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Astrocent / NCAC PAS
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Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre (International Research Agendas programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, supported by the ERDF under SG OP, Priority Axis 4, Measure 4.3).
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Astrocent supports the Einstein Telescope not only through science, but also by helping Europe tell its story. In Opatija we shared ET-PP communication progress and citizen-engagement plans; in Hasselt we learned from the #ETRoadshow.
More: shorturl.at/hRaBc
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Speaker presenting on stage at the ET Annual Meeting, standing at a lectern beside a projected slide on the Einstein Telescope communication landscape. Visitors gathered in the ET Roadshow exhibition, listening to a guide in front of informational panels about the Einstein Telescope. Two women smiling next to a life-size Einstein cardboard figure at the ET Roadshow exhibition in Hasselt. Close-up of a Walter Isaacson Einstein biography book on a table, next to an ET-themed game box titled ‘Einstein’s Echo.
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Dear Astroparticle Physics Enthusiasts, we’re excited to invite you to the next talk in our Astroparticle Frontiers seminar series!

Date & Time: Thursday, November 27, 2025, at 2 PM (CET)
Location: ul. Rektorska 4, room 5.05, Warsaw
Zoom link: princeton.zoom.us/j/97132651029
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Astrocent joined the DarkSide-20k Fall Collaboration Meeting at GSSI (L’Aquila, Italy, 17–21 Nov 2025). Our team contributed to reports on vPDU production and QA/QC and to the Review Office. #DarkSide20k #darkmatter #TeamingForExcellence #NCN
dark side 20k fall collaboration meeting
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Azam Zabihi for receiving the prestigious MINIATURA‑9 grant from the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki)!

We are delighted to see her dedication recognised, and we look forward to supporting her work and celebrating the achievements that will follow.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🚀 GWECS Job Fair 2025!
We’re collecting job offers for the upcoming online fair connecting early-career GW scientists with employers.
Submit your openings: shorturl.at/4siMH
More details soon!

ET job opportunities: lnkd.in/d9S2-sRj
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position at Astrocent!
More information: lnkd.in/dEc8dNME
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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What an evening! On the 4 Nov, we celebrated #DarkMatterDay 2025 with a captivating lecture by Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski. Huge thanks to everyone involved in organising this inspiring event!
Read more: astrocent.camk.edu.pl?p=8538
A presenter explains a slide about dark matter in galaxies to an audience during the public lecture. A speaker presents information about Astrocent during the Dark Matter Day public lecture, with a slide projected behind her. Audience members listen attentively during the Dark Matter Day 2025 event at Astrocent. A young woman listens with interest during the Dark Matter Day 2025 event at Astrocent.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Congrats to our former postdoc Dr Kimura (supervised by Prof. Masayuki Wada) for receiving the 20th Young Encouragement Prize of the Physical Society of Japan for his #DarkSide-50 #darkmatter study — conducted at Astrocent — and for his new role as Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo! 🎉
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November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Join us for the next Astroparticle Frontiers seminar with Dr. Yue-Lin Sming Tsai!

📅 Thursday, November 6, 2025
🕑 2 PM (CET)
📍 Rektorska 4, room 5.05, Warsaw
🔗 Zoom: princeton.zoom.us/j/97132651029
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November 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🎊Today is the International Dark Matter Day — a global celebration of the hunt for the unseen! Astrocent will mark the occasion next week with a popular science lecture in Polish by Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski (Astrocent, CAMK PAN). Link to the event: tinyurl.com/4jjd8wye
W poszukiwaniu ciemnej materii - spotkanie z astrofizykiem
Event in Warsaw, Poland by Żoliborski Dom Kultury and Astrocent on Tuesday, November 4 2025
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October 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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We took part in #LIDINE2025 in China 🇨🇳, contributing 3 presentations — 2 talks and a poster — on noble-element detector technologies.
🏅 Congratulations to Diego Rodas Rodríguez, who received a poster award for the innovative work on cryogenic detector applications!
Proud moment!💡
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Researcher presenting at the LIDINE 2025 conference in Hong Kong. The slide on screen discusses ‘Dark Matter detection challenges,’ and the audience is seated with laptops and notebooks in a conference room setting. “Speaker giving a presentation at the Sheraton Hotel in Hong Kong during the LIDINE 2025 conference. The slide on screen is titled ‘What is PET and Why?’ and explains Positron Emission Tomography as a non-invasive imaging technique for visualising biochemical function in tissues.
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Astrocent’s Leszek Roszkowski and Marta Borowiec joined the 4th Teaming Club Conference in Portugal 🇵🇹 — connecting with Centres of Excellence across Europe to share ideas and build lasting collaborations. 🌍

#TeamingForExcellence
Teaming Club Prof. Leszek Roszkowski
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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New energy, new ideas, new discoveries ahead! ⚡️ Four amazing researchers are joining the Astrocent team - welcome Rita, Miroslav, Pedro, and Sebastian! 🌌

Check out full bios of our new team members at: astrocent.camk.edu.pl

#team #Astrocent #CAMKPAN
Sebastian Trojanowski Miroslav Macko Pedro Silva Rita Antonietti
October 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Our Comms Officer, Magda Jakubiak, spent the day at the Illustrated Communication Festival surrounded by fresh ideas on how to use visual communication. We’re proud to see our teammates keeping their curiosity alive!

#TeamingforExcellence #EU #HorizonEurope #communication
photos from the Illustrated Communication Festival in Gdansk, Poland photos from the Illustrated Communication Festival in Gdansk, Poland
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Uff, what a week we have had at the 6th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting (6–10.10), full of engagement! From daily presentation sessions to a schedule rich with social activities. Thank you, CERN, for entrusting us to deliver an enjoyable experience for our guests.
Find out more: astrocent.camk.edu.pl
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October 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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On Monday, we are starting a special gathering as the 6th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting lands in Warsaw - its first edition outside CERN! This global event brings together leading researchers in gas radiation detector development. The countdown is on!

#DRD1Meeting #ParticleAstrophysics
DRD1 Collaboration Meeting in Warsaw, 2025
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Astrocent joined the APPEC Town Meeting in Zaragoza (22–25 Sept 2025).
Prof. Roszkowski (APPEC GA Deputy Chair) and Prof. Kuźniak (APPEC SAC) took part in plenaries & round tables shaping the next European strategy in #AstroparticlePhysics.
Briefing book out this summer → roadmap next year. 🚀
A speaker addresses the audience in a lecture hall at Universidad de Zaragoza. People are seated in an amphitheater-style room with red walls, a large screen above, and a panel desk at the front. A presenter gives a scientific talk at Universidad de Zaragoza, standing next to a screen displaying a detailed slide on mass scale. The lecture hall has red walls, a university emblem, and several empty chairs at the panel desk.
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Between September 7th - 18th, we were rooting for Samuel Belayneh while he attended the respected Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025. 💪We are on track with our Astrocent Plus project and excited to see where this journey leads!

#summerschool #GranSassoHandson2025
Group photo from Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025 - PhD summer school on experimental astroparticle physics Group photo from Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025 - PhD summer school on experimental astroparticle physics Scientists during their work, photo from Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025 - PhD summer school on experimental astroparticle physics.
October 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🌟 On Sept 21, 2025, CAMK opened its doors for the Festiwal Nauki! 🚀 Visitors explored lectures, VR journeys, a planetarium, sunspot observations & more. 👉 Astrocent was proud to contribute, bringing science closer to everyone. ✨
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September 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The Astroparticle Frontiers Seminar Series is back! We’re kicking off the season next Thursday, Sept 25, at 2 pm, with a deep dive into neutrino detection in dark matter experiments.

👤 Featuring Dr. Ricardo Peres (Imperial College of London)

🎙️Tune in: tinyurl.com/pjckct6r
#Astroparticle
September 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Astrocent at #TAUP2025 (Aug 24–30, Xichang)! Prof. Masayuki Wada on light #darkmatter with DarkSide-20k & DarkSide-LowMass, and Michal Olszewski on DEAP-3600’s sensitivity to supermassive gravitinos. 🌌
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Two Astrocent members smiling in front of the TAUP 2025 conference screen in Xichang, China. A man speaking at TAUP 2025, with a slide showing features of noble liquid detectors projected on the screen. A man presenting at TAUP 2025, standing at a podium with a slide titled “Plan” projected behind him.
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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We are proud to be part of the DEAP-3600, working to uncover the invisible #darkmatter. The latest meeting took place at Carleton U. on 10–13 Aug, where we shared talks on database management, light/charge collection and detection R&D at Astrocent, and outreach activities.
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10–13 Aug 2025, the DEAP-3600 team gathered at Carleton University — in person and online — to exchange results, spark ideas, and set new goals. These face-to-face moments keep our collaboration strong in the hunt for #darkmatter’s secrets.
#DEAP3600 #meetings
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Group photo of 33 DEAP-3600 collaboration members standing on a small stage in front of a black curtain at Carleton University. The group includes men and women of different ages, dressed casually, smiling at the camera.
August 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Astrocent (NCAC PAS) has signed an MoU with @cern.bsky.social to join the DRD1 Collaboration! 🚀 We’ll help develop cutting-edge gaseous detector tech for future physics experiments - and we’re hosting the next DRD1 meeting in Warsaw, 6–10 Oct 2025!
#DRD1 #collaboration
July 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Cheyanne Monk presents a background reduction in the DEAP-3600 detector at Women+ in Physics Canada!
We’re now over halfway filled, and the data looks excellent - great news for future experiments like DarkSide-20k & ARGO.
#WomenInPhysics #darkmatter
A person standing next to a scientific poster titled “Background Reduction in the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector.” The poster includes diagrams, graphs, and descriptions of experimental methods. The person is holding a coffee cup and smiling at the camera.
July 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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ET-PP Annual Meeting in Barcelona 🇪🇺
22-24 July ET-PP consortium met to review progress & plan the next steps for building the foundations of the Einstein Telescope. 30 institutions, 11 countries, one vision for Europe’s #gravitationalwave future!
#ETPP #InfraDev #HorizonEurope
A group photo of ET-PP Annual Meeting participants taken on the rooftop terrace under a bright blue sky. The attendees, wearing conference badges, are standing and smiling against a backdrop of city buildings. A large group of attendees standing together on an outdoor terrace under a sunny sky during the ET-PP Annual Meeting in Barcelona. Most participants are wearing blue lanyards and name badges, and the background shows modern rooftop structures. A group of people posing indoors for a group photo during the ET-PP Annual Meeting. They are wearing blue lanyards with name badges, and a video call screen in the background shows additional participants joining remotely. A man standing at a podium inside an auditorium, delivering a presentation during the ET-PP Annual Meeting at the Barcelona School of Management. A slide projected behind him shows the event title “ET-PP annual meeting 22nd July 2024” and a photo of a building.
July 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM