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 Date of birth: February 14th, 1963 Place of birth: Warszawa, Poland Citizenship: Polish Marital status: married Knowledge of foreign languages: English, Italian, Russian, French

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

2020-now	Visiting Professor of Mathematics, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou, China.
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

SELECTED TALKS

• Exceptional simple Lie algebras f4 and e6, accidental CR structures and the triality (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/f4_e6_sissa_04092023.pdf) at the `Geometric structures seminar' SISSA, 4.09.2023 in Trieste.
• Decaphonic piano: its mathematics, physics and sound (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/zapytaj/dekaphonic_final.pdf); A public talk at Warsaw University Physics Department's Ask a Physicist Series. The talk was a part of the Conference GRIEG meets Chopin, which had place in Warsaw between 10-14.07.2023, and was a preparation for the Concert of Leszek Mozdzer introducing the acoustic decaphonic piano which I helped to design.
• Exceptional real Lie algebras f4 and e6 via contactifications (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/seminarium_sophus_lie_14.02.2023.pdf), Sophus Lie seminar of Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway, 14.02.2023.
• Poincare-Einstein approach to Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/Robin.pdf)' Robin Graham's 60th Birthday Conference: Conformal Geometry, Analysis, and Physics, Seattle, USA, 14.06.2022.
• Simple models in Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/relativity_jan_2021_enhanced.pdf); Warsaw University Relativity Seminar, Warsaw, 29.01.2021, and at the International Meeting on Lorentzian Geometry, Cordoba, Spain, February 2021.
• Before the Big Bang? Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Guangdong Technion version (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/gtiit_16.04.21_colloquium.pdf) , or Nara Women's University version (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/nara_public.pdf); Shantou, China in 2020, and Nara, Japan, in 2022.
• Minicourse on Conformal Cyclic Cosmology Part I (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/conformal_universe_intro.pdf) , Part II (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/conformal_universe_part2.pdf) , Part III (https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~nurowski/prace/conformal_universe_part3.pdf), GRIEG seminar, Center for Theoretical Physics, PAS in 2020/2021 .
• The parabolic geometry of a car, The Abel Symposium 2019, Geometry, Lie Theory and Applications, Alesund, Norway, 25.06.2019.
• Center for Mathematical Sciences Special Lecture Series `Geometric Structures in Nonholonomic Mechanics', Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 12-15.11.2018
• Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture `How the green light was given for gravitational wave search', Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzatti, Trieste, Italy, 13.12.2017
• Exceptional simple Lie group G2 and non-holonomic mechanics, invited lecture at the conference `Physics across the Baltic Sea, Polish-Swedish weekend conference' Gdańsk, Poland, 4.09.2017
• Robinson manifolds as the Lorentzian analogs of Hermitian manifolds, plenary lecture at the Mathematical Physics and General Relativity Symposium in Honor of Professor Ivor Robinson, Department of Mathematical Sciences and The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Texas, Dallas, 9.05.2017,
• How the green light was given for gravitational wave search, plenary lecture at the conference `The Universe through gravitational waves', Simons Center, Stony Brook University , Stony Brook, NY, 12-15.12.2016
• How the green light was given for gravitational wave search, plenary lecture at the conference `Foundations of the theory of gravitational waves', NORDITA, Sztokholm, 9-11.10.2016
• Towards a theory of gravitational radiation, public lecture at King's College London, to cellebrate King's College London's contribution to the foundations of the theory of gravitational radiation, 28.04.2016
• What is a gravitational wave, public lecture at the Deaprtment of Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino, Turyn, Włochy, 14.04.2016
• 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, 23-25 October 2014
• Hunting for a G₂ snake, International Meeting on Lorentzian and Conformal Geometry, Alfried Krupp Wissennschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany, 18-21 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, 13-27 February, 2014
• Lagrange solution for 3-body problem and beyond , talk at the Differential Geometry Seminar, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 8 November, 2013
• Ring-type 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/msi-friends-and-alumni-gravitational-slingshot-and-space-mission-design
• 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, 2-5 September, 2013.
• Split signature 4-dimensional 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, 3-14 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

PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY THIRD PARTY FUNDS

During the years I participated in various national, one European and two British projects, that came with a substantial funding.

In particular, in 2020 January-2024 April, I was the Principal Investigator of the project SCREAM, i.e. `Symmetry, Curvature Reductions and EquivAlence Methods', with funding of 1.400.000 euro, sponsored by the Norway Funds of the European Community, under the Polish National Science Center Grant 2019/34/H/ST1/00636 (see: https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?projekt_id=453254).

Other projects I have been granted are:

• 2014-2016 `Geometry of Monge distributions', (Polish National Science Centre), Principal Investigator
• 2017-2018 `Andrzej Trautman and the Golden Age of Relativity', (MNiSW), Principal Investigator
• 2010-2013 Geometric structures in differential equations and control theory, main investigator, funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Informatization (MNiSW)
• 2010-2013 Classical and quantum theories of gravity, main investigator, funded by the MNiSW
• 2005-2008 Relativistic theory of gravitations: physical and mathematical aspects, funded by MNiSW
• 2004-2005 Physical and mathematical aspects of classical and quantum gravity, funded by the Polish Comittee for Scientific Research (KBN)
• 2003 British EPSRC grant GR/S34304/01, main investigator
• 1999-2002 Classical and quantum theories of gravity and their mathematical methods, funded by KBN
• 1997-1998 British EPSRC grant GR/L65925, main investigator
• 1993-1994 Theories of gravitation, gauge theories and their mathematical methods, funded by KBN.

TEACHING

• Faculty of Physics of University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland:
  In the years 1995-2012, as an Assistant and then Associate Professor, I have been teaching various courses in mathematics, mathematical physics and theoretical physics. These, depending on the year, were: Mathematical Analysis (I, II, III), Linear Algebra (I, II), Group Theory for Physicists, Calculus (I, II, III), Classical Electrodynamics, General Relativity.
• Mathematics Department of Stony Brook University, New York, USA:
  For four semesters, in the years 2007-2009, I have been teaching Calculus (I, II, III), Differential Equations, Topics in General Relativity and Differential geometry, at both - undergraduate and graduate - levels.
• Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Utah State University in Logan, USA.
  For two semesters, in the years 2011-2012, Ive been teaching Calculus II, III and Linear algebra .
• Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita degli Studi di Torino Torino, Italy:
  In February-June 2016, I delivered a graduate course `Lie groups' .
• Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy:
  In April-June 2018 , I delivered a graduate course `General Relativity' .
• Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou, China:
  Since 2020 up to now, as a Visiting Professor, I have been teaching the following two serivce courses for engineers: Linear Algebra and Partial Differential Equations. I have been also responsible for a number of advanced courses within the Master Program in Mathematics and Computer Science; in this Guangdong Technion program I taught: Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Differential Geometry and Applied Mathematics. I have been also supervising and tutoring a number of students in this graduate studies program.

STUDENTS

I had three Master Students and one PhD student. All of them completed their theses with a success and obtained their titles in time. Two of my master students dr hab. Marcin Bobieński, and dr Jan Gutt, after getting MSc Degree at the Faculty of Physics of University of Warsaw, decided to enroll at a PhD program in pure mathematics. Marcin Bobieński obtained PhD degree from the Department of Mathematics of University of Warsaw, and now is an associate professor there. My second master student, Jan Gutt, obtained PhD degree in mathematics at the Mathematics Department of Stony Brook University. Since September 2013 he is employed at the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciencesas my post-doc. My third MSc student, dr Michał Godliński, after completing his MSc degree, continued his studies at the Faculty of Physics of University of Warsaw under my supervision. He obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Physics of University of Warsaw, and then was a post-doc at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste.

• Marcin Bobienski, MSc Thesis: `Twistor construction of harmonic maps and its counterparts for pseudoriemannian metrics' (in Polish), Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 1998
• Michal Godlinski, MSc Thesis: `Cartan equivalence method and Sasaki Geometry' (in Polish), Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 2001
• Jan Gutt, MSc Thesis: `Special Riemannian geometries and the Magic Square of Lie algebras' Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 2008.

• Michal Godlinski, PhD Thesis: `Geometry of third order ODEs and its applications to Differential Geometry and General Relativity', Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 2008.

CONFERENCES (CO)ORGANIZED

• GRIEG meeting on Cartan Geometries, Laboratoire de Mathematiques d'Orsay, Universite Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, 4-9 March 2024, (https://www.imo.universite-paris-saclay.fr/~joel.merker/cartan2024.html), the main organizer.
• GRIEG meets Chopin, Institute of Mathematcis and Center for Theoretical Physics, PAS, Warszawa, Poland, 10-14 July 2023, (https://griegmeetschopin.com/), the main organizer
• SCREAM Project Opening Workshop, Center for Theoretical Physics, Ilawa, Poland, 16-22 August 2021, the main organizer.
• Symmetry and Geometric Structures Conference, Mathematical Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, 12.11-18.11.2017, one of the four organizers
• Physics across the Baltic Sea, Polish-Swedish weekend conference Gdańsk, Poland, September 1-4, 2017, member of the Organizing Committee
• Workshop `Minicourses of Simons Semester Symmetry and Geometric Structures', Mathematical Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, 27.08-8.09.2017, one of the four organizers
• Simons Semester `Symmetry and Geometric Structures' Mathematical Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, 27.08-30.11.2017, one of the four organizers
• The 1st Conference of Polish Society on Relativity 29 June-4 July, 2014, Spała; member of the Local Organizing Committee
• Vector Distributions and Related Geometries, conference, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, 1-7 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,7-13 July, 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, coordinator of the workshop
• IXth Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2000, Rome, Italy; member 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