Curriculum Vitae
(a version in Polish
is also available)
Given name: Paweł
Family name: Pilarczyk
Year of birth: 1973
Country of birth: Poland
Education
1992 - high school finals in the 5th High School in Kraków -
a class with mathematical profile taught by academic teachers
(note: participant of the final stage of the Polish Mathematical
Olympiade in 1990)
1997 - M.Sc. in mathematics at the Jagiellonian University
(a diploma with distinction); master thesis:
Connection Matrices for Morse Decompositions (in Polish);
supervisor: Professor Roman Srzednicki
1999 - M.Sc. in computer science at the Jagiellonian University
(a diploma with distinction); master thesis:
Homology Computation of Chain Complexes and Cubical Sets
(in Polish);
supervisor:
Professor Marian Mrozek
2001 - PhD in mathematics (specialization: computer science)
at the Jagiellonian University; advisor:
Professor Marian Mrozek;
PhD dissertation: A Topological Algorithm
for Rigorous Verification of the Existence of Periodic Trajectories
(in Polish)
Spoken foreign languages:
- English: fluent - Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
(reference no. 00CPL0018007) and 3 years spent in the U.S.A.
- German: elementary (I completed 2 years of an elementary course)
- Russian: basic (I know as little as I was taught at school)
- Hebrew: good (in fact, it was good in 1991,
but now I have already forgotten a lot)
- Japanese: minimal (hiragana and katakana + epsilon)
Programming languages (and what I use them for):
- Object Oriented C++ - my main tool in the development
of my scientific software using advanced programming techniques,
including generic programming
- ANSI C - extensively used by myself in the past; now I shifted to C++
- Perl - often used for writing quick scripts which are supplementary
to my scientific software
- Python - used for teaching and for a nice GUI front-end
to the CHomP programs
- PHP - my main tool for programming websites,
including CHomP and my personal website
- (X)HTML - used in website design
- Assembler for x86 - some hobbyist programs written while exploring
the structure of my home PC and DOS
- Pascal - sample programs written during my MSc course in computer science
- Java - used mainly for teaching purposes
- JavaScript - used mainly for teaching purposes or for simple additions
to my websites
- Basic - the first programming language I came across
Scholarships and Fellowships
1993-1999 - each year: a scholarship for good achievements
during the degree course in mathematics (1993-1997)
and computer science (1997-1999)
1997-1999 - Ph.D. scholarship
2006-2007 - a fellowship awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science to conduct research in Japan for a period of 13 months
Employment
1999-2006 - research and teaching assistant at the Institute of
Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland),
in the Chair of Numerical Methods
2001-2003, 2005-2006 - Visiting Assistant Professor
at the School of Mathematics of Georgia Institute
of Technology (GaTech) in Atlanta (USA)
2008-present - researcher in algebraic topology
at the Centre of Mathematics of the University of Minho
in Braga (Portugal)
Research Grants
1998-2000 - participant of the research grant directed by
Professor Marian Mrozek;
title: Topological Methods in Computer-Assisted Proofs
in the Theory of Dynamical Systems (grant no.: 2 P03A 029 12)
2000-2003 - contractor in the research grant directed by
Professor Marian Mrozek;
title: Topological Methods in Rigorous Computational Dynamics
(grant no.: 2 P03A 011 18)
2001-2002 - main contractor of the advised Ph.D. grant
entitled Topological Algorithm for Rigorous Verification
of the Existence of Periodic Trajectories (advisor:
Professor Marian Mrozek,
grant no.: 5 P03A 039 20)
2003-2006 - contractor in the research grant directed by
Professor Marian Mrozek;
title: Computational Topology and Dynamics
(grant no.: 2 P03A 041 24)
2006-2007 - Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 1434055),
Ministry of Education, Science, Technology, Culture and Sports, Japan.
Research Activities
since 2002 - participant of the
Computational
Homology Project
since 2000 - member of the
Computer
Assisted Proofs in Dynamics group
Hobbies
Hiking, cycling, Alpine skiing.
Photography, classical music.
Conferences, Talks and Visits
1996 - participant of the international conference
Topological Methods in Differential Equations
and Dynamical Systems in Kraków
1996 - awarded Second Prize in the Third International
Competition in Mathematics for Students which took place
in Plovdiv in Bulgaria
1997 - participant of the international Workshop on the
Conley Index and Related Topics in Warsaw
1998 - participant of the workshop Topological Methods
in Nonlinear Analysis in the Interational Stefan Banach Center
in Warsaw
1999 - participant of the conference Equadiff 99 in Berlin
and a contributed talk Computer Assisted Proof
of the Existence of a Periodic Orbit in the Rössler Equations
2000 - one-month-long visit to the Georgia Institute
of Technology in Atlanta, U.S.A. -
invited by
Professor Konstantin Mischaikow
2000 - a talk at the seminar of School of Mathematics
at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, U.S.A.
2001 - participant of the Second Gilles Fournier Memorial
Conference at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada
2001 - participant of the Second Workshop on the Conley Index
and Related Topics at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada
and a contributed talk Periodic Trajectories
in the Rössler and Lorenz Equations
2001 - participant of the Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting
at the University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A.
2001 - a series of three talks on the paper Bounded Recurrence
of Critical Points and Jakobson's Theorem by Stefano Luzzato
(Chapter 5: Distortion and Recurrence Bounds) at a working seminar
lead by H. Kokubu and K. Mischaikow at the Georgia Institute
of Technology in Atlanta, U.S.A.
2002 - a talk Rigorous Numerics for Attracting Periodic
Trajectories in ODEs given at the Joint Seminar on Dynamical Systems
and Nonlinear Analysis at Kyoto University in Japan
2002 - participant of the Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting
at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, U.S.A.
2002 - a talk Algorithmic approach to rigorous verification
of the existence of periodic solutions to ODEs given at
Seminaire d'analyse et sujets connexes at the University of Sherbrooke
in Canada
2002 - a one-week-long visit to Brown University in Providence,
RI, U.S.A., and a talk Combinatorial Approach to ODEs
given at a seminar of the Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems
2002 - a talk Topological-Numerical Approach
to the Existence of Periodic Trajectories in ODEs
given at The Fourth International Conference
on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations
at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, U.S.A.
2002 - participant of the conference on Geometric Theory
of Dynamical Systems at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland
2002 - participant of the conference on New Directions
in Dynamical Systems at Ryukoku University and Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan
2002 - participant of the Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting
at the University of Cincinnati, U.S.A.
2003 - a talk Algorithmic Homology Computation as a Tool
in Dynamics at the Maryland-Penn State Workshop
on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics
at the University of Maryland at College Park, U.S.A.
2003 - participant of the Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting
at the Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, U.S.A.
2003 - a talk Automatic Computation of the Conley Index.
A Cubical Approach at the Fourth International Conference
on Dynamic Systems and Differential Equations
at the Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
2003 - a talk Algorithmic Homology Computation
and the Conley Index at the Conference on Dynamical Systems
at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX, U.S.A.
2004 - a one-week-long visit to Osaka University, Japan -
invited by Professor Toshiyuki Ogawa
2004 - a series of two talks on Cubical Homology
and its Automatic Computation at Osaka University, Japan
2004 - participant of the Kyoto Dynamics Days
held at Kyoto University, Japan
2004 - a talk Cubical Approach to the Computation of the Homology
of Continuous Maps at the Workshop on Dynamics and Computations
in the Shonan International Center in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2004 - a talk Computer-Assisted Topological Methods
in Dynamical Systems at the School on Dynamical Systems
in Bedlewo, Poland
2005 - participant of the School on Dynamical Systems
in Bedlewo, Poland
2005 - participant of the 16th Fall meeting of the
Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics
at the Penn State University in State College, PA, U.S.A.
2005 - participant of the Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar
at the Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, U.S.A.
2006 - a talk Computational Homology Project
at the Computational Homology Tutorial Session
of the Computational Homology and Materials Science Workshop
at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
2006 - participant of the Maryland-Penn State Workshop
on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics
at the University of Maryland at College Park, U.S.A.
2006 - a presentation of the Computational Homology Project
software at the international conference Dynamics, Topology
and Computations in Bedlewo, Poland
2006 - a talk Cubical Index Pairs and the Excision Property
at the international conference Dynamics, Topology and Computations
in Bedlewo, Poland
2006 - a talk An Automated Method for the Analysis
of a Multi-Parameter Family of Dynamical Systems at the
Sixth International Conference on Dynamical Systems
and Differential Equations in Poitiers, France
2006 - a talk Automatic Homology Computation with Application
to Pattern Classification at the RIMS Symposium
on Pattern Formation Problems in Dissipative Systems
in Kyoto, Japan
2006 - a talk Algorithmic Approach to the Computation
of Homology of Spaces and Maps at the Colloquium
of the Department of Mathematics of Kyoto University, Japan
2006 - a series of two talks Algorithms and Software
for the Cubical Homology Computation at Hokkaido University
in Sapporo, Japan
2006 - a talk Computing the Homology of Cubical Sets and Maps
at the workshop Topology and Computers 2006 in Osaka, Japan
2006 - a talk Computational Dynamics and Cubical Homology
at the Kyoto Interdisciplinary Dynamics Seminar (KIDS) at Kyoto Uniersity,
Kyoto, Japan
2007 - a talk A Computer Assisted Approach to the Continuation
of Morse Decompositions at the Winter Dynamical Systems Workshop
at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Tokyo,
Japan
2007 - a talk Continuation of Morse Decompositions -
an Algorithmic Approach
at the international Workshop on Topological and Computational
Approaches to Dynamical Systems and Applications
at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan
2007 - a visit to Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan (10 days),
and participation in the international conference in honor of
Y. Pesin and Y. Takahashi on their 60th birthdays:
Dynamics of Complex Systems - Mathematical Modeling, Method
and Prediction
2007 - a talk Computational Homology Project at the
4th workshop Mathematical Software and Free Documents
at Saitama University near Tokyo, Japan
2007 - a visit to Rutgers University in New Brunswick (7 days),
NJ, U.S.A., and a talk Combinatorial Analysis of Dynamical Systems
at the Nonlinear Analysis and PDEs Seminar
2007 - a talk Computational Approach to Algebraic Topology:
Cubical Homology at the Dynamical Systems Seminar
at the National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Math. Division,
of the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan
2007 - a talk Combinatorial Approach to Dynamics
and Morse Decompositions (invited speaker)
at the NCTS Workshop on Dynamical Systems
held at the National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2007 - a talk Automated Analysis of Dynamical Systems
with the Use of Graph Algorithms at the seminar of the
Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan
2007 - a talk Computational Homology Project (invited speaker)
at the 16th Meeting of the Japan Society for Symbolic
and Algebraic Computation in Kurashiki, Japan
2007 - a talk Computer Assisted Analysis of Global Dynamics
via Morse Decompositions at the RIMS Workshop
on New Trends of Dynamical Systems and its Applications in Kyoto, Japan
2007 - a talk The CHomP Software Advanced Features
at the JSIAM Summer Seminar on Applied Mathematics
"Computational Homology: Theory and Applications"
held at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan
2007 - a talk Automatic Topological-Combinatorial Analysis of
Global Dynamics at the seminar on dynamical systems at the
Mathematics Department of Porto University, Portugal
2008 - a talk Quantitative hyperbolicity estimates
in one-dimensional dynamics
at the International Workshop on Computer Assisted Proofs
in Nonlinear Dynamics at Imperial College in London, United Kingdom
2008 - a visit to the Mathematics Department
of Bergen University in Norway (5 days)
and a talk Cataloguing global dynamics
in multi-parameter systems at the Computer-Aided Proofs
in Analysis (CAPA) seminar
2008 - a talk Databases for the global dynamics
of multi-parameter systems at the Computational Topology
and Dynamics Workshop at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT, U.S.A.
2008 - a talk Computational-topological approach
to the classification of global dynamics of multi-parameter systems
at the international conference Dynamics & Applications
at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal
2008 - a 1-month-long research visit to the Department of Mathematics
of Kyoto University, Japan
2008 - a short communication Automatic classification
of global dynamics of multi-parameter systems
at the RIMS workshop New Development in the Study of
Dynamical Systems beyond Uniform Hyperbolicity
at the Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto, Japan
2008 - a talk The Computational Homology Project (CHomP)
and its software for mathematical computing
at the First Global COE Seminar
on Mathematical Research Using Computers
at the Department of Mathematics of Kyoto University, Japan
2008 - a talk The Computational Homology Project (CHomP)
and its software for the digital image analysis
(invited speaker) at the international workshop
Computational Algebraic Topology within Image Context
at the Department of Applied Mathematics I
of the University of Seville, Spain
Teaching Experience
Computational Algebraic Topology (TAO, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Marian Mrozek:
1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2003/04
Algorithmic Theory of Dynamical Systems (AUD, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Marian Mrozek:
1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2003/04
Mathematics (short course) in the Institute of Biology (45 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Antoni Dawidowicz:
1997/98, 1998/99
Numerical Methods of Algebra (MNA, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Janusz Traple:
1999/2000 (2 sections), 2000/01
Mathematical Analysis 1 (AM1, 60 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Marek Pałasiński:
1999/2000, 2000/01
Classical Partial Differential Equations (RCK, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Stanisław Sędziwy:
2000/01
Variational Equations (RW, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Stanisław Migórski:
2000/01
Theory of Programming (TP, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Marek Zaionc:
2000/01
Calculus III for Computer Science (Math 2601, 42 hours)
- a course at Georgia Tech: Fall 2001
Introduction to Linear Algebra for Calculus
(Math 1522, 42 hours) - a course at Georgia Tech: Spring 2002,
Fall 2002 (2 sections)
Programming (P, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Marian Mrozek:
2003/04 (2 sections)
Programming 1 (P1, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Marian Mrozek:
2003/04 (3 sections), 2004/05 (2 sections)
Programming 2 (P2, 30 hours)
- recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Marian Mrozek:
2004/05 (2 sections in Fall, 2 sections in Spring)
Algorithms of Homological Algebra and Cubical Sets
(AAH, 30 hours) - recitation classes to a lecture by Professor Marian Mrozek:
2004/05
Differential Equations (Math 2403, 42 hours)
- a course at Georgia Tech: Fall 2005, Spring 2006