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".

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.