PhD position in Randomized and Geometric Algorithms for Data processing
We offer a research scholarship for a PhD student in the Opus research project High-Dimensional Data Processing using Sample Compression and Dimensionality Reduction, financed by the National Science Centre (2023/51/B/ST6/02989).
A scholarship of PLN 5,000/month for the period October 2025 - June 2028.
Applications are accepted until May 28, 2025 at the following address: K.dutta@mimuw.edu.pl

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PhD open "Foundations of Graph Neural Networks"
The upcoming PhD Open minicourse will be held on May 21-23.
Egor Kostylev from the University of Oslo will talk about GNNs - Graph Neural Networks a family of neural architectures that are naturally suited to learning functions on graphs.
Sebastian Jaszczur – public defence of the doctoral dissertation
The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 29 May 2025 at 10:00 AM in room 3240 in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.
Title of the dissertation: Efficient Large Language Models with Conditional Computation
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Marek Cygan (University of Warsaw)

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May 19th is a Rector's day
On Monday, May 19, a farewell ceremony will be held for Ms. Małgorzata Dynak, who tragically passed away on May 7 on the Main Campus of the University of Warsaw. The funeral Mass will begin at 10:00 a.m. at the Church of Divine Providence, located at Dickensa 5. Further ceremonies at the cemetery will be private and limited to the family. By the decision of the Rector, there will be no classes or work duties at the University of Warsaw on Monday
The Faculty building will remain open on that day to students, doctoral candidates, and staff.

Maria Skłodowska-Curie lecture
We cordially invite you to a distinguished Maria Skłodowska-Curie lecture by Ian Walmsley from Imperial College London:
Lighting the Quantum Future: Photonics in Quantum Information Technology
This Thursday at 12:30 pm, Room 2180.

Rectangle-peg problem
Our Faculty hosts Dr. Lei Chen from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this year's winner of the Kamil Duszenko Prize.
She will deliver a special lecture this Thursday at 12:15 in room 4420: The rectangle peg problem, which, according to the rules of the prize, is addressed to high school students at an "olimpic level". It will certainly be interesting and accessible for our students.
Feel warmly invited!

Support for the UW community
Psychological help for our University employees and students can be found at the Psychological Support Center.
The university emergency phone line has been launched: +48 22 55 22 112.
The website https://bezpieczenstwo.uw.edu.pl/ contains instructions on how to act in crisis situations and a form for reporting threats.
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Recruitment to UW Doctoral Schools
Enrolment has begun for the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences.
Registration takes place electronically via IRK (Internet Candidate Recruitment) website, it closes on the 29th of May.
Call for aplications: 1 postdoctoral research position in the scientific project Weave-Unisono, financed by National Science Centre
The Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics, with the consent of the Rector of the University of Warsaw, announces a competition for the position of assistant profesor in scientific project „Homogeneity and genericity of metric structures: groups, dynamical systems, Banach spaces and C*-algebras”, financed by the National Science Centre (grant agreement 2021/03/Y/ST1/00072); principal investigator: dr hab. Maciej Malicki, prof. ucz.
Deadline: 30th of May, 2025
How to submit an application: email entitled [POSTDOC – project name] with attached required documents in pdf format to mmalicki@mimuw.edu.pl
Requirements:
- excellent preparation in this discipline, in particular in one or more of the following areas: topological and symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory, descriptive set theory
- research experience in any of the following areas will be an advantage: Borel complexity of classification problems in topological dynamics and ergodic theory, Borel complexity of sets of generic points in topological dynamical systems, minimal symbolic dynamical systems
- fluency in English, both spoken and written.
Call for aplications: scholarship in National Science Centre Sonata Bis grant
Call for a Ph.D.student
Requirements:
- MSc in mathematics
- background in geometric analysis and measure theory (e.g. embedded and abstract manifolds, exterior algebra, differential forms, Radon measures, covering theorems, weak convergence of measures, Riesz representation theorem etc.)
- fluent written and spoken English
- ability to write in LaTeX
- ability to search scientific literature and read scientific papers
- motivation to work on abstract problems with no connection to real life applications
- diligence, accuracy, and perseverance
- good manners and personal culture
Deadline for submitting offers: 18 May 2025, 23:59
Form of submitting offers: documents should be sent by email to s.kolasinski@mimuw.edu.pl
PhD scholarship “Elliptic geometric variational problems”
The offer is addressed to students who are just finishing their master degree and are looking for a supervisor at a doctoral school. Required background in geometric analysis and measure theory (e.g. embedded and abstract manifolds, exterior algebra, differential forms, Radon measures, covering theorems, weak convergence of measures, Riesz representation theorem etc.)
Attractive conditions, deadline for submission is 18th of May 2025.
Supervisor: dr hab. Sławomir Kolasiński.