Jacek Ciborowski
Witam na swojej stronie! Welcome to my (trilingual) page! Salut!
My coordinates:
Warsaw University
,
Department of Physics
Hoza 69, 00681 Warszawa, Poland
tel. +48 22 5532378 (office) +48 22 5532271 (secretary) -- email address:
cib@fuw.edu.pl
You may contact me in Polish, French, English or Russian, also German, Italian and Hebrew.
Vous pouvez me contacter en polonais, francais, anglais ou russe, aussi allemand ou italien.
About myself... a profiled CV
Selected important events which influenced my life and led me to the point that I am who I am (in chronological order):
My grandfather survived the
Polish-Bolshevik war in 1920
(like other students of the Warsaw Polytechnic, he volunteered)
My father survived
Auschwitz and Mauthausen
in 1944/45
My birth in October 1950
La premi'ere le,con du fran,cais 'a l'age de 6 ans
The first piano lesson at 7
Survived lessons of the Polish language and history at school
(toutes proportions gard'ees)
Pierwsza dziewczyna na koloniach (1963) - "Wiewiorka"
Acquired knowledge of English at 13
Rozpowszechnilem "Decameron" w liceum
Decision to study physics (at 16) and not: languages (this you can always learn by yourself) and music (I only regret I could not do that parallel to physics)
Bardzo interesujace wydarzenie w 1968
4 semesters of mathematical analysis with Prof. K. Maurin -- enriched and folded the grey matter in my brain into infinite dimensional manifolds (one hemisphere)
2 semesters of quantum mechanics with Prof. I. Bialynicki-Birula -- almost as above (the other hemisphere)
A book of Frisch and Thorndike "Elementary particles" which I read as a II year student and became convinced that I wanted to study elementary particles
I narrowly escaped breaking my neck in a ski accident impacting a tree in December 1970 (on the 31st, ropeway car number: 13)
Bardzo ciekawe wydarzenie w 1973
Started my work at the Physics Department UW in 1973
Learned to play guitar at 25 (Durham, England)
Interesujace wydarzenie w 1980
1980-1982 w
CERN (Genewa)
: kupilem sobie wiewiorke
My son Franek is born in 1984
Wielkie wydarzenie w 1986
My son Stas is born in 1993
Niezmiernie interesujace wydarzenie w 1994
Wyjatkowo wielkie wydarzenie w 2000
... perhaps will be continued
Wybrane wydarzenia, w ktorych nie uczestniczylem:
Wydarzenia marcowe w 1968 r. -- studentem zostalem w pazdzierniku
Wydarzenia 1980 r. i pozniej -- przebywalem wtedy w Genewie
Nie bylem czlonkiem PZPR (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza) ani ZMS (Zwiazek Mlodziezy Socjalistycznej) ani SZSP (Socjalistyczny Zwiazek Studentow Polskich) ani zadnym innym czlonkiem
Fragment mojej ulubionej piosenki o organizacjach politycznych znajduje sie
tutaj.
Entertainment muess sein! - powiedzial Herr Jaschtschur i udal sie do Powroznikow.
Herr Jaschtschur, po dlugim czasie uzywania wylacznie klawiatury, gdy w koncu wzial do reki pioro to ku swemu zdziwieniu zauwazyl, iz zmienil mu sie charakter pisma recznego. Przyczyne tego stanu rzeczy upatrywal w tym, ze zapomnial jak nalezy pioro trzymac. Powiedzial wiec do siebie:"JTWSP" oraz "AJSJDW" i powrocil, jesli tak mozna rzec, na lono klawiatury, co bylo szczegolnie pikantne w kontexcie tej drugiej wypowiedzi.
Zima Herr Jaschtschur poluje na sople.
Teaching and research
Teaching:
Warsaw University
Lodz University
supervising M.Sc and Ph.D. theses
teaching at Lodz University School of Physics (Studencki Oboz naukowy)
1999 - Lubiewo (Pomorze)
2000 -
Krynica
2001 - Leba
2002 - Karpacz
2003 - Zakopane
2004 - Niedzica
Research (and interests):
DESY, Hamburg
ZEUS Experiment at DESY (leading the Warsaw/Lodz Group)
International Linear Collider (ILC)
Backing Calorimeter, in particular muon detection -- please refer to
BAC Group Home Page
for more details.
diffractive phenomena
experimental aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics
light cone wave function of the photon
Starting the TESLA project -- the microvertex detector (MVD) Warsaw/Lodz group
Neutrinos (interest)
Quantum Mechanics (interest)
Nonlocality, Bell inequalities, causality, EPR and other paradoxes (latest experiments), QM and a preferred frame
Can particles faster than light exist?
At least there exists a causal theory of tachyons (J. Rembielinski).
See also: Tritium decay and the hypothesis of tachyonic neutrinos, J. Ciborowski and J. Rembielinski, Eur. Phys. J. C8 (1999) 157.
administration: writing applications, projects, reports etc.
and some
other
issues.
Other activities and interests
Music
I play piano. So if you play an instrument or sing, why don't you get in touch with me? We could at least have a conversation.
Je joue du piano. Si vous jouez ou chantez vous-meme -- contactez moi. Nous pourrions au moins en parler.
Poetry
If you are interested in poetry -- contact me too, not only in the case you happen to write yourself...
La physique n'est qu'une partie de la vie. La poesie en est une autre. Si vous l'aimez aussi, pourquoi ne me donner pas un coup de fil/mail? Pas seulement en cas ou vous ecrivez vous meme...
A titre d'essai, ici on peut trouver ma traduction vers le polonais du poeme de Baudelaire: "Le coucher du soleil romantique".
In order to give you a feeling, you may find my translation of Baudelaire's poem (from French) into Polish :
here
We could talk even if you can do it better...
Languages, in particular writing from the right to the left.
Jokes
M.Sc. students
Jacek Kosiec, Michal Szleper, Kacper Nowicki, Jacek Kuflikowski, Radek Pawlak, Natasza Gronkiewicz, Anna Dobruk, Renata Malczewska, Marcin Sokolowski, Kasia Brodziak, Agnieszka Hermaniuk, Iwona Kowalik, Monika Kaliniecka, Pawel Luzniak, Alicja Muszynska, Pawel Kulinski, Beata Olszewska, Janusz Malka, Michal Wlasenko, Arkadiusz Tyszkiewicz, Kinga Slominska, Urszula Trawinska, Joanna Lipiec
Ph.D. students
Krzysztof Muchorowski - 1998, Grzegorz Grzelak - 1999, Radek Pawlak - gave up in 2001, Barbara Smalska - 2001, Robert Ciesielski - 2004, Justyna Ukleja - 2006, Pawel Luzniak --> 2008, Pawel Kulinski --> 2008, Janusz Malka --> 2008, Lukasz Maczewski --> 2009
Memberships:
Polish Physical Society - no functions
European Physical Society - no functions
ZKJ - known to some of my male classmates only, function held: probably chairman.
Selected curiosities - true stories
In the 70-ties (probably 1977), the times of Gierek, when I was an assistant in the Physics Dept. I attended a "Postgraduate course for the academic staff" which was organised at the Warsaw University. Attendance was by invitation in the very imperative sense of the word: we were told that no promotions were possible should one not complete the course. I completed it and even received a good note (in fact we all received good notes) as well as a diploma (which I have lost). I should perhaps mention that I was not present even on a quarter of lectures: the participation in a given lecture was recorded on a list when the door was not yet closed.
One sunny day in April 1974 me and my colleague took chairs and went up to the roof of the "pavillon'. We were chatting and drinking beer on the occasion of the birth of his first child. Unfortunately, Prof. J. Pniewski spotted us as and we were asked to leave the roof immediately. However the celebration, which lasted for about half an hour, was successful (no consequences).
Another day I was leaving the 'pavillon' going for lunch (I often like to eat alone). Still in the corridor I met someone who was trying to force her company upon me. This made me so angry that I said I had forgotten to take something from my office, went back, closed the door, opened the window, jumped out to the street and I had my lunch alone. Later I thought that was not at all nice.
A true story involving a play of words - in Polish (year 1973). Silnie zakrapiane przyjecie, siedze naprzeciw znanego mecenasa, ktory w stanie bardzo wskazujacym pyta mnie czym my sie tam w tej fizyce zajmujemy. Wyjasniam mu to i owo, w trakcie czego pada z moich ust slowo "kompjuter" gdyz w tamtych czasach dosc czesto tak sie wymawialo ten wyraz (dla podkreslenia uzylem litery "j"). Mecenas natychmiast na to: Mlody czlowieku, czy u was rowniez mowi sie "pocaluj mnie w djupe?"
