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Iwona Piętka received first prize in the poster competition at the 20th biennial Nuclear Structure Conference, proudly hosted by Simon Fraser University and TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada, from July 27 to July 31, 2026. The award winner is a PhD student working at the Heavy Ion Laboratory under the supervision of Leszek Próchniak and Katarzyna Wrzosek-Lipska. At the conference, she presented the work entitled “Coulomb Excitation of ¹¹⁰Cd Studied with AGATA at LNL.” The announcement is available on the conference website. Congratulations! ...

The next meeting of the Programme Advisory Committee will take place on June 8, 2026. The Agenda of the meeting is available here....

We would like to invite you to a seminar that will take place on Thursday, April 30 at 12:15 in room 111 of the Physics Building of the Warsaw University of Technology.  During the seminar, Dr hab. Ernest Grodner from the  National Centre for Nuclear Research will give a talk entitled “Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in atomic nuclei. 2026-2027: a time of new research opportunities”. The seminar will be held in English.

Abstract:

The term "chirality" is used in a wide range of phenomena in various fields of science. Generally, it means a possibility of a system or object to exist in two equivalent forms: left- or right-handed one. Chemical molecules – enantiomers- with mirror geometric form are a well known example. Chirality is often associated with the concept of helicity: in optics these are circularly polarized photons or in the theory of weak interactions the handedness of the...