On 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 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 October 31, 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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