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. Astrocent is a proud member of the DarkSide-20k…
Read moreBetween 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…
Read moreDr. 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…
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreNational Science Centre announced that Dr. André Filipe Cortez‘ project has received funding of approx. 1 mln PLN in SONATA19 competition. Dr. Cortez is going to develop his project aimed at studying the mechanisms of delayed (spurious) emission in two-phase TPCs for the search…
Read moreOn 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. Clea took part…
Read moreAstroCeNT 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…
Read moreLast week the results of the OPUS 24 and SONATA 18 competitions were announced by NCN (National Science Centre). Among the winners, Prof. Marcin Kuźniak, leader of Group 1 at AstroCeNT and main coordinator of the DarkWave (Horizon 2020)…
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 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…
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