The Patent Office of the Republic of Poland granted a patent for the team of IPPT: prof. Tomasz A. Kowalewski, Diana Lamparska, Krzysztof Zembrzycki and Tomasz Kowalczyk, Ph.D. The invention "Method of producing mats of nanofibers" refers to a new method of forming membranes of electrospun nanofibers used rotating surface of the water as a collector nanofibers.

We are pleased to announce a monograph "Why must we work in the phase space?" (IPPT Reports 1/2016) by Jan J. Sławianowski, Frank E. Schroeck Jr., Agnieszka Martens. The authors are going to prove that the phase-space description is fundamental both in the classical and quantum physics.

On August 23, 2016, the General Assembly of International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) has elected Professor Henryk Petryk the Secretary General.

The 40th Solid Mechanics Confrence SolMech 2016 organized by our Institute took place from August 30 to September 2, 2016.

IPPT PAN has been nominated as the organizer of the prestigious International Conference on Experimental Mechanics ICEM19 to be held in 2020 in Cracow.

Professor Zbigniew Kowalewski has been nominated as the vice-president of the Council of the European Society for Experimental Mechanics on July 5th, 2016.