Welcome address

• Sergen Özdemir

A speech by the director of Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

• Rafał Moderski

A speech by the coordinator of the GeoPlanet doctoral school

• Radek Smolec

Cosmic distances - the royal road to solve the biggest mysteries of the Universe

• Grzegorz Pietrzynski (CAMK)

Gravitational waves astronomy with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

• Michał Bejger (CAMK)

Chaos and Einstein-Rosen Gravitational Waves

• Syed Umair Naqvi (Jagiellonian Universtiy)

Stellar mergers and interferometry: high resolution astronomy of colliding stars

• Thomas Steinmetz (Nicolaus Copernicus Centre for Astronomy)

Uncertainties on the evolutionary tracks of medium mass stars

• Oliwia Ziółkowska (CAMK)

Tools for modern scientific computing

• Piotr Gawron (CAMK PAN)

ISM removal process in the early-type galaxies under the view of spectral analysis

• Oleh Ryzhov

Q & A session

Growing Black Holes in Star Clusters

• Abbas Askar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland)

Since 2015, more than 80 merging black holes have been discovered through the direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. While these observations provide unprecedented insights into the demographics of black holes, they also raise important questions about the astrophysical origin and formation of these elusive binary systems. One of the formation channels for these observed gravitational wave sources are dynamical interactions in star clusters. A significant fraction of stars are born in clusters where they are closely packed together. In some of these clusters, the density of stars can be up to a million times higher than the density of stars in the solar neighbourhood. In this talk, I will briefly describe how star clusters evolve and how we can evolve them using state-of-the-art computer simulations. I will show how gravitational encounters in these dense stellar environments can be conducive to forming merging binary black holes. Massive and dense star clusters could also be potential sites for forming black holes with masses between ~ 100 to 10,000 times the mass of the Sun. I will also highlight different pathways by which these intermediate-mass black holes can form and grow in the densest star clusters.

CHemical Survey analysis System (CHESS): Similarity Analysis on clusters

• John Eduard Martínez Fernández (CAMK-PAN)

Classical Cepheids: Laboratories of Stellar Astrophysics

• Felipe Espinoza (CAMK)

Athena X-ray telescope and observations of accreting compact objects

• Agata Rozanska (CAMK PAN)

The DarkSide program for dark matter searches

• Clea Sunny (CAMK PAN)

Searching for Life: The Speculoos Mission

• Daniel Grana Ramos

Ultra Luminous X-ray sources: Numerical simulations of accreting neutron stars

• Fatemeh Kayanikhoo (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

Are black hole accretion disks puffy?

• Bhupendra Mishra (CAMK)

Numerical simulations of accretion disks and auroras on exoplanets

• Miljenko Čemeljić (CAMK & SU & ASIAA)

Numerical simulations of relativistic jets from black holes

• Krzysztof Nalewajko (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, PAS, Warsaw, Poland)

Prof. Belczyński's science

• Tomasz Bulik (Obserwatorium Astronomiczne UW)

Multiwavelength Analysis of AFGL 5157 Star Forming Region

• Fatima Saiyed

Studying High-Mass Star Forming Regions: Dust Continuum Emission

• Mohna Rebecca

Modelling star spots of YSOs using TESS light curves

• Nikhil Yadav

Navigating the PhD experience at CAMK, Warsaw

• Gonzalo Rojas García (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, PAN)

CAMK Life in Torun

• Thomas Steinmetz (Nicolaus Copernicus Centre for Astronomy)

Navigating the Universe: challenges in the standard model of cosmology

• Chandra Shekhar Saraf

KM3NeT: neutrino astronomy and more

• Piotr Kalaczyński (AstroCeNT)

Numerical Study of New Dark Force of Dark Matter

• Ami Patel

International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition

• Biswaraj Palit (CAMK PAN)

Novel detector concepts for future Dark Matter experiments

• André Cortez (CAMK PAN)

Never seen before - Gaia binaries and the challenges for the binary evolution models

• Iwona Kotko (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

Multi-wavelength Follow ups of Changing-Look and X-ray-Flaring AGN detected using the eROSITA X-ray telescope

• Alex Markowitz (CAMK-PAN)

Theoretical Spectral Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Investigate Interstellar Dust Features

• Venkata Lakshmi Karri

Conclusion

• Oliwia Ziółkowska (CAMK)