Author: Michał

Błażej Kuźma defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Numerical simulations of the magnetically dominated atmosphere of the Sun" on September 14th, 2020. The thesis was written under the supervision of Professor Krzysztof Murawski.

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New project SWATNET is described in an article in Urania - the journal of Polish Astronomical Society. Two researchers from the Department of Theoretical Physics UMCS: Stefaan Poedts and Krzysztof Murawski are involved in this international project.

The team of Krzysztof Murawski and Stefaan Poedts received EU funding for the implementation of the space weather project, worth over EUR 3 million from the Horizon 2020 Programme.

The project with the acronym SWATNET aims to make a breakthrough in understanding the physical basis of the key cosmic weather factors affecting the Earth. The consortium consists of nine beneficiaries and seven partner organisations from seven different European countries with diverse and complementary expertise. The Project coordinator is University of Helsinki from Finland. On the part of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, the key investigators will be Krzysztof Murawski and Stefaan Poetds, who is employed at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University as part of the Research in Lublin initiative.

Thanks to the project, the next generation of heliophysicists will be trained, among other things by developing and applying a new methodology that can be used to discover the basic physical processes taking place in the solar atmosphere and contributing to space weather. The project will last for 4 years and has a total budget of more than €3 million.

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Nicholas Sedlmayr received grant OPUS from National Science Centre for "Quench Dynamics of Topological Materials: Dynamical Phase Transitions and Entanglement".

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Tadeusz Domański has been elected as a member of the Committee of Physics and Krzysztof Murawski as a member of Committee of Astronomy Polish Academy of Sciences. Congratulations!

Marek Rogatko presents in the local newspaper Dziennik Wschodni interesting information about recent discoveries in cosmology.

Our PhD student Aksel Kobiałka presents his research in "Login: Nauka" - program on local TV. One may see it on 25 November in TVP Lublin or on the Internet:

https://lublin.tvp.pl/10058981/login-nauka
The presentation starts at 8:21.

From 24 to 29 September 2019 nuclear physicists will join annual Nuclear Physics Workshop in Kazimierz Dolny. The topic of this coference devoted to theory of nuclear structure is "Key problems in nuclear physics". The organizer is Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics of UMCS in Lublin.

This year over 70 participants attend in the meeting. We have planned over 50 lectures and moreover several poster presentations.

Web page of the Workshop

On 20 th September 2019 Agnieszka Szulerecka defended her PhD thesis on "Group theory analysis of the selected discrete groups of intrinsic symmetries in a quadrupol-octupol collective nuclear model". Prof. Andrzej Góźdź was the supervisor of the thesis. Prof. Michał Kowal from NCBJ, Warsaw and prof. Katarzyna Mazurek from IFJ, Cracow prepared the reviews.

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Prof. Tomasz Paterek from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with collaborators was awarded Ig Nobla prize from biology for discovering that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living magnetized cockroaches.

Ig Nobel prize is awarded for serious research that has some humorous or extraordinary meaning. It is very well recognized in the academic world. One of Ig Nobel Prize winners was Andre Gleim who get Nobel Prize later.

Ig Nobel prize web page: Improbable Research

Honoured paper: Scientific Reports

Prof. Paterek graduated from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in theoretical physics. His master thesis was prepared under supervision of Prof. Andrzej Góźdź.