ASPACE-Q 

The Astrophysics,  Space  Exploration and Quantum Computing Group   

 ASPACE-Q 

The Astrophysics,  Space  Exploration and Quantum Computing Group   

14.11.2024

‍                    Florentina Pîslan and Laurențiu Caramete attended the “LISA Astrophysics Working Group Meeting” during November 5-7 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‍                    On November 6, Răzvan Balașov held a lesson titled “What’s the Deal with: Black Holes?” at Acton Academy Bucharest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‍                    On November 9, Laurențiu Caramete gave a talk on what a career as an astrophysicist is really like at the International Computer Science High School in Bucharest.

 

‍                    On November 13 and 15, Laurențiu Caramete and Ana Caramete participated in the PA/QA workshop as part of the LISA collaboration.

 

‍                    Between November 15-17, Florentina Pîslan, Maria Ișfan, and Răzvan Balașov gave presentations on the LISA mission, quantum computers, and black holes at the Explorio astronomy festival. Maria and Răzvan will also participate to a jam session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‍                    The “Cu Mic cu Mare… prin Univers” job fair, organized by the Student Physics Association and the Faculty of Physics, took place between November 15-16, with Alice Păun coordinating student visits at the institute.

 

‍                    Răzvan Balașov will participate in the “Physics of the Cosmos” workshop from November 20 to November 21.

 

‍                    On November 27, Ana Caramete will attend the AFIST meeting.

29.10.2024

‍                    Florentina Pîslan and Ana Caramete participated in the “LISA Data Generation and Analysis Workshop” online from October 7 to October 10.

 

 

‍                    Răzvan Balașov published an article titled “Unde lumina dispare” in “Știință și Tehnică” magazine and provided scientific consultation for Radio Romania for the article: “Nu, testele efectuate de Starlink în România nu îi folosesc pe români ”drept cobai”, ci urmăresc doar eventualul impact asupra altor sateliți, geostaționari, de pe orbita Pământului”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‍                    On October 25th, Ana Caramete and Laurențiu Caramete gave a presentation titled “Cum ne vorbește Universul” at Cantemir-Vodă National College, where students learned about gravity and created gravitational wave signals with a simulator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‍                    Alice Păun and Florentina Pîslan attended the “CoLABORATORUL de Idei” event from October 28 to November 2, developing science communication projects.

30.09.2024

                    During September 27-28, Alice Păun, Florentina Pîslan, Maria Ișfan, and Răzvan Balașov participated in Researchers' Night, offering VR Solar System tours and a space quiz for children.

















      



              On September 28, Răzvan Balașov held a presentation titled “De la frunze călătoare la găuri negre” at TEDxBăneasa.

28.09.2024

                   From August 22 to September 5, Laurențiu Caramete, Ana Caramete, Alice Păun, Florentina Pîslan, Maria Ișfan, and Răzvan Balașov mentored the students participating at the Magurele Summer School of Science and Technology. The theme was “Space Safety – Detecting Asteroids from Astronomical Observations.”


20.07.2024

‍                    On July 2, ASPACE-Q hosted pupils for “Școala Altfel” program. They explored gravity and the Solar System with the gravitational wave simulator, VR glasses, and a space quiz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‍                    Laurențiu Caramete, Ana Caramete, Florentina Pîslan, and Maria Ișfan attended the “15th International LISA Symposium” in Dublin, Ireland, from July 7 to July 12 where they presented posters titled “LISA Deep Processing: A Deep Based Low-Latency Approach”, “Enhancing the Scientific Exploitation of Future Gravitational Wave Experiments through a Multi-messenger Approach”, Growth Methods for Massive Black Holes using the GIZMO Software Package”, “Detecting Gravitational Waves from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals with Convolutionsl Neural Networks”, “Quantum Computing Tools for Fast Detection of Gravitational Waves in the Context of LISA Space Mission”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‍                    From July 13 to July 21, the Laurențiu Caramete, Ana Caramete, Florentina Pîslan, and Maria Ișfan participated in the “COSPAR 2024” conference in Busan, South Korea. Laurențiu held two presentations titled “Machine-Learning Based Low-Latency Pipelines for LISA Mission and Other Future Gravitational Wave Observatories in Space” and “Study of the star-gulping mechanism and of the sphere of influence of the BHs using N-body simulations”,  while Maria held two presentations titles “Quantum Computing Tools For The Analysis Of Astrophysical Data From Space Missions“, and “Exploring The Capabilities Of The State-of-art Quantum Computers” respectively and she also presented a poster titled“Quantum Computing Tools For The Analysis Of Astrophysical Data From Space Missions“. During the poster session, Florentina presented as well a poster titled “Extended Database of Massive Binaries and the gravitational Waveforms they generate”.

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