Vita Jacek Miękisz

Birthplace: Wrocław, Poland  
Birthday: April 6, 1956 

   Education                                                           

1974-79:  Wrocław Technical University, Poland, M.Sc. in Physics, 
          March 1979. Thesis: "Relaxation of the Ferrofluid 
          in a Magnetic Field", advisor dr Jacek Kowalski.  

1979-80:  Wrocław Technical University, Poland, graduate studies. 
         
1980-84:  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
          Blacksburg, Virginia, Ph.D. in Mathematics, June 1984.
          Thesis: "Equilibrium States of Ferromagnetic Abelian 
          Lattice Systems", advisor prof. Joseph Slawny. 

   Employment   
   
1984-85:   Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,  
           Department of Mathematics, instructor; 
           Department of Physics, visiting assistant professor. 
         
1985-88:   The University of Texas at Austin, 
           Department of Mathematics, lecturer. 
         
1988-90:   University of Missouri - Columbia,  
           Department of Mathematics,
           visiting assistant professor.

1990-92:   Universite Catholique de Louvain,
           Institut de Physique Theorique, chercheur libre.

1993:      Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
           Institute of Theoretical Physics, research position.

1994-2000: Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics,
           Warsaw University, assistant professor.
           Habilitation, 1996. 

1995,98,99 Laboratoire de Physique Theorique 
           de la Matiere Condensee, Universite Paris
           3 one-month visiting positions, professeur invite. 

2000-2001: Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
           Ann Arbor, Michigan, visiting professor.

2005:      Universite de Rouen, one-month visiting position, professeur invite

2017-2018: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, full professor

2001-pres: Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw,
           associate professor.

2015:      professor, state title

   Administration    

2020 - 2022:  President of  Polish Mathematical Society 

2017 - 2019:  Vice-president of  Polish Mathematical Society 

2014 - 2016:  member of the Executive Board of  Polish Mathematical Society 

2012 - pres:  Deputy Editor of  Mathematica Applicanda 

2005 - 2012:  Vice-director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

1999 - 2000:  Vice-director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

2008 - 2010:  Coordinator of the programme  Studia Zamawiane           
              "Zamawianie kształcenia na kierunkach technicznych, matematycznych i przyrodniczych - pilotaż" 
              współfinansowany przez Unię Europejską w ramach Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego. 

2008 - 2016:  member of the Programme Committee of  MISDoMP 

   Grants    

1. Principal investigator of a grant of the National Science Centre, Poland  
   "Mathematical models of quasicrystals"
   May 2017 - April 2020. 

2. Principal investigator of a grant of the National Science Centre, Poland  
   "Time delays in stochastic models in biological sciences"
   March 2016 - December 2020. 

3. Investigator of a grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education 
   "Mathematical Foundations of Multi-scale Description", Principal investigator: Mirosław Lachowicz
   May 2009 - May 2012.  

4. Principal investigator of a grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education 
   "Mathematical Models of Evolutionary Game Theory and Genetic Networks"
   November 2006 - November 2009.  

5. Principal investigator of a grant of the Polish Committee for Scientific Research (KBN)
   "Stochastic and Differential Stability of Equilibria in Evolutionary Games"
   March 2001 - February 2004.  

6. Principal investigator of a grant of the Polish Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) 
   "Stability of Nonperiodic Ground States and Gibbs States in Classical Lattice-Gas Models" 
   September 1996 - August 1999. 

7. Member of the Steering Committee (Coordinator for Poland) 
   of the European Science Foundation Programme "Phase Transitions 
   and Fluctuation Phenomena for Random Dynamics in Spatially Extended Systems"
   January 2002 - December 2006. 

   Organized conferences    

 Jubilee Congress for the 100th anniversary of the Polish Mathematical Society  
Kraków, September 3-7, 2019

 UMI-SIMAI-PTM 
thematic session - Multiscale models in mathematical biology (with Ryszard Rudnicki and Luigi Prezioso), Wrocław, 17-20 September 2018.

  Mathematical physics of non-periodic structures 
Banach Center Będlewo, 8-13 July 2018.

 Information transmission in biological systems  
Banach Center Będlewo, 5-9 March 2018.

 BioPhysMath Kickoff Meeting  
Banach Center, Warsaw, 7-9 December 2017 

 Simons Semester "Mathematical Biology" 
Banach Center, Warsaw, 1 December 2017 - 31 March 2018

BIOFIZMAT 6  (in Polish)
Banach Center, Warsaw, 26-27 May 2017

7. Forum Matematyków Polskich, Olsztyn, 12-17 September 2016, 
thematic session -  Mathematical models of gene regulation and signaling pathways (with Ania Ochab-Marcinek)

6. Forum Matematyków Polskich, Warsaw, 7-12 September 2015
sesja tematyczna - Teoria Gier (z Marcinem Malawskim)

 
BIOFIZMAT 5  (in Polish)
Banach Center, Warsaw, 8-9 December 2016

 
BIOFIZMAT 4  (in Polish)
Banach Center, Warsaw, 19-20 May 2016

 
BIOFIZMAT 3  (in Polish)
Banach Center, Warsaw, 4-5 December 2015

 
BIOFIZMAT 2  (in Polish)
Banach Center, Warsaw, 15-16 May 2015

 
BIOFIZMAT 1   (in Polish)
Banach Center, Warsaw, 11-12 December 2014

 Inhomogeneous Random Systems  
Time delays in stochastic systems
Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, 29 January 2014

 
ICQ12 12th International Conference On Quasicrystals 
Kraków, Poland, 1 - 6 September 2013.


Tatry i Fizyka 
Małe Ciche, near Zakopane, Poland, 15-22 September 2013


Tatry i Fizyka 
Małe Ciche, near Zakopane, Poland, 12-17 September 2011


13-th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications 
Wrocław, Poland, 30 June - 3 July 2008.

 
From Genetics to Mathematics  
Zbąszyń, Poland, 18-20 October 2007


Stochastic Models in Biological Sciences 
Stefan Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, 28 May – 2 June 2006

   Edited proceedings     


From Genetics to Mathematics 
Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences Vol.79 
M. Lachowicz and J. Miękisz (eds.) World Scientific (2009).


Stochastic Models in Biological Sciences 
R. Buerger, C. Maes, and J. Miękisz (eds.)
Banach Center Publications 80 (2008).

   Conferences  (last 15 years)    

 Thermodynamics in a Nanoscale  28-th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics
Kraków, Poland, 14-17 September 2015
Invited Talk: Spatial aspects and time delays in gene regulation

 6 Forum Matematyków Polskich 
Warsaw, Poland, 7-12 September 2015
Organization of Game Theory Session, 10-11 September
Talk: Stochastic stability of cooperation in imitation dynamics

 Micro and Macro Systems in Life Sciences 
Będlewo, Poland, 8-12 June 2015
Talk: Mean - field approximation in gene regulation and evolutionary games

 Evolutionary Game Theory 
Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 27 April - 1 May 2015
Invited Talk: Strategy dependent time delays in replicator dynamics 

 BIOMAT 2014 , Będlewo, Poland, 2-8 November 2014
Talk: Time delays in stochastic models of gene expression

 Joint Meeting of German and Polish Mathematical Societies DMV-PTM 
Poznań, Poland, 7-20 September 2014
Talks:
1. Stability and instabilities of stationary states of stochastic dynamics with time delays
2. Population dynamics on random graphs

 European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology  
Goeteborg, Sweden, 15-19 June 2014
Invited talk: Time delays in stochastic models of evolutionary games
Talk: Time delays in stochastic models of gene regulation

Organization and moderation
 Inhomogeneous Random Systems workshop 
Time delays in stochastic systems
Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, 29 January 2014
Talk: Introduction to time delays in stochastic systems

 Beyond basic science - mathematics today 
Białka Tatrzańska, 5-10 February 2012
Invited Talk: On genes and games - why to bother with Mathematics if you got Mathematica

8th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, 
and Annual Meeting of The Society for Mathematical Biology, 
Kraków,  28 June – 2 July 2011
Talks:
1.   Delayed protein degradation does not cause oscillations 
2.   Simple stochastic models of gene regulation

24-th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, 
Zakopane, 17 - 22 September 2011
Invited talk: From time-delayed random walks to evolutionary game dynamics and gene expression

BIRS Workshop, Almost periodic order: spectral, dynamical, and stochastic approaches, 
Banff,  Canada, 25 – 30 September 2011
Invited talk: Non-periodic equilibrium states

BIRS Workshop, Evolutionary Games, Banff,  Canada, 13 – 18 June 2010
Invited talk: Equilibrium transitions in stochastic models of finite populations

The 14-th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications,
Banff, Canada,  20-24  June  2010 
Talk: Time delays in replicator dynamics in social and biological models

Annual Meeting of the Society of Mathematical Biology,
Vancouver, Canada, 27-30 July 2009
Talk: Stochastic models of gene expression with time delays

Stochastic Methods in Mechanics: Status and Challenges, Warsaw, 28-30 September 2009
Invited talk: Stochasticity and time delays in gene expression and evolutionary game theory  

Games 2008,  8-11 September ,Warsaw
Talk: Equilibrium selection in stochastic evolutionary games.

13-th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications
Wrocław, 30 June-3 July 2008
Tutorial: Stochastic Dynamics of Spatial Games
Session organizer: 1. Games on Networks, 2.  Stochastic Evolutionary Games

First Joint International Meeting, AMS-PTM, 31 July – 3 August 2007, Warsaw
Talk: Equilibrium transitions in stochastic evolutionary games

Mathematical Physics Days, Leuven, 20-21 September 2007 
Invited talk:  Equilibrium transitions in stochastic evolutionary games

Evolution and Game Theory, Dresden, 4-5 October 2007
Invited talk:  Equilibrium transitions in stochastic evolutionary games

From Microscopic to a Macroscopic Description of Complex Systems
Banach Center International Conference, Będlewo, 4-9 September 2006 
Lectures: Evolutionary game theory and population dynamics 

 European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology 
Dresden, 18-22 July 2005
Talk: Equilibrium transitions in finite populations of players

Mathematical Models and Methods in Biology and Medicine, 
Banach Center International Conference, Będlewo, 29 May – 3 June 2005 
Invited talks: 1. Game theory and population dynamics, 
2. Stochastic models of genetic cascades.

Inhomogeneous Random Systems
Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, 28 January 2004
Invited talk: Long-run behavior in stochastic evolutionary games

Stochastic-Geometric and Combinatorial Ideas in Statistical Mechanics
Göteborg, Szwecja, 21-25 June 2004, session chairman

Game Theory and Mathematical Economics
International Conference in Memory of Jerzy Łoś, Warsaw, 6-10 September 2004
Talk: Long-run behavior of games with many players.

Stochastic Models from Statistical Physics III
Eurandom, Eindhoven, 7-11 October 2002
Invited talk: Stochastic stability of Nash equilibria in evolutionary games

Economics and Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
ICTP, Trieste, 30 May - 1 June  2002
Talk: Statistical mechanics of evolutionary games

SocioPhysics, ZiF, Bielefeld,  6-9 June 2002
Talk: Social coordination in spatial evolutionary games