prof. RNDr. Oldřich Kowalski, DrSc

Prof., RNDr., DrSc.
Born June 19, 1936 in Brno

Differential geometry
Member of Learned Society since 1998

Educational and professional preparation:

• 1959 graduate, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno

Employment and academic positions:

• 1959-1963, assistant lecturer;
• 1963-1967, lecturer;
• 1968-1969, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Technology in Brno;
• 1967-1968, one-year contract, Military Technical College, Cairo (lectures in mathematics for students of pedagogy);
• 1969-1970, research fellow, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University (FMP CU);
• 1970-1991, Associate Professor of mathematics, FMP CU;
• 1973-1976, Vice-Dean, scientific affairs, FMP CU;
• 1992-2001, Professor of mathematics, FMP CU, member, Scientific Council, FMP CU;
• September 2001-present, half-time professor at FMP CU

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies:

• 1971-2001, editor-in-chief, Advances in mathematics, physics and astronomy (popularisation journal)
• 2001-present, active, central bodies, Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists
• 1991-present, member, working group, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Accreditation Commission of Czech Republic
• 1992-1998, member, working group, Grant Agency of CR (GA CR)
• Long-time member, specialized commission for granting DrSc.
• Member (till 2004), Scientific Council, Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University, Opava
• 2000-2003, member, Supervisory Board, GA CU

Membership and positions in international organizations and societies:

• Member, American Mathematical Society (till 2001)
• Editor-in-chief, Differential Geometry and its Applications (Elsevier)
• Member, journal, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Kluwer)

Important awards:

• 1978, Faculty Medal, FMP CU, Class II
• 1978, Distinguished Member, Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists
• 1996, Faculty Medal, FMP CU, Class I
• 1993, Honorary Member, Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists
• 2001, Silver Medal, Silesian University
• 2002, Title Professor Emeritus, Charles University
• 2002, Honorary Member, Scientific Council, FMP CU

Selection of publications:

• O. Kowalski: Generalized Symmetric Spaces. In: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 805. Springer, 1980; Russian translation, MIR, Moscow 1984
• E. Boeckx, O. Kowalski, L. Vanhecke: Riemannian manifolds of conullity two.
• World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, 1996, 300 pp.
• O. Kowalski: Additive volume invariants of Riemannian manifolds. Acta Mathematica 145, 205-225 (1980)
• O. Kowalski, L. Vanhecke: Opérateurs différentiels invariants et symétries géodesiques préservant le volume. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 296, Série I, 1001-1003 (1983)
• O. Kowalski, L. Vanhecke: G-deformations and some generalizations of H. Weyl’s tube theorem. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 294 (2), April 1986, 799-811
• O. Kowalski, F. Tricerri, L. Vanhecke: Curvature homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. J. Math. Pures Appl. 71, 1992, 471-501
• O. Kowalski, Z. Vlášek: Homogeneous Einstein metrics on Aloff-Wallach spaces. Diff. Geometry and Appl. 3 (1993), 157-167
• E. Boeckx, O. Kowalski, L. Vanhecke: Non-homogeneous relatives of symmetric spaces. Diff. Geom. and Appl. 4 (1994), 45-69
• O. Kowalski, F. Prüfer, L. Vanhecke: D’Atri spaces. In: Topics in Geometry, In memory of Joseph D’Atri, Birkhäuser, 1996, 241-284
• O. Kowalski, M. Sekizawa: On Tangent Sphere Bundles with Small or Large Constant Radius. Ann. Global. Anal. Geom. 18 (special issue dedicated to A. Gray), 207-219 (2000)