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…
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 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, the Director of the NCAC Prof. Rafał Moderski presented an…
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 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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