Head:

Prof. Kazimierz Sobczyk, Ph.D., Dr habil., Full Member of PAN

phone: +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 149

room: 109

e-mail: ksobcz@ippt.gov.pl

Secretary:

Agnieszka Łyszkiewicz

phone: +48 22 826 98 34; +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 255

room: 133

e-mail: alyszk@ippt.gov.pl

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Staff:

Professors:

Zbigniew Kotulski, Ph.D., Dr habil. - ext. 264, room 239

Kazimierz Sobczyk, Ph.D., Dr habil. - ext. 149, room 109

Senior Researchers:

Paweł Hołobut, Ph.D. - ext. 195, room 110

Ph.D. Students:

Robert Borzęcki, M.Sc. - ext. 264, room 239

Igor Dunajewski, M.Sc. - ext. 264, room 239

Krzysztof Policha, M.Sc. - ext. 264, room 239

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Current Research Activities:

• Stochastic dynamics of physical/engineering systems.
• Stochastic modeling and analysis of fatigue accumulation.
• Random material microstructures: modeling and degradation processes.
• Information dynamics: information flow in complex dynamic systems, maximum information entropy principle.
• Chaotic phenomena in nonlinear dynamic systems.
• Stochastic and chaotic dynamic systems and cryptography.
• Data analysis, statistical inference, optimal experiment design.

Key Words:

• stochastic dynamics, stochastic differential equations, information dynamics, stochastic wave propagation, random material microstructures, fatigue crack growth models, reliability of structures, experimental design, cryptology, secure communication, nonlinear/chaotic dynamics, discrete-continuous systems.