Krystyna Skórnik, Assistant Professor



Ph. D. January 1971 – at the Silesian University in Katowice for the doctor thesis “Hereditarily Periodic dstributions”. The Doctor Thesis was supervised by Professor Jan Mikusiński.

Professional interests:

  1. Mikusiński’s operational calculus and theory of distributions – Mikusiński’s sequentional approach.

  2. Applications of Mikusiński’s operational calculus to the theory of linear differential equations and

to the theory of special functions as well as to obtaining some functional relations with orthogonal polynomials.

  1. Different kinds of derivatives, eg. local derivatives, Sobolev’s derivatives, tempered derivatives of nonnegative order.


Publications:

I am the author (or co-author) of more then 60 publications, articles in prestigious Polish and foreign journals, 2 text-books (in Polish) for students of the Silesian Technical University. I am the co-author (with H.-J.Glaeske, A.P. Prudnikov) of the book: “Operational Calculus and Related Topics”, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York, 2006. I was the editor of the anniversary volume “Half of the century of mathematics in Upper Silesia”, Publishing House of the Silesian University in Katowice, 2003.


Selected publications:

Organizational activity

I have participated in organization of numerous scientific conferences, including organizing international conferences “Different Aspect of Differentiability” (1993, 1995) and “Algebraic Analysis and Related Topics” (1999) together with Prof. Danuta Przeworska- Rolewicz, at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw .

For many years I have organized mathematical competitions for secondary school pupils, organized and worked for the mathematical circles, organized scientific lectures for secondary school students and teachers in the Silesia region.

Memberships:

Since 1963 - Member of the Polish Mathematical Society.

Since 1995 till now - Chairperson of the Polish Mathematical Society, Uppersilesian Branch.


Medals

I was awarded medals for special achievements on the field of education and for work with gifted secondary school students:


e-mail <skornik@us.edu.pl>