UL: Scientific lectures and research

The year 2025 will be a breakthrough for us – says dr Karol Kramarz, head of the Incubator of Scientific Excellence – Research Centre for DNA Repair and Replication at the Faculty of Biological Sciences of University of Wrocław, with whom we talk about the research successes of the Incubator and future plans.

Researchers at the University of Wrocław have analysed what migration patterns look like in avian interspecific hybrids.

The collection of a German researcher, Hermann Klaatsch, as a starting point for a discussion on the sensitive heritage at the University of Wrocław.

We talk to prof. dr hab. Piotr P. Chruszczewski – Director of the College for Interdisciplinary Individual Studies at the University of Wrocław – about the Academy of Tutoring at the University of Wrocław, the 5th edition of which will start already on 25 January 2025 and in which you will find the answers to the above questions.

The UWr Centre for Security Studies and Education and the Security Academic Society & Society invite you to a seminar with chess player Mateusz Kłosowski on Friday, 24 January at 5 p.m. on UWr MS Teams platform.

The Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław and the Society of Friends of the Wrocław Polish Studies invite you to a meeting at the “Nehring” on 26 January at 10.00 a.m. with dr hab. Agnieszka Kuniczuk, entitled ‘Was Sienkiewicz a bore?’.

Seven Polish-Czech and two trilateral projects involving teams from the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovenia have been selected for funding in the Weave-UNISONO 2024 competition. Among them is a project by dr hab. Małgorzata Zakrzewska, prof. UWr at the Faculty of Biotechnology.

Prof. Jorge Andres Rodriguez Navarro from the University of Granada will be a guest of the Faculty of Chemistry as part of the visiting professors (short visits) programme, part of the Excellence Initiative – Research University programme. Our guest will give an open lecture on 30 January on Metal-organic assemblies for capture and detoxification of harmful molecules.

The UWr Institute of Geological Sciences invites to a lecture by prof. Marek Awdankiewicz, who will talk about volcanism in the Solar System. The lecture will be held on January 24 at 3:00 pm at the Institute of Geological Sciences, pl. Maksa Borna 9, room 220.

Two University of Wrocław scientists received this year’s Prime Minister’s Award. In the category for outstanding dissertation, the winners were dr Rafał Mudafrom the Institute of Psychology and dr Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański from the Astronomical Institute.

We talked with professor Jarosław Byrka from the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Wrocław. Prof. Byrka participated in the prestigious FOCS 2024 conference in Chicago at the end of October, presenting his work titled The Bidirected Cut Relaxation for Steiner Tree has Integrality Hap Smaller than 2.

On the occasion of the European Inventor’s Day, which falls on 9 November, we talk to dr hab. Jerzy Sobotka, prof. UWr of the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Management – a patent developer in the field of geology.