The UW team, the vast majority of which were students from our Faculty, took 8th place at the International Rover Challenge 2026 in India. They also won the Emerging Team of the Year title.

Our mathematicians, computer scientists, and ML students competed against engineers from leading universities and polytechnics around the world.

Congratulations to Michał Birecki, Joanna Mala, Piotr Maksymiuk, Filip Nogaj, Korneliusz Obarski, Zuzanna Ossowska, and Mateusz Kamiński.

The ICPC Europe 2026 took place on the weekend of February 7-8, co-organized by our Faculty. The University of Warsaw team, composed of Jan Gwiazda, Stanisław Karpiejczyk, and Jerzy Olkowski, won the silver medal (7th place). Delft University of Technology was crowned the European Academic Champion.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the laureates and our warmest gratitude to the ICPC Foundation for their trust and help!

Please note that due to renovations and a temporary water shortage, the Faculty building will be closed from February 9–11 (Monday–Wednesday, during the school holidays) from 6:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Until 6:00 am and after 2:00 PM, the building will be accessible, but with limited restroom availability. Restrooms on level 0 (at the entrance) and level 4 (numbers 4080, 4090, and 4100) will be open.

The concierge desk will be open as usual.

On February 6-8th, our Faculty co-organizes the 2026 International Collegiate Programming Contest -  Europe Championship at the Faculty of Management. We encourage you to support our team either on-site or online.

Congratulations to Professor Piotr Sankowski on receiving the Research Star Award (pol.Gwiazda Badań) - part of the "Internationalization Stars 2026" program. This distinction honors research staff at universities and institutes whose research advances the internationalization of science and higher education in Poland and worldwide.

Until 20th of February, you can apply for the position of academic teacher in our groups of teaching staff and research&teaching staff.

As part of the MIMUW colloquium, Adam Karczmarz will deliver a talk titled “Shortest paths, edge weights, and models of computation.” The talk will take place on January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM in the Faculty Council Room (2180).

To each and one of our students, emplyees, and friends - very happy Christas AD 2025 and a fruitful and satisfying New Year 2026!

It is with great pleasure and joy that we share that two of our colleagues have just received prestigious Consolidator grants from the European Research Council.

Dr. Wojciech Czerwiński will lead the POLARIS project entitled "Reachability in Infinite Systems at High Resolution".

Dr. Michał Pilipczuk will lead the WYDRA project entitled "Towards a unified structure theory for dense graphs".

Our warmest congratulation to them both!

Congratulations to the UW2 team: Jan Gwiazda, Stanisław Karpiejczyk, and Jerzy Olkowski, who won the gold medal, second place at this year's Central Europe Regional Contest! They thereby advanced to the world finals!

Huge applause to other teams from our Faculty, three of which won medals! Kudos to the supervisors and coaches!

Krzysztof Diks's wrote as always a few words, feel invited to read the details and see some photos.

Excellent results at the ISTCiM competition. Our team MIM FORCE ONE, consisting of Korneliusz Obarski (captain), Łukasz Łopacki, Adam Naskręcki, and Mikołaj Woźniak, won the gold medal, placing second in this prestigious matematical competition.

Individually, all of our representatives also won gold medals. Adam Naskręcki deserves special mention as he solved all the problems (winning the Best Individual Performance Prize).

Congratulations to the students and their advisor, Dr. Rafał Martynek!