Karol Palka

Associate Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences


 
Research projects:

OPUS 21 (2021/41/B/ST1/02062 NCN):
Effective methods in affine and birational geometry

SONATA BIS 5 (2015/18/E/ST1/00562 NCN)
Modern methods in complex affine geometry

IUVENTUS PLUS (IP2012 038272 MNiSW)
Varieties and subvarieties of non-general type and their role in
degeneration phenomena

HOMING PLUS (2012-6/9 FNP)
Embeddings and automorphisms of low-dimensional rational varieties

SONATA (2012/05/D/ST1/03227 NCN):
The geometry of contractible low-dimensional affine varieties

Habilitation (2018, with honors)

"The almost minimal model program and the Coolidge-Nagata
conjecture" ("Program modeli niemal minimalnych i hipoteza Coolidge'a-
Nagaty")

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referees' reports: recenzje

Prizes and distinctions

(2017) Wacław Sierpiński Prize

"For a generalization of the theory of almost minimal models and its
application to the proof of the Coolidge-Nagata conjecture”

Awarded by the Department of Exact and Earth Sciences of the Polish
Academy o Sciences

(2012-15) Homing Plus scholarship

Awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science

My students' achievements:

(2021) Jarosław Ławnicki, Second Prize in the Marcinkiewicz competition
for a student paper in mathematics

(2018) Jakub Pawlikowski, First Prize in the Marcinkiewicz competition
for a student paper in mathematics

(2015) Tomasz Pełka, First Prize in the Marcinkiewicz competition for a
student paper in mathematics

Memberships

Polish Young Academy (Chair 2019-21, Member 2016-2021)

Committee of Mathematics

Committee of Physics

Kuratowski Award (Chair 2021, Jury Member 2019-22)