University of Silesia in Katowice

The Marek Kuczma Competition has been organised annually since 1974 by the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Its aim is to select the best Polish papers published in a given calendar year in the area of functional equations and inequalities and applications of this theory in related fields. It is...

Mathematics, referred to as the “Queen of Sciences”, celebrates its day on 12 March. Dr. Łukasz Dawidowski from the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Silesia in Katowice, who specialises in differential equations, teaching and science communication, will tell us about numerous mathematical festivals, as well as about epidemiological modelling, which is...

Since 2008, the University of Silesia in Katowice has been hosting lectures to commemorate the life and works of Prof. Andrzej Lasota. The scientist, initially associated with the Jagiellonian University, studied physics for two years, and then continued his education at mathematical studies. He wrote his doctoral thesis under the guidance of Prof. Tadeusz Ważewski,...