Curriculum Vitae

Name: Piotr Pragacz
Date of birth: 15 April 1954
Nationality: Polish
Married, three children

Education:

1973 - 1975 N. Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
1976 - 1977 Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

Qualifications:

1977 M. Sc., 1981 Dr Sc., 1990 Habilitation (Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

Post held:

1977 - 1979 Junior Assistent, N. Copernicus University
1979 - 1981 Assistent Lecturer, N. Copernicus University
1981 - 1991 Adjoint, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
1991 - 1997 Associate Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
1993-1996 Visiting Researcher, Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn
1997 - ... Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences at Warsaw, Chair of Algebraic Geometry and Algebra
since 2000
2000-2001 Visiting Researcher, Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn

Visiting professor positions (at least for 1 month):

Universite L. Pasteur Strasbourg 1981 (1 month), 1983 (1 month),
University Roma 2 1984 (1 month),
Brown University Providence 1986 (3 months),
Universite Paris 7 1987 (1 month), 1990 (1 month),
U.B.C. Vancouver 1989 (1 month)
K.T.H. Stockholm 1989 (2 months),
University of Bergen 1990/1991 (6 months)
I.H.E.S. Bures 1993 (1 month)
Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn 1993-1996 (36 months)
University of Chicago 1996 (2 months)
Universite d'Angers 1997/1998 (2 months)
Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn 2000-2001 (12 months)
Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 2002 (1 month)
Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn 2006  (3 months)
RIMS at Kyoto University, 2008 (3 months)

Selected shorter (1-2 week) visits:

Steklov  Institute Moscow  1986, 87, 88
University of Ferrara 1989
National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City 1990
University of Copenhagen  1990
University of Tromso 1990
University Complutense, Madrid 1992
Scuola Normale Pisa 1993, 95
University of Amsterdam 1995, 2000
ICTP Trieste 1995
University Roma 2 1997
Technion Haifa 1997
Nankai University, Tianjin 1997,
University of Kagoshima 1998
Hokkaido University, Sapporo 1998
RIMS Kyoto 1998
University of Michigan 1999
North Carolina State University 2001
The Newton Institute, Cambridge 2001
Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest 2002
METU Ankara  2005, 06
Politecnico di Torino, 2005
University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, 2006
Tata Institute, Mumbai 2007

Main research topics:

former: Finite free resolutions, Determinantal varieties.

present: Geometry of homogeneous spaces, Intersection theory, Enumerative geometry, Enumerative theory of singularities, Characteristic classes of singular spaces, Thom polynomials of singularities, Vector bundles and the zero schemes of their sections, Symmetric functions - their generalizations and applications.

Organizer of the conferences:

"Parameter Spaces" (with D. Laksov and S.A. Stromme), Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, January 31-February 5, 1994.

Algebraic Geometry Summer School of Bayreuth University (with W. Fulton and M. Schneider), Thurnau, Germany, June 19-23, 1995.

"Schubert Varieties" (with W. Fulton and A. Lascoux), Mathematisches Forschungs-Institut Oberwolfach,
Germany, March 31-April 5, 1997.

"Algebraic Geometry Conference -- Hirzebruch 70" (with M. Schneider, M. Szurek and J.A. Wisniewski),
Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, May 11-16, 1998.

Impanga School: "Characteristic Classes of Singular Varieties" (with A. Weber), Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, April 22-28, 2002.

Impanga School: "Stratifications on Moduli Spaces" (with G. Banaszak), Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, May 13-19, 2002.

Impanga School: "Schubert varieties" (with A. Weber), Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, May 17-23, 2003.

"Algebraic Geometry, Algebra, and Applications" (co-chairman; organizers: N. Manev and V. Drensky), Borovetz - Bulgaria, 23.09.-3.10., 2003.

Impanga Session: "Hommage a Grothendieck", Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, January 16-17, 2004.

Impanga School: "Moduli Spaces" (with A. Langer and H. Tutaj-Gasinska), Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, April 25-May1, 2005.

"Antalya Algebra Days 2005" (with S. Sertoz et al.), Antalya - Turkey,  May 18-22, 2005.

Impanga 100 Session: "Algebraic cycles and motives", Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, October 28-29, 2005.

Impanga School: " Holomorphic symplectic singularities" (with S. Cynk and T. Szemberg), Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, April 24-29, 2006.

Impanga Session: "Ku czci Hoene-Wronskiego", Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, January 12-13, 2007

Impanga Session: "Funkcje zeta",  Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, May 4-5, 2007

Author of the book:

"Schubert Varieties and Degeneracy Loci", Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics No.1689 (1998) (with W. Fulton).

Editor of the proceedings of a conference:
 
"Parameter Spaces; enumerative geometry, algebra and combinatorics", Banach Center Publications 36, Warsaw 1996.

"Algebraic Geometry: Hirzebruch 70", Contemporary Mathematics A.M.S. 241 (with M. Szurek and J.A. Wisniewski), Providence R.I. 1999.

"Algebraic Geometry,  algebra, and applications" - Proceedings of the AGAAP Conference 2003, Serdica Math. J. vol. 30 (2004), 2--3 (with V. Brinzanescu and V. Drensky).

"Topics in cohomological studies of algebraic varieties; Impanga Lecture Notes" in "Trends in Mathematics", Birkhauser 2005.

"Algebraic cycles, sheaves, shtukas, and moduli; Impanga Lecture Notes" in "Trends in Mathematics", Birkhauser 2007.

"Hoene-Wronski: Zycie, Matematyka i Filozofia",  Publications of IM PAN, Warszawa 2008.

Member of the Editorial Board:

- of the journal: "Fundamenta Mathematicae"

- of the journal: "Serdica Mathematical Journal"

- of the book series "Monografie Matematyczne" (=mathematical monographs) edited by IM PAN and Birkhauser-Verlag.

Alexander  von Humboldt Fellow since 1993

Scientific Rewards:

The K. Kuratowski Award of Polish Mathematical Society 1984.
The Mathematical-Science Award of Polish Academy of Sciences 1990.
The W. Sierpinski Award of Polish Mathematical Society 1991.

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