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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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The University’s visiting card
03-06-2015Would you like to get to know the University of Warsaw in 100 seconds? If so, then you should watch the short movie we have just created about the University. At the beginning of the movie, there is a view of Krakowskie Przedmieście Street – the place where the Main Campus of the University of Warsaw is located. Then, viewers can see the University of Warsaw Library, one of the biggest academic libraries in Poland. Later on, there are laboratorie…
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Entrepreneurship for XXI
27-04-2015…ationalization processes of small and medium companies, • international entrepreneurship, • family business, • crisis in the entrepreneurship activities: origins, meanings and entrepreneurial answers, • entrepreneurship of students and alumni’s, • small business management – dilemmas and challenges, • corporate governance and entrepreneurial activities, • non-mainstream aspects of entrepreneurship: researches and applications, • is there a room fo…
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Symposium about Latin America
20-04-2015…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 alternative development models and the very philosophy of development. Programme (pdf)…
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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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Best masters and MBA programs
21-01-2015…0 – Regional ranking within the 9 geographical zones Ranked N°3 in Communications, Eastern Europe Master in Environmental 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…
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Action zone in DELab open
16-12-2014…ng space in DELab. They manage start-ups, or companies which operate on the Internet before for some trial period, before they find a more fitting mode of operation. These include miniature model makers from the paining shop yourwellpaintedarmy.com. Their business has been operating in the global market for two years now. “The university gave us the space, and we plan to make a mock-up of the University main campus from the times of the Warsaw U…
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Telescopes for internet users
15-12-2014…so the new users can request the observations, with most of them being accomplished within a few days. GLORIA has succeeded in building up the first large scale robotic telescope network of free access, which will allow any user to provide scientific knowledge. The project, which was initiated in October 2011, makes use of thirteen telescopes: five in Spain, three in Chile, one in Argentina, two in the Czech Republic, one in South Africa and on…
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Memory measured in microseconds
05-12-2014…(patent pending) and an innovative camera of their own design. – The retention time of quantum information stored in our memory is several to several dozen microseconds. Somebody could say: what sort of memory is that, lasting for such a short time? Still, you have to remember that everything depends on the application. In telecommunication, microseconds are enough to perform numerous attempts of transmitting quantum signals to the next transmi…
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Cryptoworld
01-12-2014…yptology, a discipline from the border between mathematics and computer science, which for many brings up associations with the breaking of the Enigma code during the World War II by a group of Polish mathematicians. However, cryptology saw dynamic progress over the last decades, with the advent of digital signature and public-key cryptography. Currently, cryptography finds more and more uses in the digital economy. A team from the Faculty of Ma…
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