


Semester Completion Form – PhD students – winter semester
Note: We would like to remind you that it is necessary to submit a Semester Completion Form for the winter semester by 14 March 2025.

SPOTLIGHT TALK – 12/12/2024
We are pleased to invite you to a Mini-Symposium on Alternative Theories of Gravity and Cosmology featuring two invited speakers from Mexico. The event will take place at Institute of Physics PAS, allowing for two talks and plenty of time for extended discussions.
Talks:
- “f(R) gravity: a robust approach” given by Dr Luisa Jaime (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
- “Foundations of Einsteinian higher-curvature gravity” given by Dr Gustavo Arciniega (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
When and where?
12th December 2024, 11:00 am
at the IP PAS, room 203, duration: 3h 30 min
This Mini-Symposium is partly supported by the NAWA-STER program.





SPOTLIGHT TALK – 30/10/2024
The Warsaw Doctoral School in Natural and Biomedical Sciences and the Institute of Physics PAS cordially invites you to a SPOTLIGHT TALK.
The talk is given by Prof. David J. Wales (Cambridge University).
When and where?
30th October 2024, 12:00 pm
at the IP PAS Auditorium, duration: 45 min + question time
Abstract
The potential energy landscape provides a conceptual and computational framework for investigating structure, dynamics and thermodynamics in atomic and molecular science.
This lecture will summarise recent developments for global optimisation, enhanced sampling, and rare event dynamics.
A variety of recent applications will be presented including proteins, nucleic acids, coarse-grained models, and design principles for self-assembly of mesoscopic structures, with recent results for global kinetics based on first passage time distributions.
This event is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, grant no. BPI/STE/2021/1/00034/U/00001.

About the speaker
David J. Wales received his BA degree from Cambridge University in 1985, PhD in1988, and ScD in 2004. He was a Lindemann Trust Fellow in 1989, a Research Fellow at Downing College Cambridge in 1990, a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Fellow in 1991, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 1991 to 1998. In 1998 he was appointed to a Lectureship in Cambridge and is now Professor of Chemical Physics and Chair of the Theory group. He was awarded the Cambridge University Norrish Prize for Chemistry and the Gonville and Caius College Schuldham Plate in 1985, the Meldola Medal and Prize in 1992 and the Tilden Prize in 2015, both by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was a Baker Lecturer at Cornell University in 2005, the Inaugural Henry Frank Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007, Distinguished Lecturer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA in 2018, and was awarded a Visiting Miller Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, for 2020. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016. In 2020 he became the inaugural recipient of the ICReDD Award from Hokkaido University and received a Humboldt Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick for 2022-2025, Infosys Distinguished Visiting Professor, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, 2023, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, New York University, 2024. His research primarily involves the exploration of energy landscapes, with applications to chemical biology, spectroscopy, machine learning, clusters, solids and surfaces.

SPOTLIGHT TALK – 15/10/2024
The Warsaw Doctoral School in Natural and Biomedical Sciences and the Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS cordially invite you to a SPOTLIGHT TALK.
The talk is given by Prof. Joseph Casamento (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, USA).
When and where?
15th October 2024, 2:00 pm
at the IHPP PAS, New Technologies Building,
Al. Prymasa Tysiąclecia 98, seminar room, 2nd floor
Duration: 60 min +
Abstract
Nitride semiconductors have enabled transformative technologies that have changed the way people live their lives. They are pivotal components of a plethora of optical, electronic, and photonic devices, and their share in the expanding global semiconductor market is growing. Specific technological examples include use as light emitting diodes (LEDs) in solid state lighting, displays and cell phones, and blue to ultraviolet lasers. They also find use in radio-frequency (RF) filters and in bulk and surface acoustic wave resonators and transistor amplifiers in the form of high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs).
The ability to expand the chemistry and functionality of nitride semiconductors opens up new technological platforms. In this talk, I will discuss avenues to enhance the functionality and utilization of the nitride materials family by alloying with novel transition metals to generate novel properties. New technology spaces enabled by magnetic, thermoelectric, and superconducting properties from novel nitride materials will be introduced. A specific focus will be on the aspects of electronic response and implications on polarizability of novel nitrides such as aluminum scandium nitride (Al,ScN) and aluminum boron nitride (Al,BN). Highlights of this work include enhanced piezoelectric response and dielectric permittivity in epitaxial layers, ferroelectric HEMT performance, and ferroelectric behavior below 10 nm thickness at back end of line (BEOL) compatible growth temperatures. This emerging research area capitalizes on significant opportunities for materials discovery, heterostructure design, and device simulation and fabrication.


Advanced Lecture Series – 17-18/10/2024
The Warsaw Doctoral School in Natural and Biomedical Sciences and the Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS cordially invites you to a Advanced Lecture Series.
The talk is given by Prof. Tomáš Šolomek (Van‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
When and where?
LECTURE SERIES: October 17, 2024 (Thursday) – conference room IOC PAS, Warsaw, Kasprzaka 44/52
2:30 – 4:00 pm, The basics of the electronic structure of organic diradicaloids
4:15 – 5:45 pm, Selected examples of their reactivity accessed by using light or heat
Registration at aleksandra.butkiewicz@icho.edu.pl
OPEN LECTURE: October 18, 2024 (Friday) – 10 am – aula IOC/ICP PAS, Warsaw, Kasprzaka 44/52
“Topography and Topology: Unusual Playground for Chromophores” Prof. Tomáš Šolomek
About the lecturer
Tomáš Šolomek was born in Slovakia and chose chemistry as a career due to a passionate chemistry teacher that he had in the high-school. He obtained his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in organic photochemistry at the Masaryk University, Czechia. In 2014, he completed his PhD degree in chemistry under co-tutorship at the Masaryk University (Prof. Petr Klán) and the University of Fribourg (Prof. Thomas Bally), Switzerland, combining experiments and theory to understand the nature of reactive intermediates generated by light or heat. He then became an Experientia Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Basel with Prof. Michal Juríček. From 2015-2017, he was a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University (USA) in the group of Prof. Michael Wasielewski.
Dr. Šolomek founded his independent research group at the University of Basel as a fellow of the Ambizione program of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2018), exploring porous covalent organic cages with built-in photo- and redox-active units. After receiving an ERC Starting grant TOPOCLIP (2021), he became a non-tenure track assistant professor at the University of Bern, where his team worked on the stable molecular representations of topologically complex carbon nanostructures. From January 2023, Dr Šolomek became a tenure-track assistant professor at Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences in Amsterdam.
In his research, Tomáš Šolomek aims to improve the design of more efficient and sustainable organic optoelectronic materials and organic photocages. To accomplish this, he blends the synthesis of organic molecules with the use of spectroscopy and computational chemistry.
This event is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, grant no. BPI/STE/2021/1/00034/U/00001


Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025
It is our pleasure to invite our PhD Students to the Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025 of the Warsaw PhD School in Natural and BioMedical Sciences (Warsaw-4-PhD).
The inauguration has been scheduled for 7th October 2024 (Monday) at 10:00 a.m. and will take place in the auditorium of the Maciej Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBIB PAN) at 4 Ks. Trojden Street in Warsaw.
The opening lecture at the ceremony will be given by Nobel Laureate in Chemistry – Prof. Aaron Ciechanover.
Please note that online registration is required to attend the event. To secure your place, kindly complete the registration form.
We will be very pleased if you have the possibility to take part in this important event for the Warsaw-4-PhD School.