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:

  • Robert Alicki
  • Abhay Ashtekar
  • Fernando Barbero
  • Ingemar Bengtsson
  • Luca Cafaro
  • Piotr T. Chruściel**
  • Marek Demiański*
  • Maciej Dunajski**
  • Jonathan Engle
  • Christian Fleischhack
  • Kristina Giesel**
  • Jacek Jezierski
  • Jerzy Kijowski
  • Maciej Kolanowski
  • Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman
  • Jorma Louko
  • James Lucietti
  • Yǒnggé Mǎ (马永革)**
  • Ilkka Mäkinen
  • Lionel Mason
  • Guillermo A. Mena Marugán
  • José M. Cidade Mourão
  • Maciej Ossowski
  • Tomasz Pawłowski
  • Roger Penrose**
  • István Rácz
  • Carlo Rovelli
  • Hanno Sahlmann
  • George A. J. Sparling
  • Simone Speziale
  • Jacek Tafel*
  • Arman Taghavi-Chabert
  • 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
  • September 17 (Wednesday): memorial session, poster session, conference dinner
  • September 20 (Saturday): departure day
More detailed conference program will become available in early September.


Poster:


Poster of the conference (A3 size in .pdf format).


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) was open from July 15, 2025 to August 8, 2025 August 15, 2025, anywhere on Earth. Notifications regarding poster/talk acceptance will be sent on August 22, 2025.

If you are not an invited speaker and you have registered and you want to participate in the conference dinner, then you should pay for the conference dinner in advance, by means of the bank transfer. Here are the details:

Transfer Title: JMem - YourNameAndSurname
Account Holder: Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa
Bank Name: Bank Millenium SA, ul. Stanisława Żaryna 2A, 02-593 Warszawa
IBAN Code: PL 77 1160 2202 0000 0000 6084 9264
Swift Code: BIGBPLPWXXX
Cost: 60 EUR (or 250 PLN)


Conference proceedings:


All speakers, as well as selected poster presenters, will be invited to submit their papers to the peer-reviewed proceedings of the conference, to be published as an article collection in the «General Relativity and Gravitation» journal (editors: Kristina Giesel, Wojciech Kamiński, Ryshard-Pavel Kostecki). Early submission deadline: 31 January 2026. Final submission deadline: 31 March 2026.
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)
  • Mikołaj Korzyński (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • 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: August 17, 2025; 19:04 CET.
admin: rpk (admin from Aug 18, 2025 to Sep 10, 2025: Mehdi Assanioussi).