Piotr Szymczak

Institute of Theoretical Physics
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University
Hoza 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland
telephone: (+48 22) 55 32 256
fax: (+48 22) 621 94 75
email: piotrek[at]fuw.edu.pl

 

Research

My research focuses on complex systems involving many degrees of freedom in which collective interactions give rise to a rich zoology of physical phenomena. Besides the theoretical analysis, an important tool in tackling these problems are numerical simulations.

 

Current research topics include:

 

nonequilibrium growth processes, in particular dissolution in porous media and rock fractures

 

 

 

 

mechanical properties of protein molecules

 

 

 

 

dynamics of colloidal suspensions

 

List of publications

 

Recent publications

P. Szymczak, H. Janovjak, Periodic forces trigger a complex mechanical response in ubiquitin, J. Mol. Biol., 390, 443, 2009 [pdf] (featured on the cover)

P. Szymczak, A. J. C. Ladd, Wormhole formation in dissolving fractures, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B06203, 2009 [pdf]

J. Sułkowska, P. Sułkowski, P. Szymczak, M. Cieplak, Stabilizing effect of knots on proteins, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 19714, 2008 [pdf]

(Press Coverage)

 

Popular science articles (in Polish)

 

Teaching

  • Tematy prac magisterskich w naszej Katedrze
  • Mechanika Ośrodków Ciągłych 2009/2010 (ćwiczenia)
  • Computer Simulations in Soft Matter Physics 2008/2009
  • Mechanika Ośrodków Ciągłych 2008/2009 (ćwiczenia)
  • Fizyka Statystyczna 2005/2006
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