Dealing a lot with gas and fluid dynamics, I like to
and
At work I often do
or
.All those are fun!
I also think about my colleagues' observations, for instance those
by Sally Heap's STIS/HST team.
Yes, it's the disk of Beta Pictoris. Beautiful, isn't it?
Until 2005 I was a tenured Associate Prof.
at Stockholm Observatory.
It was located in
Saltsjöbaden , a charming suburb of
Stockholm,
adjacent to the Stockholm
archipelago (where I go
diving
with my brother Andrzej.)
Now the Observatory is north of the city center
(the arc-like building at the bottom of
this picture,
(c) F.
Masset), which shows also landmark white dome of Globen and the tower of the
city hall with a golden spot on top, in reality three golden crowns (Nobel
prizes are awarded there every December 10).
I study the birth and evolution of binary stars and planetary systems, dynamics of astrophysical disks, physics of circumstellar dust, with occasional diversions to binary black holes and AGNs. I lead a group studying Theory of Planetary Systems.
I co-edited the journal Planetary
and Space Science.
An International
Evaluation of Swedish Astronomy and Astrophysics (Oct. 2000)
summarized the areas of my research program and evaluated it.
I was the
most cited
astronomer in Stockholm (1994-2004).
Since 2005 I am a tenured
professor at the
University of
Toronto. I split my time between the Dept. of Astron. & Astrophys at the
St. George downtown campus, and UTSC (U of T at Scarborough). For instance,
I now teach on Tue and Thu at UTSC, and regularly come to DDA on Fri and
sometimes Mo/Wed.
Observations? (No)
GG Tau ? (maybe)
DQ
Tau ? (maybe)
Simulation? (Yes)
Click on the picture for:
A couple of links to extrasolar planets |
Long CV with links,
summary of research & Bibliography (also in
PDF)
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Supercomputing for the 2010s. PDF of a presentation at UTSC, Jan. 2010.
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AST1501 lecture 1 Nov 2005: Planets, Disks, Dust and the Many Projects You
Might Be Interested In;
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PSCD01 course lecture 11 Oct 2005: Extrasolar Planets ;
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Dynamics and Structure in Resolved Dusty Disks: a streaming audio+video
and Powerpoint presentation at STScI's
Nearby Resolved Debris Disks 2005 workshop (please scroll to my
presentation)
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Migration Type III: a talk at
KITP/UCSB 2004 conference on Planet Formation (abstract,
streaming audio & video) |
Extrasolar planets: a review (HTML) |
Hydra (a parallel mini-supercomputer built
in 1999, 8 nodes) |
Antares (a parallel mini-supercomputer;
2002: 20 nodes, 2005: 38 nodes) |
ZMachine (massively parallel GPU-supercomputers,
2009: 720-1440 nodes on 3 GPUs) |
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Beowulfs & supercomputers (a collection of links)
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Notes on Beta Pictoris |
Notes on PPM simulations of planet-disk interaction |
Note on Accretion onto binary stars (work
in progress) |
 Note
on planet migration in disks (PPM simulation movies) |
Note on Technical comparison of 2 Riemann-solver
based hydrocodes |
Graduate course PHYD38 at UTSC, Nonlinear Physics and Chaos
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Undergraduate course ASTB03 at UTSC, Great Moments in Astronomy
(2007) |
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Undergraduate course ASTC25 at UTSC, Solar System Astrophysics
(2007) |
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Graduate course AST3021 at UofT, Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems
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Undergraduate course ASTC22 at UTSC, Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics
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Graduate course AST1420 at UofT, Galactic structure and dynamics
(2007) |
Undergraduate course on Planetary Systems at Stockholm U.
(2004) |
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Graduate course on Galactic Dynamics at Stcokholm U. (2003) |
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Undergraduate course on Galactic Dynamics at Stcokholm U. (2002) |
Complex Universe: an intriguing Astro-Mathematical puzzle with largely
unexplored implications |
OMNI TV interview about fractals (po polsku) : a review
(HTML) |
7-11: A math puzzle |
Many proofs that all odd integers are prime numbers |
Photo album |
I'd rather be
...or
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