On July 23, 2025, Prof. Douglas Cline passed away. He was an outstanding scientist who laid the foundations for modern research on the structure of atomic nuclei using the Coulomb excitation method. Since 1963, he worked at the University of Rochester in the USA, where he built the Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory (NSRL) accelerator facility and directed it from 1988 to 1999. The Cline criterion for safe energy in Coulomb excitations and the Kumar-Cline sum rules will remain in the history of nuclear physics. Together with Tomasz Czosnyka and C.Y.Wu, he was the author of the GOSIA program, which was fundamental for the analysis of Coulomb excitations.

He was a master and friend of many Polish physicists, whom he hosted in Rochester and with whom he collaborated for years.
In 2012, he received the highest distinction of the Polish Physical Society – the Smoluchowski Medal.

KFT seminar is scheduled on June 10, 2025 at 10.15 a.m., room 341, during which

prof. Piotr Magierski (Warsaw University of Technology)

will give his talk entitled

Quantum vortices in fermionic superfluids: from ultracold atoms to neutron stars

You can also participate in the seminar online Link to Teams.

The full list of seminars for the current semester can be found in the link below:
https://kft.umcs.lublin.pl/?page_id=3019

In April 2025, an agreement was signed to establish the Polish Underground Laboratory Consortium “UL-PL”. The signatories of the agreement are the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Otwock-Świerk, the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, KGHM CUPRUM Sp. z o.o. – Research and Development Center in Wrocław, the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and the University of Silesia in Katowice, which is the coordinator of the Consortium. The Consortium aims to build the first deep (several hundred meters below the surface) interdisciplinary underground laboratory in Poland, where scientific research will be carried out, requiring a low background of natural radiation and specialist education, as well as the use of the laboratory infrastructure for the evaluation and calibration of scientific and control-measurement equipment by domestic and foreign institutions and economic entities. The tasks of the Consortium will be carried out through participation in domestic and international projects. At the University of Silesia, the work of the UL-PL Consortium is led by Dr. Katarzyna Szkliniarz and Prof. Jan Kisiel from the Institute of Physics of the Faculty of Science and Technology.