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Curiculum Vitae of Rudolf Dvorak
date of birth |
February 26th 1946 |
place of birth |
Freistadt (Upper Austria) |
1952 - 1964 |
elementary and high
school in Vienna |
1964 |
Majoring in Vienna |
1966 - 1974 |
University studies in
Vienna: mathematics, physics, philosophy and as main subject astronomy |
1972 April 24th |
Ph.D. (Astronomy) |
1972/1973 |
Center for Nuclear
studies, Seibersdorf, Austria |
1973-1984 |
postdoctoral position at
the University in Graz, Austria |
1974/1975 |
Bureau des Longitudes, Paris |
1977 |
Habilitation in Graz |
1984 |
Assistant professor at
the Institute of Astronomy, Vienna |
1989 Sep./Oct. |
Guest professor at the
University of Florida, Gainesville |
1990-1995 |
Vice-director of the
Institute of Astronomy, Vienna |
since 1991 |
Associate professor at
the Institute of Astronomy, Vienna |
since 1994 |
Head of the
Astro Dynamics Group (ADG) |
1994 Sep./Oct. |
Guest professor at the
University of Nanjing, China |
1995/1996 |
Guest professor at the
University of Florida, Gainesville |
1997 Feb. |
Bureau des Longitudes, Paris |
2000 Sep./Oct. |
DANOF, Observatoire de Paris |
2001 Oct./Nov. |
IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris |
Scientific Memberships and Activities
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International
Astronomical Union (IAU)
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Scientific organizing
committee of IAU commission 7 (Celestial Mechanics)
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Associate editor of
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
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Referee for the main
journals in astronomy: eg.
- Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Planetary and Space Science
- Monthly Notices
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Organizer of the
following international colloquia
- 5 Alexander von Humboldt Colloquia for Celestial Mechanics
(1984,1988,1992,1996,2000, Austria)
- Perturbation Theory and Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamics with
Emphasis to Celestial Mechanics (1995, Universidade da Madeira)
- Modern Astrometry and Astrodynamics (1998, University of Vienna)
- 3 Austrian-Hungarian Workshops on Trojans and related
Topics (1999,2000,2002, Vienna and Budapest)
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Main international
collaboration (with recent common publications)
- E. Bois (Bordeaux)
- J. Chapront (Paris)
- G. Contopoulos (Athens)
- Cl. Froeschlé (Nice)
- S. Ferraz-Mello (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro)
- J. Hagel (CERN)
- J. Kallrath (BASF)
- L. Kiseleva-Eggleton (CA,USA)
- Y.S. Sun (Nanjing)
- H. Varvoglis (Thessaloniki)
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European and Austrian
Scientific Projects
- Human Capital and Mobility (1993-1995)
- FWF (Austrian Science Foundation) projects during the last 10 years
- Amade programme (Nice)
- Sokrates: exchange of professors (Thessaloniki)
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contributed papers and
invited lectures in about 100 international conferences during the
last 25 years
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contributed papers and
about 100 published papers (about 40 in refereed journals)
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Teaching Experience
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Since 1975 I am
lecturing at university level for graduate and undergraduate: at the
universities of Graz (until 1984) and Vienna (sice 1980) and the
technical university of Vienna:
- Stellar atmospheres
- Stellar structure and evolution
- Cosmology
- Double stars
- Celestial Mechanics
- Physics of the planetary systems
- Mathematical methods of astronomy
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Up to now I graduated
some 10 PhD students
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