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Faculty of Physics, Warsaw
University
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General information
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Address:
| ul. Hoża 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw
phone: 48-22-5532000 (switchboard), 48-22-5532266,
48-22-6213810
fax: 48-22-6226154
email: ifduw@fuw.edu.pl
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| Director:
| Professor Andrzej Twardowski
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| Deputy Directors:
| Professor Tomasz Matulewicz, Professor Aleksander F. Żarnecki
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The Institute has research programs in various domains of contemporary
physics, from the solid state physics and optics, biophysics and medical
physics, to nuclear physics and the physics of elementary particles and
fundamental interactions. The Division of Physics Education specializes
in the problems of physics teaching and education of physics teachers.
Physicists from the Division of Particles and Fundamental Interactions
take part in experiments in international laboratories for high energy
physics, such as CERN in Geneva and DESY in Hamburg. Large part of the
data analysis is performed in Warsaw. Important parts of complicated
detector systems for high energy experiments have been constructed in
Warsaw.
Physicists from the Nuclear Physics Division and the Division of
Nuclear Spectroscopy for many years performed their experiments in foreign
laboratories. With the opening of Heavy Ions Laboratory in Warsaw the
situation has somewhat improved, opening up the possibilities to perform
some experiments in Warsaw.
Physicists from the Divisions of Solid State Physics, X-Ray and Neutron
Diffraction, and Lattice Structure and Dynamics also
maintain large scale collaboration with the research groups abroad. At the
same time, they have put years of effort to build well equipped research
laboratories (in particular, measurement equipment for the investi-gation
of semiconductor properties in the external magnetic field), which allows
now for advanced research programs at the Institute.
In the Optics Division a high quality equipment for laser spectroscopy,
femto-second laser, and mobile lidar for the investigation of atmospheric
pollution are available. In the Division of Biophysics various
physicochemical methods for the analysis of biological active molecules
are developed.
The activities of the Division of Biomedical Physics concentrate on the
digital methods of data interpretation and modeling of biological
processes important for medical applications.
A close collaboration between the Institute of Experimental Physics and
the Institute of Theoretical Physics is pursued.
The Institute was headed successively by the directors: Stefan Pieńkowski
(1952 - 1953), Jerzy Pniewski (1953 - 1958), Tadeusz Skaliński (1958 -
1962), Jerzy Pniewski (1962 - 1975), Andrzej K. Wróblewski (1975 - 1981),
Marian Grynberg (1981 - 1984), Jacek Baranowski (1984 - 1990), Tomasz
Hofmokl (1990 - 1994), Jan Żylicz (1994 - 2002), Andrzej Twardowski (2002
- ).
Institute of Experimental Physics - Reports 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004 (PDF files)
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