Projects & Awards
- 2009-2011 Coordinator Finite element analysis of the quantum theory of finite electronic systems. Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland. N N519 402837.
- 2007-2011 Participating Researcher Multiscale materials modelling, computational methods and applications. Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland. R15 012 03.
- 2005-2009 Experienced Researcher Interfacial phenomena at atomic resolution and multiscale properties of novel III-V semiconductors. PARSEM, Marie-Curie Research Training Network supported by the European Communitiy's Sixth Framework Programme, European Commision. MRTN-CT-2004-005583.
- 2005 Independent Researcher Allowance at Physics, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
- 2004 Academic Researcher Scholarship at Physics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK. 900012.
- 1999-2003 Ph.D. Candidate Adiabatic large amplitude collective motion at finite rotational velocity. Standard Research Quota Nomination at Physics. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Manchester, UK. 99313724.
Teaching
- 2009 Online Tutorial Step-36 tutorial program. Toby D. Young (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) and Wolfgang Bangerth (Texas A&M University, Texas, USA).
- 2001-2003 Part-time Tutor Computing with C and C++, Differential Equations Analysis. Department of Pure and Applied Physics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK.
- 2000-2003 Demonstrator / Seminar Leader Electronics Levels I & II, First Year Laboratory, Introduction to Computing. Department of Pure and Applied Physics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK.
Activities & Interests
- Adaptive finite element analysis I use and contribute to the outstanding Differential Equations Analysis Library II (deal.II) and alot of what follows is solved using wrapper classes that give a handle on the Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc) and the Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations (SLEPc). In particular: (i) Following the deal.II "dimension independent" philosophy, some of my quantum problems can be reduced to a union of the (R+K)-space manifold. This is very satisfying. (ii) Exploring alternative error indicators for eigenspectrum problems is relatively easy to implement within this scheme. It was for these, and their associated problems, that I developed the electron wave analysis library for quantum multiphysics (ewa.iv).
- Atomic and nuclear structure I am interested in applying the single-particle mean-field (of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov type) approximation to the many-body quantum problem of heavy nuclear/atomic systems in spin-space and/or in real-space: (i) The Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation is a simple, though not tenuous, method for computing the structure of isolated atomic and nuclear systems. (ii) Collective and quantum fluctuations far from quilibrium are interesting, though not well studied. (iii) Self-consistent solutions to generalized quantum mechanical problems are troublesome.
- Bound chaotic quantum systems This is very much a playground. It is a place where I can jump on the roundabout of imaginary eigenfunctions, sway on the swings of anharmonicity, or bounce on the see-saw of uncertainty :-)
- Elasticity, electrostatics, & quantum electronics Since experimentalists play with growing nanostructures at wierd angles and with suprising shapes, I have been following the path of playing with rotations and seeking symmetries to explain this strangeness. The results are enchanting: (i) Nonlinear elasticity is by itself a computational problem to reckon with. (ii) Higher-order approximations to the system of nonlinear equations are interesting to probe.
- High performance computing