PROGRAM

Symposium Program overview


Monday 03.06.2013
Arrival to Kraków
Tuesday 04.06.2013
Scientific meeting
(Collegium Maius, Kazimierz the Great Conference Hall)
Guided tour through Collegium Maius (after lunch)
Baroque Concert
(Collegium Maius Aula)
Wednesday 05.06.2013
Scientific meeting
(Collegium Maius, Michal Bobrzynski Conference Hall)
Barbecue with presenations about far and near countries
(Czułówek village)
Thursday 06.06.2013
Departure


DETAILED SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM


Tuesday 04.06.2013
Session I
Medical imaging and radiotherapy

(Kazimierz the Great Conference Hall)

Chairperson: Tomasz Kozik (Jagiellonian University)
8:00 - 8:05 OPENING - Prof. Roman Płaneta (Director of the Institute of Physics JU) and Prof. Paweł Moskal (Coordinator of the International PhD studies)
8:05 - 8:30 Giuseppe Battistoni (National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Milano, Italy)
"Monte Carlo-based treatment planning for proton therapy"
8:30 - 8:55 Teresa Cywicka- Jakiel (Nuclear Physics Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
"Proton therapy center at the Instiute of Nuclear Physics in Krakow - from the eye treatment to the scanning gantry"
8:55 - 9:15 Jan Gajewski (Nuclear Physics Institute Polish Academy of Sciences)
"2D Thermoluminescence Dosimetry for scanned ion beam therapy"
9:15 - 9:40 Paulo Crespo (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physicsi, Lisboa, Portugal)
"Positron emission tomography based on resistive plate chambers"
9:40 - 10:05 Piotr Białas (Jagiellonian University)
"Image reconstruction for time-of-flight positron emission tomography"
10:05 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK
Session II
Tests of foundations of physics and search for new kind of sub-atomic matter

(Kazimierz the Great Conference Hall)

Chairperson: Kazimierz Bodek (Jagiellonian University)
10:30 - 10:55 Andrzej Kupść (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Search for a dark matter photon in decays of mesons"
10:55 - 11:20 Beatrix Hiesmayr (Vienna University, Austria)
"Testing foundations of quantum mechanics at different energy scales"
11:20 - 11:55 Zoltan Fodor (Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
"NA61 experiment at CERN SPS and its further perspectives"
11:55 - 12:10 COFFEE BREAK
Session III
New materials and technologies in radiation detection

(Kazimierz the Great Conference Hall)

Chairperson: Jerzy Smyrski (Jagiellonian University)
12:10 - 12:35 Małgorzata Hodana (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Reconstruction of the position of interaction region for experiments with WASA detector at COSY"
12:35 - 13:00 Erica De Lucia (National Institute of Nuclear Physics, LNF Frascati, Italy)
"Development of C-GEM technology for ultra-light tracking detectors"
13:00 - 14:10 Lunch in Collegium Novum
14:10 – 15:30 Guided tour through Collegium Maius
Session IV
New materials and technologies in radiation detection

(Kazimierz the Great Conference Hall)

Chairperson: Eryk Czerwiński (Jagiellonian University)
15:30 - 15:50 Michał Silarski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Applications of neutron activation spectroscopy"
15:50 - 16:10 Sedigheh Jowzaee (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Calibration of a Modular Straw-Tube-Tracker for the COSY-TOF Experiment"
16:10 - 16:30 Krzysztof Pelczar (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Technologies for obtaining high radiopure materials and methods of low activity detection"
16:30 - 16:50 Tomasz Twaróg (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"FAZIA detector system with fast pulse shape sampling and digital processing"
16:50 - 17:10 Yasir Ali (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Future Vertex detector for Open Charm measurements in NA61/SHINE Experiment at CERN"
19:00 Baroque Concert in Assembly Hall of Collegium Maius
Wednesday 05.06.2013
Session V
Tests of foundations of physics and search for new kind of sub-atomic matter

(Michał Bobrzyński Conference Hall)

Chairperson: Andrzej Kupść (Uppsala University)
8:30 - 8:55 Caterina Bloise (National Institute of Nuclear Physics, LNF Frascati, Italy)
"Precision studies of hadronic contributions to the muon anomaly with the KLOE detector"
8:55 - 9:20 Marcin Zieliński (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Investigations of anti-hydrogen atoms with ATRAP experiment at CERN "
9:20 - 9:40 Magdalena Skurzok (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Search for eta-mesic helium via deuteron-deuteron reactions "
9:40 - 10:00 Izabela Pytko (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Quantum Mechanics tests with neutral kaons at the KLOE experiment"
10:00 - 10:20 Antoni Marcinek (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Phi meson production in proton-proton collisions at 158 GeV in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS"
10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK
Session VI
High-performance signal processing and data analysis

(Michał Bobrzyński Conference Hall)

Chairperson: Piotr Salabura (Jagiellonian University)
10:50 - 11:15 Michael Traxler (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany)
"Trends and challenges in modern DAQ systems"
11:15 - 11:35 Grzegorz Korcyl (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"FPGA-based data acquisition systems for physics experiments"
11:35 - 11:55 Sebastian Kupny (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Application of Artificial Neural Networks methods for background reduction exemplified on ASY-EOS experimental data"
11:55 - 12:20 Paweł Kowalski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)
"Application of compressive sensing theory for the reconstruction of signals in polymer scintillators"
12:30 - 13:50 Lunch in Collegium Novum
Session VII
Fission, fusion and spallation processes

(Michał Bobrzyński Conference Hall)

Chairperson: Bogusław Kamys (Jagiellonian University)
13:50 - 14:15 Krzysztof Pomorski (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)
"Nuclear fission within the Lublin-Strasbourg drop model"
14:15 - 14:40 Wolfgang Trautmann (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany)
"The symmetry energy at high density: experimental probes"
14:40 - 15:00 Kacper Topolnicki (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Few-nucleon fusion reactions in three-dimensional formalism"
15:00 - 15:20 Jinesh Sebastian (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Alpha Particle Structure of Nucleus based on Microscopic Model"
15:20 - 15:50 COFFEE BREAK
15:50 - 16:15 Frank Goldenbaum (Research Center Juelich, Germany)
"The phenomenology and experiment of spallation processes"
16:15 - 16:40 Mikhail Bashkanov (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
"Investigations of the basic double-pionic fusion in the region of the ABC effect"
16:40 - 17:00 Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Proton induced spallation reactions"
17:00 - 17:20 Ghanshyam Khatri (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Three- and Four- Nucleon Dynamics at Intermediate Energies"
18:00 Departure of bus from Auditorium Maximum to Czułówek