PAS enters an entirely new era of space research
For the first time, synchronous observation of gravitational waves and light within a single event was achieved. A Polish team of scientists and the European detector Virgo contribute to the research.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017. The three physicists based in United States received the prize for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. POLGRAW group, a Polish team led by Prof. Andrzej Królak of PAS Institute of Mathematics, also participated in the discovery of gravitational waves.
V4 Academies Forum
The Polish Academy of Sciences organised Forum of the Visegrad Group of Academies (V4) on 26-27 September 2017 at the Staszic Palace in Warsaw. The meeting was attended by presidents, vice-presidents and other representatives of the Czech, Polish, Slovak and Hungarian academies of sciences.
