On January 12, 2023, a meeting of the Board of Directors of Scientific Units of the Polish Academy of Sciences was held. It is a twelve-member advisory body to the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences selected from among the directors of seventy PAS institutes in matters related to the activities of scientific units of the Academy. For the 2023-2026 term, Prof. Dr. hab. Zbigniew Trybuła was appointed again.

The chairman of the Council was Prof. Dr. hab. Eng. Tadeusz Burczyński (Real Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research PAS) and vice-chairmen: Dr. hab. Celina Nowak (Director of the Institute of Legal Sciences PAS) and Prof. Dr. hab. Cezary Sławiński (Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Agrophysics PAS).

During the general meeting of the members of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Physical Society (PPS), which took place on December 13, Assoc. Prof. DSc. PhD. Andrzej Łapiński was elected President of the Management Board for the years 2023-2024. On behalf of the Institute of Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the new Management Board also included Prof. DSc. PhD. Zbigniew Trybuła (member) and PhD. Eng. Paweł Ławniczak (treasurer).

We congratulate Professor Andrzej Łapiński, as well the other distinguished persons, and wish them fruitful work in the Poznań Branch of PPS.

On October 20-25, a "hydrogen town" was created in the largest cities of Greater Poland Voivodeship (Konin, Kalisz, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Leszno, Piła, Poznań), as an initiative of the Self-Government of the Greater Poland region to popularize hydrogen matter and promote current hydrogen solutions and technologies. The event was actively attended by representatives of IMP PAS (Dr. hab. Adam Rachocki, Assoc. Prof. - Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs, Dr. Eng. Łukasz Lindner, Dr. Eng. Paweł Ławniczak, and M. Sc. Eng. Mateusz Wachowiak).

Instytut Fizyki Molekularnej Polskiej Akademii Nauk zaprasza na wykład pt. Gromadzenie wodoru dla celów transportowych: mity i rzeczywistość, który wygłosi prof. dr hab. Lucyna Firlej (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb Université de Montpellier, France).

Wykład odbędzie się w auli Instytutu Fizyki Molekularnej PAN, dnia 26 października 2022 roku o godzinie 13:00.

This year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics are Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for pioneering research into the entangled quantum states underlying quantum computing. The work of the winners was used, among others, for building quantum computers, performing quantum teleportation, or in quantum cryptographic methods.