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On July 8, 2010 (Thursday) 11.30 am Professor Karol Lang Texas University will give a talk on A search for neutrinoless double beta decay with NEMO-3 and SuperNEMO detectors

Abstract: The observation of neutrino oscillations has proved that neutrinos have mass. This discovery has renewed and strengthened the interest in neutrinoless double beta decay experiments which provide the only practical way to determine whether neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac particles. NEMO-3, located in the Modane Underground Laboratory in the Frejus Tunnel under the French-Italian Alps, is an ongoing experiment looking for neutrinoless double beta decays using a powerful technique for detecting a two-electron final state by employing an apparatus combining tracking, calorimetry, and the time-of-flight measurements. We will present results from NEMO-3 and will discuss the status of SuperNEMO, the next generation experiment that will exploit the same experimental technique to extend the sensitivity of the current search.

Professor Ludwik Dobrzyński

AKARI All-Sky Survey

Data from AKARI All-Sky Survey become public today. Thanks to these data, an important step towards a better understanding of the infrared Universe has been made, with a participation of Polish astronomers. A new method of source classification allows for a high quality star-galaxy separation, making use only of far-infrared data, without any other auxiliary measurements....

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(March 31, 2010)

Our Colleague, Professor Marek Moszyński has been elected IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2009

A large computer cluster has been recently put in operation at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) of the Warsaw University. The cluster has been developed within the framework of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) European project. The cluster objective is to provide large computing power predominantly for new-generation nuclear physics experiments, planned mainly on the LHC facility. The cluster is developed and supported by a team including 3 physicists from our Institute: , and . of our Institute participated at some earlier stages of the Grid development. See the Warsaw group Website to read on access to the cluster resources, support available to the cluster users, training opportunities etc.

As a result of the 2 year-long NUclear Physics EXperince European project, the

http://www.nupex.org

Website has been recently put into operation. The Website presents a collection of lessons for school youth on many phenomena in the Universe, properties of our world, and many technologies rooted in nuclear physics. So far the lessons have been prepared in English, lessons in 6 other European languages are under construction.

See an editor letter indicating new possibilities of publishing in Central European Journal of Physics.

Mikołaj Kopernik Astronomy Center of Polish Academy of Sciences, Theoretic Physics Center of Polish Academy of Sciences and Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies invite high school teachers and students to discover by own hands

Secrets of the Universe