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.