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Summer internships in IGG

01-06-2021

The Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics presents a proposal of summer internships for students. The internships duration is three months. The titles and topics of the internships are in the appendix. The deadline for submitting applications is June 15, 2021. Please contact the tutors of individual internships directly (e-mail).

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Scientists from UPWr and ESA have solved Einstein’s puzzle resulting from general relativity

28-03-2021

Although Einstein’s general theory of relativity is over 100 years old, it still contains a plethora of as yet undescribed phenomena. Scientists from the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics (IGG UPWr) together with representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA) have published an article that comprehensively describes what happens with artificial satellites orbiting the Earth and how the theory of general relativity affects the orbits of satellites. The authors discovered some unexpected effects and predictions that have never been described in the literature before. Prof. Krzysztof Sośnica presented results from this study in October 2020 and in March 2021 at the meeting of the GNSS Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Space Agency (GSAC) as part of a special invited paper, which triggered a heated discussion. Now, these results have been published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy by Springer Nature.


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Prof. Andrzej Borkowski, Director of the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, passed away

13-03-2021

After a long struggle with a serious illness, Prof. Andrzej Borkowski, Director of the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, passed away 13.03.2021 at the age of 61.

He was a member of the UPWr Senate, a member of the International Association of Geodesy and the Geodesy Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a correspondent member of the German Commission of Geodesy at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He was our colleague, friend and mentor.

He was the supervisor of 9 doctoral dissertations, author or co-author of 220 scientific articles and conference reports, a person endowed with outstanding mathematical talent and an unusual sense of humor. A person who is absolutely honest and devoted to scientific work.

Integrated movement science - new research field

05-03-2021

An international group of scientists, including researchers from the SpaceOs Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, lead by Dr. Urška Demšar from the University of St Andrews, published an article in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science entitled "Establishing the integrated science of movement: bringing together concepts and methods from animal and human movement analysis" . The aim of the paper is to unify the two fields of science - human and animal mobility analysis, identifying similarities and differences between them.

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IGG and SpaceOs seminars shedule for summer semester 2021 is ready

01-03-2021

Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics and Leading Research Group SpaceOs, cordially invites to our summer semester seminar series. Events will be held on selected Wednesdays 1PM (Warsaw time) using Google Meet platform.

Detailed programme can be found below (with respective links to the meetings):

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