Konrad Piwakowski

<body background="bgr-grad.gif" bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF"> <p><font color="#66CAFF" face="Arial" size="2">    </font></p> <table border="0" cellPadding="0" cellSpacing="0" width="684" style="vertical-align: top" height="275"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="382" height="275"><img src="photo.jpg" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="270"></td> <td vAlign="top" width="292" height="275"><font color="#77BBFF" size="6" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Konrad Piwakowski</font><br> <strong><font color="#77BBFF" size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">H     O    M    E         P    A    G     E</font> </strong></td> </tr> </table> <p><font color="#66CAFF" face="Arial" size="2">                   </font></p> <table border="0" cellPadding="7" cellSpacing="0" width="502"> <tbody> <tr> <td vAlign="bottom" width="176"><p align="center"><img src="conipg.gif" WIDTH="152" HEIGHT="117"></td> <td vAlign="center" width="298"><a name="How to"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><big>How to contact me?</big></big></font></a><p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I am an Assistant Professor at</font> </p> <p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong><a href="http://www.pg.gda.pl/"><big>Technical University of Gdansk</big></a><br> <a href="http://www.eti.pg.gda.pl/">ETI Faculty</a></strong><br> <strong><a href="http://www.eti.pg.gda.pl/KATEDRY/kpi/index.html">Foundations of Informatics Department</a></strong><br> ul. Narutowicza 11/12, <br> 80-952 <strong><a href="http://www.gdansk.gda.pl/">Gdansk</a>, <a href="http://www.polska.pl/">POLAND</a></strong><br> Phone: (+48-58) 3471455 <br> Fax: (+48-58) 3471766<br> Email: <strong><a href="mailto:coni@pg.gda.pl">coni@pg.gda.pl</a> </strong><br> Place: building of ETI Faculty , room 232</font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" width="465"> <tr> <td width="457" height="232"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><big><a name="The main area">The main area</a> of my interest</big></big> are combinatorial problems for which the solution may be reached by fusion of theoretical study and computations. In particular I spent quite a long time (including Ph.D. thesis) on Ramsey Theory with continuos and significant stimulation from <strong><a href="http://www.cs.rit.edu/~spr">Staszek Radziszowski</a>. </strong>Graph Theory is a wider area spanning 90% of my scientific researches.</font><p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Another part of my activity concerns applications of computer since and technology for calculating, storing and managing of economic and financial data - especially time series. </font></p> <p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Some of <a href="refer.htm"><strong>references to my publications</strong></a> are listed on separate page. Probably the most interesting case is </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="457" height="44"><p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><big>30 <= <em>R</em>(3,3,4) <= 31 </big></big></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="457" height="69"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">which is the smallest unknown classical multicolor Ramsey number. </font><p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Another new result (common work with Radziszowski and Urbanski) is establishing the exact value of Folkman number </font><a href="http://www.eti.pg.gda.pl/~coni/SPort18.ps"><font color="#FFA000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong><small>(paper in postscript)</small></strong></font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">:</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="457" height="38"><p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><big><em>F</em>(3,3;5) = 15 </big></big></font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p> </p> <p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a name="Schedule"><big><big>Schedule</big></big></a> (03-2001 ... 09-2001)</font></p> <table border="2" cellSpacing="0" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#C0C0C0" height="149" width="469" background="bgr-grad.gif"> <tbody> <tr> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="40" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><small><strong>Mo</strong></small></font></td> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="421"></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="40" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><small><strong>Tu</strong></small></font></td> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="421"></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="40" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><small><strong>We</strong></small></font></td> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="421"></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="40" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><small><strong>Thu</strong></small></font></td> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="421"></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="40" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><small><strong>Fri</strong></small></font></td> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="421"></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="center" height="30" width="461" align="center" colspan="2"><font color="#000000"><p align="left"></font><strong><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#FF8080">(Disc. Math.,</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#FFFF80"> </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#80FF80">Automata Theory,</font><font color="#BEE4F8"> </font><font color="#FFFF00">Cryptography,</font><font color="#B0DCFF"> Consultations)</font></font></strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a name="Miscellaneous"><big><big>Outside university</big></big></a></font> <i> </i> </body>