Título: "Dynamics of a vibrational energy harvester with a bistable laminate"
Palestrante: Professor Grzegorz Litak, Institute for Technological Systems of Information, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Poland
DATA: 23/10/2015 (sexta-feira)
HORÁRIO: 15:00h
LOCAL: Auditório Luiz Carlos Martins, Bloco I, sala I-241, Programa de Engenharia Mecânica, COPPE/UFRJ.
Short Biography:
Grzegorz Litak completed his M.Sc. degree in physics at Maria Curie Skodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland in 1988. Later, working on the effect of disorder on correlated and exotic superconductors, he received his Ph.D (1994) and D.Sc (2002) degrees from the same University. His theoretical studies included novel triplet superconductors and the effect of spin-orbit coupling on a superconducting state. After defending his Ph.D thesis (1994) he moved to Lublin University of Technology where he is presently working as a professor. From that time he also started his research on mechanical engineering, production engineering, and nonlinear dynamics. He focused on bifurcation theory, chaotic dynamics and nonlinear time series analysis. Recently, he was also involved in research on mechanical energy harvesting, focusing on frequency broadband effects. G. Litak published over 250 papers including about 150 in international journals. Presently, he is a member of the Polish Physical Society, the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He was associate editor of the Journal of Applied Sciences (2008-2011) and now he is an associate editor of the Open Applied Physics, and Journal of Chaos.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND EXPERTISE:
* M.Sc., Lublin 1988 Physics, Maria Curie Sklodowska University
* Ph.D., Lublin 1994 Theoretical Physics, Maria Curie Sklodowska University
* D.Sc., (habilitation), Lublin 2002, Solid State Physics, Maria Curie Sklodowska University
* Professor Title (from the President of Poland) in the field of Engineering and Technical Sciences
Warsaw 2014