Program:

• What are critical phenomena and why do we study them?
• Phase transitions, critical points and critical lines
• Microscopic modeling of systems
• Solution of the two-dimensional ising model
• Universality
• Dilatation symmetry of critcal systems
• Role of symmetry in the study of phase transitions
• Some research directions not included in this series of lectures

EDUCATION

1969: Master in Theoretical Physics, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland
1977: Ph. D. Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1973 - 1974: Gdansk Polytechnical University, Poland
1974 -1979: Gdansk University, Poland
1979 - 1982: Oran University, Algeria
1982 - Metz University, Lorraine University, France

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

• Quantum and classical Heisenberg models
• Numerical calculations of extinction angles for birefringence as a function of liquid velocity gradient
• Birefringence in solutions undergoing the transition from laminar to Taylor vortex flow
• Theoretical studies of polymer chains in solutions
• Conformal field theory and 2D critical systems
  CFT predictions for new universal properties
  Critical properties at Yang-Lee singularities
• Phase transitions in liquid crystals
  Influence of molecular shape fluctuations on stability of biaxial nematic phase
  Molecular modeling of liquid crystalline phases for bent-core systems

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phase transitions and critical phenomena
Conformal field theory applied to two-dimensional critical systems
Statistical physics of soft matter (polymers, liquid crystals)