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…
Read moreSince 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…
Read moreDr. 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. Each day, the expert team…
Read moreWhile 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,…
Read moreOur 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. During…
Read moreThanks 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…
Read moreA 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…
Read moreTatsuki 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…
Read moreForm 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,…
Read moreLast 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….
Read moreFrom 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). The Einstein Telescope…
Read moreLast 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…
Read moreThe 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,…
Read moreTwo publications were recently released by Astrocent Group 5 members, showcasing cutting-edge research in quantum technology and machine learning. First, Dr. Tomasz Rybotycki, along with Josep Batle, Tomasz Białecki, Jakub Tworzydło, and Adam Bednorz, co-authored the article “Quantum Null-Hypothesis Device-Independent Schmidt Number Witness,” published in EPJ Quantum Technology. This…
Read moreProf. 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…
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 moreFrom 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. Members of Astrocent are actively…
Read moreFrom 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 moreProf. 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…
Read moreOne 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
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 moreOn 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 (
Read moreOn the June 10-14 the DarkSide-20k collaboration summer meeting took place at the National Laboratory of Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Assergi, Italy. The DarkSide collaboration is an international affiliation of…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreWe 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…
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 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 May 13th, two scientific articles written by AstroCeNT members were published in the renowned Journal of Instrumentation (JINST). – One of the articles titled “Cryogenic setup for the characterization of wavelength-shifting materials for noble element radiation detectors” (S. Choudhary, A.F.V. Cortez, M….
Read moreFrom 5th to 10th May AstroCeNT members took part in the 14th Einstein Telescope Symposium…
Read moreOn April 29-30, Marcin Kuźniak, the leader of group 1, participated in the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee meeting, marking the beginning of its current…
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 moreFrom 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…
Read moreOne 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 11, group 4…
Read moreOn 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”.
Read moreAn 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreWe 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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOur colleague André Filipe Cortez was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship by the European Union. 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…
Read moreWe 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. The informative and concise article available in six…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreWe 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…
Read moreOur 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
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 moreFrom 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…
Read moreFrom 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. During…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreProfessor Piotr Gawron, leader of group 5, recently attended the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) conference organized by the European Space Agency (ESA)….
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreLast 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…
Read moreOn the 12-13th of October the Foundation of Polish Science organised the IRAP — Fostering Excellence and Innovation Conference in Warsaw. The primary aim of the…
Read moreAstroCeNT/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 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….
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreCERN 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….
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 moreFrom 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreDr. 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…
Read moreFrom 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,…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read more“…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.” Tomasz Bulik, professor at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, leader…
Read moreFrom 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…
Read moreWhat is nothing? And if nothing is nothing, then what is nothing? Can something have negative mass? Can you break an electron? In episode 3 of the LAMU23 program on Radio Naukowe, our colleague Dr Marek Walczak answered…
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 moreToday, 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. Supervisors:…
Read moreFrom 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 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 moreInIn 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.…
Read moreWe 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. Dr. Andre Cortez earned his PhD in Physics Engineering from the esteemed…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreToday at 17:00 our new visiting scientist Prof. Piotr Homola of
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreDr. 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…
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 moreAstroCeNT, 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,…
Read moreOn 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 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 moreOn 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,…
Read moreIn 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…
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 moreFrom 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…
Read moreMaciej 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. DarkSide is a group…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn 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.
Read moreOn 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).
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 moreThe 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…
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreIn 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,…
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 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…
Read moreSupport 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…
Read moreThe 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. Considering the above,
Read moreAstroCeNT’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…
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 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 Warsaw
Read moreOn November 19-28, Dr. Mariusz Suchenek (leader of group 3) and PhD student Mateusz Petrzak paid a scientific visit to Italy.
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn November 15–18, 2022, the DarkSide collaboration general meeting took place at Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy. Representatives of AstroCeNT
Read moreAt the beginning of November 2022, Dr Masato Kimura (research group 4 led by Dr Masayuki Wada) visited Fermilab in Illinois, USA. The trip had two goals. The first was to give a presentation on…
Read moreOn November 4, a few days after the Dark Matter Day, the representatives of DEAP-3600 and
Read moreOn October 21-23, the VI Conference of Doctoral Students of the Polish Academy of Sciences KonDokPAN was held in Krakow. The purpose of…
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 moreProf 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…
Read moreOn October 6-7 this year the 4th FNP Interdisciplinary Conference was held. Prof.
Read moreThe 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. The LUMI-Q consortium includes two Polish institutes (Akademickie Centrum Komputerowe Cyfronet…
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 moreIn just three minutes you can tell about your idea to tear down the existing wall – in the technology industry, economy, society or science, and then join the network of extraordinary minds from around the world, which currently has more than 1,000 people! Dr. Nikesh (postdoc at AstroCeNT
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn August 21-25, the DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting organized by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and the DEAP-3600 collaboration took…
Read moreOne 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)….
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 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…
Read more8-12 August, Dr Marek Walczak (AstroCeNT/NCAC, SiPM Systems for Astroparticle Physics and Medical Physics) participated in…
Read more22 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. The leader of AstroCeNT group 3 Dr Mariusz Suchenek…
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 3-10th of July AstroCeNT/NCAC PhD candidate Wathela Alhassan (Sensor Seismic group led by Prof. Tomasz Bulik) participated in Second Summer School on Space Research, Technology and Applications at the National Astronomical Observatory – Rozhen, Bulgaria. The topics covered during the event were incredibly wide: from theoretical…
Read moreOver the past couple of months, the AstroCeNT team has added three new members! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dr. Marta Borowiec has taken the position of Director for Scientific Affairs, and Vahagn…
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 moreAstroCeNT/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”…
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 May 13-18, AstroCeNT team members – Prof. Tomasz Bulik, Dr Mariusz Suchenek,…
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 April 18-22, 2022, Dr. Josiah Ensing (AstroCeNT/NCAC, research group led by Prof. Tomasz Bulik) participated in the 6th edition of the summer school “Passive Imaging & Monitoring in Wave Physics: From Seismology to Ultrasound” in Cargese (Corsica). The event gathers scientists working in the field…
Read moreOn 9-12 April 2022 postdoctoral researcher Marek Walczak (research group led by Prof. Marcin Kuźniak) paid scientific visit to…
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 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 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 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 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 moreOur 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…
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 moreTo 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…
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 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 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,…
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 moreThe 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: – Cosmology and particle physics – Dark matter 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 moreOn 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…
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 moreBeing 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…
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 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreOn 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”.
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 moreAt 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…
Read moreOn 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 sites.
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreCo-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…
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 morePoland 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 Chile
Read morePoland 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 Chile
Read moreThe 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 country.
Read moreThe 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 country.
Read moreDr 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…
Read moreOn 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. 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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