We are pleased to share that Dr. Michał Krych has been honored with the Paul Erdős Award!

For over half a century, Dr. Michał Krych has been tirelessly involved in the Polish Mathematical Olympiad, student competitions, and popularization. He is the only Polish recipient of this award to date, although it is worth noting that after 1996, it was combined with the Hilbert Prize, which was awarded to Marcin Kuczma in 1992. The prize is awarded by the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions.

The European Mathematical Society organizes a Lecture Series on Mathematics Education bringing together experts, teachers, curriculum developers and education researchers to explore critical issues and innovative approaches in mathematics teaching.

The one-hour webinars will occur on the second Friday of each month from January to June 2026 at 7:00 PM CET. You can follow the lectures on the EMS YouTube streams page.

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.

The eighth edition of Brainhack Warsaw – a three-day hackathon and mini-conference – will take place at the Faculty of Physics, UW, on April 17-19, 2026. We invite you to submit your projects involving data analysis (your own or obtained from public scientific repositories), as well as data mining or the use of language models.

Project descriptions from the last two editions are available here.

Registration is open until the 13th of February.

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).

Two courses in the series of ALGOMANET will be held from June 30th to July 3rd at the Leipzig University:
• Matija Bucić (University of Vienna): Sublinear expander graphs
• Jinyoung Park (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU): Asymptotic enumeration via graph containers and entropy.

PhD students from MIM UW (both maths and CS) are welcome to participate.
The courses can be used as an equivalent of a PhDOpen lecture.

Registration is open until the 20th of April.

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

We are announcing a competition for a postdoctoral position (assistant professor) in Sonata Bis “Elliptic geometric variational problems” research project, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2022/46/E/ST1/00328). Principal investigator: dr hab. Sławomir Kolasiński.

To apply for the position, the candidate should send an e-mail entitled "POST-DOC – SONATA BIS" to: s.kolasinski@mimuw.edu.pl, attaching the required documents in PDF file format, by 21 January, 2025.

The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 16 January 2026 at 09:00 AM in room 2180 (sala RW) in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.

Title of the dissertation: Regular Path Queries and Modal Constraints: Decidability of Query Containment under a Graph Database Schema
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw)

We warmly invite you to come and see at our Facult's Library two Christmas exhibitions:

• "Levitating Christmas tree" by dr Barbara Poszewiecka
  and
• MS Paint Art works entitled „Wesołych świąt! (Przepraszam za to, ale koledzy się uparli)” (eng.: "Merry Christmas! (Sorry about that, but my friends insisted)"), by Kamil Olszewski.