News

The news since my appointment at the University of Warsaw:

2025

• 2025 Sep 4: Seminar in Prescott at ERAU Speaker Series
• 2025 Aug 1: Symposium in the Faculty News: link (pl), link (eng)
• 2025 Jul 11: Marek becomes a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU): profile
• 2025 Jul 9: Prof. Sergey Klimenko from the University of Florida (USA) is visiting Warsaw
• 2025 Jul 6: Prof. Michele Zanolin from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (USA) is visiting Warsaw
• 2025 Jun 27: Invited talk at the Gravitational Wave Probes of Physics Beyond Standard Model 4
workshop (slides).
• 2025 Jun 24: PAPER ALERT: Bhaumik et al, Gravitational wave detector sensitivity to eccentric black hole mergers, Phys. Rev. D 111, 123032. Also: arXiv:2410.15192
• 2025 Jun 5: All summer student interns have arrived, welcome! Their projects will be presented at the CCSN Symposium.
  • Miriam Biehle (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA): Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and University of Warsaw scholarships
  • Olivia Korensky (University of Michigan, USA): International Summer Research Program
  • Brajesh Kumar Padhi (IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India): University of Warsaw scholarship
  • Sophia Winney (University of Chicago, USA): International Summer Research Program
• 2025 Jun 2: Proceedings paper: Szczepanczyk et al, Targeted searches for gravitational waves from SN 2023ixf and SGR 1935+2154 (arXiv:2506.02252, 2025 Morind meeting)
• 2025 Jun 2: Classical and Quantum Gravity proceedings for the Symposium: Focus on Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics: Past, Present, and Future
• 2025 May 22: PAPER ALERT: Abac et al, Search for Gravitational Waves Emitted from SN 2023ixf, ApJ 985 183. Also: arXiv:2410.16565
• 2025 Apr 30: Marek on the Polish Return webpage: polskiepowroty.pl
• 2025 Apr 28: "Gravity - how to explain it?" in the Polish Radio 3: audio (in Polish)
• 2025 Apr 23: Alejandro Casallas Lagos joined our Group as a postdoc. Welcome!
• 2025 Apr 16: Invited talk at Center for Theoretical Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (link, Facebook, YouTube)
• 2025 Apr 10: Seminar at the Department's Joint Seminar on Quantum Information and Technologies
• 2025 Apr 7: "Sound" of the Universe - popular science article: link
• 2025 Apr 2: Distinction for the scientific achievements from the Rector of University of Warsaw (University News, Department News, facebook)
• 2025 Mar 30 - Apr 6: 59th Rencontres de Moriond 2025 invited talk (agenda with slides)
• 2025 Mar 24-27: LVK collaboration meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
• 2025 Mar 21: Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, visit
• 2025 Mar 18-21: University of Melbourne, Australia, visit and a seminar
• 2025 Mar 17: Pawel Kalwak gives a presentation and a poster at the American Physics Society April Meeting (Department News)
• 2025 Mar 11: National Center for Atomic (Warsaw) research seminar.
• 2025 Mar 1: Marek in Career Updates in the LIGO Magazine, vol 26
• 2025 Feb 24-25: University of Florida (Gainesville, USA) visit.
• 2025 Feb 21: PAiP-2025 conference "Particle Astrophysics in Poland", talk remotely.
• 2025 Feb 19-21: University of Tennessee Knoxville visit.
• 2025 Feb 9-18: MIT visit (colloquium slides).
• 2025 Jan 29: PAPER ALERT: Mishra et al, Gravitational waves detected by a burst search in LIGO/Virgo's third observing run, Phys. Rev. D 111, 023054. Also: arXiv:2410.15191
• 2025 Jan 14: Seminar in the Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw: link (YouTube, slides).
• 2025 Jan 5-11: Theory meeting experiment (TMEX) conference in Quy Nhon, Vietnam (talk slides, photo).

2024

• 2024 Dec 20: Marek's guest Anna Liu from the Chinese University of Hong-Kong visits Warsaw and gives a seminar (slides and youtube).
• 2024 Dec 5-6: Invited talk at the Theoretical Physics Symphosium in Warsaw.
• 2024 Dec 5: PAPER ALERT: Richardson et al, Detecting Gravitational Wave Memory in the Next Galactic Core-Collapse Supernova, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 231401 (Editors' suggestion!). Also: arXiv:2404.02131
• 2024 Nov 27: Seminar at the Jagiellonian University, photo.
• 2024 Nov 24: Marek becomes a member of the Polish Society on Relativity.
• 2024 Nov 12-15: 3rd Einstein Telescoope Annual meeting in Warsaw, serving in the Local Organizing Committee (photo).
• 2024 Nov 8: I am looking for a postdoc collaborator! advertisement
• 2024 Oct 28: Promotion of the Physics Faculty's research groups, the UW GW group presentation (in Polish).
• 2024 Oct 17: Outreach for 3-5 year old black hole explorers at a Montessori kindergarden, photo.
• 2024 Oct 8: Outreach presentation to around 200 high-schoolers in Suwalki.
• 2024 Sep 29 - Oct 4: Shubhagata Bhaumik and Tanmaya Mishra visit Warsaw (Marek's guests) and give a seminar (photo, youtbue).
• 2024 Sep 23-27: LVK collaboration meeting in Barcelona. Marek receives a Burst group award: photo.
• 2024 Sep 19: Marek in the Department of Physics News: in Polish, in English
• 2024 Sep 18: The 10th Conference of Polish Society on Relativity (talk picture)
• 2024 Sep 11: Monnet International School outreach (Marek and Christine): instagram reel
• 2024 Sep 2-21: Christine Yi Shuen Lee form University of Melbourne (Australia) visit in Warsaw and Kazimierz Dolny
• 2024 Aug 5-7: Around 20 scientists met in Warsaw at a "Brainstorming workshop: Deciphering the equation of state using gravitational waves from astrophysical sources". The meeting webpage
• 2024 Jun - Jul: Chance Chackson (University of Florida, IREU scholarship) and Kya Schulterman (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University scholarship) spent two months in Warsaw performing research on binary black holes (their report)
• 2024 Jun 14 : Warsaw seminar (slides, youtube)
• 2024 Jun 6-7: Virgo week trip (detector inside and outside)
• 2024 May 16-17: Patrick Cheong (University of Berkeley and University of New Hampshire) research visit
• 2024 Apr 21-May 1: Hong-Kong visit and seminar
• 2024 Apr 16-20: Taiwan - GW Open Data Workshop (talk: youtube)
• 2024 Apr 7-14: Minneapolis visit and seminar
• 2024 Mar 24-Apr 1: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Arizona) visit
• 2024 Mar 18-23: Guadalajara (Mexico) visit and seminar (facebook ad)
• 2024 Mar 11-14: Baton Rouge (Louisiana) LVK meeting (Livingston detector control room and an arm view)
• 2024 Feb 16 : Wroclaw seminar (Institute ad)