University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Mathematics

Mathematics
ECTS Information Package

Introduction

University of Silesia in Katowice

ADDRESS	PL-40-007 Katowice, Bankowa 12
Tel.:	(+48 32) 599 601
Fax:	+48 32 599 605
E-mail:	DWZ@usl.adm.edu.pl
WWW:	http://www.us.edu.pl

Informations about the University

University of Silesia was established in Katowice in 1968 as the ninth university in Poland. The new university was founded on the basis of Higher School of Pedagogy (Pedagogical University) that existed in Katowice since 1948, and the Branch of the Jagiellonian University. The Branch was founded in 1965 and was preceded by the Study of Mathematics and Physics that Jagiellonian University opened in Katowice two years earlier. At present the University campuses are situated in five towns: Katowice, Sosnowiec, Cieszyn, Chorzów and Jastrzębie Zdrój. The Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry is located in Katowice.

University of Silesia is a state school and comprises ten faculties of Biology and Environmental Protection, Philology, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Education and Psychology, Law and Administration, Radio and Television, Engineering Sciences, and of Pedagogic and Artistic Education. Besides there are eight interfaculty units, i.e. Silesian International Business School, International School of Political Sciences, Business Language College, School of Management, Centre for Studies on the Human and Natural Environment, School of Polish Language and Culture, Interfaculty Individual Study of Arts, Interfaculty Individual Study of Mathematics and Natural Science.

The University employs over 1500 academic staff members, including more than 110 full professors and 250 doctors with habilitation degree. The total enrolment exceeds 35 000 students who follow full-time, evening and external programmes.

Mgr. Agata Wójcik
(Department of foreign Cooperation, Katowice, Bankowa 12)
is the Erasmus Socrates institutional coordinator;
by taking part in this program you'll need the ECTS system.

Admission Procedure

University of Silesia admits the students for the first year of full-time, evening and external studies within the admission limits established by the Senate of the university for particular specializations.
The applicants submit the following documents:

1. a filled in admission questionnaire containing the application and curriculum vitae
2. high school graduation certificate (original or authorized photocopy)
3. four photos 37x52 mm
4. a health certificate confirming the health conditions enabling to undertake the particular study.

• an entrance examination
• high school certificates contest
• or a qualification interview.

Accomodation and health care

The University of Silesia has about 3400 places of accomodation in 13 student residence halls, mostly in double rooms. Depending on the standard, the price varies between 170 and 250 zł per bed and per month. Students of the University are entitled to medical care in the University Health Center (Szkolna 7, in Katowice downtown). The center provides general health care as well as treatment in specialized clinics.

Student clubs

Library

Here is the library's schedule:

Checking out:
Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 6 PM
Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM

Inter-library checking out:
Monday to Friday from 10 AM to 2 PM

Lecture rooms schedule:

General: Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 6 PM, Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM

Mathematics: Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 6 PM, Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry

Address:	PL-40-007 Katowice, Bankowa 14
Tel.:	(+48 32) 584 412 and (+48 32) 587 231, ext. 1615

Informations on the Faculty

Dean:	Dr. Hab. Maciej Sablik, Sil. Univ. Professor
Pro-deans:
Mathematics:	Dr. Hab. Alfred Czogała
Physics:	Dr. Hab. Grażyna Chełkowska , Sil. Univ. Professor
Chemistry:	Dr.  Piotr Kuś
Informatics	Dr. Hab. Marek Siemaszko , Sil. Univ. Professor

In 1968 faculties of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Katowice Branch of the Jagiellonian University, existing since 1963, and of the Katowice Higher Pedagogical School merged to give raise to the present Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at the University of Silesia. Laboratories, teaching facilities and the administration of the Faculty are situated at Bankowa, Uniwersytecka and Szkolna streets. The Faculty comprises three independent institutes, namely the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Physics, and the Institute of Chemistry.

Informations about the Institute of Mathematics

ADDRESS:	PL-40-007 Katowice, Bankowa 14
Tel./fax	(+048 32) 2582 976
E-mail:	im@ux2.math.us.edu.pl
WWW:	http://www.math.us.edu.pl
Chair:	Dr. Hab. Andrzej Sładek, Sil. Univ. Professor
Deputy Chair for Research:	Prof. Dr. Hab. Roman Ger
Deputy Chair for Teaching:	Dr. Marian Podhorodyński

Institute of Mathematics is composed of 14 departments concentrated on different fields of research.
These are:

• Dept. of Algebra and Number Theory
• Dept. of Functional Analysis
• Dept. of Real Analysis
• Dept. of Biomathematics
• Dept. of Didactics of Mathematics
• Dept. of Geometry
• Dept. of Informatics
• Dept. of Mathematical Logic
• Dept. of Discrete Mathematics
• Dept. of Mathematical Methods in Physics
• Dept. of Functional Equations
• Dept. of Differential Equations
• Dept. of Topology
• Dept. of Set Theory.

The Institute employs 80 scholars. Among them there are 10 Full Professors and 15 Doctors with Habilitation degree. The enrolment at full-time and extern studies is about 500 students.

Members of the Institute take part in 30 research programmes and publish several dozens of research, survey and popularizing papers a year in national and foreign journals. The results are presented at numerous conferences and symposia. The Institute maintains strict scientific contacts with many research centers both in Poland and abroad. Annales Mathematicae Silesianae, a scientific journal, is published at the Institute and reviewed by international review journals.

The Institute offers a five years mathematical full-time study as well as a three years licence study which can be completed with two years programme leading to Master of Mathematics degree. Starting form the third year the full-time study is continued in one of the four specializations: informatics, teaching, pure mathematics, and applied mathematics. The extern study follows the programme of the teaching specialization. Finally, a four years PhD Degree programme is also offered by the Institute. The students have at their disposal three well-equipped computer laboratories, a library and a lecture room where they find the most recent issues of the mathematical publications.

Here you can read more detailed description of studies