Geometry of classical and quantum space-times

Jerzy Lewandowski Memorial Conference

September 15–19, 2025

Banach Center, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
& Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland

photo by R.-P. Kostecki 

   



Invited speakers (under construction):

  • Robert Alicki
  • Abhay Ashtekar*
  • Fernando Barbero
  • Ingemar Bengtsson
  • Luca Cafaro
  • Piotr Chruściel**
  • Jonathan Engle
  • Christian Fleischhack
  • Kristina Giesel**
  • Jacek Jezierski
  • Jerzy Kijowski
  • Maciej Kolanowski
  • Mikołaj Korzyński
  • Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman*
  • Jorma Louko
  • James Lucietti
  • Yǒnggé Mǎ (马永革)**
  • Ilkka Mäkinen
  • Lionel Mason
  • Guillermo A. Mena Marugán
  • José Mourão**
  • Maciej Ossowski
  • Tomasz Pawłowski
  • Roger Penrose**
  • Carlo Rovelli
  • Hanno Sahlmann
  • George A.J. Sparling
  • Simone Speziale
  • Jacek Tafel
  • Arman Taghavi-Chavert
  • Yaser Tavakoli
  • Thomas Thiemann
  • Madhavan Varadarajan*
  • Cōng Zhāng (张聪)
* – to be confirmed
** – online talk


Schedule and programme:

  • September 14 (Sunday): arrival day;
  • September 15–19 (from Monday till Friday): conference talks + one poster session + one conference dinner;
  • September 20 (Saturday): departure day.

Conference venue:


Banach Center, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
address: Śniadeckich 8, Warszawa, Poland.

(See jakdojade.pl/warszawa for the best up-to-date public transportation planner for Warszawa.)


Online registration:


Online registration (for those participants who are not invited speakers) will open around June 15.
More news soon.


Conference proceedings:


Speakers and poster presenters will be invited to submit their papers to the peer-reviewed proceedings of the conference, to published as an article collection in the «General Relativity and Gravitation» journal.
More news soon.


Organising committee:

  • Mehdi Assanioussi (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
  • Denis Dobkowski-Ryłko (Faculty of Physics, University of Gdańsk)
  • Wojciech Kamiński (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)
  • Ryshard-Pavel Kostecki (Research Center for Quantum Information, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
  • Andrzej Okołów (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)
  • Marek Szczepańczyk (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)
  • Adam Szereszewski (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)
Contact with organisers: jurek.memorial at fuw.edu.pl.


Organising institutions:



  

Additional materials (under construction):

Memorials: Other materials: We are collecting the photos featuring Jurek, for two purposes: for a slideshow at the conference, and to be added as a subpage of this website. If you'd like to share some photos with us, please write at jurek.memorial at fuw.edu.pl.


last update: May 13, 2025; 14:33 CET. admin: rpk.