James A. Kwiecinski
Mathematical Modeler and Theorist
About me
I am a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science currently working at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology. Previously, I studied a DPhil in Mathematics at the Oxford Center of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (formerly Oxford Center of Collaborative Applied Mathematics) as a Sir Zelman Cowen Scholar of the General Sir John Monash Scholarship Foundation and Alan Tayler Scholar of Applied Mathematics at St. Catherine's College, Oxford.
I specialize in the mathematical modeling of natural phenomenon, which essentially involves two steps: First, by appealing to physical or phenomenological principles, one writes down a set of mathematical relations that govern how the phenomenon operates then, second, by using mathematical techniques, one gains a deeper understanding into the structure and workings of such models. The direct consequence is that we are now in a better position to explain why the phenomenon works the way that it does. To this end, I study systems from a mechanical perspective and employ tools from the fields of nonlinear dynamics and asymptotic analysis to mathematically attack problems.
Publications
J. Kwiecinski, S. J. Chapman, and A. Goriely, 2017, "Self-assembly of a filament by curvature-inducing proteins", Physica D, doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2016.12.001
J. A. Kwiecinski and R. A. Van Gorder, 2018, "Dynamics of nearly parallel interacting vortices", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.792
J. A. Kwiecinski, A. Kovacs, A. L. Krause, F. B. Planella, and R. A. Van Gorder, 2018, "Chaotic dynamics in the planar gravitational many-body problem with rigid body rotations", International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, doi.org/10.1142/S0218127418300136
J. A. Kwiecinski, A. L. Krause, and R. A. Van Gorder, 2018, "Effects of tidal torques on 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua)", Icarus, doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.04.005
J. A. Kwiecinski, S. W. Biber, and R. A. Van Gorder, 2019, "Chaotic rotations of ellipsoidal celestial bodies in periodic orbits", International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, doi.org/10.1142/S0218127419300180
R. A. Van Gorder, A. L. Krause, and J. A. Kwiecinski, 2019, "Generic amplitude death in coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau systems", Nonlinear Dynamics, doi.org/10.1007/s11071-019-04961-3
S. D. Janssens, D. Vázquez-Cortés, A. Giussani, J. A. Kwiecinski, E. Fried, 2019, "Nanocrystalline Diamond-Glass Platform for the Development of Three-Dimensional Micro- and Nanodevices", Diamond and Related Materials, doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2019.107511
S. D. Janssens, B. Sutisna, A. Giussani, J. A. Kwiecinski, D. Vázquez-Cortés, E. Fried, 2020, "Boundary curvature effect on the wrinkling of thin suspended films", Applied Physics Letters, doi.org/10.1063/5.0006164
J. A. Kwiecinski, 2020, "Relaxation of Viscoelastic Tumblers with Application to 1I/2017 (`Oumuamua) and 4179 Toutatis", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1933
J. A. Kwiecinski, A. Goriely, S. J. Chapman, 2020, "Interactions of anisotropic inclusions on a fluid membrane", (Accepted to SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics)