☕️About Me
Currently I’m an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw. I’m a low-dimensional topologist specializing in knot theory.
I obtained my PhD in 2015 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań under the supervision of Prof. Krzysztof Pawałowski.
- Low dimensional topology,
- Knot theory – knot concordance and symmetries of knots and links,
- Algebraic invariants of links and three-manifolds coming from twisted homology,
- Quantum and categorified links invariants,
- Surgery theory and its applications to four-manifolds,
PhD in Mathematics
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
MSc in Mathematics
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
My research is focused on low-dimensional topology. I’m interested in the study of symmetries of knots and links. In particular, I’ve been studying applications of homological knot invariants (e.g. Khovanov-Rozansky homology and its variants) to problems concerning symmetries of knots and links.
Recently I’ve been thinking about concordance of knots in the presence of a strong involution and about applications of surgery theory to classification problems of topological four-manifolds.
- E-mail: wpolitarczyk at mimuw dot edu dot pl.
- Office: 5460,
- Address: ul. Banacha 2, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland (entrance from the Pasteur street).
- Office hours: check here.