As part of the MIMUW colloquium, Adam Karczmarz will deliver a talk titled “Shortest paths, edge weights, and models of computation.” The talk will take place on January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM in the Faculty Council Room (2180).

Two courses in the series of ALGOMANET will be held from June 30th to July 3rd at the Leipzig University:
• Matija Bucić (University of Vienna): Sublinear expander graphs
• Jinyoung Park (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU): Asymptotic enumeration via graph containers and entropy.

PhD students from MIM UW (both maths and CS) are welcome to participate.
The courses can be used as an equivalent of a PhDOpen lecture.

Registration is open until the 20th of April.

To each and one of our students, emplyees, and friends - very happy Christas AD 2025 and a fruitful and satisfying New Year 2026!

We are announcing a competition for a postdoctoral position (assistant professor) in Sonata Bis “Elliptic geometric variational problems” research project, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2022/46/E/ST1/00328). Principal investigator: dr hab. Sławomir Kolasiński.

To apply for the position, the candidate should send an e-mail entitled "POST-DOC – SONATA BIS" to: s.kolasinski@mimuw.edu.pl, attaching the required documents in PDF file format, by 21 January, 2025.

The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 16 January 2026 at 09:00 AM in room 2180 (sala RW) in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.

Title of the dissertation: Regular Path Queries and Modal Constraints: Decidability of Query Containment under a Graph Database Schema
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw)

We warmly invite you to come and see at our Facult's Library two Christmas exhibitions:

• "Levitating Christmas tree" by dr Barbara Poszewiecka
  and
• MS Paint Art works entitled „Wesołych świąt! (Przepraszam za to, ale koledzy się uparli)” (eng.: "Merry Christmas! (Sorry about that, but my friends insisted)"), by Kamil Olszewski.