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…
Read moreOn 29 May, Prof. Marcin Kuźniak, leader of Astrocent Group 1, gave an institutional seminar at one of our key local partner institutions, the Industrial Chemistry Institute – Łukasiewicz Research Network (Łukasiewicz – IChP). The seminar, titled “What is the Universe made of? Dark Matter Particles and How…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreDr 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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreFrom November 29th to December 2nd, Dr. Masato Kimura (Ultrapure SiPMs and Related Readout Electronics group) paid a short scientific visit to Tokyo. The travel was made to participate in the “Kashiwa…
Read moreOn August 21-25, the DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting organized by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and the DEAP-3600 collaboration took…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn the 20-25th of June 2022 AstroCeNT postdocs Dr Marek Walczak and Dr Rafał Wojaczyński participated in INFN School of Underground Physics – SoUP 2022 carried out in LNGS. SoUP 2022 is an advanced school for PhD students, post-docs and young researchers willing to gain deeper knowledge…
Read moreDr 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…
Read moreOn June 3-7, 2022, the annual meeting of the DarkSide-20k Collaboration was held in Sardinia for the first time since the…
Read moreOn 9-12 April 2022 postdoctoral researcher Marek Walczak (research group led by Prof. Marcin Kuźniak) paid scientific visit to…
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 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…
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