J´ozef Henryk Przytycki Curriculum Vitae, December, 2018 Office Address: Home Address: Department of Mathematics, GWU 10005 Broad Street George Washington University Bethesda, MD 20814, USA Washington, DC 20052, USA tel. (301) 493 4979 e-mail
[email protected] tel. (202) 994-6238 Fax: (202) 994-6760 Personal Born: October 1953, Warsaw Poland, Married June 1984 to Teresa M. Data: Szczepanek, 2 children: Tomasz born November, 1987 and Pawe l born December, 1989. Web page: http://home.gwu.edu/˜przytyck/ Research primary : Classical knot theory, topology and geometry of 3-manifolds, algebraic interest: topology based on knots, homology theories motivated by knot theory (subject class: 57). secondary: Graph theory, hyperbolic geometry, 4-manifolds, statistical mechanics, representations of Lie algebras and Hopf algebras (quantum groups), Hecke algebras, character varieties, symplectic structures, Hochschild homology, cyclic homology, distributive homology, homology of Yang- Baxter operators, entropic magmas, and history of mathematics. Education: M.Sc. Warsaw University, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics, 1977. thesis: “Actions of Zn-groups on 3-manifolds”. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1981, thesis: “Incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds” thesis advisor: Professor Joan Birman Habilitation Warsaw University, December 1994. Topic: “Invariants of knots in 3-manifolds” Distinctions: (a) Dean Research Chair (DRC) award (GWU, 2016-2019). (b) Awarded the title of Professor of Mathematical Sciences by the President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, January 23, 2013. (c) Nominated for the Balzan Prize in Mathematics for 2010. (d) Fellow of Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS); Elected 2005. (e) The Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Research Scholarship for 2005.