Curriculum Vitae (a short version)
Name: Piotr Pragacz
Date of birth: 15 April 1954
Nationality: Polish
Married, with three children
Qualifications:
1977 M. Sc., 1981 Dr Sc. (both Copernicus University, Toruń)
1990 Habilitation "Degeneracy loci and symmetric functions"
(Institute of Mathematics,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Full Professor of Mathematical Sciences (1997)
Post held (partial list)
1997 - present Professor at Institute of
Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Professor emeritus since 2020
Head of Department of Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
(2000-2020)
2000-2001 (October-September) Visiting Researcher,
Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn
2008-2009 (October-January) Visiting Professor of Kyoto
University
Visiting professor positions
(partial list):
Brown University, Providence 1986 (3)
Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn 1993-1996 (36)
The University of Chicago 1996 (2)
RIMS at Kyoto University, 2008-2009 (4)
Main research topics:
former:
- Syzygies
- Symmetric functions and generalizations
- Characteristic classes of singular varieties
- Thom polynomials
present:
- Schubert varieties and degeneracy loci
- Chern class formulas
- Gysin formulas
- Order of tangency
- Lojasiewicz exponent
List of
selected publications:
Schubert Varieties and Degeneracy loci, SLNM 1689 (1998)
(a book with W. Fulton)
Enumerative geometry of degeneracy loci, Ann. ENS 21 (1988), 413-454
Algebro-geometric applications of Schur S- and Q-polynomials,
SLNM 1478 (1991), 130-191
Ribbon Schur functions, Europ. J. Comb. 9 (1988), 581-592 (with A. Lascoux)
Operator calculus for ~Q-polynomials and Schubert polynomials,
Adv. Math. 140 (1988),
1-43 (with A. Lascoux)
Double Sylvester sums for subresultants and multi-Schur
functions, J. Symb. Comp. 35
(2003), 689-710 (with A. Lascoux)
Thom polynomials and Schur functions: the singularities
A_3(-), PRIMS 46 (2010),
183-200 (with A. Lascoux)
Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes and the
Euler characteristic of degeneracy loci
and special divisors, JAMS 8 (1995), 793-817 (with A.
Parusiński)
Characteristic classes of hypersurfaces and characteristic
cycles, JAG 10 (2001),
63-79 (with A. Parusiński)
Symmetric polynomials and divided differences in formulas of
intersection
theory, in "Parameter Spaces", BCP 36 (1996), 125-177
Formulas for Lagrangian and orthogonal degeneracy loci;
~Q-polynomial approach,
Compositio Math. 107 (1997), 11-87 (with J. Ratajski)
Positivity of Schur function expansions of Thom
polynomials, Fund. Math. 195
(2007), 85-95 (with A. Weber)
Schubert functors and Schubert polynomials, Europ. J. Comb.
25 (2004), 1327-1344
(with W. Kraśkiewicz)
Resolutions of determinantal varieties and tensor complexes
associated with
symmetric and antisymmetric matrices, Asterisque 87-88 (1981),
109-189
(with T. Józefiak and J. Weyman)
Diagonal subschemes and vector bundles, P.A.M.Q. 4(4)
(2008), 1233-1278
(with V. Pati and V. Srinivas)
Gysin maps, duality, and Schubert classes, Fund. Math. 244
(2019), 191-208
(with L. Darondeau)
Order of tangency between manifolds, in: Springer Proc.
Math.& Stat. 332 (2020)
pp. 27-42 (with W. Domitrz and P. Mormul)
On some properties of the Lojasiewicz exponent, Comptes Rendus.
Math. Vol.359
(2021) no.8, 991-997 (with Ch. Eyral and T. Mostowski)
Invited lectures (partial list):
Shafarevich Seminar, Steklov Institute Moscow 1986;
Conference "Combinatorics, special functions and representation
theory", Oberwolfach 1988;
The Zeuthen Symposium, Copenhagen 1989;
Max-Planck Institut fur Mathematik Bonn 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
1996, 2000, 2001, 2006;
Le-Teissier Singularity Seminar (2), Ecole Normale Superieure,
Paris 1993;
Summer School "Degeneracy loci and Schubert Varieties" (5),
Schloss Thurnau, The
University of Bayreuth 1995;
Algebraic Geometry Seminar, The University of Chicago 1996;
Conference "Interaction of Combinatorics and Representation
Theory" (2),
RIMS Kyoto 1998;
NSF/CBMS Conference on Algebraic Combinatorics, NCSU Raleigh,
2001;
Colloquium, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 2007;
Algebraic Geometry Seminar, RIMS, Kyoto 2008, 2011, 2016, 2019;
Algebraic Geometry Seminar, The University of Tokyo 2008, 2016;
Conference "Schubert Calculus", 5th MSJ-SI ,
Osaka 2012;
Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar, The University of
Tokyo 2015, 2016;
Kazarian-Lando Seminar, Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry and its
Applications
HSE, Moscow 2015;
Leopold Infeld Colloquium, Faculty of Physics, The University of
Warsaw 2018;
Conference:"Geometry, Local and Global" in honour of V. Srinivas,
TIFR, Mumbai 2018;
Algebra and Geometry Seminar, Sapienza University of Rome 2019.
Organizer of conferences,
schools and research groups (partial list):
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, March 31-April 5 1997;
"Algebraic Geometry Conference - Hirzebruch 70" (with
M. Schneider, M. Szurek and
J. Wiśniewski), Banach Center, Warsaw, May 11-16 1998;
Impanga School "Characteristic Classes of Singular
Varieties" (with A. Weber), Banach
Center, Warsaw, April 22-28 2002;
Impanga 10 Summer School on Algebraic Geometry
(with H. Tutaj-Gasińska et al.),
Banach Center, Będlewo, July 4-10 2010
Conference IMPANGA 20 on Schubert varieties (with Ch.
Eyral, G. Kapustka,
M. Kapustka, H. Tutaj-Gasińska) Banach Center Będlewo,
and online, July 11-17, 2021
I am the founder of the IMPANGA Seminar at IM PAN
in Warsaw, its organizer 2000-2010,
and 2011-12; co-organizer 2012-21
Ph.D. students supervised:
Jan Ratajski (IM PAN, Warsaw 1996), Ozer
Ozturk (IM PAN, Warsaw 2010)
Master degree leading to publications:
Witold Kraśkiewicz (Copernicus Univ., Toruń 1982)
Editing:
- an editor of the journal: "Fundamenta
Mathematicae" (2004 - 2021)
- an editor of the journal: "Serdica Mathematical Journal" (2004
- )
- an editor of the book series "Monografie Matematyczne"
(=mathematical monographs)
edited by IM PAN and Birkhauser-Verlag (2000 - )
Scholarships:
Supported by a scholarship of Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation during the
stays at Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn in 1993, 1994
and 2006
with Friedrich Hirzebruch as my host professor
Supported by
Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn during the stays
there in 1995, 1996, 2000 and 2001
Appointed Corresponding Member of Accademia
Peloritana dei Pericolanti,
Messina 2016
The names of received
mathematical awards:
The Kazimierz Kuratowski Award for 1984
The Mathematics Prize of the Third Division of Polish Academy of
Sciences for 1990
The Wacław Sierpiński Prize of Polish Mathematical Society for
1990