ACM ICPC silver medal won by UW programmers
A team of the University of Warsaw programmers won a silver medal in the World Finals of the 34th Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, held in Harbin, China. Three students representing the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics : Karol Kurach, Krzysztof Pawłowski and Michał Pilipczuk, supervised by professors Jan Madey and Krzysztof Diks won eight place overall out of 103 teams.

Landmark discovery
Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Biology, has discovered and described the earliest tetrapod tracks [more]

2010 - the Year of Fryderyk Chopin
The University of Warsaw celebrates of the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Fryderyk Chopin. This great composer lived in the annex of the Kazimierzowski Palace. For three years he was a student at the Royal University of Warsaw [more]

Lecture of Sir Martin Gilbert
Institute of History and British Embassy are honoured to invite to the lecture of Sir Martin Gilbert "Churchill and Poland: Friend or Foe? From Versailles to Potsdam - via Yalta" which will take place on the 16^th of February 2010, at 5.00 p.m. in the room 316, University of Warsaw Library, Dobra St. 56/66