Damian Sawicki
I am a postdoc in the Analysis Group of Prof. Stefaan Vaes at the Department of Mathemathics of KU Leuven. Previously, for two years I was a visiting postdoctoral researcher in Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. I did my PhD in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Piotr W. Nowak at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN).
My research interests lie within geometric and analytic group theory and metric geometry and their interactions with operator algebras, index theory, and dynamical systems. For more details, you can find my publication list below.
Apart from BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in mathematics, I hold a BSc in computer science from the University of Warsaw, so I always gladly review for MathSciNet publications with an algorithmic flavour.
My co-authors include: Goulnara Arzhantseva from Vienna, Dawid Kielak from Oxford, Tim de Laat from Münster, William Geller and Michał Misiurewicz from Indianapolis, Kang Li from Erlangen, Massoud Amini and Ali Shakibazadeh from Teheran, Jianchao Wu from Shanghai, and Piotr Nowak from Warsaw.
Publications and preprints
For more details, you can have a look at a list of my works uploaded to arxiv containing titles and abstracts. You may also wish to flip through my thesis.
Two conjectures on coarse conjugacy by Geller and Misiurewicz
Preprint (arxiv)Spectral gap and origami expanders
with Goulnara Arzhantseva, Dawid Kielak, and Tim de Laat
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, to appear (arxiv)Coarse entropy of metric spaces
with William Geller and Michał Misiurewicz
Preprint (arxiv)Dynamic asymptotic dimension for actions of virtually cyclic groups
with Massoud Amini, Kang Li, and Ali Shakibazadeh
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 64 (2021) no. 2, 364–372 (journal | arxiv)MPIM Preprint
with Massoud Amini and Ali Shakibazadeh (preprint)
Warped cones violating the coarse Baum–Connes conjecture
(draft version, see also Chapter 9 of my thesis)Extended abstract in: Mini-workshop: superexpanders and their coarse geometry, Oberwolfach Reports 15 (2018), no. 2, 1117–1160 (report)
Warped cones, (non-)rigidity, and piecewise properties
with a joint appendix with Dawid Kielak
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 118 (2019), no. 4, 753–786 (journal | arxiv)A short note on the equivalence of coarse amenability at infinity and piecewise property A
unpublished note (2021) relating a notion from the above to coarse amenability at infinity of T. Pillon (pdf)
Straightening warped cones
with Jianchao Wu
Journal of Topology and Analysis 13 (2021), no. 4, pp. 933–957 (journal | arxiv)Super-expanders and warped cones
Annales de l'Institut Fourier 70 (2020), no. 4, pp. 1753–1774 (journal | arxiv)Warped cones and spectral gaps
with Piotr W. Nowak
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 145 (2017), no. 2, 817–823 (journal | arxiv)Warped cones over profinite completions
Journal of Topology and Analysis 10 (2018), no. 3, 563–584 (journal | arxiv)On equivariant asymptotic dimension
Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics 11 (2017), no. 3, 977–1002 (journal | arxiv)Remarks on coarse triviality of asymptotic Assouad–Nagata dimension
Topology and its Applications 167 (2014), 69–75 (journal | arxiv)
Teaching
I am not teaching at the moment. I had a purely research position at the MPIM, but taught during MSc and PhD studies:
fall 2016/2017, Linear Algebra, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
spring 2015/2016, Mathematical Analysis II, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
spring 2014/2015, Mathematics (calculus), Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw
fall 2013/2014, Topology I*, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw (grading), materials (in Polish)
Miscellanea
You can find me at Google Scholar (which is the number one tool for tracing citations in the preprint era) and ORCID (assigning unique identifiers to researchers so that I am not confused with a computer scientist from Białystok with the same name and surname). I also recommend acquiring an arXiv author id, so that you can link to a website like this one instead of relying on the arXiv search feature. On websites MathSciNet (subscription only) and Zentralblatt (open access since 2021!) you can retrieve citation data of published works (their main goal is to provide author-independent reviews or summaries, which also happen to be very useful). At times, you can also find me at LinkedIn. I agree with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), even though I am aware that implementing these principles may be elusive.
You can find some more information (attended events, talks given, and slides or posters) from the period of my PhD studies on my old webpage.
Contact
E-mail: initial-surname-at-impan-dot-pl (omit all hyphens)
Postal address:
Department of Mathematics
KU Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 200b - box 2400
B-3001 Leuven
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