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3rd observation of gravitational waves has proved existence of unexpected black holes

Source: Virgo Collaboration
The Advan­ced LIGO research consortium (in which some NCBJ scientists participate) has reported the 3rd instance of direct observation of gravitational waves. The logged waves were emitted just before two black holes merged into a single spinning larger hole of a mass 49 times larger than the mass of our Sun and about 3 billion light years away the Earth. ----

Professor Wrochna appointed Chairman of the Scientific Policy Committee

Professor Grzegorz Wrochna
Professor Grzegorz Wrochna has been appointed Chairman of the Scientific Policy Committee, an advisory body at Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, for six months starting June 2, 2017 ----

NCBJ scientists help to compute huge amounts of data in global networks

Developers and users of the DIRAC computational platform have met in Warsaw on a conference organized by NCBJ. Topics discussed during the conference included monitoring of performance of global network resources and message queuing technology (already used by Instagram, Cisco, Ford and other global concerns). ----

Agreement to support production of the “Pelican” animated cartoon

The programme to sponsor Polish filmmakers set up jointly by NCBJ and Polish Film Institute (PISF) is going to support production of the “Pelican” animated cartoon, a tale of an unusual friendship, dreams, discovering and accepting who you are. The production won in 2016 a PISF grant. The producers will be able to purchase at some significant discounts services of Renderownia Świerk, a part of the NCBJ-operated Świerk Computing Centre (CIŚ). ----

Centre for design and synthesis of new molecularly targeted drugs planned in Świerk

Modern centre for design and synthesis of new radiopharmaceuticals is going to start operations in Świerk in three years. Scientists working in the centre will have at their disposal a new cyclotron, the Maria research reactor, a group of research labs, and the CIŚ supercomputer. To this end European Union will co-finance the CERAD project. ----

Some best experts in nuclear reactor safety convened in Warsaw

ERMSAR2017 (photo: Michał Spirzewski / NCBJ)
More than 160 experts from around the world discussed on how to keep nuclear power plants safe even in case of extremely improbable failures during the prestigious ERMSAR2017 international scientific conference organized by NCBJ in Warsaw. ----

Japanese interested in Polish HTR programme

On May 18, 2017 NCBJ reached an agreement on cooperation in development of high temperature reactors with the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency. It is another sign that interest in the Polish HTR programme is growing. ----

CERN celebrates inauguration of Linac 4

Some Linac 4 components (photo CERN)
CERN celebrated inauguration of the Linac 4 accelerator on May 9, 2017. The last of the machine four accelerating stages was manufactured in Świerk. Linac 4 will make possible to improve performance of LHC, the largest research facility on Earth. ----

NCBJ in Hannover: not only CANIS and SMOC

NCBJ is taking part in development of J-PET scanner presented within the SciTech Poland exposition organized at the Hannover Messe 2017 fair: we have developed some image reconstruction algorithms. Besides, Świerk supercomputer has simulated operation of detectors employed in the scanner and is used to store/compute the acquired data. ----

CANIS and SMOC at the Hannover fair

Hannover Messe, the world largest industrial fair, was held between April 24 and April 28, 2017. NCBJ was among several Polish companies and research institutions that brought with them some innovative solutions. Two systems presented by NCBJ included CANIS, a large-size cargo scanner, and SMOC, a mobile industrial radiography device. ----

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