Zbigniew Piotrowski

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Youngstown State University

Youngstown, OH 44555

(330) 941 2257

(330) 941 3170 FAX

E-mail: zpiotr@math.ysu.edu

http://people.ysu.edu/~zpiotrowski/

Earned Degrees

Ph.D. University of Wrocław, Poland, 1979

M.S. University of Wrocław, Poland, 1976

Professional Positions

1995 - present, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Youngstown State University

1988 - 1995 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Youngstown

State University

1984 - 1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Youngstown

State University; Tenured 1988

1982 - 1984 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Auburn University

September 1981 - 1982 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, John Carroll University

March 1981 - August 1981 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Cleveland State University

1980 - March 1983 Assistant Professor, Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław, Poland

1978 - 1980 Senior Assistant, Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław, Poland

1977 - 1978 Assistant, Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław, Poland

1976 - 1977 Junior Assistant, Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław, Poland

Professional Expertise

General Topology and Real Functions; especially separate versus joint continuity, quasi-continuity of

functions, Blumberg and Baire spaces, closed graph theorem, product topologies and metric preserving

functions.

Professional and Academic Honors and Awards

Youngstown State University Distinguished Professor in Research Award -- 1991-92, 1997-98 and 2007 - 2008

Youngstown State University Research Professorship -- 1985-86, 1988-89, 1993-94, 1996-97, 2001-02, 2004-2005 and 2010-2011

Youngstown State University Research Council grants -- several grants in the years 1985-95

Youngstown State University Sabbatical Leaves - 1991-1992, 1999-2000 and 2007-2008

Award of the Provost of the University of Wrocław for distinguished research -- 1980

Award of the Provost of the University of Wrocław for distinguished teaching -- 1980

Award of the Provost of the University of Wrocław for distinguished research -- 1977

Nationally and Internationally Significant Professional Service

Current professional assignments:

Referee: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (since 1986), Real Analysis Exchange

(since 1986), Mathematica Slovaca (since 1989), International Journal of Mathematics

and Mathematical Sciences (since 1988), Topology and Its Applications (since 1995)

Reviewer: Mathematical Reviews (since 1980), Zentralblatt für Mathematik (since 1988)

Translator: London Mathematical Society (Russian Math. Surveys; since 1981), American

Mathematical Society (since 1985)

Contributor: Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (Kluwer Academic Publishers)

Regionally Significant Professional Service

Organization of a seminar series:

1985 - present, Abstract Analysis Seminar, YSU Math Dept.

Organization of conferences at YSU, attended by foreign and American scholars:

March 2009 International Symposium on General Topology and Abstract Analysis

April 2006 Symposium on General Topology and Abstract Analysis

March 2001 Symposium on General Topology and Abstract Analysis

October 1997 Mini-Conference on Abstract Analysis

March 1996 Mini-Conference on Abstract Analysis

March 1995 Symposium on Abstract Analysis

March 1994 Graduate Students’ Colloquium Mathematicum

March 1994 Mini-Conference on Topology and Related Areas

March 1993 Symposium on Abstract Analysis

February 1986 Mini-Conference on Probability and Related Areas

May 1985 The Second Mathematical Conference in Topology and Fuzzy Sets

Current Professional Association Memberships

American Mathematical Society

Ph. D. Thesis Advisor

R. A. Mimna “Continuity and Generalized Continuity in Dynamics and Other Applications” November 2001