In 2025, the Paris Center for Cosmological Physics (PCCP) became the Cosmos, Science, and Society Center (CSS). This name change is accompanied by a new logo and a new website. This evolution reaffirms the center’s core mission: a science outreach organization affiliated with the APC laboratory that works to build bridges between fundamental research in astrophysics and civil society. Discover their new website and their initiatives.
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On February 17, 2025, the Polish Academy of Sciences officially established the International Institute for Particle Astrophysics, which operates under the name Astrocent. Based in Warsaw, it is the first institute in Central and Eastern Europe entirely dedicated to particle astrophysics. The APC Laboratory, a partner of Astrocent, will play an important role in this project, whose development is supported by €30 million in European and national funding.
Shortly after the start of its scientific operations, the SVOM space mission demonstrated its full potential by detecting a spectacular phenomenon: a thermonuclear X-ray burst from the celestial source 4U 0614+091. This observation marks an important milestone for the mission, showing its ability to study not only distant gamma-ray bursts, but also violent phenomena occurring within our own Galaxy.
The Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory (APC) is opening its doors to future doctoral students. Thesis topics for 2026, led by the laboratory's research teams, are now available here and cover a wide range of topics related to the physics of the two infinities: high-energy astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, gravitational waves, and theoretical physics. Interested candidates are invited to contact the person listed for each proposal.