The scholarship in the project Metody teoriomnogościowe w topologii analitycznej: od zbieżności punktowej i przestrzeni Banacha do algebr operatorowych, financed by the National Science Center (OPUS project no. 2020/37/B/ST1/02613) is awarded to Ms Małgorzata Rojek (1500PLN/month for a period of 4 months)

Congratulations!

We offer one position for a PhD student in the project Elliptic geometric variational problems, financed by the National Science Centre( SONATA BIS grant), under the supervision of dr hab. Sławomir Kolasiński.

A detailed description of the project can be found here.

Click "more" to see the requirements for candidates.

We are proud to announce that two SONATA BIS grants are awarded to Marek Cygan (Robot generalist - advancing robot learning via reinforcement learning and VLAs) and Lorenzo Clemente (Analysis of quantitative models of computation).

Congratulations as well to Piotr Gwiazda for winning the MAESTRO grant for the project that will be implemented at ICM UW: Research challenges of partial differential equations inspired by state-of-the-art statistics and machine learning algorithms.

On April 7-11, as a part of the Thematic Research Program (IDUB initiative) our Faculty organises a spring school "Quasicrystals - mathematical physics, ergodic theory, and topology of nonperiodic structures". Participation is free, but registration is required. Online participation is possible.

We cordially invite you to take part in the school!

The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 13 March 2025 at 11:00 AM in room 2180 (sala RW) in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.

Title of the dissertation: Computational Complexity of Combinatorial Problems in Hereditary Graph Classes
Supervisor: Prof. Marcin Pilipczuk (Uniwersytet Warszawski)

We cordially invite you to attend the second special Faculty Colloquium during which new faculty members will deliver short accessible talks presenting their areas of research. Speakers:

• K. Kazaniecki (functional analysis)
• K. Myśliwy (mathematical physics)
• R. Meller (probability)
• M. Włodarczyk (algorithmics)
• W. Zuba (text algorithms)

Feel invited to the first Chess Tournament co-organized by our students at Campus Ochota. Elimination rounds will be held on the 6th of March, starting at 5 pm, at the Faculty of Physics.

Registration is required!

The remote online public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 10 April 2025 at 03:30 PM .

Title of the dissertation: New Shape Descriptors for Topological Data Analysis
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Paweł Dłotko (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

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 4:00 PM on April 9th, 2025.

The National Science Centre project "XAICancer: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Imaging", led by dr. Neo Christopher Chung, is offering a postdoctoral researcg position in the Institute of Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw.

Requirements
We expect that candidate at the moment of employment hold a PhD degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics or related computational areas of study - the degree can be obtained no earlier than 7 years before the year of employment in project - and have an excellent background in one or more of the following fields: programming (Python and others), data analysis, data science, classification and prediction, statistical modeling, mathematical analysis of an algorithm.

Applications, as well as further questions on both the scientific topic of the project and formal details of the call procedure should be sent to n.chung@uw.edu.pl

Principal Investigator: dr Neo Christopher Chung

Application deadline: March 31, 2025

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to take part in the programming competition "Potyczki Algorytmiczne" (Algorithmic Engagements)!

The elimination rounds will be held online on March 10-16, and the finals, as it has become usual, in Zielona Góra (on May 23-24).

We encourage not only students and not only MIM; the competition is nationwide and open to all!

We are announcing a call for three postdoctoral positions in the research staff (mathematics) at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, as part of the Maestro research project No. 2023/50/A/ST1/00447, funded by the National Science Centre (NCN).

Application Requirements:

An application should include Curriculum Vitae that:

• presents an overview of the background and scientific achievements of the candidate;
• lists all the candidate’s research works (including not yet published manuscripts);
• gives a list of three experienced researchers that may provide references for the candidate.

Applications and any inquiries regarding the research aspects of the project or formal details of the recruitment procedure should be sent to: aswiercz@mimuw.edu.pl

Principal Investigator: prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Świerczewska-Gwiazda

Application deadline: March 14, 2025

Efficient and Accurate Explanation Estimation with Distribution Compression by Hubert Baniecki and Przemysław Biecek has just been highlighted as a 'spotlight' article at a very prestigious conference in the field of ML/AI. Only 5.1% of publications submitted received such an award!

Congratulations!!!