CURRICULUM VITAE

Leszek Piatkiewicz


UNC Pembroke
Mathematics & Computer Science
Pembroke, NC 28372 - 1510
Voice: (910) 521 - 6412
Email: leszek@uncp.edu
URL: http://leszek.uncp.edu

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Education
Work experience
Research Interests
Papers
Talks
Grants and Awards
References


EDUCATION

Computer Science

1993-1996
Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
M.S. in Computer Science in May 1996.
Thesis: On the Construction of a Bayesian Network for Agricultural Loan Assessment
Thesis advisor: Marco Valtorta

Mathematics

1989-1994
Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Ph.D. in Mathematics in August 1994.
Dissertation: Paracompact subspaces in box product topology
and the equivalence of certain consequences of the PFA.
Dissertation advisor: Peter Nyikos

1978-1983
Department of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland..
M.S. in Mathematics in June 1983.
Thesis advisor: Roman Pol

High School

1974-1978
XIV Warsaw High, Warsaw, Poland..


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

8/2001-present
Associate Professor,Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, UNC Pembroke.

8/1994-8/2001
Assistant Professor,Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, UNC Pembroke.
Courses taught include:
Introduction to Computers, Foundations of Computing, Introduction to Programming - C, Programming and Algorithms I, Programming and Algorithms II, Data Structures, Programming Languages, Finite Automata, Translators and Compilers, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Systems Analysis and Design Project, Database Management Systems, Current Topics in Computers in Education, Modeling and Analysis of Natural Systems.

1/1989-8/1994
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina.
Courses taught include:
Discrete Mathematics, Precalculus, Calculus I, Finite Mathematics, Algebra and Trigonometry, Elementary Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics I (graduate).

10/1983-12/1988
Instructor, Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw at Bialystok, Poland.
Courses taught include:
Introduction to Probability, Topology, Logic and Set Theory, Real Analysis I and II, Differential Equations.


RESEARCH INTERESTS

General Topology, Set Theory, Mathematical Logic, Artificial Intelligence.


PAPERS

Paracompact subspaces in the box product topology,
(with Peter Nyikos) Proceedings of the AMS 124 (1996), 303-314.

On the equivalence of certain consequences of the Proper Forcing Axiom,
(with Peter Nyikos) The Journal of Symbolic Logic 60 (1995) 431-443.

Closed embeddings of completely metrizable spaces into universal spaces,
(with Wojciech Olszewski) Glasnik Matematicki 27 (47) (1992), 175-181.

A remark about separation of K-analytic sets in the product spaces,
Proceedings of the AMS 93 (1985), 363-366.


TALKS GIVEN AT CONFERENCES

January 1994 Joint AMS-MAA Meeting, Cincinnati, OH
(abstract in the Abstracts of Papers Presented to AMS 15 (1))

March 1993 27th Spring Topology Conference, Columbia, SC

January 1993 Joint AMS-MAA Meeting, San Antonio, TX
(abstract in the Abstracts of Papers presented to AMS 14 (1))

October 1989 Southeastern Topology Conference, Durham, NC

May 1986 Open days for Set theory & Arithmetic, Warsaw, Poland
(abstract in The Journal of Symbolic Logic 52 (1987))


GRANTS AND AWARDS

August 1998 1998-1999 Microsoft Academic/Cooperative Instructional Grant
December 1997 1998 Cray Research Grant
February 1997 1997-1998 Microsoft Academic/Cooperative Instructional Grant.
June 1993 University of South Carolina Summer Research Fellowship Award.
May 1993 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Mathematics USC

REFERENCES

Howard Becker, Department of Mathematics, USC, Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-3790 Email: becker@math.sc.edu

Peter Nyikos, Department of Mathematics, USC, Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-5134 Email: nyikos@math.sc.edu

Anton Schep, Department of Mathematics, USC, Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-6190 Email: schep@math.sc.edu

Marco Valtorta, Department of Computer Science, USC, Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-4641 Email: mgv@cse.sc.edu