Name: CAMK Annual Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-02-04T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-06T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Bartycka 18

CAMK Annual Meeting 2026

from Wednesday 4 February 2026 (09:00) to Friday 6 February 2026 (17:00)

Monday 2 February 2026
Tuesday 3 February 2026
Wednesday 4 February 2026

09:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 11:20
Contributions

10:00 All employees meeting - Rafał Moderski (Centrum Astronomiczne im. M. Kopernika PAN)

10:50 Szkoła Doktorska GeoPlanet/ Doctoral school

10:55 IT @ CAMK - Artur Gawryszczak (CAMK)

11:05 Discussion
11:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:45
Contributions

11:30 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA - Michał Bejger (CAMK)

11:40 Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) - Krzysztof Hełminiak (CAMK Toruń)

11:50 CUBES and WST - Rodolfo Smiljanic (CAMK)

12:00 Observatory Cerro Murphy - Marek Górski (camk)

12:10 HESS, CTAO and SST-1M - Rafał Moderski (Centrum Astronomiczne im. M. Kopernika PAN)

12:20 "Solaris" - Maciej Konacki

12:30 Hyper-Kamiokande - Marcin Ziembicki (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences)

12:40 New high energy particle monitor on NewATHENA - Agata Rozanska (CAMK PAN)
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 14:35
Contributions

14:00 Nuclear Star Cluster formation by the first generation globular clusters disruption - Peter Bertsyk (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland; Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St., 03143 Kyiv, Ukraine.)

14:05 Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters - Mirek Giersz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences)

14:10 Star Clusters: Black Hole Growth, Multiple Stellar Populations, Gravitational Waves, and Mock Observations - Abbas Askar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland)

14:15 Black holes in stellar clusters - Renuka Pechetti (CAMK)

14:20 Formation channels of Gravitationally Resolvable White Dwarf Binaries in Globular Clusters - Lucas Hellström

14:25 Gravitational influence on the Oort system as a result of the close flyby of M 15 - Maryna Ishchenko

14:30 ULXs and self-lensing in globular clusters - Grzegorz Wiktorowicz
14:35
14:35 - 15:05
Contributions

14:35 Spectro-Photometric Method for Accurate Atmospheric Parameters for the Metal-Poor Stars - . Deepak (Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika PAN)

14:40 A holistic analysis of the metal-poor Milky Way - Arthur Alencastro Puls (CAMK)

14:45 The history of C, N, and O in the Galaxy - Heitor Ernandes (CAMK PAN)

14:50 Tracing the metallicity gradient with open clusters - John Eduard Martínez Fernández (CAMK-PAN)

14:55 Spectroscopic analysis of bulge globular clusters - Sergen Özdemir

15:00 Supervised machine learning and large spectroscopic surveys for Galactic Archaeology - Thibault BOULET (CAMK WARSZAWA)
15:05
15:05 - 15:40
Contributions

15:05 Interacting binaries with evolved donors - Joanna Mikołajewska

15:10 Bow shocks in cataclysmic variables - Krystian Iłkiewicz (CAMK PAN)

15:15 Red novae in 2025 - Tomasz Kamiński (CAMK Toruń)

15:20 M star opacities - Mirosław Schmidt (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Astrophysics, Toruń)

15:25 Stability of light curve solutions for benchmark candidates in PLATO’s LOPS2 field - Ganesh N. Pawar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

15:30 Complex photodynamical analysis of eclipsing binaries: from observations to theory - Frédéric Marcadon (CAMK Warsaw)

15:35 Annual Report 2025 - Thomas Steinmetz (Nicolaus Copernicus Centre for Astronomy)
15:40
15:40 - 15:45
Contributions

15:40 Evolution of galactic bars - Ewa Lokas (Copernicus Center)
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30
16:30 High energy astrophysics
High energy astrophysics
16:30 - 17:05
Contributions

16:30 Spins of stellar-mass black holes - Andrzej Zdziarski

16:35 Accretion flows in Changing-Look AGN - Alex Markowitz (CAMK-PAN)

16:40 Warm corona in changing-look AGNs - Biswaraj Palit (CAMK PAN)

16:45 Weak Line Quasars - Piotr Zycki

16:50 Progress on developing photoionization codes for modelling X-ray spectra of AGN - Rafał Wojaczyński (AstroCeNT CAMK)

16:55 Strong gravitation effects on the Fe K alpha line in AGN - Parikshit Partha Biswas (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warszawa)

17:00 Temporal and dynamical behavior of multi-phase accretion flow - Marios Kouzis (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
17:05
17:05 - 17:40
Contributions

17:05 GRRMHD simulation of sub-Eddington accretion discs - Debora Lančová

17:10 MHD in extremis - Miljenko Čemeljić (CAMK)

17:15 A simulation of planets in highly relativistic pulsar wind - Tanja Kaister (CAMK)

17:20 Studies on horizonless compact objects - Angelos Karakonstantakis

17:25 GRMHD simulations of relativistic jets from accreting black holes - Krzysztof Nalewajko (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, PAS, Warsaw, Poland)

17:30 Black hole jet reactivation through magnetic polarity reversal in GRMHD simulations - Wen Xuan Sia

17:35 Magic numbers in Kharma and H-AMR GPU scaling - Jakub Szpila
17:40
17:40 - 18:00
Contributions

17:40 Development of the TDFstat pipeline - Paweł Ciecieląg (CAMK)

17:45 Gravitational waves - Przemysław Figura (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

17:50 Microlensing of long duration GW signals - Sudhagar Suyamprakasam (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

17:55 Data analysis with long duration gravitational waves - Anirudh Nemmani (CAMK)
18:15 Concert of pop music
Concert of pop music
18:15 - 19:00

19:00 GALA Dinner
GALA Dinner
19:00 - 23:00
Thursday 5 February 2026

09:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 also with the use of Machine Learning
also with the use of Machine Learning
09:30 - 10:15
Contributions

09:30 The Araucaria project - Grzegorz Pietrzynski (CAMK)

09:35 The Bochum Survey of the Southern Galactic Disk: DR III - Rolf Chini (CAMK)

09:40 Refining distance determinations with classical Cepheids – the distance to M33 - Paulina Karczmarek (CAMK PAN)

09:45 RR Lyrae stars with variable mean magnitudes - Gergely Hajdu (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronimcal Center)

09:50 Reddening maps of Magellanic Clouds - Henryka Netzel

09:55 Period-luminosity relations, projection factors and radii of Anomalous Cepheids. - Piotr Wielgorski (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw)

10:00 Development of the Cerro Murphy Observatory Software System. - Mirosław Kicia (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

10:05 Peculiar evolved stars and binaries: Non-pulsating stars within the Cepheid instability-strip and the short-period symbiotic system V840 Cen - Cezary Gałan (NCAC PAS, Warsaw, Poland)

10:10 Annual Report - Dariusz Graczyk (CAMK)
10:15
10:15 - 10:50
Contributions

10:15 The Tricky Tidally Tilted Trapped Triaxial pulsaTions - Gerald Handler

10:20 Evolution of classical Cepheids with MESA - Radoslaw Smolec (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

10:25 Asteroseismology of eclipsing beta Cep stars - Christian Eze (CAMK PAN)

10:30 Modeling Evolution and Pulsation of Classical Cepheids - Oliwia Ziółkowska (CAMK)

10:35 Pulsational characteristics of mass accreting stars in close binary systems - Amadesuz Miszuda (CAMK PAN, Warsaw, Poland)

10:40 Detection, analysis, and properties of binary Cepheids - Bogumił Pilecki (Centrum Astronomiczne im. M. Kopernika PAN)

10:45 Classical Cepheids - Felipe Espinoza (CAMK)
10:50
10:50 - 11:05
Contributions

10:50 Neutron stars - Julian Leszek Zdunik (CAMK)

10:55 Radio pulsars - Jaroslaw Dyks

11:00 How effectively can Neural Posterior Estimation infer the Neutron Star Equation of State? - Valéria Carvalho (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
11:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:35
11:35
11:35 - 12:55
Contributions

11:35 Axion Dark Matter in Nonstandard Cosmologies - Leszek Roszkowski (CAMK PAN)

11:40 Quantum Computing and Data Science @ CAMK PAN - Piotr Gawron (CAMK PAN)

11:45 Novel optical amplification structures for rare-event searches - Pedro Silva (AstroCeNT)

11:50 Dark matter search with liquid argon, and the new MAB Astrocent project - Marcin Kuźniak (AstroCeNT / CAMK PAN)

11:55 Development of the Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector with Liquid Argon - Azam Zabihi (ASTROCeNT)

12:00 Cryogenic testing of DarkSide-20k veto photodetector units - Samuel Belayneh Habtemariam (Astrocent, NCAC PAS)

12:05 Experimental Dark Matter searches: DarkSide-20k and NEMESIS - Aheesh Hegde (Astrocent, CAMK-PAN)

12:10 Single electron backgrounds in dark matter searches - Masayuki Wada (AstroCent)

12:15 Study on low energy events in liquid argon for dark matter searches - Clea Sunny (CAMK PAN)

12:20 Fantastic neutrinos and how to find them. - Piotr Kalaczyński (AstroCeNT (CAMK), CEAI (AGH))

12:25 Neutrinos and dark matter seen through weak lensing - Sebastian Trojanowski (AstroCeNT, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

12:30 Production and characterization of novel optical amplification structures - Diego Rodas Rodríguez (Astrocent, CAMK PAN)

12:35 Progress in the modernisation of seismic sensors at VIRGO - Mariusz Suchenek (Astrocent)

12:40 Supermassive charged gravitinos at DEAP-3600 - Michal Olszewski

12:45 Probing the Early Universe with Gravitational Waves - Marek Lewicki (AstroCeNT, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

12:50 Cosmology on the shoulders of Giants - Michał Chodorowski
12:55 Concluding remarks
Concluding remarks
12:55 - 13:10
Friday 6 February 2026

11:15

11:15 - 14:15