Imagine Cup 2011: Game Design - Web Competition.  AMU team best 

25th France International Championship of Mathematics & Logic in Paris. Gold medal for AMU student Łukasz Kalinowski

Google Online Marketing Challenge 2011. Two AMU student teams in Europe Top 5 and one more in Europe Top 15 

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Prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant. Quantum resources: conceptuals and applications (QOLAPS)

Protein structure that could help in war on HIV

IUPAC World Chemistry Congress.  Prof. Izabela Nowak distinguished 

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11th European Universities Basketball Championship. Silver medal for AMU women's basketball team 

STUDENTEURO 2011 football games. AMU football team best

8th European Universities Tennis Championship. Bronze medal for AMU men's team 

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AMU team won the Game Design - Web Competition in Imagine Cup 2011
Two teams of AMU students (Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science) were finalists in Imagine Cup 2011.

AMU CellarDoor team - Aleksandra Łukasiak, Krzysztof Żarczyński (3rd year), Oskar Szulc (2nd year) and Rafał Szekalski (2nd year), won the Game Design - Web Competition.
To see the presentation of their game The Book of Elm click here

In the Interoperability Challenge Competition, AMU DemosceneSpirit - Łukasz Michniewicz, Szymon Majewski, Marek Banaszak, Magdalena Dudarska - came third. To see the DemosceneSpirit entry click here

The mentor of both teams is Tomasz Gdala, MSc. The Worldwide Finals were held in New York City, USA from July 8-13, 2011. About Imagine Cup

AMU student Łukasz Kalinowski won gold medal at 25th France International Championship of Mathematics & Logic in Paris
In the world finals, which took place on 26 and 27 August, Poles won 5 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals. Among gold medal winners were two primary school students - Piotr Kępczyński from Warsaw and Maria Horodecka from Gdynia, a secondary school student - Grzegorz Adamski from Szamotuły, a high school student - Kamil Dębowski from Suwalki and a student from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań - Łukasz Kalinowski.
Polish contestants brought as many as 12 medals - more than any other team.

Google Online Marketing Challenge 2011. Two AMU student teams in Europe Top 5 and one more in Europe Top 15 
Members of our three teams were students of Applied Computing, AMU Faculty of Physics and students of Technical Applications of the Internet - a course run jointly by AMU, Poznań University of Economics and Poznań University of Technology. The three teams were taught by Dr Wojciech Czart. AMU teams take part in the Challenge since 2009. To learn more click here and here.

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Protein structure that could help in war on HIV
Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2011) by Firas Khatib, Frank DiMaio, Foldit Contenders Group, Foldit Void Crushers Group, Seth Cooper, Maciej Kazmierczyk, Miroslaw Gilski, Szymon Krzywda, Helena Zabranska, Iva Pichova, James Thompson, Zoran Popović, Mariusz Jaskolski & David Baker
The underlined co-authors are members of AMU Department of Crystallography, Faculty of Chemistry. >>> Read the paper. FOLDIT involvement >>> More

IUPAC World Chemistry Congress. Prof. Izabela Nowak distinguished
Professor Izabela Nowak, AMU Faculty of Chemistry, was among 23 women scientists worldwide who received the Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award at the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress during a symposium entitled “Are women still underrepresented in science?” on 2 August in Puerto Rico.

Prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant. Quantum resources: conceptuals and applications (QOLAPS)
AMU Faculty of Physics joins the research team led by Prof. Ryszard Horodecki (University of Gdańsk)

The studies of quantum resources - entanglement (E) and non-locality (NL) carried out over the last decade have broadened horizons of our conceptual understanding of Nature and at the same time opened unprecedented possibilities for practical applications.
The project aims at taking advantage of the most recent discoveries to understand the ultimate power and find novel applications of these resources. The main objectives are: E) to study novel entanglement-induced non-additivity effects in quantum communication and application of mixed state entanglement to quantum metrology NL) to recognize the influence of information causality on the power of quantum non-locality and verify the power of non-locality, and more generally contextuality for quantum computational speed-up. In particular, it is planned: E) to find new non-additivities by providing explicit constructions of bipartite channels, broadcast channels and quantum networks; to demonstrate experimentally non-additivity effects; to provide experimentally friendly entanglement measures in quantum networks; to analyse entanglement-enhanced metrology in presence of decoherence NL) to determine to what extent information-causality reproduces quantum mechanics; to generalize information causality to multipartite systems; to provide new fundamental information-theoretical principles behind quantum mechanics; to quantify and classify contextuality; to design and analyse multiparty non-local systems independently of quantum mechanics; to verify their usefulness for communication and computational tasks.
We shall extensively exploit multiple interrelations between these two aspects of quantum physics. The results of theoretical investigations will be implemented in labs by experimental partners. In particular, we plan pioneering implementations of quantum channel non-additivity effects. The proposed research lines will bring ground-breaking results for quantum information processing.
Established in 2007, the European Research Council is the first pan-European agency financially supporting the so-called "frontier research" (pioneering, cognitive research, leading to fundamental discoveries, breakthrough results.)Research project partners:
University of Gdańsk
Centre for Theoretical Physics PAS
Gdansk University of Technology
Adam Mickiewicz University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Stockholm Universitet

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SPORTS

11th European Universities Basketball Championship. Silver medal for  AMU women's basketball team The 11th European Universities Basketball Championship was held in Córdoba, Spain, between 13th and 20th of July 2011. The tournament hosted 18 male teams and 12 female teams, representing 29 universities from 17 different countries. In the women's competition, the Russian State Agricultural University (Russia) won the gold medal and our team won silver. Bronze medal went to the University of Mainz (Germany).

AMU football team won STUDENTEURO 2011
On 13 September 2011, in Warsaw, AMU student football team won EUROSTUDENT 2011. The Polish-Ukrainian student football tournament accompanied EURO 2012 preparations. The first round took place in Ukraine. Maciej Schober (AMU) was distinguished as the tournament best player.

8th European Universities Tennis Championship. Bronze medal for AMU men's team
The 8th European Universities Tennis Championship was organised in St Gallen, Switzerland between September 4 and 10, 2011. In the men's tournament the French team of the University of Poitiers won the title with a 2:0 victory against Moscow MESI. Adam Mickiewicz University team won 2:1 against the University of Hamburg and took the bronze medal.