W. J. Charatonik's CV

List of publications

Wlodzimierz J. Charatonik
Curriculum Vitae

Born:

July 06, 1957 in Wroclaw, Poland.

Areas of interests:

Topology, in particular continuum theory, hyperspaces, curves and inverse limits.

Education:

May 1988 Ph.D. Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland. Thesis Whitney maps and their applications to hyperspace theory, Supervisor Professor Karol Sieklucki.

1976-1982 Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland. Master thesis Inverse limits of smooth continua, Supervisor Professor Tadeusz Mackowiak.

1972-1976 High School - III Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Wroclaw, Poland.

Employment history:

Since August 2005 Professor Missouri University of Science and Technology .
September 2008 – June 2009, Visiting Professor, University of Seville, Spain.

August 2001 – August 2005 Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology).
October 1985 - August 2001 Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland.
August 1999 - August 2001 Visiting Professor, University of Missouri – Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology).
January 1996 - August 1999 Visiting Professor Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
August 1990 - August 1991 Visiting Assistant Professor McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA.
August 1988 - August 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
April 1982 - September 1984 Opole Pedagogical University, Opole, Poland.

Honors:

Missouri University of Science and Technology, Freshmen Engineering Program “We love your class” 2008 and 2010.

Prize of the Polish Minister of Education and Sciences for papers in continuum theory, 1989;

Prizes of the President of Wroclaw University for Research Achievements (1986), and for Teaching Achievements (1985);

Prize of the Polish Mathematical Society for Young Mathematicians, 1984;

Third (1981) and First (1982) Prize of the Polish Mathematical Society in the Competition of Student's Papers in Mathematics.

Ph. D. Students:

May 2008, Robbie A. Beane, Dissertation: Inverse limits of permutation maps.

Presentations at conferences:

A new topology on the space of continua, Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference, Starkville, Mississippi, March 2010.

Whitney levels without Whitney maps, Analysis and Topology, Lviv, Ukraine, May 2008.

Absolute retracts for some classes of continua, Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference, Milwaukee, WI, March 2008.

Trivial shape of inverse limits, III International Meeting on Continuum Theory, Puebla, Mexico, June 2007.

Open problems in Continuum Theory, 10^th Prague Topological Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2006, (invited plenary speaker).

Kelley Continua, 2006 International Conference on Topology and its Applications, Aegion, Greece, June 2006.

Generalized Rigid Sets, Contractibility of Hyperspaces and Coselections, Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference, Mount Berry, GA, March 2005

Metrics on Hyperspaces – Intuition and Theory, III Joint Meeting Japan-Mexico on Topology and its Applications, Oaxaca, Mexico, December 2004 (co-author Matt Insall).

Property of Kelley for the Cartesian Products and hyperspaces, Eleventh Chico Topology Conference, Chico, CA, May 2004 (co-author J. J. Charatonik).

Property of Kelley for the Cartesian Products and hyperspaces, Continuum Theory and General Topology (in Honor of David Bellamy's 60th Birthday), Special Session in Joint AMS-SMM International Meeting, Houston, TX, May 2004 (co-author J. J. Charatonik).

Ramification points in smooth dendroids, Spring Topology Conference, Birmingham, AL, March 2004 (co-author J. R. Prajs);

Planarity of Whitney levels, Spring Topology Conference, Austin, TX, April 2002 (co-authors J. Bustamante and R. Escobedo-Conde);

A characterization of hereditarily contractible continua, Spring Topology Conference, Morelia, Mexico, March 2001;

Weak and small Whitney properties, 2000 Southeastern Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Lafayette, LA, April 2000.

Whitney reversible properties, Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 2000.

Irreducible Whitney levels, Fall Meetting of the Central Section of the American Mathematical Society, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 1999.

A degree of non-local connectedness IV Joint Meeting of the Amer. Math. Soc. and Soc. Mat. Mexicana, Denton, TX, May 1999 (co-author Janusz J. Charatonik).

Janusz J. Charatonik - his life and mathematics, I joint Meeting Japan-Mexico in Topology and its Applications, Morelia, Mich., Mexico, July 1999.

Compactifications of the ray, I joint Meeting Japan-Mexico in Topology and its Applications, Morelia, Mich., Mexico, July 1999 (co-authors Janusz J. Charatonik and P. Pyrih).

Openness of the induced mappings, 13th Summer Conference on General Topology and its Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, July 1998.

Remarks on induced universal mappings, 13th Summer Conference on General Topology and its Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, July 1998 (co-author and speaker J. J. Charatonik).

Induced MO-mappings, Chico Topology Conference, Chico, CA, May 1998 (co-author J. J. Charatonik).

On the Effros metric, Chico Topology Conference, Chico, CA, May 1998 (co-author ans speaker J. J. Charatonik).

Weaker forms of the property of Kelley, Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference, Fairfax, VA, March 1998 (co-author J. J. Charatonik).

On dendrites with the closed set of end points, III Joint Meetting of the American Mathematical Society and Sociedad Matematica Mexicana, Oaxaca, Oax, Mexico, December 1997 (co-authors D. Arevalo, P. Pellicer Covarubias and L. Simon).

Dendritas, XXX Congress of the Mexican Mathematical Society, Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico, September 1997.

On the property of Kelley, Conference "Dos dias en Teoria de Continuos", BUAP, Puebla (Mexico), June 1997.

Absolute retracts for dendroids and for hereditarily unicoherent continua, Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference, Lafayette, LA, April 1997 (co-authors J. J. Charatonik and J. R. Prajs).

Smoothness of hyperspaces and of Cartesian products, The Second Iberoamerican Congress on Topology and Its Applications, Morelia, Mexico, March 1997.

Fractals in Topology, Conference "Dos dias en Teoria de Continuos", BUAP, Puebla (Mexico), June 1996.

A homogeneous continuum without the property of Kelley, Spring Topology Conference and Southwest Dynamical System Conference, Muncie, IN, March 1996.

Induced mappings of hyperspaces, Morelia, Mexico, November 1994 (invited speaker).

Mapping hierarchy for dendrites, 22 Winter School on Abstract Analysis, Podebrady, Czech, January 1994 (co-authors J. J. Charatonik, K. Omiljanowski and J. R. Prajs).

Mapping hierarchies, Eleventh International Conference on Topology, Trieste, Italy, September 1993 (co-authors J. J. Charatonik, K. Omiljanowski and J. R. Prajs).

Induced mappings between hyperspaces, Colloquium on Topology, Szekszard, Hungary, August 1993.

Mapping hierarchy for dendrites, Meeting in Topology, Guanajuato, Mexico, December 1992 (invited speaker, co-authors J. J. Charatonik, K. Omiljanowski and J. R. Prajs).

A class of self-homeomorphic continua, Workshop in Continuum Theory and Dynamical Systems, Lafayette, LA May 1991 (co-authors A. Dilks and J. Reed).

On self-homeomorphic continua, Spring Topology Conference, Sacramento, CA, March 1991 (co-author A. Dilks).

Monotone and open diameter mappings, Spring Topology Conference, San Marcos, TX, April 1990.

Some relations between classes of mappings and of spaces, Spring Topology Conference, Knoxville, TN, March 1989.

Some classes of mappings and of continua via functions into hyperspaces, Baku International Topological Conference, Baku (USSR), October 1987.

An open Whitney map for the hyperspace of a circle, VI Prague Topological Symposium, Prague (Czechoslovakia), July 1986.

Continua homeomorphic to all their confluent images, III National Conference on Topology, Trieste (Italy), June 1986.

Rⁱ-continua and contractibility of hyperspaces, Summer School on Topology and its Applications, Primorsko (Bulgaria), September 1984.

Contractibility of hyperspaces, Topological Semester in Banach Center of the Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, April - June 1984.

On the property of Kelley in hyperspaces, Leningrad International Topological Conference, Leningrad (USSR), August 1982;

Invited talks:

Planability of Whitney levels, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2001;

What is topology? Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, March 2001;

Contractibility of pointwise smooth dendroids, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, March 2001;

Hierarchies of dendrites, University of Miami, Miami, FL, April 1997.

Fractals in Topology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, September 1996;

On self-homeomorphic spaces, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, March 1995;

Inverse limits of continua, a series of lectures, Mexico City, Mexico, November 1994;

What we do not know about dendrites, Warsaw University, Bialystok Branch, Bialystok, Poland, September 1993;

Some problems in continuum theory and hyperspaces, Guanajuato, Mexico, December 1992;

On size functions, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, December 1990.

What are axioms for? Lycoming Collage, Williamsport, PA, October 1989;

Monotone and Open Whitney Maps, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, May 1989;

Whitney maps of hyperspaces, Lycoming Collage, Williamsport, PA, March 1989;

Monotone and Open Whitney Maps, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, February 1989;

Monotone and Open Whitney Maps, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1989;

Monotone and Open Whitney Maps, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, December 1988;

Contractibility of hyperspaces, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, November 1986.

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