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On November 6, 2024, Professor Leszek Sokołowski of Jagiellonian University passed away. He was a theoretical physicist, relativist, cosmologist, and longtime head of the Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory. Professor Sokołowski specialized in Einstein’s theory of gravity and its relationship to other metric theories of gravity. His broad
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Professor Jerzy Lewandowski passed away on October 8, 2024. His illness, which I learned about from him personally on September 18 of this year, was a great shock to me. I was attending the Polish Relativity Society conference in Kazimierz Dolny at the time, and we corresponded with Jurek regarding the new POTOR elections. He
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With deep sorrow, we announce that Professor Jerzy Lewandowski, the first and long-serving president of the Polish Relativity Society, passed away on October 8, 2024, after a sudden illness. The funeral ceremony of Professor Jerzy Lewandowski will take place on October 25th, 2024. A funeral mass will be held at 10:30 AM in St. Alexander’s
Read moreA new board of the Polish Society on Relativity was elected during the general assembly on September 17, 2024. New board: New audit committee: We thank the previous board for their service over the past years: Board 2020-2024: Audit committee 2020-2024:
Read moreThe General Assembly of PoToR will take place during the PoToRu conference in Kazimierz Dolny on: September 17, 2024 (Tuesday) at 8:15 PM. We plan to hold the meeting in a hybrid format. During the assembly, elections for the board and the audit committee will be conducted. Conference website: https://events.ncbj.gov.pl/event/323/
Read moreWe invite you to participate in the upcoming schools: School of Black Holes and Conformal Infinities of Spacetime 64th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics Advanced School on Quantum Spacetimes We encourage you to participate. See you there!
Read moreThe 10th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity will be held in Kazimierz Dolny by the Vistula River from September 16-20, 2024. The conference website is available at: https://events.ncbj.gov.pl/event/323 As in previous years, the scientific program of the conference will cover a wide range of topics in the field of classical and quantum relativity
Read moreDear all, We would like to inform you that the last farewell to Krzysztof Belczyński in Warsaw will take place on Wednesday, January 24 this year, from 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Northern Municipal Cemetery at ul. Kazimierza Wóycickiego 14. The funeral (without the official part in the chapel or church) will takeplace
Read moreThe 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
Read more8.03.2023: 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
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