The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 12 June 2026 at 03:00 PM in room 5440 in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.

Title of the dissertation: Sample-Efficient Actor-Critic Algorithms in Reinforcement Learning
Supervisor: dr hab. Marek Cygan, prof. ucz. (Uniwersytet Warszawski)

The Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Mathematics Centre (IMAI) at the University of Warsaw announces a call for proposals for Macrogrants funded under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” (IDUB) programme.

Applications may be submitted by Organizing Committees consisting of up to four researchers affiliated with the University of Warsaw. The maximum funding available for a single project is PLN 60,000.

Application deadline: 16th of June 2026, 12:00 noon, address: makrogranty@mimuw.edu.pl

We are announcing a competition for a postdoctoral position (assistant professor) in the Maestro “Beyond classical hydrodynamics – new mathematical description of physical phenomena” research project, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2023/50/A/ST1/00447).

Principal investigator: Prof. Agnieszka Świerczewska-Gwiazda.

To apply for the position, the candidate should send an e-mail entitled "POSTDOC – MAESTRO" to: aswiercz@mimuw.edu.pl, attaching the required documents in PDF file format.

Deadline: 26 June, 2026.

We are announcing a competition for a postdoctoral position (assistant professor) in Opus “Formal verification in data-enriched models of computation” research project, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2024/55/B/ST6/01674). Principal investigator: Prof. Sławomir Lasota.

To apply for the position, the candidate should send an e-mail entitled "POST-DOC – OPUS" to: s.lasota@uw.edu.pl, attaching the required documents in PDF file format, by 24 June, 2026.

We invite you to join the MAT-BIO Exchange Summer School 2026 that will take place from 31st of  August to 4th of September 2026, at our Faculty.

Registration is open until the 8th of June.

Please note that travel, accommodation, and meals will be covered for all selected students.

The next PhD Open will take place on May 18-21.

Dmitry Chistikov (University of Warwick) will give a course titled Presburger arithmetic and its extensions.

The remote online public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 14 May 2026 at 02:30 PM .

Title of the dissertation: Algebraic and Homological Properties of Strict Polynomial Functors
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Marcin Chałupnik (University of Warsaw)

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.