As part of the MIMUW colloquium,  Piotr Kucharski will deliver a talk titled “Knot-quiver correspondence”. The talk will take place on May 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM in the Faculty Council Room (2180).

Our students performed exceptionally well at the 33rd Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition:

• in Category I (1st-2nd year of study), Mikołaj Woźniak took third place, and Krzysztof Karwik placed 6th-10th.

• in Category II (3rd-5th year of study), Adam Naskręcki took second place, and Łukasz Łopacki placed 19th-21st.

Their supervisor was Witold Bednorz. Congratulations!

On this year's SIGMOD Research Highlights (a list of the 10 best database papers, both theory and systems, published in the preceding year) there are two papers we're particularly proud of:
-> Relational Programming in Rel by Filip Murlak
-> AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets by our graduate Mateusz Gienieczka (currently a PhD student at TU Munich, previously Filip Murlak's master student)

Congrats!

Damian Niwiński and Paweł Urzyczyn, along with Teodor Knapik (from ISEA, Université de la Nouvelle Calédonie) are this year's winners of the Test of Time award at the ETAPS congress for their paper Higher-Order Pushdown Trees Are Easy published at the 2002 FoSSaCS conference.

Congratulations!

Maths Beyond Limits is a mathematical programme for passionate pre-university students (aged 15-19) from all over the world.
MBL Poland 2026 will take place in Rycerka Dolna, Poland, through 6-19 of September.
Applications for new participants are open!

As part of the MIMUW colloquium, Szymon Nowakowski will deliver a talk titled “Generating hyperrealistic labeled images”. The talk will take place on April 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM in the Faculty Council Room (2180).

The remote online public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 20 April 2026 at 02:00 PM.

Title of the dissertation: Visual and Language Reasoning in Deep Learning Models
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Henryk Michalewski (Univeristy of Warsaw)
Assistant supervisor: Ph.D. Mateusz Malinowski (Moonvalley)

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 April 20, 2026.

This year’s UW Open Day will take place on 18th April, traditionally on The Main Campus.

It will host all faculties, units, as well as sports and cultural organisations operating at our University.

The event starts at 10:00 am.

Congratulations to Jan Peszek on winning the Sonata bis grant. This is one of eight grants awarded to the University of Warsaw in this edition.

Dr. Peszek will lead the research project Structural Flows Between Collective Dynamics and AI.

We warmly invite you to a lecture aimed at high school students that will be given this Saturday during the DOKO (Dzień Odkrywców Kampusu Ochota).

Rémy Rodiac will talk about the calculus of variations, its history and modern challenges.

2:15pm, room 3150. See you there!

We are announcing a competition for a research scholarship for a student in the Sonata research project “Fair Problems and Diverse Solutions in Parameterized Complexity”, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2021/43/D/ST6/03312).

Principal investigator: Dr Tomáš Masařík.

Applications:
masarik@mimuw.edu.pl
Deadline: March 20, 2026, at 11:59 pm.

We cordially invite you to participate in The International Stefan Banach Prize for a Doctoral Dissertation in the Mathematical Sciences.

The goal is to promote mathematics and provide financial supports to the most talented young researches from Central and Eastern Europe, who obtained their degree between May 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026.

We invite you to a special Faculty Colloquium where new faculty will give brief, accessible talks on their research. Speakers:

• Ronnie Chen (descriptive set theory)
• Udhav Fowdar (differential geometry)
• Nidhi Rathi (computational social choice theory)
• Piotr Szewczak (set theory and topology)

The colloquium will take place on March 19, 2026, at 2:30 PM in room 4420.

We invite you to a popular lecture by Bin Sun - this year's laureate of the Kamil Duszenko Award.

The lecture From geometries to groups" will take place at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Śniadeckich 8) on Thursday, March 5th, at 10:00 AM, room 321.

The first PhD Open of this academic year will take place on March 2 - March 4.
Adam Polak (Bocconi University, Milan) will give a course titled "Fine-grained complexity".