…of free tickets was made available on 20th May, ensuring that as many UW students and doctoral candidates can participate in the festival.   The tickets can be claimed by visiting the Biletomat.pl website >>   The detailed programme of the festival as well as useful information can be seen on the official jUWenalia 2024 profile on Facebook >>  …

…ess to the information. If the public entity refuses to comply with the request to provide accessibility or an alternative method to access the information, the person filing the request may lodge a complaint regarding the provision of digital accessibility to the website, mobile application or an element of the website or mobile application. After exhausting the above-mentioned procedure, an application may be filed with the Commissioner for Huma…

…a dozen telescopes deployed around the globe and in space were used to monitor supernova SN 2018evt. One of the main instruments providing spectroscopic data was the 3.54-metre NTT telescope located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on La Silla Hill in Chile. The data were collected as part of the ePESSTO+ project, in which Dr Mariusz Gromadzki has been involved for several years. Publication details Lingzhi Wang, Maokai Hu, Lifan Wang,…

…esearch University” programme.   Publication details Magdalena M. Woźniak, Bartłomiej Witkowski, Tomasz Gierczak, Magdalena Biesaga, “First dye identification analyses conducted on textiles from Old Dongola (Sudan, 17th-18th centuries CE)”, Archaeometry (2023): http://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12930…

…re. We have discovered, among others, the remains of the crocodile-like Mastodonsaurus, the fish-eating yet unnamed armoured reptile and the aquatic predator Jaxtasuchus,” Dr Mateusz Tałanda says.   Among the most interesting specimens are numerous bones of Tanystropheus, a reptile that reached six metres in length. Due to the recent discoveries, Miedary has become the world’s richest source of remains of this species. What is also surprising is t…

…uring a battle with the Wizard of Moscow in Kolenica. The novel depicts the adventurous wanderings of the main character, whose goal is to regain his lost form.   “Many people claim that this novel by Dukaj is the most sensational of all his books,” Prof. Przemysław Kordos explains, “The plot jumps from one place to another – and the areas in which the writer sets the action are very exotic, e.g. a safari in Africa or a journey to the moon.”   Que…

…sed systems for use in industries related to the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) polluting the air and in catalysis. The article “Block Copolymer-Templated, Single-Step Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Sensing Applications” by Przemysław Puła, a doctoral candidate in the research group of Prof. Paweł Majewski from the UW’s Faculty of Chemistry, and colleagues was published in the journal ACS Applied Materials &…

…ong on a phone or computer, a conversion of information happens – a file digitally encoded in one’s device’s memory is converted to an electric current driving the headphones.   “Similarly, we can convert quantum information encoded in photons – the smallest quanta of light. For example, we can transfer information from a single microwave photon to a single optical photon. However, devices capable of single-photon operations are quite difficult to…

…As the researchers point out, this observation is difficult to reconcile with the theory of the production of such pulsed gamma rays.   The results of the work of astrophysicists have been published in the paper “Discovery of a Radiation Component from the Vela Pulsar Reaching 20 Teraelectronvolts” in the Nature Astronomy journal. Cosmic lighthouses “Pulsars emit rotating beams of electromagnetic radiation. They can be compared to cosmic lighthou…

…on.   Will the University of Warsaw allow the usage of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, during classes or while preparing thesis? I am in favour of the wide, but rational usage of AI tools in research and teaching. We have analysed this topic for some time now. This is not about writing your master thesis or final assignment in ChatGPT, but structuring and searching for information. AI tools can be helpful for both students and academic teachers. One mi…