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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...

The Heavy Ion Laboratory participated in the first day of the 6th Polish‑British Science Forum, which this year was hosted by the University of Warsaw. The Director of HIL, Paweł Napiorkowski, presented to the guests from the United Kingdom the accelerator facility operating at the University of Warsaw and its importance for the European Research Area. Particular attention was given to the Laboratory’s extensive international cooperation in nuclear physics research and applications, as well as the use of the Warsaw Cyclotron for training students and young researchers from Poland and abroad. A brief visit of the Forum participants to the Laboratory allowed them not only to see the research infrastructure available at HIL, but also to meet the international research team led by Dr. Desislava Kalaydjieva from Canada and Dr. Marco Siciliano from the United States. The researchers were conducting measurements using the beam of the Warsaw Cyclotron at the time. The Deputy...