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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
Step towards a boiling of vacuum
The Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw is a member of the international LUXE Collaboration, preparing an experiment at the Eu.XFEL laboratory in Hamburg. One of the key elements in preparing the experiment was testing a prototype high-density calorimeter, ECAL-P, designed to measure the energy and spectra of positrons. Three members of our faculty participated in the preparatory work and tests of the prototype on the DESY II beam: Dr. Grzegorz Grzelak, Dr. Piotr Zbińkowski, and Prof. Aleksander Filip Żarnecki, who collaborated with 20 team members carrying out this project.| More
Wigner Medal Awarded to Prof. Stanisław Lech Woronowicz
Professor Stanisław Lech Woronowicz, a distinguished mathematical physicist and retired professor at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, has been awarded the prestigious Wigner Medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of mathematical physics.| More
Polish physicists co-discover “lonely” spinons - a new step towards quantum technologies
Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how a so-called lone spinon - an exotic quantum excitation that is a single unpaired spin - can arise in magnetic models. The discovery deepens our understanding of the nature of magnetism and could have implications for the development of future technologies such as quantum computers and new magnetic materials. The findings were published in the renowned journal “Physical Review Letters.”. | More
Scholarships to Start distributed for the third time
On 1 July 2025 in the Kazimierzowski Palace, Rector Alojzy Z. Nowak presented diplomas to the winners of the third edition of the Scholarship to Start programme. The programme aims to encourage exceptionally talented candidates to study at the University of Warsaw. Among the winners were as many as nineteen students pursuing their studies at the Faculty of Physics of the University and five doctoral students conducting research at our Faculty.| More
VI National Crystallographic Olympiad
On June 24, 2025, the VI National Crystallographic Olympiad was held at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wroclaw. Among the seven distinguished finalists was Alicja Prężyna - a student of the College of MISMaP UW, studying at the Faculty of Physics UW. The Olympiad is organized by the Committee on Crystallography of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and co-organizers are: Gdansk University of Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Jagiellonian University, University of Warsaw, University of Wroclaw and the Institute of Low Temperatures and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.| More
19th Congress of the Polish Biophysical Society at the Faculty of Physics UW
The 19th Congress of the Polish Biophysical Society (PTBF2025) was held on 23-26 June 2025 at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. The event was held under the honorary patronage of the Rectors of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Professor Michał Zasada, and the University of Warsaw, Professor Alojzy Z. Nowak, with the support of the Institute of Biology of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Warsaw.| More
New photonic platform developed by Polish research team
A team of researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology, and the Institut Pascal at Université Clermont Auvergne has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The platform created by the researchers enables the formation and dynamic tuning of photonic crystals with integrated spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and controlled laser emission. The results of this groundbreaking research have been published in the renowned journal “Laser & Photonics Reviews”. | More
A drop hollows out the stone... and records the climate's history
Water reshapes the Earth through slow, powerful erosion, carving intricate landscapes like caves and pinnacles in soluble rocks such as limestone. An international team from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the University of Florida, and the Institute of Earth Sciences in Orléans has discovered that vertical channels, known as karstic solution pipes, preserve a record of Earth’s climatic history. Their study, published in Physical Review Letters, reveals that these pipes evolve with time into an invariant shape, a fixed, ideal form that remains unchanged as the pipes deepen, encoding ancient rainfall patterns. | 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
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
2025-07-15 (14:15) :: Exact Results in Quantum Theory
QED tests in atomic systems
2025-09-03 (16:00) :: PhD Thesis
Multiloop Corrections to Semileptonic Decays of the B Meson / Wielopętlowe poprawki do semileptonowych rozpadów mezonu B
2025-10-02 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
to be announced
2025-10-09 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Introduction to PDE Lie systems
2025-10-16 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Sasakian geometry and foliations (provisional title)
2025-10-23 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Lie systems: A 16 years restrospective about a 132-years-old theory
2025-10-30 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Darboux-Bäcklund transformations for Spin-valued linear problems (provisional title)
2025-11-06 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Geometric fundamentals of the three-body problem (provisional title)
2025-11-13 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
to be announced
2025-12-04 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Contact variational integrators (provisional title)
Research Highlights
Y.-X. Liu, L. Zhu, J. Luke, M. C. Babin, M. Gronowski, H. Ladjimi, M. Tomza, J. L. Bohn, T. V. Tscherbul, K.-K. Ni
Nature Chem. 17, 688 (2025)
DOI:10.1038/s41557-025-01778-z
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
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
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
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
Upcoming Conferences & Events
OECS’19 – XIX International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems
Warszawa, July 14-18, 2025
SN2025gw: First IGWN Symposium on Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Wave Theory and Detection
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw / Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, July 21-25, 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
49. Zjazd Fizyków Polskich
Katowice, Poland, September 5-11, 2025
5th edition of the European Lidar Conference
Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, September 10-12, 2025
II EU Workshop on Water Cherenkov Experiments for Precision Physics
Kraków, September 17-19, 2025