From 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…

Last 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…

On 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…

We 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…

From 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…

The 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…

Dr. 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…

From 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…

On 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…

In 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…

On 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…

Over 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…

To 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…

On 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,…

The 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…

On 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…

Being 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…

On 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…

The 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…

At 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…

On 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…

The 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. 

Dr 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…