Research

Jerzy’s research focuses on algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and finite-dimensional algebras, with particular emphasis on their structural aspects.

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Books

Jerzy is the author or co-author of two books exploring the field in which he specializes.

J. Weyman – Cohomology of Vector Bundles and Syzygies (2003)

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J. Weyman, H. Derksen – Introduction to Quiver Representations (2017)

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Awards & Grants

Research Prizes

J. Wacławek Prize, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences – for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis (1981)
Prize of the Polish Mathematical Society for young mathematicians – for papers published in 1979–1982 (1982)
M. Wacławek Prize, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences (1982)
Kuratowski Prize, Polish Mathematical Society (joint with Piotr Pragacz) (1983)
Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt-Forschungspreis) (2012)
Simons Research Professorship, MSRI (2013)
Wacław Sierpiński Medal and Lecture, Polish Mathematical Society and University of Warsaw (2015)
Banach Prize, Polish Mathematical Society – for scientific achievement (2021)
Władysław Orlicz Medal and Memorial Lecture, Polish Mathematical Society and Adam Mickiewicz University (2025)

Grants

NSF Grant DMS-8702809 – Research in Commutative Algebra and Invariant Theory (1989)
NSF Grant DMS-8903466 – Research in Commutative Algebra (1991)
NSF Grant DMS-9102432 – Mathematical Sciences: Research in Commutative Algebra (1994)
NSF Grant DMS-9403703 – Syzygies of Special Varieties (1997)
NSF Grant DMS-9700884 – Varieties Related to Algebraic Group Actions (2000)
NSF Grant DMS-0070658 – Applications of Representations of Quivers (2003)
NSF Grant DMS-0300064 – Applications of Quiver Representations (2006)
NSF Grant DMS-0600229 – Geometric Aspects of Quiver Representations (2009)
NSF Grant DMS-0901185 (2014)
NAWA POWROTY Grant PPN/PPO/2018/1/00013/U/00001 – Applications of Lie Algebras to Commutative Algebra (2018)
NCN OPUS Grant UMO-2018/29/BST1/01290 (2018)
NSF Grant DMS-1400740 (2018)
NCN MAESTRO Grant UMO-2019/34/A/ST1/00263 – Research in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory (2019)
NSF Grant DMS-1802067 (2021)

Associates

Collaborators

Ela Çelikbaş (West Virginia University)
Lars W. Christensen (Texas Tech University)
Harm Derksen (Northeastern University)
David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley)
Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis University)
J. M. Landsberg (Texas A&M University)
Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Connecticut)
Xianglong Ni (University of California, Berkeley)
Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame)
Steven V. Sam (University of California, San Diego)
Gordana Todorov (Northeastern University)
Oana Veliche (Northeastern University)
Andrei Zelevinsky (Northeastern University)

Postdocs

Olgur Çelikbaş (West Virginia University)
Sara Filippini (Jagiellonian University)
Özhan Genç (Jagiellonian University)
Lorenzo Guerrieri (Jagiellonian University)
Ryan Kinser (University of Iowa)
Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame)
Jacinta Torres (Jagiellonian University)
Xian Wu (Jagiellonian University)

Former PhD Students

András Lőrincz (University of Oklahoma)
Steven Lovett (Wheaton College)
Steven V. Sam (University of California, San Diego)
Kavita Sutar (Chennai Mathematical Institute)
Gufang Zhao (University of Melbourne)