Status

Moved to Dublin

9 Jan 2oo9: Since Oct 2oo8 I have been finishing my PhD at UCD in rainy Dublin in Ireland under the supervising of Lorraine Hanlon. The thesis topic has been slightly shifted to INTEGRAL and simulations of weak gamma-ray burst population. Hooray, I am back to astronomy!

For those who would like to read my Dubliner's blog in Czech please visit an external link toastmaker.blogspot.com

Articles

Home floods - personal sad story in Czech about how we lost our flat over night due to malicous work done on the roof

11 Oct 2oo7 (in Czech): jak přijít ze dne na den o střechu nad hlavou... firma TipIzol nám zcela zničila při rekonstrukci střechy domu náš byt - přátelé, vyhněte se jí­ a panu Kopčilovi velikým obloukem! Názorně k vidění na youtube (omluvte prosím sníženou kvalitu obrazu, pro větší autentičnost doporučuji zapnout zvuk):

• výsledek devastující­ práce paznehtů z TipIzolu 

• zmar, zlost, zoufalství

Otevřený dopis všem redakcím je zde. 

 Scientifical stuff

Astrophysics

Objectives

Gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, numerical simulation, magnetohydrodynamics, data visualization, X-ray and gamma-ray data analysis from INTEGRAL.

Publications

• ADS entries

• CRo Leonardo: Pulsary - vesmírné majáky  

Recent conferences

• Amsterdam, Mar 2007: INTEGRAL GRBs from the edge of SPI

• Venice, Jun 2006: First steps in simulation of magnetic field dissipation in gamma-ray bursts, Search for correlations between BATSE GRBs and supernovae
  

Blackbox

Developing non-relativistic resistive MHD finite grid numerical code, accuracy of 6th order in space, 3rd order Runge-Kutta predictor-corrector time integration, parallelized, highly customized, stabilized mainly by quenching hyper-diffusion operator. It is capable to solve a set of MHD equations in expanding co-moving coordinates similar to Hubble expansion.

Animation of 2D magnetic field reconnection calculated in blackbox

PhD thesis

in preparation

Personal pleasures

Hobbies

Floorball, snowboard,  Shadowrun, cuisine, photography, traveling.

Places (since Dec 2006)