The 6th Young Astronomers Meeting at CAMK-PAN

6 Mar 2024, 09:00 → 8 Mar 2024, 17:00 Europe/Warsaw

Lecture Hall (Hybrid)

Recruitment 2024/2025 is open for applications!

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center invites applications for astronomy and astrophysics PhD studies

For more information: Recruitment

 

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Polish Academy of Sciences is a leading astronomical institute in Poland established in 1978.
The main subjects of research include:

• Stellar astrophysics
• Binary systems
• Cosmic distance scale
• Dense matter and neutron stars
• Black holes
• Accretion processes
• Structure and evolution of active galaxies
• Gravitational waves
• Cosmology
• Dark matter

Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center are involved in a number of major international observational projects such as H.E.S.S., CTA (observations of ultra high energy photons (TeV) via detection of Cherenkov radiation), Herschel (satellite observations in IR domain), SALT (Southern African Large Telescope), INTEGRAL, Fermi (satellite observations of gamma rays), LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (detection of gravitational waves). DarkSide collaboraton (Searching for Dark matter), the Araucaria Project (improving the calibration of the cosmic distance scale in the local universe) and Project SOLARIS (search for extrasolar planetary systems), financed in part by the European Research Council (Starting Independent Researcher Grant).

Important information:

• The meeting will be in a hybrid format (both on-site and on the Zoom platform) and participation is free of charge.
• The abstracts (poster and talk) should be sent to young.astro.meeting@camk.edu.pl by 1st of March, 2024.
• Limited on-site participation slots and limited accommodations for participants who want to join in person from outside of Warsaw. Please register by the 1st of March for on-site participation.
• The registration for Online participants is extended till the 5th of March.
• Please send an email to young.astro.meeting@camk.edu.pl for the accommodation request.

 

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Wednesday, 6 March

10:30 → 10:50 Registration

10:50 → 11:00 Welcome address

Speaker: Sergen Özdemir

11:00 → 11:30 A speech by the director of Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

Speaker: Rafał Moderski

11:30 → 12:00 A speech by the coordinator of the GeoPlanet doctoral school

Speaker: Radek Smolec

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Cosmic distances - the royal road to solve the biggest mysteries of the Universe

Speaker: Grzegorz Pietrzynski (CAMK)

14:00 → 14:20 Gravitational waves astronomy with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

Speaker: Michał Bejger (CAMK)

14:20 → 14:40 Chaos and Einstein-Rosen Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Syed Umair Naqvi (Jagiellonian Universtiy)

14:40 → 15:00 Stellar mergers and interferometry: high resolution astronomy of colliding stars

Speaker: Thomas Steinmetz (Nicolaus Copernicus Centre for Astronomy)

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 → 15:40 Uncertainties on the evolutionary tracks of medium mass stars

Speaker: Oliwia Ziółkowska (CAMK)

15:40 → 16:00 Tools for modern scientific computing

Speaker: Piotr Gawron (CAMK PAN)

16:00 → 16:20 ISM removal process in the early-type galaxies under the view of spectral analysis

Speaker: Oleh Ryzhov

16:20 → 16:30 Q & A session

Thursday, 7 March

10:00 → 10:20 Growing Black Holes in Star Clusters

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.

Speaker: Abbas Askar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland)

10:20 → 10:40 CHemical Survey analysis System (CHESS): Similarity Analysis on clusters

Speaker: John Eduard Martínez Fernández (CAMK-PAN)

10:40 → 11:00 Classical Cepheids: Laboratories of Stellar Astrophysics

Speaker: Felipe Espinoza (CAMK)

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 11:40 Athena X-ray telescope and observations of accreting compact objects

Speaker: Agata Rozanska (CAMK PAN)

11:40 → 11:50 The DarkSide program for dark matter searches

Speaker: Clea Sunny (CAMK PAN)

11:50 → 12:10 Searching for Life: The Speculoos Mission

Speaker: Daniel Grana Ramos

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 13:50 Ultra Luminous X-ray sources: Numerical simulations of accreting neutron stars

Speaker: Fatemeh Kayanikhoo (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

13:50 → 14:10 Are black hole accretion disks puffy?

Speaker: Bhupendra Mishra (CAMK)

14:10 → 14:30 Numerical simulations of accretion disks and auroras on exoplanets

Speaker: Miljenko Čemeljić (CAMK & SU & ASIAA)

14:30 → 14:50 Numerical simulations of relativistic jets from black holes

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

14:50 → 15:10 Coffee break

15:10 → 15:30 Prof. Belczyński's science

Speaker: Tomasz Bulik (Obserwatorium Astronomiczne UW)

15:30 → 15:50 Multiwavelength Analysis of AFGL 5157 Star Forming Region

Speaker: Fatima Saiyed

15:50 → 16:10 Studying High-Mass Star Forming Regions: Dust Continuum Emission

Speaker: Mohna Rebecca

16:10 → 16:30 Modelling star spots of YSOs using TESS light curves

Speaker: Nikhil Yadav

Friday, 8 March

11:00 → 11:20 Navigating the PhD experience at CAMK, Warsaw

Speaker: Gonzalo Rojas García (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, PAN)

11:20 → 11:40 CAMK Life in Torun

Speaker: Thomas Steinmetz (Nicolaus Copernicus Centre for Astronomy)

11:40 → 12:00 Navigating the Universe: challenges in the standard model of cosmology

Speaker: Chandra Shekhar Saraf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 13:55 KM3NeT: neutrino astronomy and more

Speaker: Piotr Kalaczyński (AstroCeNT)

13:55 → 14:15 Numerical Study of New Dark Force of Dark Matter

Speaker: Ami Patel

14:15 → 14:20 International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition

Speaker: Biswaraj Palit (CAMK PAN)

14:20 → 14:40 Coffee break

14:40 → 15:10 Novel detector concepts for future Dark Matter experiments

Speaker: André Cortez (CAMK PAN)

15:10 → 15:20 Never seen before - Gaia binaries and the challenges for the binary evolution models

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

15:20 → 15:40 Multi-wavelength Follow ups of Changing-Look and X-ray-Flaring AGN detected using the eROSITA X-ray telescope

Speaker: Alex Markowitz (CAMK-PAN)

15:40 → 15:45 Theoretical Spectral Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Investigate Interstellar Dust Features

Speaker: Venkata Lakshmi Karri

15:45 → 15:55 Conclusion

Speaker: Oliwia Ziółkowska (CAMK)