Among the research projects that received funding from the National Science Centre (NCN) under the OPUS-26 LAP/Weave competition is the grant entitled “Magnetoelastic materials without rare earth elements for efficient and environmentally friendly magnetic cooling technology”, which will be led by Prof. Dr. hab. Tomasz Toliński from our Institute. The project was developed in consortium with the Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (allocated funding: 2.879.660 PLN, including 2.313.180 PLN for IMP PAS). The foreign partner is the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic.

The proposal was reviewed in the ST (Physical Sciences and Engineering) division, within the ST11 (Materials Engineering) panel, where 13 out of 112 submissions received funding.

We sincerely congratulate Professor Toliński and the entire team on securing funding for such fascinating research, which holds great potential for practical application – read more about the project.

On behalf of the Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Development TYGIEL we invite participation in the conference entitled Interdisciplinarity as a key to development (March 21-24, 2024) which is held under the honorary patronage by the Institute of Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

We encourage to take part in this unique conference and wish everyone interested in participating in this event fruitful meetings and inspiring scientific discussions.

On September 1, 2023, we hosted Professor Klaus von Klitzing at the Institute – the Nobel Prize winner in Physics “for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect”. During the meeting, our researchers had the opportunity to take part in a conversation with the eminent guest, talk about research conducted at the Institute, and listen to a short presentation by Prof. von Klitzing. The meeting took place in a great atmosphere, conducive to interesting discussions and information exchange. We would like to thank the world-renowned scientist for his time and interest in our Institute. We would also like to thank everyone who was involved in the organization of this unique event.

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On Friday, June 10, 2023, the Final of the 2nd National Construction Competition entitled "Physics in Motion" was held at IMP PAS. This time, the aim of the contest was to build a prototype of a capsule (with an egg on the board), which, when thrown from a height of approx. 7 m, will cover the greatest possible distance and will protect the unique "passenger" from damage after falling to the ground.

More than 30 teams from different regions of Poland took part in the close competition. The winners of the contest were: Powiatowy Zespół Szkół in Bieruniu (1st place), CLVII LO im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie from Warsaw (2nd place), and III LO im. Agnieszki Osieckiej in Sopot (3rd place).

We would like to thank all participants for their commitment and participation in the competition, and the organizers for its efficient conducting. Separate thanks are due to the Ministry of Education and Science for supporting this form of education and popularizing science (SONP/SP/513407/2021).

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On behalf of the Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Development TYGIEL we invite participation in the upcoming events: i) a conference entitled "Direction of NANO - research and achievements in the field of nanotechnology" (online), which will be held on September 16, 2022 (https://fundacja-tygiel.pl/nanotechnologia/) and ii) conference entitled "Biopolymers – a source of new materials" (online), which will be held on October 27, 2022 (https://fundacja-tygiel.pl/biopolimery/). The conferences were held under the honorary patronage by the Institute of Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

We wish everyone interested in participating in these events, in particular younger entrants of science or development, fruitful meetings and inspiring scientific discussions.