT hosted Martin Beseda, doctoral student from Technical University of Ostrava. Martin came to AstroCeNT to learn about our scientific activities in the area of Quantum Computing and to work with Scientific Computing & Information Technology group led by Prof. Piotr Gawron. “I’ve known prof. Piotr…
Read moreThe 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 moreOn 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…
Read moreFor a long time, the cornavirus pandemic did not allow our scientists to work in the field. But now this opportunity is back again. On 12-19 September, Dr Mariusz Suchenek…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn 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!…
Read moreLIDINE 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…
Read moreIn 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. Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory in Paris…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreOn 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?” Quantum computing is a large field of…
Read moreA 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.
Read moreOn 5-6th of November, the annual meeting of APC (Laboratoire Astroparticule & Cosmologie) and AstroCeNT cooperation took place.
Read moreOn 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.
Read moreWhat 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreOn October 31, 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. On…
Read more17–22 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…
Read moreAt 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. During the trip he worked…
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