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New face of nano
22-11-2017Researchers from the Centre of New Technologies together with their colleagues from the United States and Slovenia, have discovered new unique type of nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes, made from carbon atoms arranged in hexagonsare, are probably the best known nanotubes. They are linked together in a honeycomb pattern, similarly as in graphene. The key difference between graphene and a nanotube is that graphene sheets are flat, while in a nanotube the…
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Linguistic Diversity Week in Warsaw
08-11-2017From 13th to 18th November Warsaw will become the capital of unique languages, including Wymysiöeryś, Lemko and Nahuatl. The University of Warsaw organises open events due to the Week of Linguistic Diversity. For six days in November Warsaw will abound with unique language and cultural events. According to the organisers, researchers from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, the purpose of the Linguistic Diversity Week is to draw public attention …
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Conference on Central Admission in Poland
06-11-2017The University of Warsaw co-organises an international conference entitled “Pros and Cons of Central Admission to Higher Education Institutions in Poland”. It will take place on 14th November at the UW. The main purpose of the conference is to start a discussion among authorities from Polish HEIs, representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and other stakeholders on the possibility to organise, in Poland, central admission …
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Best Polish programmers
30-10-2017The team from the University of Warsaw, composed of Kamil Dębowski, Mateusz Radecki and Marek Sommer, has won the 22nd Polish Collegiate Programming Contest which was held on 28th October in Wrocław. Polish Collegiate Programming Contest is considered the most significant competition for students of Informatics. In this year, it took place at the University of Wrocław. The first edition was held in 1996 in Poznań. Kamil Dębowski, Mateusz Rade…
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Best biotech start-up in Poland
25-10-2017Warsaw Genomics, a start-up company of the UW, has developed a cancer-risk assessment method which predicts the risk of getting cancer. The start-up has been recognised by Central European Startup Awards as the best biotech start-up in Poland. Some people have inherited gene faults that increase their risk of developing particular types of cancer. An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw Genomics, led by Prof. Krys…
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Assist. Prof. Joanna Sułkowska among EMBO Young Investigators
25-10-2017The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) elected 28 new young investigators from 11 countries. Assistant Professor Joanna Sułkowska from the Centre of New Technologies is among them. Assistant Professor Joanna Sułkowska is a leader of the research group in the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biological Systems Modelling, Centre of New Technologies of the UW. The researcher is the only one person in Poland who won two EMBO grants – Ins…
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UW in recent rankings
19-10-2017The University of Warsaw was ranked 6th in the QS EECA University Rankings 2018. It was also listed in the world’s top 300 universities for computer science subjects. The QS University Rankings: EECA 2018 includes the top 300 universities in Emerging Europe and Central Asia. It was compiled by assessing universities on eight different indicators, including an academic reputation, web impact, citations per paper, and the proportion of academic s…
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Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity
18-10-2017Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity is a new international research entity established at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw. The center is a common initiative of the University of Warsaw, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), Leiden University, University of Groningen and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. It is located at the Faculty of “Artes Lib…
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Light from two colliding neutron stars
16-10-2017LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars. Scientists from the UW contributed to this discovery that marks first cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and light. For the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves – ripples in space and time – in addition to light from the spectacular collision of two neutron stars. This marks the first time that a cosmic event…
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Thoughts, politics and legacy of Z. Brzeziński
12-10-2017An international conference entitled “Zbigniew Brzeziński: Thoughts – Politics – Legacy” will be held on 20th-21st October at the University of Warsaw. Zbigniew Brzeziński was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He belonged to the realist school of international relations. Zbigniew Brzeziński was a national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 when the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghan…
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