AstroCeNT will host LIDINE 2022
On 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: LIght Detection In Noble Elements
LIDINE 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 moreInternational Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP)
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…
Read moreScientific visit at APC Lab
In 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 moreInfrasound microphones have been installed in VIRGO
On 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 moreA NEW WINDOW ON THE UNIVERSE: the Einstein Telescope has been included in ESFRI roadmap
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…
Read moreFirst observations of ‘mixed’ black hole and neutron star pairs
The 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 more“What is quantum computing?”
On 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 moreAutonomous Seismic Sensors have been made by AstroCeNT team
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…
Read moreOne more master’s thesis was defended at AstoCeNT
On March 8, Mateusz Pietrzak, a student of the Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology), defended his master’s thesis.
The work entitled “Monopulse acoustic radar” was carried out under the supervision of Dr.
Mariusz Suchenek, leader of the Electronics and Data Acquisition and Processing group. From September 2020, Mateusz has been working at AstroCeNT as a technician and dealing with sensors and measurements. He is working on improving the stability of quartz in clock oscillators.
Congratulations on your success, Mateusz!
Read moreDarkWave: first student secondment at AstroCeNT
A 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 moreBarbara Wajnchold – New Director for Scientific Affairs at AstroCeNT
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…
Read moreEinstein Telescope: Instrument Science Board kick-off
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…
Read moreFirst master’s thesis in AstroCeNT
On 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 moreAPC – AstroCeNT annual meeting
On 5-6th of November, the annual meeting of APC (Laboratoire Astroparticule & Cosmologie) and AstroCeNT cooperation took place.
Read moreDarkWave kick-off
On 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 moreDarkWave is starting
What 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 moreAstroCeNT at the 4th Intelligent Development Forum
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…
Read moreSeismic noise characterization at GW detector sites
On 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 moreExpert meeting on machine learning
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…
Read moreConference on Gravitational Wave Astrophysics, 6 to 7 September 2019
Co-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 moreAstroCeNT is present at LIDINE 2019
The 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 moreThe Annual meeting of the Polish CTA Collaboration to be held at Astrocent
Poland 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 moreConference “Particle Astrophysics in Poland”
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.
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