UL: Popularisation of science

The Breslau botanist and teacher Theodor Schube (1860-1934) was not an office researcher. For 40 years he covered more than 120,000 kilometres by bicycle and on foot. Very successfully. In 1904 he published the monumental ‘Flora von Schlesien preussischen und österreichischen Anteils’ in the distinguished Korn publishing house, and two years later the ‘Book of Silesian Forests’. I walked and cycled (also by bicycle) in his footsteps to see with my own eyes the oldest, thickest and most valuable trees of the region, and above all to describe their significance in culture and collective memory. I call this dendrochronology .

At first, the choice of the Nobel committee came as a big surprise to me, because from the point of view of physics, the Hopfield and Hinton models do not seem to be crucial for its development – comments dr hab. Krzysztof Graczyk, prof. UWr, Vice-Dean of the UWr Faculty of Physics and Astronomy.

The UWr Department of Climatology and Atmospheric Protection invites kindergarten and school teachers, environmental education educators and anyone interested in environmental issues to an online workshop ‘How to talk to children about air quality?’.

More than 30 valuable archaeological sites, previously unknown cave paintings, fragments of pottery and stone tools have been identified by Polish archaeologists in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. This is the first Polish research at the site.

We cordially invite you to the 1st Wrocław Mineral and Jewellery Exchange ‘Pod Platanami’, which will take place on 14.09.2024 on the beautiful Zwierzycki Boulevard by the Pomeranian Bridge.

The event, in which the UWr Institute of Geological Sciences will participate, is held under the patronage of His Magnificence the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. dr hab. Robert Olkiewicz.

Is mathematics still the queen of sciences? This question will certainly be answered in the affirmative by young and talented mathematics enthusiasts from all over Poland, who will turn out in large numbers at the University of Wrocław for the 9th Congress of Young Mathematicians.

The fourth edition of the international conference of young researchers BEYOND LANGUAGE 2024 is already a thing of the past. This year, speakers from Israel, Romania, Ukraine, Dresden, Ireland, Wrocław, Poznań, Kraków, Olsztyn, Gdańsk and Warsaw met for four days in May at the Jagiellonian University (UJ), the University of Wrocław (UWr), Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) and online to discuss, among other things: humor, Chinese novels, Georgian verbs, Dongba symbols, the language of poetry, the etymology of words, map grammar, mythical heroes, Homeric comparisons, syncretic cultural forms, interference of worlds and melic translation.

This Saturday, 18 May, we encourage you to visit one of the museum centres of the University of Wrocław! All our museums will be open on this day, and the Botanical Garden has organised a special themed tour!

The spring edition of the Tutoring Academy course starts this Saturday, 11 May (there are still places available – you are welcome!). The next edition – the autumn edition – starts on 14 September and will run until 27 October. Registration is ongoing.

Lemkos are a national minority whose origins date back to the period between the 14th and the first half of the 16th century. They lived in the Lemko Region, an area situated between Polish and Slovakian ethnic territory. The region included Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski, and fragments of Bieszczady Mountains. These individuals are part of the Slavic nations and have Byzantine origin in their faith. They have their own language, writing, culture, and customs. For a few hundred years, they were themselves, Rusyn–Lemkos.

In October 1940, more than a year after the start of World War II and the occupation of Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto was established. During the initial year, Jewish rights were getting progressively limited. A few months after the war began, Jews were required to wear armbands bearing the Star of David, which made them easily spotted in the city, leaving them open to violence. Various rights, such as the right to keep savings in the bank or to receive a pension, were taken away from them. At a certain point, even though the ghetto was yet to be officially created, Jews were prohibited from settling outside of the settlement area, a place specified as being at risk of an epidemic outbreak. Later, due to high population density and poor sanitation, an epidemic broke out in the ghetto.