Particle Astrophysics in Poland

Kraków, 13—16 February 2023

Meeting Agenda

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13 February - MONDAY

9:00—10:30 ON-SITE REGISTRATION

10:30—11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00—12:30 Session I — Cosmology & Fundamental Physics
chairman: prof. Krzysztof Turzyński (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)

dr Chunshan Lin (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
“Review: Parametric resonance in cosmology” (30’)

dr hab Vincenzo Salzano (University of Szczecin, Szczecin)
“Unifying Dark Matter and Dark Energy in DHOST gravity theory” (20’)

dr Bogumiła Świeżewska (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)
“Gravitational waves as probes of symmetry breaking in the early Universe” (20’)

dr Tomasz Krajewski (CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
“Geometrical destabilization of inflation” (20’)

12:30—14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30—16:00 Session II — Gamma-ray Astronomy
chairman: dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

dr hab. Alicja Wierzcholska (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
“Recent highlights from H.E.S.S.” (20’)

dr Kazuma Ishio (University of Lodz, Lódź)
“Recent highlights of the MAGIC telescopes” (20’)

prof. Michał Ostrowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
“Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - the project status and Polish contribution” (20’)

prof. Jacek Niemiec (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
“SST-1M gamma-ray mini-array” (15’)

dr hab. Sabrina Casanova (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
“HAWC Recent results” (15’)

16:00—16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30—18:00 Session III — Multiwavelength Surveys & CMB
chairman: prof. Wojciech Hellwing (CFT PAN, Warszawa)

prof. Marek Biesiada (NCBJ, Warszawa)
“Strong lensing - new opportunities from multivawelength surveys” (25’)

prof. Agnieszka Pollo (Jagiellonian University, Kraków & NCBJ, Warszawa)
“LSST and other near-future surveys - on the way to modern multimessenger time domain big data astronomy” (25’)

prof. Agata Różańska (CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
"New-ATHENA - the impact of X-ray surveys on cosmology" (20’)

dr hab. Paweł Bielewicz (NCBJ, Warszawa)
"Cross-correlation between the Planck CMB lensing potential and galaxy catalogues from the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project" (20’)

18:00—21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION

14 February — TUESDAY

9:00—10:30 Session IV — Gravitational Waves
chairman: prof. Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw & Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa)

prof. Andrzej Królak (IM PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa)
“Contribution of Polgraw group to LIGO and Virgo projects” (20’)

dr hab. Dorota Rosińska (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)
“Einstein Telescope, a future underground gravitational waves observatory“(20’)

mgr Małgorzata Curyło (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)
“Pulsar Timing Arrays: highlights from nHz gravitational wave astronomy” (15’)

prof. Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw & Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
“LISA: science and Polish participation” (10’)

prof. Christian Stegmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen Germany)
SPECIAL TALK: “Deutsches Zentrum fur Astrophysik” (25’)

10:30—11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00—12:30 Session V — Cosmic Rays
chairman: prof. Jacek Niemiec (IFJ PAN, Kraków)

dr hab. Dariusz Góra (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
“The Pierre Auger Observatory: a review of recent results and prospects” (25’)

dr Kevin Almeida-Cheminant (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
"Investigating the muon excess in Extensive Air Showers with Top-Down simulation" (15’)

dr hab. Piotr Homola (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
“The Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory: Science Highlights 2023” (15’)

dr Jacek Szabelski (NCBJ, Warszawa)
“JEM-EUSO Collaboration experiments - towards Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Measurements from Space” (15’)

dr Renata Modzelewska (Siedlce University, Siedlce)
“Heliospheric modulation of cosmic rays” (20’)

12:30—14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30—16:00 Session VI — Dark Matter
chairman: prof. Leszek Roszkowski (Astrocent CAMK PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa)

dr Marek Walczak (Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
"Searching for dark matter with liquid-argon detectors” (30’)

dr Masayuki Wada (Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
"Liquid Argon Technology for Dark Matter Search and Medical Application" (30’)

dr Sebastian Trojanowski (Astrocent CAMK PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa)
“Light thermal dark matter: current status and future searches” (30’)

16:00—18:00 POSTER SESSION WITH WINE & SNACKS

15 February — WEDNESDAY

9:00—10:30 Session VII — Neutrino Astrophysics
chairman: prof. Ewa Rondio (NCBJ, Warszawa)

dr Marcin Misiaszek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
"Solar neutrinos and the latest Borexino results” (25’)

dr Magdalena Posiadala-Zezula (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)
“Studies of the atmospheric neutrinos at the Super-Kamiokande detector” (25’)

dr hab. Jan Pękala (IFJ, Kraków)
“Search for ultra-high energy neutrinos in the Pierre Auger Observatory” (20’)

prof. Jan Kisiel (University of Silesia, Katowice)
"Towards underground laboratory in Poland" (20’)

10:30—11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00—12:30 Session VI (cont.) — Dark Matter
chairman: prof. Leszek Roszkowski (Astrocent CAMK PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa)

dr Andrzej Hryczuk (NCBJ, Warszawa)
“Elastic self-scatterings in the calculation of dark matter relic abundance” (30’)

dr Jacek Osiński (CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
“Dark Matter Production in Nonstandard Cosmologies: from WIMPs to Axions” (25’)

mgr Anna Socha (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)
"Truly dark Dark Matter" (20’)

dr Biswajit Karmakar (University of Silesia, Katowice)
“Origin of Dark Matter, Neutrino Masses and Mixing with Flavor Symmetric Scoto-Seesaw Model” (15’)

12:30—14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30—16:00 Session VIII — Particle Acceleration
chairman: prof. Michał Ostrowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

dr hab. Krzysztof Nalewajko (CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
“Particle acceleration during relativistic magnetic reconnection” (25’)

dr Oleh Kobzar (Cracow University of Technology, Kraków)
Particle acceleration at the large scale merger shocks in galaxy clusters (25’)

prof. Krzysztof Stasiewicz (CBK PAN, Warszawa)
“Ion and electron heating mechanisms at the bow shock - revisited with Magnetospheric Multiscale measurements” (25’)

dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
“Electron Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks” (15’)

16:00—16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30—18:00 Session IX — Astrophysical Sources
chairman: prof. Włodek Bednarek (University of Lodz, Lódź)

dr Andrey Timokhin (UZ, Zielona Góra)
"Physics of Radio Pulsars" (25’)

prof. Bożena Czerny (CFT PAN, Warszawa)
“New developments in Active Galactic Nuclei” (25’)

prof. Andrzej Zdziarski (CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
“Jet-disc connection and magnetic fields in black-hole binaries” (25’)

prof. Włodek Bednarek (University of Lodz, Lódź)
“Gamma-ray emission from Novae” (15’)

19:00—22:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

16 February — THURSDAY

9:00—10:30 Session IV (cont.) — Gravitational Waves
chairman: prof. Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw & Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa)

dr Mariusz Suchenek (CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
“Seismic and infrasound monitoring in gravitational waves observatories” (15’)

dr Volodymyr Marchenko (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
TBA (15’)

dr hab. Michał Bejger (CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
“Applications of Machine Learning in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics” (15’)

prof. Marek Biesiada (NCBJ, Warszawa)
“Quantum gravity, gravitational waves and multimessenger astronomy” (25’)

mgr Paweł Szewczyk (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)
"Core-collapse supernova models and their GW searches" (15’)

dr Marek Lewicki (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)
“Search for new physics through primordial gravitational wave signals” (15’)

10:30—11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00—12:30 Session VII (cont.) — Neutrino Astrophysics
chairman: prof. Ewa Rondio (NCBJ, Warszawa)

dr Katarzyna Kowalik (NCBJ, Warszawa)
“Astrophysics with Neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande” (20’)

dr hab. Paweł Malecki (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
“Activities in Baikal-GVD and P-ONE Collaborations” (20’)

dr hab. Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
“Searches for neutrino-less double beta decay, status of the Legend project” (20’)

Special Session X — Contributed Talks

dr Mariana Jaber (CFT PAN, Warszawa)
“Probing a single equation of state to model Dark Energy and Modified Gravity with observations” (10’)

dr Miljenko Cemeljic (Silesian University in Opava, Czechia & CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
“Role of reconnection in the ejection of flux ropes and making of the flares nearby the supermassive black holes” (10’)

prof. Tadeusz Wibig (University of Lodz, Łódź)
“CREDO-Maze Project; Extensive system of local EAS mini-arrays” (10’)

12:30—14:00 General Discussion: Particle Astrophysics in Poland
chairman: prof. Leszek Roszkowski (Astrocent CAMK PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa).
Presentation by dr Anna Wieczorek, coordinator for Physical Sciences and Engineering at the National Science Centre.

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13 February - MONDAY
9:00—10:30	ON-SITE REGISTRATION
10:30—11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00—12:30	Session I — Cosmology & Fundamental Physics chairman: prof. Krzysztof Turzyński (University of Warsaw, Warszawa)
dr Chunshan Lin (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) “Review: Parametric resonance in cosmology” (30’)
dr hab Vincenzo Salzano (University of Szczecin, Szczecin) “Unifying Dark Matter and Dark Energy in DHOST gravity theory” (20’)
dr Bogumiła Świeżewska (University of Warsaw, Warszawa) “Gravitational waves as probes of symmetry breaking in the early Universe” (20’)
dr Tomasz Krajewski (CAMK PAN, Warszawa) “Geometrical destabilization of inflation” (20’)
12:30—14:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:30—16:00	Session II — Gamma-ray Astronomy chairman: dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
dr hab. Alicja Wierzcholska (IFJ PAN, Kraków) “Recent highlights from H.E.S.S.” (20’)
dr Kazuma Ishio (University of Lodz, Lódź) “Recent highlights of the MAGIC telescopes” (20’)
prof. Michał Ostrowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) “Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - the project status and Polish contribution” (20’)
prof. Jacek Niemiec (IFJ PAN, Kraków) “SST-1M gamma-ray mini-array” (15’)
dr hab. Sabrina Casanova (IFJ PAN, Kraków) “HAWC Recent results” (15’)
16:00—16:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:30—18:00	Session III — Multiwavelength Surveys & CMB chairman: prof. Wojciech Hellwing (CFT PAN, Warszawa)
prof. Marek Biesiada (NCBJ, Warszawa) “Strong lensing - new opportunities from multivawelength surveys” (25’)
prof. Agnieszka Pollo (Jagiellonian University, Kraków & NCBJ, Warszawa) “LSST and other near-future surveys - on the way to modern multimessenger time domain big data astronomy” (25’)
prof. Agata Różańska (CAMK PAN, Warszawa) "New-ATHENA - the impact of X-ray surveys on cosmology" (20’)
dr hab. Paweł Bielewicz (NCBJ, Warszawa) "Cross-correlation between the Planck CMB lensing potential and galaxy catalogues from the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project" (20’)
18:00—21:00	WELCOME RECEPTION

14 February — TUESDAY
9:00—10:30	Session IV — Gravitational Waves chairman: prof. Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw & Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
prof. Andrzej Królak (IM PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa) “Contribution of Polgraw group to LIGO and Virgo projects” (20’)
dr hab. Dorota Rosińska (University of Warsaw, Warszawa) “Einstein Telescope, a future underground gravitational waves observatory“(20’)
mgr Małgorzata Curyło (University of Warsaw, Warszawa) “Pulsar Timing Arrays: highlights from nHz gravitational wave astronomy” (15’)
prof. Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw & Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa) “LISA: science and Polish participation” (10’)
prof. Christian Stegmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen Germany) SPECIAL TALK: “Deutsches Zentrum fur Astrophysik” (25’)
10:30—11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00—12:30	Session V — Cosmic Rays chairman: prof. Jacek Niemiec (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
dr hab. Dariusz Góra (IFJ PAN, Kraków) “The Pierre Auger Observatory: a review of recent results and prospects” (25’)
dr Kevin Almeida-Cheminant (IFJ PAN, Kraków) "Investigating the muon excess in Extensive Air Showers with Top-Down simulation" (15’)
dr hab. Piotr Homola (IFJ PAN, Kraków) “The Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory: Science Highlights 2023” (15’)
dr Jacek Szabelski (NCBJ, Warszawa) “JEM-EUSO Collaboration experiments - towards Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Measurements from Space” (15’)
dr Renata Modzelewska (Siedlce University, Siedlce) “Heliospheric modulation of cosmic rays” (20’)
12:30—14:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:30—16:00	Session VI — Dark Matter chairman: prof. Leszek Roszkowski (Astrocent CAMK PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa)
dr Marek Walczak (Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa) "Searching for dark matter with liquid-argon detectors” (30’)
dr Masayuki Wada (Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa) "Liquid Argon Technology for Dark Matter Search and Medical Application" (30’)
dr Sebastian Trojanowski (Astrocent CAMK PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa) “Light thermal dark matter: current status and future searches” (30’)
16:00—18:00	POSTER SESSION WITH WINE & SNACKS

15 February — WEDNESDAY
9:00—10:30	Session VII — Neutrino Astrophysics chairman: prof. Ewa Rondio (NCBJ, Warszawa)
dr Marcin Misiaszek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) "Solar neutrinos and the latest Borexino results” (25’)
dr Magdalena Posiadala-Zezula (University of Warsaw, Warszawa) “Studies of the atmospheric neutrinos at the Super-Kamiokande detector” (25’)
dr hab. Jan Pękala (IFJ, Kraków) “Search for ultra-high energy neutrinos in the Pierre Auger Observatory” (20’)
prof. Jan Kisiel (University of Silesia, Katowice) "Towards underground laboratory in Poland" (20’)
10:30—11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00—12:30	Session VI (cont.) — Dark Matter chairman: prof. Leszek Roszkowski (Astrocent CAMK PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa)
dr Andrzej Hryczuk (NCBJ, Warszawa) “Elastic self-scatterings in the calculation of dark matter relic abundance” (30’)
dr Jacek Osiński (CAMK PAN, Warszawa) “Dark Matter Production in Nonstandard Cosmologies: from WIMPs to Axions” (25’)
mgr Anna Socha (University of Warsaw, Warszawa) "Truly dark Dark Matter" (20’)
dr Biswajit Karmakar (University of Silesia, Katowice) “Origin of Dark Matter, Neutrino Masses and Mixing with Flavor Symmetric Scoto-Seesaw Model” (15’)
12:30—14:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:30—16:00	Session VIII — Particle Acceleration chairman: prof. Michał Ostrowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
dr hab. Krzysztof Nalewajko (CAMK PAN, Warszawa) “Particle acceleration during relativistic magnetic reconnection” (25’)
dr Oleh Kobzar (Cracow University of Technology, Kraków) Particle acceleration at the large scale merger shocks in galaxy clusters (25’)
prof. Krzysztof Stasiewicz (CBK PAN, Warszawa) “Ion and electron heating mechanisms at the bow shock - revisited with Magnetospheric Multiscale measurements” (25’)
dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) “Electron Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks” (15’)
16:00—16:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:30—18:00	Session IX — Astrophysical Sources chairman: prof. Włodek Bednarek (University of Lodz, Lódź)
dr Andrey Timokhin (UZ, Zielona Góra) "Physics of Radio Pulsars" (25’)
prof. Bożena Czerny (CFT PAN, Warszawa) “New developments in Active Galactic Nuclei” (25’)
prof. Andrzej Zdziarski (CAMK PAN, Warszawa) “Jet-disc connection and magnetic fields in black-hole binaries” (25’)
prof. Włodek Bednarek (University of Lodz, Lódź) “Gamma-ray emission from Novae” (15’)
19:00—22:00	CONFERENCE DINNER

16 February — THURSDAY
9:00—10:30	Session IV (cont.) — Gravitational Waves chairman: prof. Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw & Astrocent CAMK PAN, Warszawa)
dr Mariusz Suchenek (CAMK PAN, Warszawa) “Seismic and infrasound monitoring in gravitational waves observatories” (15’)
dr Volodymyr Marchenko (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) TBA (15’)
dr hab. Michał Bejger (CAMK PAN, Warszawa) “Applications of Machine Learning in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics” (15’)
prof. Marek Biesiada (NCBJ, Warszawa) “Quantum gravity, gravitational waves and multimessenger astronomy” (25’)
mgr Paweł Szewczyk (University of Warsaw, Warszawa) "Core-collapse supernova models and their GW searches" (15’)
dr Marek Lewicki (University of Warsaw, Warszawa) “Search for new physics through primordial gravitational wave signals” (15’)
10:30—11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00—12:30	Session VII (cont.) — Neutrino Astrophysics chairman: prof. Ewa Rondio (NCBJ, Warszawa)
dr Katarzyna Kowalik (NCBJ, Warszawa) “Astrophysics with Neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande” (20’)
dr hab. Paweł Malecki (IFJ PAN, Kraków) “Activities in Baikal-GVD and P-ONE Collaborations” (20’)
dr hab. Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) “Searches for neutrino-less double beta decay, status of the Legend project” (20’)
Special Session X — Contributed Talks
dr Mariana Jaber (CFT PAN, Warszawa) “Probing a single equation of state to model Dark Energy and Modified Gravity with observations” (10’)
dr Miljenko Cemeljic (Silesian University in Opava, Czechia & CAMK PAN, Warszawa) “Role of reconnection in the ejection of flux ropes and making of the flares nearby the supermassive black holes” (10’)
prof. Tadeusz Wibig (University of Lodz, Łódź) “CREDO-Maze Project; Extensive system of local EAS mini-arrays” (10’)
12:30—14:00	General Discussion: Particle Astrophysics in Poland chairman: prof. Leszek Roszkowski (Astrocent CAMK PAN & NCBJ, Warszawa). Presentation by dr Anna Wieczorek, coordinator for Physical Sciences and Engineering at the National Science Centre.
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