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.
Cambridge University Press has published a new book co-authored by researchers from the University of Warsaw, offering both an introduction to machine learning and deep neural networks, and an overview of their applications in quantum physics and chemistry — from reinforcement learning for controlling quantum experiments to neural networks used as representations of many-body quantum states. The book appears at a time when artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly recognized tool for scientific discovery — a development recently recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for the AlphaFold tool. It serves as a timely guide for PhD students and researchers looking to apply modern machine learning methods to complex quantum problems. | More
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, September 10-12, 2025
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