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Open lecture – Prof. Geoffrey Hodgson
20-03-2015…d 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 coincided with its rise. He underlines the development of key financial institutions in the eighteenth-century. That analysis enables him to counter the widespread view that capitalism is a natural and inevitable outcome of human soc…
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‘Digital Ecosystems’ – international conference
23-02-2015…s? During ‘Digital Ecosystems’ international conference organizers will address these and many other related questions. They would like to invite all those interested to take part in reflexive analysis of the fundamental changes in how people understand the social, economic and scientific realities. Organizers welcome oral presentations and posters. Deadline for online abstract submission: 31 March 2015. More information…
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Looking for participants
27-01-2015…become impossible to participate without the ability to critically analyse the media. In Poland, although plenty of well-functioning grass-roots initiatives exist, no solutions have yet been implemented to treat the phenomenon systemically. For that reason we want to explore the achievements and experiences of other countries in this field by organising a conference. The conference will gather together practitioners of film and media educatio…
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Best masters and MBA programs
21-01-2015…r graduation, student satisfaction. The results are published on www.best-masters.com….
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Memory measured in microseconds
05-12-2014…ratory equipment and a difficult process of freezing to extremely low temperatures, close to absolute zero. The atomic quantum memory that we have managed to build works in a much easier attainable temperature of several dozen degrees Centigrade – says Radosław Chrapkiewicz. According to the physicists’ description, the main element of the memory is a glass chamber, 2.5 cm wide and 10 cm long, with rubidium-covered walls, filled with a noble gas…
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Cryptoworld
01-12-2014Since recently, we can pay for goods and services not only in coins or banknotes, but also with crypto currency, called “bitcoin”. Professor Stefan Dziembowski from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, who studies the properties of bitcoin, features in our latest films about the laureates of the European Research Council grants. In 2007 professor Dziembowski, at that time working at the Sapienza University in Rome, received th…
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Sky in sight
24-11-2014…d 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 the Universe. …
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Who will be the best foreign student?
20-11-2014…on under the “Study in Poland” programme. The application deadline is the 30th of November. More information www.studyinpoland.pl…
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Computer pine
17-11-2014…room scientifically inspired”, “the classes are lively and enthralling”. His project “Sosna – Expressive Power of Tree Logics”, which ended this year, is an attempt to build logical languages understandable for a computer which would allow for discerning natural properties. The research team, funded by the ERC grant, proved theorems related to the application of logic in computer science. Professor Bojańczyk admits that they managed to prove onl…
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Citizens and the state in Eastern Europe
12-11-2014…ompleted, the Council shortlists projects selected for funding. Currently, the applicants compete for sums of up to 1.5 million euro (previously 2 million), and the project’s maximum duration is 5 years. In the second edition of the competition announced in 2009, one of the grants was awarded to Natalia Letki from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Warsaw. In her group – social sciences and humanities – 440 applications…
https://en.uw.edu.pl/citizens-and-the-state-in-eastern-europe/