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Open lecture – Prof. Geoffrey Hodgson
20-03-2015…key institutions. Drawing on a new theoretical approach called legal institutionalism, Hodgson underlines the constitutive role of law and the state. While private property and markets are central to capitalism, they depend upon the development of an effective legal framework. Applying this legally grounded approach to the emergence of capitalism in eighteenth-century Europe, Hodgson identifies the key institutional developments that coincide…
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Research on Red Sea trade in Roman times
09-02-2015…in Delaware, USA) directed by Prof. Steven E. Sidebotham, in cooperation with a PCMA UW expedition. Within the scope of the project specialists working on certain categories of finds will compare objects excavated at the opposite shores of the Red Sea, which will – in all likelihood – prove to have much in common. After all, as Prof. Gawlikowski put it “the Roman-period trade exchange brought about the beginnings of globalization”. Read more on…
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Best masters and MBA programs
21-01-2015…al Management TOP 100 – Global ranking Ranked N°64 in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, Worldwide Quantitative Finance TOP 100 – Global ranking Ranked N°20 in Financial Markets, Worldwide Global MBA TOP 200 – Regional ranking within the 9 geographical zones Ranked N°2 in General Management, Eastern Europe International Business Program IBP TOP 200 – Regional ranking within the 9 geographical zones Ranked N°3 in Internatio…
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New Polish-Jordanian archaeological project in Beit Ras
23-12-2014…tifacts collected during the survey included fragments of roof tiles, tesserae (mosaic cubes) and several coins. However, the most important finds were lumps of “raw” glass, slag and production wasters which point to the existence of glass-production workshops in the area. The forms of glass vessels found in the area can be dated to the Byzantine–Umayyad period (6th–7th century). There is also some evidence that other artisanal installations, such…
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Memory measured in microseconds
05-12-2014…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 stored in our memory is seve…
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Cryptoworld
01-12-2014…. The cryptologists from the University of Warsaw managed to show the ways of using some special features of the currency to establish safe bitcoin lotteries without using the trust of a third party. Their publication „Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin” received the award for the best paper during the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy in San Jose, California, in May this year. Professor Dziembowski works in the Institute of Informatic…
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Sky in sight
24-11-2014…ld Earth” – OGLE-2013-BLG-0341LB, and a new category of exoplanets which are not bound to any star (so-called rogue planet). OGLE is also the world leader in studying variable objects – the “OGLE collection” currently consists of over half a million previously unknown variable stars. Another very important field of research is the study of the Milky Way and its neighbouring galaxies – Magellanic Clouds, as well as study of the distance scale in th…
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Who will be the best foreign student?
20-11-2014…for the best international students in Poland in 2014. The competition is aimed at the international students at the Polish higher education institutions on the bachelor, master and doctoral level. Both foreign nationals and students with dual citizenship are eligible. Candidates should prove they are active in such fields as culture, social life, ecology or sports. The Interstudent Competition is organized by Perspektywy Educational Foundation…
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Computer pine
17-11-2014…ng it “Pine” (“Sosna” means “Pine tree” in Polish), I should have named it “Lemon”….
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New PCMA excavations: Aynuna in Saudi Arabia
12-11-2014…season of work, aiming at surveying and making a topographic plan of the site. The site is located on a rocky terrace overlooking the dry bed of Wadi Aynuna approximately 3 km from the present coastline. Remains of at least three square buildings with central courtyards can be seen on the surface. The plan is typical of a khan or caravanserai, encountered on caravan routes of the Near East from Antiquity until quite recently. In the middle, ther…
https://en.uw.edu.pl/new-pcma-excavations-aynuna-in-saudi-arabia/