The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics
The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) is one of the major international conferences that reviews the field every second year since 1971 and is organized by the High Energy and Particle Physics Divison of the European Physical Society. In 2019 the EPS-HEP conference took place in Ghent, Belgium from 10 to 17 July. Dr. Leszek Kosarzewski had his presentation on Quarkonium production measured by the STAR experiment and Ing. Robert Licenik (NPI CAS) presented Measurement of open-charmed hadron production in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment.
STAR analysis collaboration meeting in Cracow
Many students and researchers from FNSPE CTU and NPI CAS attended STAR collaboration analysis meeting at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, on 19-23 August 2019. They presented their recent scientific results supported by the use of infrastructure BNL-CZ.
Namely for NPI CAS:
RNDr. Jana Bielčíková, Ph.D.
Mgr. Pavol Federic, PhD.
Bc. Georgij Ponimatkin
Bc. Monika Robotková
Ing. Jan Vaněk
Namely for FNSPE CTU:
Mgr. Jaroslav Bielčík, Ph.D.
Bc. Jakub Češka
Ing. Petr Chaloupka. Ph.D
Bc. Kateřina Hladká
Bc. Jakub Kubát
Mgr. Ing. Leszek Kosarzewski, Ph.D.
Ing. Lukáš Kramárik
Participation of FNSPE at Quark Matter 2019
Quark Matter - International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions is the largest conference on the topic of heavy-ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma, medium created in such collisions. In 2019, it took place in Wuhan, China. STAR teams from FNSPE and NPI CAS were represented by 4 students and postdocs. Barbara Trzeciak was invited to give a talk titled Quenching of heavy and light flavor jets: experimental overview. Leszek Kosarzewski, Lukas Kramarik and Jan Vanek presented posters with the recent results from the STAR experiment at BNL.
Successfully defended PhD
Dzmitry Makatun successfully defended PhD in mathematical engineering at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of Czech Technical University on September 17th 2018. He previously obtained a Master degree in Physics at the Department of Physics of Belarusian State University. His PhD thesis proposes a novel scheduling approach for large-scale data-intensive distributed computations with application in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP). A large part of the work is dedicated to detailed simulations of distributed data production in HENP which are based on data from real systems. Supervisors of Dzmitry’s research were Jerome Lauret (STAR, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Hana Rudova (Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University) and Michal Sumbera (Nuclear Physics Institute of Czech Academy of Science). The opponents of the thesis defence were Philippe Charpentier (LHCb, CERN) and Roman Bartak (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University). This PhD study became a positive example of scientific collaboration across distinct countries, institutions, and domains. After the graduation, Dzmitry continues his path in big data and proceeds his career in a multinational banking company present in Prague.
Hot Quarks 2018
More than 65 scientists attended the prestigious international Hot Quarks 2018 conference (7-14 September). This workshop on heavy-ions, aimed particularly at young scientists and students, took place on the picturesque Texel Island in the Netherlands and was co-organised by Dr. Jana Bielčíková, the leader of the STAR group at the Nuclear Physics Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences. Two students of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Ing. Jan Vaněk and Ing. Oliver Matonoha, had the privilege to come to this conference and present their latest results from the research they conduct at the STAR experiment. Jan talked about his analysis of the open-charmed mesons and what can we learn from it about the quark energy losses in the Quark Gluon Plasma, whereas Oliver presented measurements on the Upsilon production and the methods to use them to study the plasma temperature.
