START scholarship for Michal Tomczyk and Sylwester Swat

Posted on Wednesday May 18th, 2022 by Jarek Synak

The 11th May The Foundation for Polish Science has announced the results of the START 2022 competition. It is the oldest scholarship programme in Poland, the goal of which is to support young scientists and encourage them to further develop their skills, awardees get a yearly scholarship – 28,000 PLN. During this edition 100 persons were granted the stipend, two of them are members of our Institute: PhD. Michał Tomczyk and Msc. Sylwester Swat. The latter one received also Barbara Skarga Research Stipend, “which may be granted to a person whose research is distinguished by boldly crossing the boundaries between various fields of inquiry, opening up new research perspectives, and creating new values in science”.

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Professor Roman Slowinski has received the title “Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques”!

Posted on Thursday April 21st, 2022 by Jarek Synak

The dignity and insignia of the L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques were granted to professor Roman Słowiński, the academic of the Institute of Computer Science at the Poznan University of Technology, as well as the vice-president of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Prime Minister of the French Republic. The award ceremony was held at the Embassy of the French Republic in Warsaw. The decorations were made by the French ambassador to Poland, Frédéric Billet. In his speech, the ambassador emphasized the outstanding merits of those honoured in the development of Franco-Polish relations in the academic and scientific fields. Together with prof. Roman Słowiński, the order was also awarded to prof. Jerzy Duszyński, president of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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Prof. Stefanowski became a National Corresponding Member of PAS

Posted on Thursday December 9th, 2021 by Jarek Synak

We are pleased to inform that prof. Jerzy Stefanowski has become a National Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He will officially begin to perform his duties in Division IV (responsible for Engineering Sciences) on 1st January 2022. This distinction is well deserved as prof. Stefanowski is one of the most often cited Polish computer scientists and published many valuable articles in renowned scientific journals and at the most important conferences.

Congratulations!

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French Prime Minister bestowed the title of “Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques” upon prof. Slowinski!

Posted on Thursday December 9th, 2021 by Jarek Synak

Prof. Roman Slowinski has received the title of “Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques“, which is one of the oldest civil distinctions in France, as it had been established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1808. Since 1955 this rank has been awarded by the French Prime Minister.

Congratulations, we wish you further success!

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Our students got a distinction in PIPS Best Master Theses Competition

Posted on Thursday December 9th, 2021 by Jarek Synak

We are glad to announce that our students – Msc Hubert Krzyzanowski and MSc Lukasz Pieta, have received a distinction in the 38th Competition for Best Master Theses organized by PIPS (Polish Information Processing Society).

Title of the thesis (in Polish): Odkrywanie charakterystyk User-Defined Functions
Supervisor: PhD Robert Wrembel

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Prof. Blazewicz is a Honorary Member of PBS!

Posted on Monday October 4th, 2021 by Jarek Synak

We are pleased to announce that prof. Jacek Blazewicz, one of the most important members of our group, was distinguished by Polish Bioinformatics Society and granted the title of Honorary Member together with prof. Wieslaw Nowak (from Torun) and prof. Jerzy Tiuryn (from Warsaw). It is worth noting nobody had received this title for 15 years.

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Chemistry and Evolution in RNA – public lecture

Posted on Monday September 27th, 2021 by Jarek Synak

Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications and the city of Poznan invite to the public lecture titled “Chemistry and Evolution in RNA“, which will be given by prof. Eric Westhof from University of Strassburg in France. The lecture will take place on October 7th at 11:30 am in the Room 8 in Poznan University of Technology Lecture Centre.
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Our PhD student, Sylwester Swat took 1st place in PACE 2021 competition

Posted on Thursday July 1st, 2021 by Jarek Synak

We are glad to inform that our PhD student, Sylwester Swat, took first place in PACE 2021 (Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge) competition in the kernel track and second place in the heuristic track:

Official results

The competition was carried out using our Intitute’s platform OPTIL.io. Every competitor had to solve Cluster Editing.

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Dr. Sylwia Kopczynska was awarded for her outstanding PhD thesis!

Posted on Saturday April 24th, 2021 by Jarek Synak

We are pleased to inform that dr. Sylwia Kopczynska was awarded with Poznan City Award for outstanding PhD and master theses (site in Polish). It’s worth mentioning that among the 52 participants (the highest number to date) who sent their PhD theses, only 3 were chosen.

PhD thesis title: “Supporting non-functional requirements elicitation with templates”
Supervisor: dr. Jerzy Nawrocki

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Dean Andrzej Jaszkiewicz has received the title of Professor

Posted on Saturday April 24th, 2021 by Jarek Synak

We gladly inform you that the Dean of Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, has just become Professor. This decision has been signed by President of Poland, Andrzej Duda.

We would like to congratulate on this success and wish more achievements in the future!

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