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3rd edition of the 4EU+ Visiting Professorships

Academics of the University of Warsaw can take part in the third edition of the 4EU+ Visiting Professorships programme. Thanks to this initiative, research and teaching staff will be able to spend one or two months at a partner university, developing their research and educational projects. The mobility programme will be carried out in the 2025/2026 academic year.

From classical hydrodynamics to quantum hydrodynamics

Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw – Maciej Łebek and prof. Miłosz Panfil – have shown that the Navier-Stokes equations used in classical physics can also be applied to quantum systems, specifically in quantum liquids where the motion of particles is restricted to one dimension. This discovery opens up new possibilities for research into transport in one-dimensiona

Neuronal plasticity of the brain and social learning

An interdisciplinary team of scientists has discovered that, to effectively learn from others, it is necessary to engage the prefrontal cortex. Scientific data on this was presented using computational and analytical contributions, developed and carried out by prof. Krzysztof Turzyński from the UW Faculty of Physics. The discovery was published in the “Science Advances” scientific journal.

The Last Light of the Gaia Space Mission

After 11 years of uninterrupted operation in space, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky scanning. During this time, it collected over 3 billion observations of approximately 2 billion stars and other celestial objects. The data gathered by the Gaia mission has revolutionised our understanding of the Milky Way and the surrounding universe.

4EU+ workshop on Open Science

What is Open Science? Where to publish? How to develop a research data management plan? The 4EU+ Alliance is organising a series of online workshops Open for you! The first event is taking place on 10th February.

Survey on genAI at UW

How is the University of Warsaw using generative artificial intelligence tools? Students, doctoral candidates, participants of postgraduate studies as well as University employees can share their opinions in a survey prepared by the DELab UW.

UW in the “Horizon Europe” programme

Participation in more than 60 projects subsidised to the sum of more than EUR 25 million places the University of Warsaw in a leading position among Polish academic institutions that are beneficiaries of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. In total, grant recipients from Poland have so far received funds amounting to EUR 383.52 million.

The similarity of ancient and modern corals

Group of scientists from the University of Warsaw, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the California Academy of Sciences studied fossils of tabulate corals from the Middle Devonian (ca. 385 million years ago). The scientists' observations suggest that these organisms shared remarkably similar adaptations to changing light conditions with modern corals.

Laureates of the “Scholarship to Start”

The “Scholarship to Start” has been granted to 171 students and doctoral candidates, who were admitted to the University of Warsaw in the on-going academic year. The award is an initiative of the Rector’s Scholarship Fund.

Moiré superlattices

“Moiré structures can be formed as a result of interference, i.e. the overlapping of two layers of systems with a specific arrangement of points, lines or more complex systems - e.g. atoms in a crystal - rotated by a certain angle,” Professor Maciej Molas, from the UW’s Faculty of Physics says. The recent findings on moiré structures were published in the Science paper co-authored by Prof. Molas.

Renovation of the oldest mosque in Sudan

The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) UW is launching a new cultural heritage protection project “Baraka: Revitalization of the Oldest Preserved Mosque at Old Dongola” funded by the International alliance for the protection of heritage in conflict areas (ALIPH). The Old Dongola mosque is the oldest preserved mosque in the Republic of Sudan.

Additional resources for “Nature” and “Science” subscriptions

The Ministry of Science and Education has granted funding to cover the subscription costs of the journals Nature and Science. They will form part of the Virtual Library of Science, operated by the ICM UW.

Doctoral schools’ admissions for 2022/2023

The UW has started admission procedures for doctoral candidates. This year the offer includes 330 places in the four doctoral schools of: the Humanities, Social Sciences, Exact and Natural Sciences, and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School.

Archaeological research in Soba

Fieldwork in Soba, the former capital of the Kingdom of Alwa – today, a suburb of Khartoum – was paused for a mid-season break in mid-December. It was carried out by a team of specialists led by Dr Mariusz Drzewiecki from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The excavations revealed the remains of a medieval garden. It is the first this kind of a discovery in Soba.

Life of conodonts

Conodonts were the first vertebrates that used to live in oceans nearly 500 milion years ago. Their teeth are the most often studied fossils. The research by UW doctoral candidate helps to reveal the life cycle and position occupied in the earliest foodwebs by these marine animals.

UW Physicists in ”Nature”

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw led by Prof. Michał Tomza, together with the experimental group of Prof. Tobias Schaetz from the University of Freiburg, were the first to observe Feshbach resonances between single ion and ultracold atoms. The results of their work have been published in “Nature”. The article has also been highlighted on the journal’s cover.

UW researchers among the 2021 FNP Prize laureates

Two UW academics Prof. Jacek Jemielity from the Centre of New Technologies and Prof. Cezary Cieśliński from the Faculty of Philosophy, have been awarded the Foundation for Polish Science Prize – one of the most prestigious in Poland.

4EU+ workshops on Open Science

What is Open Science? What happens with a scientific publication between the time of writing and the formatted paper published in an academic journal? What are the Creative Commons licenses? These aspects of Open Science will be explored during a series of online workshops organised by the universities of the 4EU+ Alliance, including the University of Warsaw. Registration is open now.

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