Warsaw welcomes the DRD1 Collaboration
This year's 6th edition of the DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will take place in Warsaw (the first one outside CERN) and will gather researchers from all over the world working on topics related to gas radiation detector development.
Image: Cezary Warś © City of Warsaw
DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will be hosted by Astrocent and Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CAMK PAN) on 06-10 October 2025.
DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will be primarily an in-person event, but the talks are also planned to be broadcast via Zoom (connection details will be added at the bottom of this page).
The main topics addressed will be:
- Detector technologies (MPGD, RPC, Wire-based, etc.)
- Detector physics
- Detector performance
- Simulation and software
- Electronics
- New materials and Production techniques
- Applications and Future perspectives
- Industrialization
Important dates:
- 15 April: start of registration for the DRD1 Collaboration
meeting and young researchers grant application. - 1 August: deadline for young researchers grant
application (decisions on the selected applicants will be
announced by September 1, 2025).
Note: in order to register you will need an Indico account.
- 5 September: deadline for payment of early-registration
fee for on-site participation. - 26 September (by 16:00 CET): end of registration and
payment of late-registration fee for on-site participation.
Early-registration fee: 220 EUR (until September 5, 2025)
Late-registration fee: 350 EUR (from September 5 to September 26, 2025)
Local Organising Committee:
- André Cortez (Astrocent NCAC PAS, Warsaw) — Chair
- Maryna Chernyshova (IPPLM, Warsaw)
- Mikołaj Cwiok (University of Warsaw, Warsaw)
- Wojciech Dominik (University of Warsaw, Warsaw)
- Yuliya Hoika (Astrocent, NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
- Marcin Kuźniak (Astrocent NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
- Dagmara Rozpędzik (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
- Masayuki Wada (Astrocent NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
Honorary members:
- Leszek Roszkowski (Director of Astrocent at NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
- Rafał Moderski (Director of NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
Organisers: Astrocent NCAC PAS
News about DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will also be shared via a newsletter and on social media profiles.
This project has received funding from the Teaming for Excellence project “Astrocent Plus - Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre” funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 101137080.
