…nderstand what is hard and what is easy in the quantum world. We are also curious to know what the laws of physics might look like inside black holes,” Prof. Paweł Caputa says. “To be exact, the project aims to develop precise measures of the complexity of states and operators in QFTs and apply them in the holographic correspondence and quantum gravity models,” the researcher explains. The video is available at the University’s YouTube channel. In…

…by the European Commission in 1987. Its name is an acronym for the words EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students. It symbolically refers to the Renaissance thinker – Erasmus of Rotterdam.   Poland joined the Erasmus programme on 1st March 1998, but already in February 1997 the Senate of the UW decided to begin preparations for participation in the programme.   The first twenty-three students came to the University…

…brings them into the reality of the Maghreb world, the Arab world, and the Islamic world,” Dr Marta Widy-Behiesse says. The author of the collection of ten fairy tales is Tahar ben Jelloun, who was born in the Moroccan city of Fez. He studied philosophy, sociology and psychiatry. In 1971, he emigrated to France, and two years later he published his first novel, Harrouda. In 1987, he was awarded the Goncourt Prize for his book Holy Night, which wa…

…test.   Application deadline is 3rd January 2024 at 10.00 am.   Course implemented under Action II.2.3. “Support of the relocation process of employees from abroad by introducing solutions facilitating involvement of new foreign employees to work at UW and preparation to stay in Poland” of the Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB) at the University of Warsaw.   More details are available on the Welcome Point UW’s website>>…

Planetary health is among new categories used in research. It helps to describe the current state of the environment and climate in relation to the wellbeing of the population. Scientists from the UW’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling are also involved in this kind of analyses. MOSAIC – the international project in which they are involved has received funding from the Horizon Europe programme. The Multi-site ap…

…he course; only courses from the current offer for the UW students can be shared. Proposals for new courses initiated and co-developed within the 4EU+ cooperation will not be accepted; courses can be taught in all languages; classes should be conducted using innovative methods and techniques (examples of good practices and recommendations can be found under this link >> and here >>); courses should support the development of competences recognised…

…he University of Amsterdam.   NEWSUSE The NEWSUSE project, awarded by the European Research Council, involves identifying factors (individual, social and algorithmic) that influence the consumption of online information content.   The research will be characterised by a multidisciplinary and methodologically innovative approach, and its results will be juxtaposed with the latest developments in computer science and computational social science.  …

…The University of Warsaw holds the first place in Poland and 222nd in the world. The list was published for the third time.   The ranking assessed universities’ responses to social and environmental challenges, as well as their ESG activities, i.e. sustainability principles in the following categories: environment, society and corporate governance. One of the criteria was the universities’ academic achievements related to the UN’s sustainable dev…

…slab with engraved fragments of two letters and a sign separating the words.   “Until now, only one inscription was known from the Roman fort of Apsaros, made of local stone of poor quality, which affected the finish and the state of preservation of the text. It can be assumed that the raw material required for official inscriptions and other intricate stonework, namely marble or good quality limestone, was brought to Apsaros from far away. Fragme…

…es from European herbaria. The researchers estimate that sequences for about 500 specimens will be obtained in Poland alone. By collecting and organising the new data, it will be possible to gain more accurate knowledge and understanding of changes in the diversity and distribution of fungi in Europe….