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Institutes & other units
Institutes and other units
The Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw is a large research and teaching center. It is regarded as one of the top physics departments in the country, recognized internationally for the quality of its faculty and students.
[+] Institute of Experimental Physics
The Institute is composed of the Library, Demonstration Laboratory and ten Sections.
Section of Biophysics
Section of Particles and Fundamental Interactions
Section of Physics Teaching Methodology
Section of Biomedical Physics
Section of Solid State Physics
Section of Nuclear Physics
Section of Optics
Section of Condensed Matter Structure
Section of Nuclear Spectroscopy
These Sections carry out research in a variety of fields of modern physics: from solid state physics and optics, through biophysics and medical physics, all the way to nuclear physics and the physics of elementary particles and the fundamental interactions. The Section of Physics Teaching Methodology specializes in problems related to the process of teaching physics in schools, and the formation of teachers. This Section also carry out research in econophysics.
The Demonstration Laboratory plays an important role within the Institute; in addition to fulfilling its statutory functions, the Laboratory takes an active part in outreach activities, such as Saturday public lectures, workshops for teachers, guest lectures at schools.
[+] Institute of Theoretical Physics
The Institute of Theoretical Physics is composed of the following:
and the Wojciech Rubinowicz Library.
The Institute of Theoretical Physics carries out research in most of the areas of modern theoretical physics.
[+] Institute of Geophysics
The Institute is composed of the Library and three Sections:
Section of Atmospheric Physics
Section of Litospheric Physics
Section of Information Optics.
[+] Astronomical Observatory
The Observatory is composed of the following units:
Section of Extragalactic Astronomy
Section of Theoretical Astrophysics
Department of Observational Astrophysics
Ostrowik Station
The Astronamical Observatory carries out research in the following areas: extragalactic astronomy, relativity theory and cosmology, the theory of stellar atmospheres, the theory of hydrodynamic flows in binary systems and in insterstellar matter, observation of variable stars, photometry of stellar clusters, the spectroscopy of variable stars and chemically singular stars.
[+] Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics
The main directions of research carried out in the Department concern: the geometrical foundations of physical theories (such as the theory of gravity, quantum field theory, the mechanics of charged matter, and control theory of static systems); the theory of operator algebras and its applications to statistical physics and scattering theory; the theory of classical groups (stressing its geometrical aspects), and of quantum groups (operator and topological aspects); and the general theory of representations and duality, and of special functions.