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UW in Eduniversal 2015/2016
03-02-2016…h universities in China, Germany and USA); human resources management – Master of Arts in Managements (Minor: Human Resource Management) – 1st place (Faculty of Management); international management – International Business Program IBP – 3rd place (Faculty of Management); marketing – Master of Arts in Managements (Minor: Marketing) – 1st place (Faculty of Management); executive MBA & MBA part time – Executive MBA – 3rd place (Faculty of Management…
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Techfugees in Warsaw
09-11-2015…kshops; to conduct the research in teams; to implement in practice the idea or plan that the team will come up with. Agenda: Friday 13 November 6:30 p.m.: briefing, context presentations, generation of ideas and formation of teams. Week till following Friday: teams research, plan and design their solutions. Friday 20 November: review, mentoring and comparing of notes. Week till following Friday: hacks away. Friday 27 November : demo day. If yo…
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Symposium about Latin America
20-04-2015…s the dilemmas of development in today’s Latin America, marked by the pursuit of economic growth, technological improvement and reduction of poverty on the one hand, and growing concerns about the environment, natural resources preservation and human rights on the other. It will analyse socio-environmental conflicts, the infringement of human rights and responses of communities to the threats they face. It will also discuss the emergence of altern…
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Open lecture – Prof. Geoffrey Hodgson
20-03-2015…view that capitalism is a natural and inevitable outcome of human societies, showing instead that it is a relatively recent phenomenon, contingent upon a special form of state that helps to protect private property and enforce contracts. Geoffrey Hodgson is a Research Professor in Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. His books include “Conceptualizing Capitalism” (winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize and to appear in 20…
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Memory measured in microseconds
05-12-2014…ory is a glass chamber, 2.5 cm wide and 10 cm long, with rubidium-covered walls, filled with a noble gas. The use of laser impulses allows the information to be recorded and read. For recording and reading quantum information, the physicists from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw used advanced methods of light filtering (patent pending) and an innovative camera of their own design. – The retention time of quantum information s…
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Buildings are open
21-11-2014…doctoral candidates will come here to grow into wise, well-educated human beings. I hope that we will tackle here ambitious scientific issues, unveiling before us the works of the world, and changing this world for the better – said Professor Marcin Pałys, the Rector of the University of Warsaw, during the inauguration. – Even though the opening of buildings is, above all, a special moment for the Faculty of Physics and the Centre of New Techno…
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Honorary Degree for a French historian
12-11-2014…s works were translated into the majority of world languages, including Polish (among others, “Sainte Russie”, “Le Malheur du siècle, Anatomie d’un spectre”). Professor Besançon for many years was engaged in Polish struggle for independence and democracy. He appealed many times to the broad public in the West for respecting of human rights and sovereignty of our country. In 2007, in the light of his enormous contribution and engagement in the af…
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GlobE – Asian
07-10-2014…, education, business, culture and tourism. With the rapid growth in human mobility, technological developments, business opportunities, and the hegemony of English, we are witness to major changes eroding the historical frames of social, cultural and linguistic reference. However, in many European countries, including Poland, cross-cultural language studies and education are still based on the canonic literature reinforcing the traditional divide…
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Inauguration of the academic year
02-10-2014…minous tails – the gloomy reality. When investing in technological progress, we cannot run away from questions which may receive proper answers only with the help of the representatives of social sciences and humanities….
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New geological centre ready for construction
27-07-2014…her by underpasses. The architects’ guiding principle was to design a form that fits in the landscape. As we read on the website of WXCA, the company responsible for the project, ‘the cuboidal, dense, economical in their form buildings were designed in the shape of stone blocks emerging from the rocky hill’. The complex will cover a space of 6,500 m². The main representative building will include a reception, a canteen and a big conference hall…
https://en.uw.edu.pl/new-geological-centre-ready-for-construction/