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Faculty of Physics

Welcome to the website of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw

The Faculty of Physics is a large research and teaching center. It consists of The Institutes of Theoretical Physics, Experimental Physics, Geophysics, The Astronomical Observatory and The Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics.

The Faculty is regarded as one of the best in the country, recognized internationally for the high quality of research and education.

News

Jerzy Pniewski and Leopold Infeld Colloquium

The Jerzy Pniewski and Leopold Infeld Colloquium of the Faculty of Physics will be held in room 0.06 on Monday, April 28, at 11:00 AM. The lecture entitled "Photovoltaics – Current Status, Technologies, and Market Outlook" will be delivered by Eicke R. Weber, Prof. emerit., European Solar Manufacturing Council & UC Berkeley. | More

FUW researcher in EIC Women Leadership Programme 2025

Dr hab. Barbara Piętka, prof. UW has been selected to join the prestigious 2025 cohort of the EIC Women Leadership Programme. This program, organized by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), in partnership with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), aims to enhance skills, foster networking, and empower women researchers, entrepreneurs, and aspiring leaders in the fields of innovation and technology. The program is implemented by Impact Hub and Female Founders. | More

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grants for researchers from the Faculty of Physics of the Univeristy of Warsaw

The creation of ultracold polyatomic molecules and an energy-efficient valleytronic transistor will be the research topics of two fellows who will carry out postdoctoral fellowships at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw. The young researchers are winners of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships competition. | More

Quantum control of collisions beyond ultralow temperatures

At ultracold temperatures, interatomic collisions are relatively simple, and their outcome can be controlled using a magnetic field. However, research by scientists led by Prof. Michal Tomza from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and prof. Roee Ozeri from the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that this is also possible at higher temperatures. The scientists published their observations in the scientific journal “Science Advances”. | More

From classical hydrodynamics to quantum hydrodynamics and back again – how the Navier-Stokes equations describe quantum systems

Although the Navier-Stokes equations are the foundation of modern hydrodynamics, adopting them to quantum systems has so far been a major challenge. Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, Maciej Łebek, M.Sc. and Miłosz Panfil, Ph.D., Prof. UW, have shown that these equations can be generalised to quantum systems, specifically quantum liquids in which the motion of particles is restricted to one dimension. This discovery opens up new avenues for research into transport in one-dimensional quantum systems. The paper, published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters, was awarded an ‘editors’ suggestion'. | More

8th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics

An international school of statistical physics, the ‘8th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics’, organized by researchers from the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, will be held from 29 June to 5 July 2025 at the European Centre for Geological Education of the University of Warsaw in Chęciny. Lectures will be on the physics of growth processes, complex systems, quantum nonequilibrium processes, topology and mechanics of soft matter and quantum thermodynamics. | More

A new class of cosmic X-ray sources discovered

An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, have identified a new class of cosmic X-ray sources. The findings have been published in „Astrophysical Journal Letters”. | More

Upcoming events

Calendar icon 2025-04-28 (11:00) :: J.Pniewski & L.Infeld Colloquium
Photovoltaics – Current Status, Technologies, and Market Outlook

Calendar icon 2025-04-29 (11:15) :: "High Energy, Cosmology and Astro-particle Physics (HECA)" Seminar
Searching Ultralight Axions with Quantum Technology

Calendar icon 2025-04-29 (12:15) :: String Theory Journal Club
Scalar Field Condensation in the Early Universe

Calendar icon 2025-04-30 (13:15) :: Vision science seminar
The reality of the eyeglass lens market

Calendar icon 2025-05-08 (15:00) :: Gamma Seminar
To be announced

Calendar icon 2025-05-14 (13:15) :: Vision science seminar
Niewiarygodne przygody rawki błazna imieniem Gienio

Calendar icon 2025-05-15 (15:00) :: Gamma Seminar
To be announced

Calendar icon 2025-05-22 (15:00) :: Gamma Seminar
To be announced

Research Highlights

Nanogap-Engineered Core-Shell-Like Nanostructures for Comprehensive SERS Analysis
Suster M.C., Szymańska A., Antosiewicz T.j., Królikowska A., Wróbel P.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025, vol. 17(15), pp. 23076-23093
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c00716

A First Look at the Global Climatology of Low‐Level Clouds in Storm Resolving Models
Nowak J.L., Dragaud I.C.D.V., Lee J., Dziekan P., Mellado J.P., Stevens B.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2025, vol. 17(3), art. e2024MS004340
DOI: 10.1029/2024MS004340

Hybrid Electroluminescence Device for On-Demand Single Photon Generation at Room Temperature
Aleksander Rodek, Mateusz Hajdel, Kacper Oreszczuk, Anna Kafar, Muhammed Aktas, Łucja Marona, Marek Potemski, Czesław Skierbiszewski, Piotr Kossacki
Advanced Optical Materials, first published: 18 February 2025
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202401879

Insights of Cu2O/Zn5(OH)8Cl2 photocathode architecture for an efficient photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products
Nawaz N., Perveen S., Ramalingam K., Bieńkowski K., Wrobel P., Pisarek M., Prabhakaran S., Gonzalez Szwacki N., Pitchaimuthu S., Solarska R.
Chemical Engineering Journal 511, 2025, art. 162272
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2025.162272

Invariant forms of dissolution fingers
S. Żukowski, S. Magni, F. Osselin, F. Dutka, M. Cooper, A.J.C. Ladd, and P. Szymczak
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 094101, 2025
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.094101

Upcoming Conferences & Events

Gravitational Wave Probes of Physics Beyond Standard Model 4

Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw / Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, June 23-27, 2025

Workshop on Ultracold Molecules 2025

Warszawa, June 24-27, 2025

8th Warsaw School on Statistical Physics

Chęciny, Poland, June 29 - July 05, 2025

PKO’2025 – VIII Polska Konferencja Optyczna

Rzeszów, June 30 - July 03, 2025

38th Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics

Piaski, August 31 – September 06, 2025

Quantum Optics XI

Kraków, 1-5 September 2025

Advanced school on complexity, integrability, and quantum chaos

Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, 1-5 September 2025

5th edition of the European Lidar Conference

Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, September 10-12, 2025

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