CAMK Annual Meeting 2026
Bartycka 18
CAMK Annual Meeting 2026
FEB 04 - FEB 06 2026
Every year, all CAMK PAN employees are invited to review their recent achievements in the past year. This is the most important meeting of the institute, which connects the whole society from all branches, allowing to exchange experiences between different research groups. Scientists and administrative staff from Toruń and Astrocent are coming to our headquarters to interact scientifically and socially.
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Motto
This year we meet under the motto:
‘Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.’
– Robert A. Heinlein
Venue:
Main lecture room of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK), Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18, Warsaw, Poland.
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Coffee Break 30m
Wellcome for snacks
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Zebranie pracowników/All employees meeting
Wszyscy pracownicy są zaproszeni / All employess are invited
Convener: Agata Rozanska (CAMK PAN)-
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All employees meeting 50mSpeaker: Rafał Moderski (Centrum Astronomiczne im. M. Kopernika PAN)
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Szkoła Doktorska GeoPlanet/ Doctoral school 5m
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Discussion 15m
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Coffee Break 10m
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Large Scale ProjectsConvener: Agata Rozanska (CAMK PAN)
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Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) 10mSpeaker: Krzysztof Hełminiak (CAMK Toruń)
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Observatory Cerro Murphy 10mSpeaker: Marek Górski (camk)
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HESS, CTAO and SST-1M 10mSpeaker: Rafał Moderski (Centrum Astronomiczne im. M. Kopernika PAN)
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"Solaris" 10mSpeaker: Maciej Konacki
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Hyper-Kamiokande 10mSpeaker: Marcin Ziembicki (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences)
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New high energy particle monitor on NewATHENA 5mSpeaker: Agata Rozanska (CAMK PAN)
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Lunch break 1h 15m
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Stellar Clusters and GalaxiesConvener: Krzysztof Hełminiak (CAMK Toruń)
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Nuclear Star Cluster formation by the first generation globular clusters disruption 5mSpeaker: Prof. 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.)
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Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters 5mSpeaker: Mirek Giersz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences)
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Star Clusters: Black Hole Growth, Multiple Stellar Populations, Gravitational Waves, and Mock Observations 5mSpeaker: Abbas Askar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland)
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Formation channels of Gravitationally Resolvable White Dwarf Binaries in Globular Clusters 5mSpeaker: Lucas Hellström
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Gravitational influence on the Oort system as a result of the close flyby of M 15 5mSpeaker: Maryna Ishchenko
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ULXs and self-lensing in globular clusters 5mSpeaker: Grzegorz Wiktorowicz
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Galactic ArchaeologyConvener: Krzysztof Hełminiak (CAMK Toruń)
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Spectro-Photometric Method for Accurate Atmospheric Parameters for the Metal-Poor Stars 5mSpeaker: Dr . Deepak (Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika PAN)
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A holistic analysis of the metal-poor Milky Way 5mSpeaker: Arthur Alencastro Puls (CAMK)
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Tracing the metallicity gradient with open clusters 5mSpeaker: John Eduard Martínez Fernández (CAMK-PAN)
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Spectroscopic analysis of bulge globular clusters 5mSpeaker: Sergen Özdemir
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Supervised machine learning and large spectroscopic surveys for Galactic Archaeology 5mSpeaker: Thibault BOULET (CAMK WARSZAWA)
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StarsConvener: Krzysztof Hełminiak (CAMK Toruń)
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Red novae in 2025 5mSpeaker: Tomasz Kamiński (CAMK Toruń)
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M star opacities 5mSpeaker: Mirosław Schmidt (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Astrophysics, Toruń)
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Stability of light curve solutions for benchmark candidates in PLATO’s LOPS2 field 5mSpeaker: Mr Ganesh N. Pawar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
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Complex photodynamical analysis of eclipsing binaries: from observations to theory 5mSpeaker: Frédéric Marcadon (CAMK Warsaw)
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Annual Report 2025 5mSpeaker: Thomas Steinmetz (Nicolaus Copernicus Centre for Astronomy)
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Galaxies and cosmologyConvener: Krzysztof Hełminiak (CAMK Toruń)
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Coffee Break 45m
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Accreting compact objects: High energy astrophysicsConveners: Azam Zabihi (ASTROCeNT), Pedro Silva (AstroCeNT)
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Progress on developing photoionization codes for modelling X-ray spectra of AGN 5mSpeaker: Rafał Wojaczyński (AstroCeNT CAMK)
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Strong gravitation effects on the Fe K alpha line in AGN 5mSpeaker: Parikshit Partha Biswas (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warszawa)
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Temporal and dynamical behavior of multi-phase accretion flow 5mSpeaker: Marios Kouzis (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
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Numerical simulations of accretion flow and jetsConveners: Azam Zabihi (ASTROCeNT), Pedro Silva (AstroCeNT)
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GRRMHD simulation of sub-Eddington accretion discs 5mSpeaker: Debora Lančová
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A simulation of planets in highly relativistic pulsar wind 5mSpeaker: Tanja Kaister (CAMK)
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GRMHD simulations of relativistic jets from accreting black holes 5mSpeaker: Krzysztof Nalewajko (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
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Black hole jet reactivation through magnetic polarity reversal in GRMHD simulations 5mSpeaker: Wen Xuan Sia
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Magic numbers in Kharma and H-AMR GPU scaling 5mSpeaker: Jakub Szpila
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Gravitational waves and multi-messenger astronomyConveners: Azam Zabihi (ASTROCeNT), Pedro Silva (AstroCeNT)
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Gravitational waves 5mSpeaker: Przemysław Figura (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
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Microlensing of long duration GW signals 5mSpeaker: Sudhagar Suyamprakasam (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
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Data analysis with long duration gravitational waves 5mSpeaker: Mr Anirudh Nemmani (CAMK)
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Concert of pop music 45m
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GALA Dinner 4h
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Coffee Break 30m
Wellcome for snacks
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Surveys: also with the use of Machine LearningConvener: Debora Lančová
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Refining distance determinations with classical Cepheids – the distance to M33 5mSpeaker: Dr Paulina Karczmarek (CAMK PAN)
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RR Lyrae stars with variable mean magnitudes 5mSpeaker: Gergely Hajdu (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronimcal Center)
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Period-luminosity relations, projection factors and radii of Anomalous Cepheids. 5mSpeaker: Piotr Wielgorski (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw)
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Development of the Cerro Murphy Observatory Software System. 5mSpeaker: Mirosław Kicia (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
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Peculiar evolved stars and binaries: Non-pulsating stars within the Cepheid instability-strip and the short-period symbiotic system V840 Cen 5mSpeaker: Cezary Gałan (NCAC PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
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Stellar pulsationConvener: Debora Lančová
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The Tricky Tidally Tilted Trapped Triaxial pulsaTions 5mSpeaker: Gerald Handler
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Evolution of classical Cepheids with MESA 5mSpeaker: Radoslaw Smolec (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
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Asteroseismology of eclipsing beta Cep stars 5mSpeaker: Christian Eze (CAMK PAN)
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Modeling Evolution and Pulsation of Classical Cepheids 5mSpeaker: Oliwia Ziółkowska (CAMK)
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Pulsational characteristics of mass accreting stars in close binary systems 5mSpeaker: Amadesuz Miszuda (CAMK PAN, Warsaw, Poland)
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Detection, analysis, and properties of binary Cepheids 5mSpeaker: Bogumił Pilecki (Centrum Astronomiczne im. M. Kopernika PAN)
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Neutron stars and pulsarsConvener: Debora Lančová
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How effectively can Neural Posterior Estimation infer the Neutron Star Equation of State? 5mSpeaker: Valéria Carvalho (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
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Coffee Break 30m
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AstroCENTConvener: Krystian Iłkiewicz (CAMK PAN)
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Axion Dark Matter in Nonstandard Cosmologies 5mSpeaker: Leszek Roszkowski (CAMK PAN)
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Quantum Computing and Data Science @ CAMK PAN 5mSpeaker: Prof. Piotr Gawron (CAMK PAN)
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Novel optical amplification structures for rare-event searches 5mSpeaker: Pedro Silva (AstroCeNT)
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Dark matter search with liquid argon, and the new MAB Astrocent project 5mSpeaker: Marcin Kuźniak (AstroCeNT / CAMK PAN)
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Development of the Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector with Liquid Argon 5mSpeaker: Azam Zabihi (ASTROCeNT)
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Cryogenic testing of DarkSide-20k veto photodetector units 5mSpeaker: Samuel Belayneh Habtemariam (Astrocent, NCAC PAS)
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Experimental Dark Matter searches: DarkSide-20k and NEMESIS 5mSpeaker: Aheesh Hegde (Astrocent, CAMK-PAN)
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Single electron backgrounds in dark matter searches 5mSpeaker: Masayuki Wada (AstroCent)
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Study on low energy events in liquid argon for dark matter searches 5mSpeaker: Clea Sunny (CAMK PAN)
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Fantastic neutrinos and how to find them. 5mSpeaker: Dr Piotr Kalaczyński (AstroCeNT (CAMK), CEAI (AGH))
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Neutrinos and dark matter seen through weak lensing 5mSpeaker: Sebastian Trojanowski (AstroCeNT, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
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Production and characterization of novel optical amplification structures 5mSpeaker: Diego Rodas Rodríguez (Astrocent, CAMK PAN)
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Progress in the modernisation of seismic sensors at VIRGO 5mSpeaker: Mariusz Suchenek (Astrocent)
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Supermassive charged gravitinos at DEAP-3600 5mSpeaker: Michal Olszewski
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Probing the Early Universe with Gravitational Waves 5mSpeaker: Marek Lewicki (AstroCeNT, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
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Concluding remarks 15m
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Rada Naukowa/Scientific Council meeting
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