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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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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 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 more14.04.2022: 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 Wojciech Kopczyński graduated from the Faculty of Physics of the University
Read moreIt 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
Read moreThe 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
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A group of friends discussing over dinner the classical and quantum black holes [Warszawa, 14ty września, 2019] from the 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
Read more25.09.2020: General 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.
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