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The mystery of dark matter
25-06-2024…f light, and a lens – virtually ideally align in space,” said Prof. Andrzej Udalski, the principal investigator of the OGLE project. “During a microlensing event, the source’s light may be deflected and magnified, and we observe a temporary brightening of the source’s light.” The second article, published in Nature, discusses the astrophysical consequences of the findings. “If the entire dark matter in the Milky Way was composed of black holes…
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University’s Social Responsibility – report
24-06-2024…e Erasmus+ programme between 2014 and 2020, and almost 5,500 participants coming from abroad; nearly seventy projects worth almost €55 million on mobility, educational methods and content, as well as University management; 123rd place in the World’s Most International Universities 2021 ranking, published by Times Higher Education. The UW was one of the two universities from Central Europe in this ranking. Environment and sustainability: the Univ…
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New regulations of UW halls of residence
11-06-2024…commodated on the scheduled date and, simultaneously, did not communicate their cancellation of their place in the hall of residence, which significantly hindered the efficient allocation of a vacant place to another person in need. The new deposit payment system requires payment of the reservation fee within a set time from the date of notification of the allocation. Failure to pay will mean that the place will be relinquished. In this way, place…
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Ferronematic with twist
07-06-2024…e charges. Although majority of molecules have a dipole moment, they only occasionally form crystalline networks in which the dipoles are aligned in one direction, creating a ferroelectric phase. Until recently, it was widely believed that in liquids, dipole interactions were too weak compared to the energy of thermal motion to maintain such ordering. The possibility of forming liquid phases with ferroelectrically ordered dipoles is surprising o…
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UW partners with NCRD in the “Universities of the Future” project
18-05-2024…education. The “Universities of the Future” is simultaneously a project which aims to develop new methods of cooperation with the socio-economic environment in the education process. Participation in the project will also contribute to: development of the University’s potential in terms of educating key competences of students, broadening the educational offer of the University, development of competences of the academic employees in terms of d…
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Prof. Alojzy Z. Nowak re-elected UW Rector for the 2024-2028 term
19-04-2024…ojzy Z. Nowak, and Prof. Sławomir Żółtek. The University Council nominated Prof. Alojzy Z. Nowak. The final three candidates, Prof. Maciej Górecki, Prof. Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, and Prof. Alojzy Z. Nowak agreed to stand in the elections. Subsequently, the UW Senate assessed their candidatures. Prof. Alojzy Z. Nowak was the only candidate to receive a positive opinion from the Senate. The election was held on 18th April in the Auditorium Max…
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Rector and Senate Elections
08-04-2024…tember 2020, Prof. Nowak has been on the position of the Rector of the University of Warsaw. As of 2018, he chairs the Academic Sports Association (PL: Akademicki Związek Sportowy, AZS). Prof. Alojzy Z. Nowak’s website >> Senate elections The elections for the Senate members are held simultaneously with the rectorial election. Members of the Senate are elected within the faculties and by the Electoral College. Detailed Senate voting procedures a…
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Memorandum on nuclear energy
27-03-2024…tic cooperation with KINGS university over the years. In July 2020, an agreement was reached to provide UW students with unique practical competences every year. “Thanks to this agreement, our students have semester-long stays in Ulsan, Korea, where KINGS is based. It is important to remember that we are talking about a university in the vicinity of which five nuclear reactors are located. It is an excellent opportunity to learn about physics and…
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On an extraordinary journey across Africa in “Read with the UW”
19-03-2024…ms of the local population, was probably the first and the only such a depiction on cellulose film in history,” Jakub Gniadzik emphasised. Nowak’s photographs show the various stages of his journey, capturing indigenous inhabitants, local flora and fauna, and stunning African landscapes. They show that the traveller avoided the main transport routes and reached places where the Europeans had not yet been at that time. “During his African journ…
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Grants under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
06-03-2024…n on current digital humanities projects and events, primarily those involving teams or units of the University of Warsaw. Both initiatives are funded by the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme (action I.3.6. “Humanistyka cyfrowa”). Since 2021, at the UW’s Faculty of History, there is Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Team and, since 2023, Digital History Lab headed by Dr Aleksandra Kuligowska. The lab organises “Cyfrowe…
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