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…
Read moreOn 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…
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 moreFrom 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…
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 moreOn 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…
Read moreAt 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…
Read moreOn November 15–18, 2022, the DarkSide collaboration general meeting took place at Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy. Representatives of AstroCeNT
Read more21-23rd 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…
Read moreSearch for new physics is a worldwide effort! 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…
Read more8-12 August, Dr Marek Walczak (AstroCeNT/NCAC, SiPM Systems for Astroparticle Physics and Medical Physics) participated in…
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 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 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 moreScientific 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…
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 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”. Rencontres…
Read moreOn 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. The aim of the meeting is to strengthen the knowledge of the Polish Academy of Sciences…
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 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 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 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 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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