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).

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 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!