This year's Pyrkon discipline region is looking more and more interesting! The invited guests are joined by another prominent personalities from the planet of science, literature and fresh technologies.
Magdalena Kozak – she will kidnap you with her story!
Magdalena Kozak is an officer of the Polish Air Force, a veteran of combat and air missions in the mediate East, a gunman, a parachutist and an on-board doctor in military search and rescue service.
She has not only a fascinating military career but besides a literary career – she has been nominated for the most crucial fantastic awards in Poland, including the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Prize (for The Tears of the Devil), 4 times to the Nautilus Award (for novels Bedkeeper and Renegat and stories Operation Faust and Cynglers) and six times for the Janusz A. Zajdla Polish Fandom Award (for the fresh Bedkeeper, Renegat, Nobody, The Tears of the Devil and stories Strings of destination and I like you so much.).
Prof. Hanna Zbroszczyk – will he betray the secrets of antimatter?
As a small girl, she dreamed of walking on Martian sand. On her way to the Red Planet, however, she discovered another passion – a fascination with a planet so microscopic that she eludes her imagination. Astrophysics gave way to atomic physics, and in peculiar to the mysteries of antimatter and the mysteries of the large Bang.
Hanna Zbroszczyk obtained a double PhD in Poland and France, followed by habilitation and a evidence fast professorship in atomic physics. It does not research Mars, but reality equally distant – only in subatomic scales. On a regular basis, he directs global investigation teams in the world's largest laboratories, from the US to Germany, where particles collide with close light speeds, revealing secrets of substance and antimatter.
One of the latest achievements of 1 of the teams is the discovery of the heaviest known nucleus of antimatter – antihyperhydrogen-4, about which the prestigious Nature was writing. Mars will gotta wait, but if Hanna fulfills her childhood dream 1 day, she promised to send a selfie from the planet to her husband and 2 daughters.
Professor CDV Dr. Marek Zieliński – about education in the AI day
He will besides execute in the technological region Professor CDV Dr Marek ZielińskiRector of the Da Vinci Collegium. In his technological work he tries to realize the function of trust in business cooperation and the importance of fresh technologies (AI, IoT) for the success of business projects. Co-author of the study “Polish education in the shadow of AI” and the initiator of the task “PoznAI” on the function of technology in education. Privately a fan of SF literature and films, and a keen comic book collector. It will invitation participants to reflect on the future of discipline and education in times of dynamic technological change.
This is only part of the attractions waiting for you in the 2025 Pyrcon discipline Zone! Be ready for fascinating lectures, meetings and conversations – discipline has never been so exciting!
