As a theoretical physicist/astrophysicist, I enjoy theory
but often resort to numerics like
or
.
I also think about my colleagues observations, for instance those by HST of
the beautiful disk of Beta Pictoris.
As a theoretical physicist/astrophysicist, I enjoy theory
but often resort to numerics like
or
.
I also think about my colleagues observations, for instance those by HST of
the beautiful disk of Beta Pictoris.
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, AGNs and aerodynamics of airplanes. I was leading a group studying theory of planetary systems in Stockholm. I have 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 full professor of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. I split my time between the Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the St. George (downtown) campus, and Department of Physical and Env. Sciences of UTSC (U of T at Scarborough), where in 2016 I have designed and built supercomputers based on CPU, GPU and IXP (Intel Xeon Phi) processors.
I use my knowledge of aviation, aerodynamics and physics to study the 2010 airplane catastrophe in Smolensk, Russia, in which 96 persons including the Polish president perished. As an independent investigator, I have aided governmental and parliamentary committees in Poland to explain the details of the crash to the public.
I mountainbike, fly (FAA & TC PPL) and dive (PADI Advanced Open Water Diver).
The next two are from the Nov. 2023 coast-to-coast ferry flight in a newly
bought, IFR-equipped plane N642EM. We start from Chino, Orange Co. California,
and end in Burlington Executive Airport (CZBA). The stops are shown in the last picture above. We fly through the Monument Valley's landmark rock
formation Stagecoach and Rabbit, near the Four Corners (AZ,UT,CO,NM).
Then we do a cirquit over Lake Ontario and land with Adam at the
picturesque Billy Bishop airport on Toronto Island (CYTZ).
The last video of night flights above Toronto (so-called City Tour at 2000 ft)
with Andrzej completes the show. Enjoy!
Finally, check out this nice
video from an aerobatic flight, produced and posted by my friend Roland in 2017.
Second row of snapshots in previous section is from this flight. RV6's are fantastic
aerobatic and cross-country airplanes, in which I have done all figures of basic
aerobatics including spins.
Click on the picture for:
Google Scholar page with my 8000+ citations and Hirsch index h=37 (2025)
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Two's Company: From Binary Stars to Binary Supermassive Black Holes (astronomy podcast Nov. 2015 at Star Spot)
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The latest in research: Discovery of collimated 3D gas flow and 4 wintip vortices shed by planets embedded in disks (Oct 2015)
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A couple of old links to extrasolar planets |
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Astrophysics of Planetary Systems at UTSC |
My long CV & bibliography (2007 & 2011, PDF) ,
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Undergraduate course ASTB23 at UTSC, Astrophysics of stars,
galaxies and the Universe
(2023,2026) |
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Undergraduate course ASTC25 at UTSC, Astrophysics of Planetary Systems
(2023-2025,2027) |
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Undergraduate course PHYD38 at UTSC, Nonlinear Physics and Chaos
(2023-2025)
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Undergraduate course ASTB03 at UTSC, Great Moments in Astronomy
(2022)
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Undergraduate course PHYD57 at UTSC,
Advanced Computational Methods in Physics (2022,2025-2026)
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Undergraduate course PHYB54 at UTSC, Mechanics: Oscillations to
Chaos (2021) |
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Undergraduate course PSCB57 at UTSC, Introduction to Scientific
Computing
(2019) |
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Graduate course AST 1440 at UofT (DAA),
Radiation Processes and Gas Dynamics (2016) |
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Graduate course AST 3020 at UofT (DAA),
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (2014) |
Astro-citations & papers by P. Artymowicz,
ADS Harvard Database (current)
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Astro-GPU Research team at UTSC, Summer 2010 |
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UTSC GPU seminar: the future of high performance computing in the 2010s, PDF (January 2010)
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Turbulence in accretion disks: .PPTX of ISIMA talk at U of California, Santa Cruz
(July 2010)
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UofA.ppt [11MB] is a seminar at U of Alberta, Edmonton, on 9 Dec 2005,
on Understanding the extrasolar planetary systems.
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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 w/8 nodes) |
Antares (a parallel mini-supercomputer;
2002: 20 nodes, 2005: 38 nodes) |
ZMachine & cudaki (massively parallel supercomputers
based on GPUs) |
Notes on Beta Pictoris |
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Review paper about planetary systems |
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Annual Review paper about 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) |
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Note on Technical comparison of 2 Riemann-solver
based hydrocodes |
Complex Universe: an intriguing Astro-Mathematical puzzle with largely
unexplored implications |
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The fractal I have discovered while solving the Astro-Mathematical puzzle
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7-11: A math puzzle |
Many proofs that all odd integers are prime numbers |
OMNI TV interview about fractals (po polsku) : (67 MB .AVI)
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Rozmowa z red. J. Kuzniarem w programie "Wstajesz i wiesz" TVN24 (5 min.)
24.01.2012 (tylko
wideo)
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Felieton w gazecie Studio Opinii i
wstepne info
o mnie. |
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Wywiad w Gazecie Wyborczej 7.02.2012 |
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Fakty i Mity 7.09.2012 (stony 6 i 7) |
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Blog pt. Fizyka Smolenska |
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Wywiad w Natemat.pl (video, 26 min.) |
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Wywiady telewizyjne: TVN24, TVP1, TVP Info, Polsat, Polsat News, Superstacja i in. |
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referat I na konferencji Mechanics in Aviation XVI 2014 |
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referat II na konferencji Mechanics in Aviation XVI 2014 |
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videoblogs on the site of Polish gov. body
explaining the Smolensk crash to the public (zespol Laska, arch. page) |
2014 trip in Vans RV6A C-GDOC |
Wideo:
Trajektoria i drzewa w Smolensku;
Beczka smolenska ;
Korelacja CVR, mapy i trajektorii;
Zderzenia brzoza-skrzydlo.
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TOKFM: Rozmowa z red. Sekielskim 10.04.2013
(zdj.)
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PAP: Artymowicz i Lasek - wybuch jakiejkolwiek bomby w Tu-154 - wykluczony.
(zdj.)
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TVN Fakty po Faktach 10.04.17: Bomby to scenariusz 'fantasy'
(zdj.)
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Rzeczpospolita 14.04.17: Wybuch-bomby-w-Tu-154-Wykluczony
(zdj.)
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Rzeczpospolita: Katastrofa smolenska. Dr hab. Pawel Artymowicz: Zamachu i
bomby w tupolewie nie bylo
(zdj.)
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Wiadomoco 11.04.17: Nie ma zadnych dowodow na wybuch
(zdj.)
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Rzeczposp. 14.04.17: Zamachu ani bomby w tupolewie nie bylo
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Rzeczposp. 14.04.17: Podkomisja? Dorabiajacy emeryci.
(zdj.)
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RMF24: Prof. Artymowicz: Eksplozji nie bylo. Rozmowa Marcinem Zaborskim w
2019r.
(zdj.)
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Wiki page of
Pawel Artymowicz (in Polish)
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