Polish Society on Relativity

The aim of the Society is to consolidate the outstanding Polish relativists in the thriving environment, worldwide promotion of the information about the Polish achievements in relativity, bringing to Poland the knowledge of achievements of other communities in the area of the theory of relativity, the provision of the best possible conditions for Polish students, postgraduates and young scientists to help start their own research at the highest level in the modern fields of relativistic physics and mathematics of space-time.

The 9th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity will be held in Kraków (Cracow) on September 18-22, this year.

The scientific programme of the conference covers a broad range of topics in the classical and quantum theory of relativity. As in the past years, the goal of the conference is to discuss and promote recent achievements of the Polish and the international community. International speakers and participants are very welcome. Amongst the discussed topics will be mathematical and numerical relativity, relativistic cosmology and the early universe, relativistic astrophysics, gravitational waves, black holes, and quantum models of gravity.

8.03.2023: School Of General Relativity, Astrophysics And Cosmology At The University Of Warsaw And POTOR

We would like to notify you about the first edition of the School of General Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Warsaw and POTOR. Our school is dedicated to PhD students and postdocs conducting research in general relativity. The summer school will be divided into two parts: the first will be held at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw from July 24-29, and the second at the European Center for Geological Education in Chęciny from July 31-August 4.

8.03.2023: School Of General Relativity, Astrophysics And Cosmology At The University Of Warsaw And POTOR

We are also pleased to present the lecturers and the courses that will be conducted during the first part of the school:

The program for the second part of the school will be announced in the near future.
Registration will start soon.
The conference fee will be: EUR 50 for the first part of the school (the coffee breaks covered), EUR 200 for the second part (the bus Warsaw-Chęciny-Warsaw, full board, accommodation)

Next General Assembly of the Polish Society on Relativity will begin on: September 21, 2022, at 17:30 at the Banach Center IMPAN, 8 Śniadeckich Street, 00-656 Warszawa.

This event will accompany the conference: The 8th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity, 19-23.09.2022: https://events.ncbj.gov.pl/event/152/.

10.07.2022: The 8th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity (19-23 September 2022)

The 8th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity will be held at the Banach Center IMPAN in Warsaw. The scientific programme of the conference covers a broad range of topics in the classical and quantum theory of relativity. As in the past years, the goal of the conference is to discuss and promote recent achievements of the Polish and the international community. International speakers and participants are very welcome. Amongst the discussed topics will be mathematical and numerical relativity, relativistic cosmology and the early universe, relativistic astrophysics, gravitational waves, black holes, and quantum models of gravity.

4.07.2022: Conference "Quantum Gravity and More” (October, 7-8th 2022) dedicated to the scientific achievements of Prof. Jerzy Jurkiewicz.

"The aim of the conference is to commemorate the scientific achievements of Prof. Jerzy Jurkiewicz, who passed away last year. The focus shall be on quantum gravity, random matrix theory, quantum chromodynamics and applications of the methods of theoretical physics to interdisciplinary problems. All those topics were in the area of interest of Prof. Jurkiewicz.”

14.04.2022: It is with great sadness that we learned on April 14th, 2022, Wojciech Kopczyński, Professor of the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, member of the New York Academy of Sciences, co-founder and member of the Polish Society on Relativity, has passed away.

Wojciech Kopczyński graduated from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw in 1969. In the same year, he joined the Department of Theory of Relativity and Gravitation, with which he remained associated throughout his life. He conducted pioneering studies of spacetime geometry in the presence of matter with non-zero spin. He is the author of the famous discovery stating that according to the Einstein-Cartan theory spin and torsion can smooth out the initial singularity of spacetime. He was a pioneer and an outstanding specialist in the theory of higher-dimensional spacetimes and teleparallel geometries. The perfect lectures of Wojciech Kopczyński educated generations of physicists. Together with Andrzej Trautman, he wrote the book "Spacetime and gravitation" (PWN 1981). We will say goodbye to our outstanding colleague and teacher on May 5th, 13:30 at the North Cemetery in Wólka Węglowa (pre-burial house).

We express our support for Ukrainian teachers, scientists and students and for the entire Ukrainian people, who have the right to a democratic, sovereign and independent state and the right to decide their future without outside intervention.

[Society Board, 24.02.2022]

Wyrażamy nasze poparcie dla ukraińskich nauczycieli, naukowców i studentów oraz dla całego narodu ukraińskiego, który ma prawo do demokratycznego, suwerennego i niepodległego państwa oraz prawo do decydowania o swojej przyszłości bez interwencji z zewnątrz.

[Zarząd PoToR, 24.02.2022]

30.11.2021: It is with deep sorrow that we learned on November 30, 2021, of the passing of Prof. Jerzy Jurkiewicz, one of the initiators, a founding member and former Vice President of the Polish Society on Relativity. He was 74 years old.

Jerzy Jurkiewicz was born on July 22, 1947, in Krakow. In 1970 he received a master's degree in physics, and in 1975 a doctoral degree in physics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (JU). In 1987 Jerzy Jurkiewicz was awarded a postdoctoral degree (habilitation), and in 1997 he became a full professor. In 2009-2012 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science at the JU; for many years he was the head of the Theory of Complex Systems Department of the Institute of Physics at the JU, the founder and head of the Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Center at the JU and a member of the Senate of the JU. In 2018 he was awarded the “Jagiellonian Laurel” (“Laur Jagielloński”) for outstanding scientific achievements. Professor Jerzy Jurkiewicz was an active member of the Division III of Science and Technology of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU), a member of the PAU Board of Directors in years 2018-2021 and a chairman of the PAU Complex Systems Commission. He was the initiator and chairman of the Marian Smoluchowski Krakow Scientific Consortium, which was granted the status of National Leading Scientific Centre (KNOW) in physics in 2012.

Prof. Jerzy Jurkiewicz was one of the most eminent Polish theoretical physicists, a world-renowned scientist, an expert in the fields of quantum gravity, strong interactions, complex systems and random matrices, mathematical physics and its applications, and numerical simulations of quantum systems using the so-called lattice regularization.

Prof. Jurkiewicz became famous, together with Prof. Jan Ambjorn and Prof. Renate Loll, as the creator of the model of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). Earlier, together with Prof. Ambjorn, he also invented a model of the so-called Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations. Both models are an attempt at a non-perturbative formulation of the theory of quantum gravity aimed at unifying two fundamental areas of theoretical physics – quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. The CDT model has proven to be one of the most promising research directions in the quest for a theory of quantum gravity, allowing the analysis of quantum-gravitational effects using advanced computer simulations. In particular, the research group led by Prof. Jurkiewicz succeeded in showing the existence of a correct semiclassical limit of the CDT model, consistent with Einstein's theory of gravity, was one of the first to observe the existence of scale dependence of the effective dimension of quantum spacetime (so-called dimensional reduction), demonstrated the presence of higher order phase transitions in CDT, which gives hope for the formulation of a continuum limit of this model, analyzed the influence of spacetime topology on the phase structure of CDT, demonstrated the existence of a non-trivial effect of matter fields on the topology of quantum space-time. In addition to his work on the theory of quantum gravity, Prof. Jerzy Jurkiewicz was also very active in the field of research on lattice QCD and on random matrix theory and its application to the analysis of complex systems, including the study of physical phenomena, economics, financial markets, biological phenomena, analysis of random networks and surfaces.

Prof. Jurkiewicz enjoyed great recognition in the international scientific community. He was repeatedly invited to the world's leading scientific centers. Among longer research stays, it is worth mentioning the University of Utrecht (1979-80, 1984-86), the University of Marseille (1982), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva (1983), the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay (1983-84, 1996), the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1990-91, 1994-95, 1997-98). Jerzy Jurkiewicz cooperated with and was a friend of many recognized scientists, among others with Prof. Jan Ambjorn, Prof. Renate Loll, Prof. Maciej Nowak, Prof. Zdzisław Burda, Prof. Andrzej Krzywicki, Prof. Chris Korthals-Altes, Prof. Gerardemus 't Hooft, Prof. Martinus Veltman. He was repeatedly invited to organizing committees of prestigious international scientific conferences and was a plenary speaker at key scientific conferences in the field of gravitational, random matrix or complex systems research.

Professor Jurkiewicz was also an extremely active organizer and leader of research projects. He was, among others, the coordinator of a significant European grant COCOS (Correlations in Complex Systems), the head of research groups in European programmes (EUROGRID, ENRAGE projects), co-organizer of the European Science Foundation project, member of the COPIRA Centre of Excellence, principal investigator of numerous KBN and NCN grants, including NCN MAESTRO.

Prof. Jurkiewicz's research achievement includes over 150 papers published in the world's best scientific journals and cited over 5500 times. During his scientific career he has lectured extensively both at home and abroad on, among others, mathematical methods of physics, numerical computation methods, quantum field theory and advanced quantum mechanics, the study of complex systems. Prof. Jurkiewicz has promoted five Ph.D. students, and his alumni have already received professorships and habilitation degrees.

Jerzy Jurkiewicz was not only an excellent scientist but also a great colleague and collaborator. He was a person of great kindness and extremely deep knowledge and scientific intuition, a true mentor to several generations of physicists.

For his achievements and contributions, he was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit by the President of Poland.
Professor Jerzy Jurkiewicz passed away on November 30, 2021. He leaves a grieving wife Elżbieta, daughters Anna and Katarzyna, and grandchildren.

The Amaldi Medal of the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitational Physics for the year 2021 is awarded to Professor Andrzej Trautman for his fundamental contributions to the theory of gravitational waves. The prize, named after the famous physicist Edoardo Amaldi who was one of the fathers of experimental gravitational physics, is awarded every two years to European scientists who have made significant contributions to general relativity and gravitational physics. Info: in italian.

20-23 September 2021: 7th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity The 7th annual conference of the Polish Society on Relativity will be held at the Łódź University of Technology. The conference will be divided into seven sessions.

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2020 (Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez)

A group of friends discussing over dinner the classical and quantum black holes [Warszawa, Sep the 14th, 2019]
from left: Jerzy Lewandowski, Roger Penrose, Yongge Ma, Ted Newman, Carlo Rovelli, Francesca Vidotto

Sir Roger Penrose, Honorary Member of the Polish Society on Relativity is among the 2020 Nobel Laureates in Physics. His distinguished achievement is the black hole theory. The concept of a black hole can already be found in the work of Laplace and was developed thanks to Einstein's theory and the solutions of Schwarzschild and Kerr (to which also Robinson and Trautman contributed). However, it was Sir Roger who proved the spacetime singularity theorem and formulated the cosmic censorship conjecture that imply that black hole is the final stage for a large class of gravitational collapse processes, in fact inevitable if a trapped surface has formed in space-time. Penrose also discovered, in a purely theoretical way, the process of extracting energy from a black hole at the expense of its momentum. Today's observations confirm the role that the Penrose process plays in black hole astrophysics. PoToR members continue to research various new issues in black hole theory.

Sir Roger also made outstanding contributions to other areas of the theory of gravity and other fields of science. His works on the asymptotic properties of space-time are fundamental for the theory of gravitational radiation. Penrose's theory of twistors led to the development of new branches of differential geometry and algebraic topology. Penrose's tailing found its realization in nature in the form of quasicrystals, a special form of a solid state in which atoms arrange themselves in an apparently regular, but not repeating structure. Penrose's Triangle Impossible was the inspiration for Escher's paintings.

The last time we hosted Sir Roger Penrose in Poland as a guest of the conference on the occasion of Jerzy Lewandowski's 60th birthday on September 16-20, 2019. Sir Roger gave a lecture on the theory of twistors:

Roger: Congratulations!

From the left: Tomasz Trzesniewski, Daniel Nemeth, Michal Artymowski, Roger Penrose, Jan Ostrowski, Jerzy Lewandowski

Another part of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 is shared by prof. Andrea Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles) and prof. Reinhard Genzel (Max Plank Instiute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching) "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy". They are leaders of two research teams, who have been monitoring the motions of stars orbiting the Galactic centre for nearly three decades. Genzel’s group used telescopes in Chile operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), while Ghez and her colleagues used the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Their works have been essential for proving that the supermassive black hole resides in the center of our Galaxy, as predicted by the theory of gravity. Penrose’s discovery of the singularity theorem showed that black holes are a robust consequence of general relativity, forming naturally in very overdense regions. The central few parsecs of the Milky Way harbours a rich cluster of stars and hot gas. These have been used to trace the gravitational potential of the Galactic centre defined by the compact radio source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at a distance of 25,000 light years. If the mass concentration at the very centre of the Galaxy is made of a single supermassive black hole, the velocities of stars there should be growing for progressively smaller radii, as for planets around the Sun. Such Keplerian orbits should not arise if the mass is due to a spatially distributed cluster of stellar-mass objects. Thanks to the work of Ghez and Genzel's groups, the orbits of the brightest stars closest to the middle of the Milky Way have been mapped with increasing precision. Their pioneering work has given us the most convincing evidence yet of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

Prof. Andrea Ghez became 4th woman winning Nobel Prize in Physics, after Maria Curie-Skłodowska (1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018).

24.03.2021: It was with great sadness that we learned that Ted Newman, an honorary member of our Society, passed away on March 24, 2021, at the age of 92. [More/Less]

Ted Newman was born in New York City and graduated from the famous Bronx High School of Science there, then studied physics at New York University where he received his B.S. in 1951. He did his doctoral studies at Syracuse University in Peter Bergmann's group receiving his PhD in 1956. In 1956 he joined the University of Pittsburgh and worked there for the rest of his life. In the early 1960s Peter Bergmann organized a large group at Syracuse to work on the general theory of relativity. Members of this group included Joshua Goldberg, Roger Penrose, Rainer Sachs, Roy Kerr and for the 1960/61 academic year Ted Newman was also there. The focus was on research on two fundamental problems - gravitational waves and quantization of the gravitational field. Roger Penrose was fascinated by the spin description of the gravitational field and, together with Newman, wrote down Einstein's equations in the language of spinors creating the Newman-Penrose formalism, which is still popular today. Over the next several years, Newman developed this formalism and applied it to the study of the asymptotic properties of the gravitational field and the search for new exact solutions to Einstein's equations. Using this formalism, he found a rigorous solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations describing an electrically charged and rotating black hole. Such a black hole is now called a Kerr-Newman black hole. He and his collaborators L. Tamburino and T. Unti found a vacuum extension of the Schwarzschild metric now known as the NUT spacetime. The Newman-Penrose formalism naturally introduces a composite description of spacetime. Together with Allen Janis, Newman proposed a new method for finding exact solutions to Einstein's equations using the complex coordinate rotations and basis vectors used in the Newman-Penrose formalism. The study of the asymptotic properties of gravitational and electromagnetic fields led to the discovery of asymptotic null surfaces associated with the congruence of null geodesic without shear. The intersection of these surfaces with the null boundary of conformally completed spacetime was named Heaven because they are self-dual solutions to Einstein's vacuum equations. The study of null geodesic congruences also allowed Newman to introduce the classification of caustics and wave fronts and a more accurate description of gravitational lensing. More recently, Newman has been interested in the possibility of reproducing the behavior of compact sources of a gravitational field from the asymptotic properties of that field. Ted Newman first came to Poland in 1962 for the International Conference on the Theory of Gravitation in Jablonno. He took a special liking to Poland and came very often, usually together with Josh Goldberg. His favorite time for visits was the second half of June, when fresh strawberries and cherries were available at the stalls in Warsaw. Ted Newman was usually full of energy and ideas. He liked classical music and greatly appreciated Górecki and especially Penderecki. He was last in Warsaw for Jurek Fest in September 2019.

Ezra Ted Newman

8.10.2020: It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our colleague and friend, Profesor dr hab. Marek Szydłowski. [More/Less]

Professor Szydłowski, long-standing scientist at Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian Univeristy, was a member of the Polish Society on Relativity since its inception. He was also a member of the Commission of Complex Systems of the Polish Academy of Skills and a member of Mark Kac Complex Systems Research at the Jagiellonian University. Born in 1952 in Tarnów, he studied Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, where he met Rev. Prof. Michał Heller – later his PhD supervisor. It was a starting point of a long, fruitful collaboration and friendship of these two scientists. He gained his PhD from the Catholic University of Lublin in 1982 after defending his thesis entitled: „Problem of the ensemble of universes in relativistic cosmology”. This was the beginning of applications of dynamical systems theory in cosmology, to become later an important thread of his research. Dynamical systems became an important tool, whose applications in cosmology and beyond made Marek Szydłowski a world-wide recognized specialist. He held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland in the team of Charles Misner – the icon of classical theory of relativity. After coming back, he was appointed at the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University where he spent the rest of his life. His scientific interests comprised the dynamics of homogeneous cosmological models (including multi-dimensional cosmologies) and the assessment how typical are certain dynamical behaviours (e.g. inflationary phase) in this class. Next research topic pursued by Marek Szydłowski was focused on the invariant description of deterministic chaos in general relativity, in particular in Bianchi IX cosmological model. He formulated and developed with his collaborators, an original approach of reducing the dynamics of cosmological models to a geodesic flow on some manifold and then investigating the sensitivity of trajectories on the initial conditions by investigating the curvature of this manifold. Just after the first announcements of the discovery of accelerating expansion of the universe, Marek Szydłowski appreciated the value of this result, despite the initial scepticism of a considerable part of scientific community. The next, fertile period of his scientific activity begins abounding in numerous, recognized by international community, results concerning the search for a physical mechanism of accelerated expansion, including various forms of modified gravity, formulating respective models and testing them on current observational material. Marek Szydłowski was a man of emotional sensitivity, deep knowledge and amazingly wide scientific horizons. Besides cosmology, he published a lot of papers in philosophy, scientometrics and economics. In macroeconomics he was interested the business cycle modelling, especially the role of investment time lags as a cause of cyclic behaviour in an economy. Marek passed away leaving his wife Mariola and daughters: Anna and Katarzyna in deep sorrow and mourn. For those who knew him personally, he was always a source of inspiration, an exemplar of creativity, energy, vitality and numerous talents. His personality attracted to him many young collaborators. In the hearts of Marek’s friends, there will remain an emptiness forever. A void, which could only be filled with memories of the moments spent with Marek on discussions, memories of his sincerity and support we could always count on.

6.10.2020: Joshua N. Goldberg, a honorary member of the Society and Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University passed away on October 6, 2020. [More/Less]

Joshua Goldberg was born on May 30, 1925 in Rochester, New York. He attended the University of Rochester and received there a Bachelor’s degree in 1947. Since 1947 he was connected with Syracuse University and under supervision of Peter Bergmann started graduate studies in general theory of relativity and obtained a PhD degree in physics in 1952. General relativity became the main are of his scientific activity. Initially he was interested in equations of motion of extended bodies and conservation laws. Using the Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman approximation method he showed that the terms describing radiation cannot be eliminated by a coordinate transformation and that they determine the flux energy carried by gravitational waves. In 1962 in collaboration with Rainer Sachs they showed that a vacuum spacetime is algebraically special if and only if it contains a sheer free null geodesic congruence. This so called now Goldberg-Sachs theorem opened up a new way of obtaining exact solutions of the Einstein field equations culminating with the Robinson-Trautman solution and the Kerr metric. Later after Newman and Penrose developed spinorial approach to general relativity Goldberg studied asymptotic properties of the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field. That had led him to collaborate with members of the elementary particles group at Syracuse University in preparing a fundamental paper on spin-s spherical harmonics that later was widely used in studying sources of gravitational radiation. Goldberg has written several papers on canonical and Hamiltonian framework in general relativity. His interest then focused on the role of null cone and null surfaces in study of dynamics of spacetimes. In the early years after the Second World War the US Air Force decided to sponsor scientific research including also research in general relativity. For several years Goldberg was formally working at the Wright Petterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. During his connection with the US Air Force Goldberg was able to secure continuous funding for research on general relativity. Using these funds Peter Bergmann and Joshua Goldberg created at Syracuse University a world class relativity center. Several Polish relativists have spent some time at this center. For all of them Joshua Goldberg and his wife Gloria provided help and warm hospitality. Joshua Goldberg visited Poland several times. For the first time he came to participate in the Jabłonna Conference in 1962 and for the last time he was in Warsaw at Jurek Lewandowski Fest in September 2019, with several visits in between. Joshua Goldberg always seemed to be at peace and ready to help. We will miss him very much.

https://thecollege.syr.edu/news-all/news-2020/as-remembers-physicist-who-was-a-pioneer-in-einsteins-theory-of-general-relativity/

24-25 June 2021: Symposium on quantum symmetries, noncommutative geometry and quantum gravity

Conference dedicated to 85th birthday of prof. Jerzy Lukierski (UWr), one of the founding members od Potor
Access through the Zoom platform.
"This symposium will take the form of virtual video-conference gathering old and young scientific friends linked to the varied activities of Jerzy Lukierski - from conventional quantum field theory, supersymmetries, twistors, deformations to studies of quantum gravity (QG) and noncommutative geometry."

On 25th of September 2020 there was Generral Meeting of PoToR. Participants have chosen new board of society. The board now consits of: Jerzy Lewandowski (president), Jakub Mielczarek (vice-president), Agnieszka Janiuk (treasurer, finances), Patryk Mach, Marek Rogatko. Audit Committee consits of Jacek Jezierski, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman and Tomasz Trześniewski.

Virtual Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity 2020 (online platform - Zoom, 24-26.09.2020)
Conference on the occasion of Jerzy Lewandowski's 60th birthday (Jurekfest) (Warszawa, 16-20.09.2019)
22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation 22nd GR & 13th Amaldi (Valencia, Spain, 7-12.07.2019)
The 6th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity(Szczecin, 23-26.09.2019)

The Meeting: "Singularities of general relativity and their quantum fate" (21-25.05.2018, Banach Mathematical Center, Warszawa)
The 5th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity (24-27.09.2018, Wojanów)
The 4th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity (24-28.09.2017, Kazimierz Dolny)
Summer School: Between Geometry and Relativity (17-21.07.2017, Vienna, Erwin Schroedinger Institute)
Loops'17' (03-07.07.2017, Warszawa)
Gravitational waves: mathematical, computational, astrophysical and quantum approaches (10-11.12.2016, Warszawa, University of Warsaw), (conference supported by the grant 983/P-DUN/2016, MNiSW)
Foundations of the Theory of Gravitational Waves (9-11.10.2016, Stockholm, Nordita), (conference supported by the grant 983/P-DUN/2016, MNiSW)
The 3rd Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity (25-29.9.2016, Kraków)
Fourth Tux Workshop on Quantum Gravity (15-19.2.2016, Tux)
Quantum Spacetime '16 (6-12.2.2016, Zakopane)
The 2nd Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity: 100 Years of General Relativity (23-28.11.2015, Warszawa)
The Planck Scale II (7-12.09.2015, Wrocław)
ESI-EMS-IAMP Summer school on Mathematical Relativity (28.07-01.08.2014, Vienna)
1st Conference of Polish Society on Relativity (29.06-04.07.2014, Spała)
Relativity Seminar (27.02-01.03.2014, Vienna)
GR20-Amaldi 10 (07.07-13.07.2013)
School of Gravitational Waves (1.07-5.07.2013)
53th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics (28.06-7.07.2013)
49th Winter School of Theoretical Physics (10.02-16.02.2013)
3rd Central European Relativity Seminar (07.02-10.02.2013)
General Relativity and Gravitation – 50 years after Jabłonna (4-6.06.2012)

Informations about PSR:

Statute of the PSR (27.11.2011, in Polish)
Black holes merge - Press release on the foundation of PSR (16.05.2011)
Why is the theory of relativity so important? - Interview on TOK FM Radio with Jerzy Lewandowski and Michał Dziendzikowski on the occasion of the foundation of PSR (01.06.2011, in Polish)

Congratulations to Professor Andrzej Trautman (in Polish) (2017)

Prof. Andrzej Trautman has received the Foundation for Polish Science Prize 2017 for the theoretical demonstration of the reality of gravitational waves (2017)

Press conference and scientific panel about new discoveries in gravitational waves astronomy (2017)

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves (Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss).

The website dedicated to the achievements of prof. Andrzej Mariusz Trautman (2016)

Finishing what Einstein started - by Marek Abramowicz (11.5.2016)

Towards a theory of gravitational radiation, or What is a gravitational wave? - by Paweł Nurowski (28.4.2016), (supported by the grant 983/P-DUN/2016, MNiSW)

How the green light was given for gravitational wave search - by Denson Hill and Pawel Nurowski arXiv:1608.08673, 2016 (supported by the grant 983/P-DUN/2016, MNiSW)

The theory of the gravitational waves: the origin (1.3.2016)

Address: ul. Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland
REGON number: 145894150
NIP number: 7010330694
KRS number: 0000401941
E-mail: potor (at domain: fuw.edu.pl)

Ordinary members:

prof. Jan Ambjorn
dr Michał Artymowski
dr Mehdi Assanioussi
dr Adam Balcerzak
prof. dr hab. Stanisław Bażański*
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Belczynski
prof. dr hab. Iwo Białynicki-Birula
prof. dr hab. Marek Biesiada
prof. dr hab. Piotr Bizoń
dr Krzysztof Bolejko
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Borowiec*
dr hab. Łukasz Bratek
prof. dr hab. Tomasz Bulik*
dr hab. Piotr Chruściel*
dr hab. Adam Chudecki
dr Chunshan Lin
dr Ewa Czuchry
prof. dr hab. Mariusz Dąbrowski
prof. dr hab. Marek Demiański
dr Michał Dobrski
prof. dr hab. Maciej Dunajski
dr Remigiusz Durka
mgr Michał Dziendzikowski*
dr hab. Janusz Garecki
dr Krzysztof Głód
dr hab. Andrzej Goerlich
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Góźdź
prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Haba
ks. prof. dr hab. Michał Heller
dr Orest Hrycyna
prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Janiuk
prof. dr hab. Piotr Jaranowski*
prof. dr hab. Jacek Jezierski*
prof. dr hab. Jerzy Jurkiewicz*
prof. Igor Kanattsikov
prof. dr hab. Jerzy Kijowski*
prof. dr hab. Wojciech Kopczyński*
dr hab. Mikołaj Korzyński
dr Ryszard Kostecki*
prof. dr hab. Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Krasiński*
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Królak*
prof. dr hab. Jerzy Lewandowski*
prof. dr hab. Jerzy Lukierski*
dr hab. Patryk Mach
prof. dr hab. Edward Malec
dr hab. Przemysław Małkiewicz
dr hab. Jerzy Matyjasek
prof. Paweł Mazur
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Meissner
dr hab. Jakub Mielczarek
dr Anna Nakonieczna
dr Łukasz Nakonieczny
mgr Daniel Nemeth
dr hab. Andrzej Odrzywołek
dr Andrzej Okołów
dr Jan Ostrowski
dr Anna Pachoł
dr hab. Tomasz Pawłowski
dr Aleksandra Pędrak
prof. dr hab. Włodzimierz Piechocki
dr Michał Piróg
prof. dr hab. Maciej Przanowski*
dr Katarzyna Rejzner
dr hab. Marek Rogatko*
dr hab. Dorota Rosińska
dr hab. Andrzej Rostworowski
prof. dr hab. Boudewijn Roukema
mgr Katarzyna Senger
dr Szymon Sikora
dr hab. Lech Sokołowski
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Staruszkiewicz
dr hab. Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki
dr hab. Adam Szereszewski*
dr hab. Sebastian Szybka*
dr hab. Marek Szydłowski
prof. dr hab. Jacek Tafel*
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Trautman*
dr Tomasz Trześniewski
dr Aneta Wojnar
dr hab. Andrzej Woszczyna*
prof. Naqing Xie
dr Adam Zadrożny

* - founding members

Honorary members:

prof. Abhay Ashtekar
prof. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
prof. Helmut Friedrich
prof. Joshua N. Goldberg
prof. Ezra Ted Newman
prof. Roger Penrose
prof. John Stachel

Supporting members:

Center for Theoretical Physics
of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)

Members of the board of directors:

prof. dr hab. Jerzy Lewandowski (president)
dr hab. Jakub Mielczarek (vice-president)
prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Janiuk (treasurer)
dr hab. Marek Rogatko
dr hab. Patryk Mach

The audit committee:

prof. dr hab. Jacek Jezierski
prof. dr hab. Jerzy Kowalski-Glikmani
dr Tomasz Trześniewski

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