Program of the XLI PTA Meeting


10:00

12:00

Opening (see online)

10:00

10:15

Welcome address

10:15

11:00

Invited guest addresses

11:00

11:15

Short break

11:15

12:00

Opening Lecture: Kazimierz Stępień (OA UW): 100 lat Polskiego Towarzystwa Astronomicznego (pdf)

12:00

13:00

Award ceremony I

12:00

12:15

Bohdan Paczyński Medal ceremony

12:15

12:30

Laudacja

12:30

13:00

Bohdan Paczyński Medal Lecture (pdf)

13:00

14:30

Lunch

14:30

15:45

Award ceremony II

14:30

14:45

Award ceremony: Włodzimierz Zonn Prize and Polish Astronomical Society Youth Prize

14:45

15:15

Włodzimierz Zonn Prize Lecture

15:15

15:45

Polish Astronomical Society Youth Prize Lecture (pdf)

15:45

16:00

Coffee break / Poster session

16:00

18:00

Session I: Historical Session

16:00

16:30

16:30

17:00

Marek J. Sarna (CAMK PAN) – Astronomia w Polsce: drugie 50 lat: 1973-2023 (pdf)

17:00

17:20

Andrzej Pigulski (IA UWr) – Polskie Obserwatoria w ostatnim stuleciu (pdf)

17:20

17:40

Michał Tomczak (IA UWr)
Edukacja astronomiczna (pdf)

18:15

19:15

Meeting with SKAO representatives

agenda

Tuesday 12th September 2023

9:00

11:00

Session II: The Sun and heliosphere

9:00

9:30

Janusz Sylwester (CBK PAN) – Badania plazmy koronalnej w Zakładzie Fizyki Słońca CBK: Od kamery pin-hole na Verical-1 (1970) do teleskopu STIX na Solar Orbiter (2020) (pdf)

9:30

10:00

10:00

10:15

Dorota Przepiórka (CBK PAN) – The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) interferometer: a unique tool for Solar-Earth interaction studies. Possibilities and perspectives (pdf)

10:45

11:00

Petr Heinzel (Center of Exelence UWr) – Large eruptive prominences observed by Metis onboard Solar Orbiter (pdf)

11:00

16:00

Session III: Planetary systems and small bodies

11:00

11:30

11:45

12:15

Coffee break / Poster session

12:15

12:45

Przemysław Mróz (OA UW)
Free-floating planets and other beasts (pdf)

12:45

13:15

13:15

13:30

13:45

14:00

Hanna Rothkaehl (CBK PAN) – Juice-ESA mission, challenge for Jupiter system exploration (pdf)

14:00

15:00

Lunch

15:15

15:30

Andrzej Maciejewski (IA UZ)
Niecałkowalność zagadnienia n ciał (pdf)

16:00

23:30

The Inauguration of the Toruń events of the World Copernican Congress (CKK Jordanki, see online)

16:00

18:00

Plenary Session – Lectures for the Opening of the World Copernican Congress: by Rev. Prof. Michał Heller and by prof. Andrzej Udalski

18:00

19:30

Early music concert performed by Ars Cantus directed by Tomasz Dobrzański

Wednesday 13th September 2023

9:00

11:00

Session IV: Comapact objects and multi-messenger astronomy

9:30

9:45

9:45

10:00

10:15

10:30

11:00

13:30

Session V: High Energy astrophysics

11:30

11:45

11:45

12:15

Coffee break / Poster session

12:15

12:45

Bronisław Rudak (CAMK PAN) – The Universe in Very High Energy Gamma Rays (pdf)

12:45

13:00

13:00

13:15

13:15

13:30

11:00

14:00

Session IX: Session for popular science and education

(Parallel session organized by K. Czart and S. Soberski)

11:00

11:30

Stefan Janta – Odnowione Planetarium Śląskie (pdf)

11:30

11:45

11:45

12:15

Coffee break / Poster session

12:15

12:30

12:45

13:00

13:15

13:30

Monika Maślaniec
Astronomia dla najmłodszych (pdf)

13:45

14:00

Krzysztof Kowalczyk
Śladami Kopernika (pdf)

13:30

16:00

Session VI: Stars, star systems and interstellar matter

13:30

14:00

14:00

15:30

Lunch

15:30

15:45

15:45

16:00

Krzysztof Hełminiak (CAMK PAN Toruń)
12 years of ”CREME de la creme” of eclipsing binaries (pdf)

16:00

18:30

General Assembly of PTA members

invitation

19:00

24:00

Visiting the Astronomical Observatory in Piwnice & BBQ

Thursday 14th September 2023

9:00

12:00

Session VI: Stars, star systems and interstellar matter

9:00

9:30

Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz (IA UWr) – Seismic probing of stellar interiors: past achievements and future goals (pdf)

9:45

9:58

9:58

10:11

Tomasz Kamiński (CAMK PAN Toruń)
Observing stellar mergers (pdf)

10:11

10:24

Ayush Moharana (CAMK PAN)
Evolution of Compact Hierarchical Triples (pdf)

10:24

10:37

Piotr Kołaczek-Szymański (IA UWr)
Why is the loudest stellar heartbeat so loud? (pdf)

10:50

11:15

Coffee break / Poster session

11:15

11:28

11:28

11:41

12:00

13:00

Poster presentations

13:00

14:00

Lunch

14:00

17:36

Session VII: Cosmology and evolution of galaxies

14:00

14:30

14:30

14:45

Dariusz Graczyk (CAMK PAN)
The Hubble tension (pdf)

15:30

15:45

15:45

16:00

Coffee break / Poster session

16:00

16:12

16:48

17:00

17:00

17:12

17:24

17:36

Mateusz Bronikowski (University of Nova Gorica Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology)
Strongly-lensed supernovae in upcoming surveys (pdf)

18:00

20:00

Piano recital (Aula UMK)
Piano recital by Mateusz Krzyżowski — winner of the 12th International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz

Friday 15th September 2023

9:00

13:15

Session VIII: Instrumental programs

9:00

9:30

Piotr Orleański (CBK PAN) – Aktualnie przygotowywane w Polsce naukowe misje kosmiczne (pdf)

9:30

10:00

Grzegorz Pietrzyński (CAMK PAN) – Polskie Obserwatorium Astronomiczne w Chile (pdf)

10:00

10:30

Krzysztof Katarzyński (IA UMK) – Polish contribution to the research of the Universe at radio wave (pdf)

10:30

10:45

Michał Drahus (OA UJ) – HYADES mission: In search of the cosmic origins of Earth’s oceans and new reservoirs of water in our and other planetary systems (pdf)

10:45

11:15

Coffee break / Poster session

11:15

11:30

Adam Dobrzycki (ESO) – ESO Archive (pdf)

11:30

11:45

Danuta Dobrzycka (ESO) – ESO Science Data Products (pdf)

11:45

12:00

Rodolfo Smiljanic (CAMK PAN) – The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) – Status and Opportunities (pdf)

12:00

12:15

Andrzej Niedzielski (IA UMK) – Spektrograf ANDES (pdf)

12:15

12:30

Jacek Niemiec (IFJ PAN): Development of new technologies for composite mirror production for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy (pdf)

12:30

12:45

Maciej Bilicki (CFT PAN) – Vera Rubin Observatory – LSST – present status (pdf)

12:45

13:00

Andrzej Krankowski (UW-M) – POlish Low Frequency Array – POLFAR. Rozwój systemu: LOFAR2.0 oraz praca w ramach LOFAR-ERIC

13:00

13:15

Mateusz Olech (UW-M) – LOFAR-VLBI obrazowanie wysokiej rozdzielczości na niskich częstotliwościach (pdf)

13:15

14:30

Lunch

14:30

15:30

Summary, Poster Competition Award, closure

16:00

23:00

The Closing Gala of the World Copernican Congress (CKK Jordanki, see online)

16:00

18:00

Closing Lecture by Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University Observatory, the former president of the International Astronomical Union)

18:00

19:30

Concert by Anna Maria Jopek & Kroke