Dr. Michał Wodczak gave an invited lecture “Resource Management in Cooperative Networking” to PhD students and young researchers attending Training School on Cooperative Communications, organized in Prague, May 21 – 23, 2013, by the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications in the framework of the Program COST IC1004 Action WG3 (Radio Network).

The Department of Information Technology hosted Dr. Benjamin Gâteau, Senior R&D Engineer at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor in Luxembourg. During the visit Dr. Gâteau has been working together with Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski on a common proposal to be submitted in the framework of the POLLUX Program, launched by The National Research Fund (FNR) in Luxembourg and the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) in Poland.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture entitled “Teaching in the age of tablets” to the staff of Polish Scientific Publishers PWN which is the major and most renowned publisher of scientific, educational and professional titles, such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, books etc.

Mr. Daniel Wilusz, PhD student, attended The 4th Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems DoCEIS’13, which took place in Lisbon from Aprli 15 to April 17, 2013. During the conference Mr. Daniel Wilusz presented a paper entitled “The Architecture of Coupon-based, Semi-off-line, Anonymous Micropayment System for Internet of Things” (authors: Rykowski, J., D. Wilusz).

Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture entlitled “e-Privacy” to participants of The 10th Conference of High School Network Administrators which was held in Nowy Tomyśl near Poznań. The main topic of the conference was e-Education as a chance to improve teaching quality.