UL: Scientific lectures and research

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.

In 2024, the University of Wrocław received a prestigious grant as part of the international DUT call 2022 competition, announced under the co-financed partnership Horyzont Europa Driving Urban Transitions. This initiative involves 27 European countries, including Poland. The competition aims to support international research projects addressing the challenges faced by modern cities.

Prof. dr hab. Anna Brytek-Matera from the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław is developing a scientific project concerning the analysis of factors sustaining the symptoms of eating disorders. The research is being conducted at the University of Tokyo Medical School Hospital, which ranked 17th in the World’s Best Hospitals 2024 ranking and was named the best hospital in Japan.

Biotechnologists from the University of Wrocław along with researchers from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences and the Wrocław University of Science and Technology have brewed some beer… for scientific purposes, of course.

Can keeping a healthy diet lead to a pathology? How social media can influence nutrition habits and what increases the risk of orthorexia? We are discussing the issue with prof. dr hab. Anna Brytek-Matera, a specialist in the field of orthorexia nervosa and eating disorders, the author of the first scientific monograph about orthorexia nervosa in the world, Orthorexia Nervosa: Current Understanding and Perspectives, published by Cambridge University Press.

Stanford University and the Elsevier publishing house have published the next edition of the ranking of researchers with the greatest impact on the development of science in the world (the so-called TOP 2% list). Every year, more and more scientists from the University of Wrocław appear in the list.

We encourage you to attend the online seminar: ‘Wykorzystanie swojego profilu badacza online: spostrzeżenia redaktorów, badaczy i dziennikarzy’.

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.