…tivity and the Forest”. In this chapter Dr. Hicks also describes other examples of meat-eating in this hitherto little-known population of chimpanzees. One of these is an account of a chimpanzee eating a leopard carcass. “Both behaviors are relevant to human evolution, as at some point our own ancestors are thought to have begun hunting larger animals, as well as pirating the kilss of big carnivores,” says Dr. Hicks.   Hicks and his coauthors pres…

…he Auditorium Maximum building (hall “C”), there was another meeting conducted in Polish.   Participation in the meeting was free of charge upon prior registration. Online forms and more information were available at www.welcome.uw.edu.pl. How to get to the Auditorium Maximum building? See our map >>      …

…s education, research, and international collaboration. They are available online and in print. The UW Press Office prepares them every year before the academic year. UW researchers, doctoral students, and students, as well as administrative staff, can use them when they go abroad for a conference, deliver presentations, host international guests, or attend university events.   A set of materials in English comprises: Texts about the university Br…

…. R. Hoffmann is an active science popularizer. He participated, for example, in the production of a television course in introductory chemistry titled “The World of Chemistry,” shown widely since 1990. And, as a writer, he has carved out a land between science, poetry, and philosophy, through many essays and three books.   On 30th August he will give the open lecture entitled “Inverting ligand fields”. It will take place at the main aula of the U…

…rsaw Rover Team from the University of Warsaw (235)   View full results >> More information https://circ.cstag.ca/2019 https://www.facebook.com/CIRC.Official https://www.facebook.com/uwroverteam Watch the video presenting CIRC final results https://www.facebook.com/CIRC.Official/videos/355981488638501/    …

…channel (the Auger scattering). “Here we show that this scheme does not apply to massless Kane electrons in gapless HgCdTe alloy, in which undesirable Auger scattering is strongly suppressed and the sizeable cyclotron emission observed, for the first time in the case of massless particles. The gapless HgCdTe thus appears as a material of choice for future technology of Landau level lasers,” we can read in the introduction to the paper.   As a res…

…galactic gas, or dark matter.   The Galactic disk does not have a constant thickness, it flares with the increasing distance from the Galactic center. The Galactic disk is about 500 light years thick near the Sun, whereas over 3,000 light years near its edge.   Cepheids’ age can be determined based on their pulsation periods which has allowed astronomers to perform an age tomography of the Milky Way. The youngest Cepheids are located near the Gala…

…its input ports from two sides, they interfere. For example, two identical photons, which simultaneously enter this device, bunch into pairs and come out together by the same exit port. This is the well-known Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, which can also be extended to states made of many particles. By interfering “packets” consisting of many indistinguishable photons (indistinguishability is very important as its absence destroys the quantum effect), wh…

…ctor Bartosz Wcisło has received the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for his dissertation “Understanding the strength of compositional truth”. It is the world’s most important prize for dissertation in the field of logic. Dr. Bartosz Wcisło’s thesis in the theory of truth, written under the supervision of Prof. Cezary Cieśliński from the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, was selected by the Association for Logic, Language and Infor…

The European Commission selected 17 European university alliances, which will obtain funding for their projects to become the ‘European Universities’ of the future. One of them is the 4EU+ Alliance. In the video, Prof. Marcin Pałys, rector of UW explains what it means for researchers, students and administrative staff of six partner universities. 4EU+ consists of six comprehensive, research-intensive, public European universities: University of W…