News

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New COST Action “FuSe – Testing Fundamental Physics with Seismology”

Dr. Aneta Wojnar (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław) has been chosen as Chairperson of the newly established research network FuSe.

Starting in autumn 2025, Dr. Wojnar will lead the newly established network FuSe – Testing Fundamental Physics with Seismology, bringing together 76 researchers from 29 countries across physics, seismology, planetary sciences, AI, and Big Data. The University of Wrocław will act as the grant holder for this €600,000 project.

FuSe aims to bridge physics and Earth sciences by investigating seismic phenomena (including earthquake precursors) with modern AI, machine learning, and data analysis methods. The project seeks to explore seismic data for potential signatures of new physics and to deepen our understanding of Earth’s interior.

Researchers in relativity, geophysics, data science, and related fields are invited to join FuSe when the project formally begins in autumn 2025. Participation will offer unique opportunities for international collaboration, cutting-edge research at the intersection of physics and seismology, and involvement in the development of innovative theoretical and technological applications.

For more details or to join the network, contact Dr. Aneta Wojnar at aneta.wojnar2 [at] uwr.edu.pl.
More information: https://uwr.edu.pl/dr-aneta-wojnar-z-uwr-na-czele-miedzynarodowego-projektu-cost-action/

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Events

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21–24 July 2025

11th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity (PoToR 2025)

Link: 11th PoToR Conference

The 11th annual conference of the Polish Society on Relativity took place in Wrocław on 21–24 July 2025. This yearly event brings together Polish and international researchers working on gravity and related fields to exchange ideas and present the latest developments in General Relativity, quantum gravity, and observational cosmology.

Since its inception in 2014 (following the major GR20/Amaldi 10 joint conference in Warsaw in 2013), PoToR has become the central meeting point for the Polish relativistic community. Including an online edition held during the COVID pandemic, this was in fact the 12th event in the series. The conference aimed to foster collaboration across different areas of gravitational physics and encourage progress in addressing the most fundamental questions about the nature of our Universe.

Institutional Organizer:
Division of Theory of Gravity and Fundamental Interactions, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wrocław

Organizing Committee:
Tomasz Trześniewski (head), Remigiusz Durka, Aneta Wojnar, Aleksander Kozak, Arkadiusz Błaut, Tomasz Pawłowski

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23–24 May 2025

stringtheory.pl 2025 Conference — Annual Meeting on String Theory and Related Topics

Link: stringtheory.pl/2025

The 2025 edition of the stringtheory.pl conference was held in Wrocław on 23–24 May 2025. This annual event brings together researchers interested in string theory and its related fields, both from Poland and abroad.

The conference started on Friday, May 23, at the DSF pavilion located behind the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wrocław (plac Maxa Borna 9, Wrocław, Poland). On Saturday, May 24, the talks were continued in room 422 on the 4th floor of the Faculty’s main building. The organizers provided clear directions to help participants navigate between venues.

As in previous years, the conference served as a platform for active discussions on a variety of topics related to string theory, fostering collaborations between researchers working on fundamental aspects of high-energy physics, quantum gravity, and mathematical physics.

Organizers:

• Falk Hassler (University of Wrocław)
• David Osten (University of Wrocław)
• Piotr Surowka (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)

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12-21-February 2023

59. Winter School of Theoretical Physics and third COST Action CA18108 Training School “Gravity — Classical, Quantum and Phenomenology”

Link: https://indico.capa.unizar.es/event/30/

Gravity – classical, quantum and phenomenology, in the context of the 59th Karpacz Winter School in Theoretical Physics

The 59th Winter School of Theoretical Physics (12th-21st February this year) was organized by our Institute together with a COST Action CA 18108 “Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach”, for which it was the Third Training School. The subject matter of the School touched upon different areas of research framed by the title “Gravity – Classical, Quantum and Phenomenology”. Namely, the six lecture series were devoted to: asymptotic symmetries of the gravitational field (at the so-called corners), the perturbative framework for gravitational waves emitted by black holes, the theoretical grounds and practical methods of observational cosmology, models of modified gravity and bounds imposed on them by observations, the status and prospects of phenomenology of quantum gravity, and analysis of the gamma-ray telescopes data in the context of Lorentz invariance violation. The investigations of topics discussed in the lectures, and many others related to them, are motivated in particular by the search for signatures (i.e. phenomenology) of Planck-scale physics in the observations of various cosmic messengers, i.e. (ultra-high-energy) cosmic rays, astrophysical neutrinos, gamma-ray bursts and gravitational waves. This approach to the problem of quantization of gravity has recently been summarized in an extensive review published by the COST Action.

Videos of the lectures: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Oo0bEL5LTJDgV2qI1iil1Lc_X-mThSN

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4-25 June 2021

Symposium on quantum symmetries, noncommutative geometry and quantum gravity

Link: Symposium on quantum symmetries, noncommutative geometry and quantum gravity