We cordially invite undergraduate students and interested high school students to participate in the World AI Collegiate Championship (WAICC). This 23-hour hackathon for three-person teams will take place online over the weekend of November 21–22.

Participants will tackle real-world AI research problems! Participation is free of charge, but teams must register by November 12.

Our graduate Andrzej Stalke received the Best Student Paper Award at the SPIRE conference (International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval).

The paper Parameterized Complexity of k–Pseudoperiodicity originated from his master's thesis written under the supervision of Jakub Radoszewski.

We are announcing a competition for a postdoctoral position (assistant professor) in Opus “Advancing Petri Net Theory: A Deeper understanding to Classical Problems and Integration into Workflow Applications” research project, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2024/53/B/ST6/02776). Principal investigator: dr hab. Piotr Hofman.

To apply for the position, the candidate should send an e-mail entitled "POSTDOC – OPUS" to: piotr.hofman@uw.edu.pl, attaching the required documents in PDF file format, by 30 November, 2026.

The remote online public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 26 October 2026 at 06:00 PM .

Title of the dissertation: Time Delays and Structured Populations in Evolutionary Game Theory
Supervisor: Prof. Jacek Miękisz (University of Warsaw)

The link to the defence meeting will be made available after prior registration by e-mail rnd.mat@uw.edu.pl. The registration of participants will be open until 8:00 PM on October 25, 2026.

The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 22 October 2026 at 02:30 PM in room 2180 (sala RW) in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.

Title of the dissertation: Deformation theory and algebraic group actions
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Joachim Jelisiejew (University of Warsaw)

The remote online public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 27 October 2026 at 09:00 AM .

Title of the dissertation: Interesting Graph Problems
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Marcin Mucha (University of Warsaw)

The link to the defence meeting will be made available after prior registration by e-mail: rnd.inf@uw.edu.pl. The registration of participants will be open until 13:00 on 26th October 2026.

The laureates of this year’s Witold Lipski Award are our PhD student Hubert Baniecki and alumnus Michał Nauman. Both conduct research in the field of machine learning.

Congratulations!

In this year’s edition of the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, mathematics at the University of Warsaw moved up from the 301–400 to the 201–300 range, while computer science maintained its position in the 301–400 bracket, which is the best result in Poland.

An interdisciplinary paper on chromatin entanglement, authored primarily by our colleagues, has been published in Nature Scientific Reports.

The article predicts the existence of a structure in which the cell regulates gene expression through specific entanglement.

Maciej Skórski won one of the three "Best Paper Awards" for his paper Moral Semantics Survive Machine Translation: Cross-Lingual Evidence during the ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (ACM GoodIT 2026). The conference's focus is on latest innovations, trends, and challenges in leveraging technology, data, and interdisciplinary approaches for Social Good and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

We share a declaration signed by Fields Medalists on the use of AI in Matematics.

Google Poland and the University of Warsaw are launching a four-year collaboration to support computer science students and researchers from MIMUW Faculty. The initiative includes engineering mentorship, the "School of Eagles" program, workshops, and other joint activities.

Are you starting your studies at the University of Warsaw in the 2026/2027 academic year?

Join Welcome Day 2026, organised by Welcome Point for new long-term international students.

We are announcing a competition for a research scholarship for a PhD student in the Sonata Bis research project "XAICancer: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Imaging" funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2023/50/E/ST6/00694).
Principal investigator: Dr. Neo Christopher Chung.

Applications should be sent to: nchchung@gmail.com
by September 18, 2026.

Google DeepMind has funded two scholarships for students beginning a Master’s degree at the University of Warsaw, interested in AI, ML and their applications.

The Scholarship Programme aims to broaden access to education and academic development in the field of artificial intelligence and to support talented students who may face financial barriers to continuing their studies and pursuing an academic career.

Applications should be submitted by email to: deepmindfellow@mimuw.edu.pl between 12 and 23 October 2026.