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Name             Radosław Adamczak
Date of birth   1979.06.14
Place of birth  Kielce, Poland

Education

2007 PhD in Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, diploma with honours. Thesis: U-statistics. Inequalities and laws of the iterated logarithm. Advisor: Prof. Rafał Latała.

2003 MSc in Mathematics, University of Warsaw and Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam (within the Joint Master's Programme), diploma with honours.

2003 Master's thesis: The entropy method and concentration of measure in product spaces (at the University of Warsaw: "Koncentracja miary") written under supervision of prof. Rafał Latała (Poland) and prof. Aad van der Vaart (the Netherlands).

2001 Bachelor's thesis at the University of Warsaw: "Symetryzacje dwupunktowe i radialne, a nierówność izoperymetryczna" (Two point and radial symmetrizations and the isoperimetric inequality) written under supervision of prof. Rafał Latała

1998-2003 Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw- Mathematics

1994-1998 Secondary School: I LO im. Stefana Żeromskiego, Kielce

Awards

2009 Kuratowski Award

2009 Foundation for Polish Science Scholarship

2008 Polish Mathematical Society Award for Young Mathematicians

2007 Marek Wacławek Foundation Award

2007 Stanisław Saks Scholarship given by the Foundation of Mahematicians of the City of Wrocław

1996-1998 Polish Children Found Scholarship

Foreign Stays

2007-2008 A one year postdoctoral stay at the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship)

2006 A three-month stay at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris during the special trimester "Phenomena in High Dimensions" (Marie Curie Fellowship)

2003 An eight-month stay at Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics within the Joint Master's Programme of VUA and University of Warsaw

2001 A four-month stay at Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics within the Socrates Exchange Programme.

Conferences

2008 Probability and Geometry in High Dimensions. Lancaster University. Lancaster, UK.

2008 Fourier analytic and probabilistic methods in geometric functional analysis and convexity. Kent State University. Kent, OH.

2008 Probabilistic Methods in Geometry. Banach Center. Będlewo, Poland.

2008 The Fourth Annual Conference "Phenomena in High Dimensions". Sevilla. Spain.

2008 The Fifth International Conference on High Dimensional Probability. CIRM, Luminy, France.

2008 Canadian Young Researchers Conference in Mathematics and Statistics. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

2007 Algorithmic Convex Geometry. American Institute of Mathematics. Palo Alto, CA.

2007 Probability Inequalities with Applications to High Dimensional Phenomena. Texas A&M University.

2007 The Third Annual Conference "Phenomena in High Dimensions". Samos. Greece.

2007 Quasi-random structures, regularity lemmas and their applications. Alfred Renyi Institute. Budapest.

2006 International Congress of Mathematicians. Madrid.

2006 Asymptotic Geometric Analysis and Applications. L'Institut Henri Poincaré. Paris.

2006 The Second Annual Conference "Phenomena in High Dimensions". L'Institut Henri Poincaré. Paris.

2006 Mathematical Foundations of Learning Theory. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

2006 International Workshop on Applied Probability. University of Connecticut, Storrs.

2006 Asymptotic problems of Analysis, Mathematical Physics and Combinatorics. L'Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris

2005 Warsaw Probability Meeting. University of Warsaw.

2005 ESF Workshop, Entropy Methods in PDE Theory and in Stochastics, University of Mainz, Germany

2005 Various aspects of Sobolev inequalities (University of Warsaw), Małe Ciche.

2005 Winter School: Probabilistic Methods in High Dimensional Phenomena, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

2004 Russian-Polish School & Seminar in Będlewo

2004 VIII-th Conference on Probability in Będlewo

2003 Prague Summer School on Mathematical Statistical Mechanics

2002 Summer school: Financial mathematics and differential models in science and economics

at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

2001 Summer school and workshop on Non-Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

1999 Summer School of Set Theory and Topology in Szumin

Teaching experience

Winter 2008 Math 102 - Linear Algebra for Engineers, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Winter 2005 Classes on Stochastic Processes for the 4th-year and 5th-year students at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

Winter 2005 Classes on Probability Theory for the 3rd-year students at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

Spring 2005 Classes on text algorithms and combinatorics on words within the Polish Children's Fund Workshop for High-School Students at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

Spring 2005 Classes on Probability Theory for the 2nd-year students at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

2004 Additional classes on mathematics for interested students at "Collegium Gostomianum" - the 1st Secondary School in Sandomierz

Spring 2004 Classes on Probability Theory for the 2nd-year students at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

Fall 2003 Classes on Probability Theory for the 3rd-year students at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

Hobbies

Jazz, literature, history of science, the Bieszczady mountains.