Pawel Artymowicz

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Drodzy Panstwo! To jest moja nieco zaniedbana strona internetowa. Mimo, ze niektore informacje nie byly od bardzo dawna uaktualniane, to inne sa swieze, tak ze mam nadzieje, ze cos Panstwu powie o tym, co robie. Zapraszam takze do obejrzenia wywiadu w TVN24 na tematy smolenskie i starszej audycji polskojezycznej o fraktalach w programie kanadyjskiej stacji TV OMNI w formacie AVI, ponizej.

Being a theoretical physicist/astrophysicist, I enjoy doing some

but often have to do or . All those are fun!

I also think about my colleagues' observations, for instance those by HST of
    
the beautiful disk of Beta Pictoris.


Until 2005 I was a tenured Associate Prof. at Stockholm Observatory. It was then located in Saltsjöbaden, a charming suburb of Stockholm, adjacent to the Stockholm archipelago (where I used to practice aerobatics 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.

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 was leading a group studying theory of planetary pystems in Stockholm. 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).

I am a tenured full professor of Physics and Astroph. 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).

Click on the picture for:

    A couple of links to extrasolar planets
    Astrophysics of Planetary Systems at UTSC
    Astro-GPU Research team at UTSC, Summer 2010
My CV & bibliography (2007, PDF) , a long CV (2004, PDF) w/description of research
      CV in HTML format with links & research (2000)
      Citations & papers by P. Artymowicz, statistics from ADS Harvard Database (current)
    UTSC GPU seminar: the future of high performance computing in the 2010s, PDF (January 2010)  
    Turbulence in accretion disks: .PPTX of ISIMA talk at U of California, Santa Cruz (July 2010)  
    UofA.ppt [11MB] is a seminar at U of Alberta, Edmonton, on 9 Dec 2005, on Understanding the extrasolar planetary systems.  
    AST1501 lecture 1 Nov 2005: Planets, Disks, Dust and the Many Projects You Might Be Interested In;  
    PSCD01 course lecture 11 Oct 2005: Extrasolar Planets ;  
  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)    
   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   (3 massively parallel GPU-supercomputers; 2008: 720-1440 cores on 3 GPUs) 
Notes on Beta Pictoris 
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)
  Note on Technical comparison of 2 Riemann-solver based hydrocodes
  Graduate course AST 1420 at UofT (DAA), Galactic Structure and Dynamics (2009)
  Graduate course AST 3020 at UofT (DAA), Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (2010)
  Undergraduate course ASTB21 at UTSC, Astrophysics of Planetary Systems (2012)
  Undergraduate course ASTC22 at UTSC, Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics (2009)
  Complex Universe: an intriguing Astro-Mathematical puzzle with largely unexplored implications
  The fractal I discovered while solving the Astro-Mathematical puzzle
  OMNI TV interview about fractals (reportaz telewizyjny po polsku) :  (67 MB .AVI)  
     7-11: A math puzzle 
  Many proofs that all odd integers are prime numbers
  Rozmawiam na zywo o symulacjach katastrofy pod Smolenskiem z red. J. Kuzniarem w programie "Wstajesz i wiesz" TVN24 24.01.2012 (niezalezny link do wideo)  
   Felieton w gazecie Studio Opinii i krotki opis tego co robilem w zyciu.  
   Blog pt. Fizyka Smolenska w salonie24  


Pawel Artymowicz / pawel(at)utsc.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto at Scarborough, Physical Sci. 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada tel: (+1)416-287-7244(UTSC), 416-978-4833(St. George, DAA),  fax:(+1)416-287-7279
Updated: May 2010
background picture: Diablo mountain range near Silicon Valley, California, from my RV6A