CURRICULUM VITAE 

Prof. dr hab. Pawel Nurowski

Center for Theoretical Physics
Polish Academy of Sciences
Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warszawa, PL

E-Mail: nurowski@fuw.edu.pl
Home page: http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski

QUALIFICATIONS

* 2012 -	Professor of Physics Title, granted by the President of the Republic of Poland.
* 2006 -	Habilitation, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland.
* 1993 -	Doctor Philosophiae in Mathematical Physics (equivalent to the Italian title of Dottore di Ricerca in Matematica), SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
* 1991 -	Magister Philosophiae in Mathematical Physics, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
* 1987 -	Master's Degree in Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland.
* 1982 -	Matura, Hugo Kołłątaj Liceum, Warszawa, Poland.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2012-now	Professor of Physics, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland.
1997-2012	Associate Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland.
1997-1998	Post-Doc, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Universita degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
1995-1997	Asistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland.
1994-1995	Post-Doc, Mathematical Physics Sector, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

CONFERENCES (CO)ORGANIZED

• The 1st Conference of Polish Society on Relativity 29 June­4 July, 2014, Spała; member of the Local Organizing Committee
• Vector Distributions and Related Geometries, conference, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, 1­7 June, 2014, Warszawa; one of the four organizers
• Geometry of Projective Structures and Differential Equations, 24 ­ 29 March, 2014, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warszawa, Research group, 24 ­ 29 March, Warszawa; one of the two organizers
• XXth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, 2013, Warszawa, Poland; member of the Local Organizing Committee
• XIIIth Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden; member of the International Coordinating Committee
• General Relativity and Gravitation - 50 years after Jablonna, 2012, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warszawa, member of the Organizing Comittee
• Road to reality with Roger Penrose, 2010, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warszawa, member of the Organizing Comittee
• XIIth Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2009, Paris, France; member of the International Coordinating Committee
• Geometry of ODEs and vector distributions, 2009, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warszawa, one of the three main organizers
• Myron Mathisson: his life, work, and influence on current research, 2007, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warszawa, one of the three main organizers
• XIth Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2006, Berlin, Germany; member of the International Coordinating Committee
• Xth Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; member of the International Coordinating Committee
• Workshop on Canonical and Quantum Gravity III and Ted Newman's 70th Birthday, 2001, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warszawa, member of the Organizing Comittee
• Workshop ``Complex and Twistorial Methods in General Relativity'' at IXth Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2000, Rome, Italy, the coordiantor of the workshop
• IXth Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2000, Rome, Italy; memember of the International Coordinating Committee
• ESI program on Spaces of Geodesics and Complex Structures in General Relativity and Differential Geometry, 1997 and 1999, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria; one of the three organizers  

SELECTED TALKS

• The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and the Penrose Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Colloquium talk at CIMAT, Centro de Investigacion en Mathematicas, A. C., Guanajuato, Mexico, 25 February 2015
• On a certain singular Pfaffian system in dimension six, Edouard Cech Institute Differential Geometry and Physics Conference, Trest, Czech Republic, 23­25 October 2014
• Hunting for a G 2 snake, International Meeting on Lorentzian and Conformal Geometry, Alfried Krupp Wissennschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany, 18­21 March 2014
• Gravitational slingshot and space mission design, Colloquium talk at CIMAT, Centro de Investigacion en Mathematicas, A. C., Guanajuato, Mexico, 26 February, 2014
• On geometry of simple nonholonomic systems , series of invited lectures at CIMAT, Centro de Investigacion en Mathematicas, A. C., Guanajuato, Mexico, 13­27 February, 2014
• Lagrange solution for 3­body problem and beyond , talk at the Differential Geometry Seminar, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 8 November,2013
• Ring­type structures on Cosmic Microwave Background maps, colloquium talk at the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Mt Stromlo, Australia, 7 November 2013
• MSI Friends and Alumni public talk: `Gravitational slingshot and space mission design',Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 31 October, 2013, http://maths.anu.edu.au/events/msi­friends­and­alumni­gravitational­slingshot­and­space­mission­design
• On exceptional contact geometries, talk at the Differential Geometry Seminar, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 25 October, 2013
• Twistor space for rolling bodies, plenary talk at the "XXII International Conference on Geometry and Physics" University of Evora, Evora, Portugal, 2­5 September, 2013.
• Split signature 4­dimensional metrics, real totally null planes and (2,3,5) distributions, plenary talk at the workshop "The Interaction of Geometry and Representation Theory. Exploring new frontiers" International Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Wien, 3­14 September, 2012
• More explicit Fefferman-Graham metrics with exceptional G<sub>2</sub> holonomy, plenary talk at the workshop ``Conformal and CR geometry'', Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada, 29 July-3August, 2012.
• An analog of selfduality in dimension nine, plenary talk at the workshop: "Cartan Connections, Geometry of Homogeneous Spaces, and Dynamics", International Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Wien, 11-15 July, 2011
• An analog of selfduality in dimension nine, plenary talk at the conference "Differential Geometry and Tanaka Theory", Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, 24-28 June, 2011
• The exceptional Lie group G<sub>2</sub> and rolling balls, colloquium talk at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, February, 2010
• The exceptional Lie group G<sub>2</sub> and rolling balls, talk at the Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, January, 2010
• Conformal geometry of differential equations, plenary talk at the "Mini-Workshop on Conformal Geometry and PDE/ODE", Institut fur Geometrie und Topologie, University of Stuttgart,Stuttgart, Germany, August, 2009
• Differential equations and conformal structures, plenary talk at the "Turin differential geometry day", Universita degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, July, 2009
• Para-CR structures and differential equations, plenary talk at the "Workshop on geometric structures and equivalence problems", Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea, April, 2009
• Conformal geometry of differential equations, talk at the "Geometric PDE seminar", Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, December, 2008
• GL(2,R) geometry of ODEs, plenary talk at the University of Hamburg workshop "Holonomy groups and applications in string theory", Hamburg, Germany, July, 2008
• GL(2,R) geometry of ODEs, plenary conference talk at the MSRI workshop "Exterior differential systems and the method of equivalence", MSRI, Berkeley, USA, May 2008
• GL(2,R) geometry of 5th order ODEs, plenary conference talk at `Recent advances in differential geometry', Universita' del Salento , Lecce, Italy, June 2007
• Differential equations and conformal structures, plenary conference talk at `International Workshop on geometry of vector distributions, differential equations and variational problems', SISSA, Trieste, Italy, December 2006
• Differential equations and conformal structures, plenary conference talk at Workshop at 2006 IMA Summer Program "Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations", Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, Minneapolis, USA, July 2006
• Distinguished dimensions for special Riemannian geometries, plenary conference talk at Workshop on `Special geometries in Mathematical Physics', Kuehlungsborn, Germany, March 2006
• 3-dimensional CR structures and 2nd order ODEs, plenary conference talk at `Geometry in Nara', Department of Mathematics, Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan, October 2005
• Differential Equations and conformal Geometry, plenary talk at the RIMS Symposium "Developments of Cartan Geometry and Related Mathematical Problems", RIMS, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, October 2005
• Differential Equations and Conformal Structures, invited lecture course, Mathematical Physics/Control Theory Sectors, SISSA, Trieste, Italy, February 2005
• Differential Equations and Conformal Structures, plenary talk at the IXth International Conference on Differential Geometry, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2004.
• Analogies Between 2nd Order ODEs and CR Structures, plenary talk at Miniconference 'The Differential Geometry of Differential Equations', University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, January 2003
• Differential equations, conformal Lorentzian geometry and Cartan's normal conformal connections, plenary talk at the conference `Topics in Mathematical Physics, General Relativity and Cosmology on the Occasion of the 75th Birthday of Jerzy F. Plebanski', Mexico City, Mexico, September 2002
• Robinson manifolds as the Lorentzian analogs of Hermite manifolds, coauthor of the plenary talk by Andrzej Trautman at the 8th International Conference on Differential Geometry and its Applications, Opava, Czech Republic, August 2001
• Differential geometry of 3rd order ODEs, plenary talk at the Workshop on Canonical and Quantum Gravity III, International Banach Center for Mathematics, Warsaw, May 2001
• Cartan's method of equivalence and it's application to general relativity, invited series of lectures, Centro de Mathematica Aplicada, University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal, September 1997

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