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Piotr Kotko


AGH University, Krakow
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science
Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

Strongly Interacting Systems Group

email: piotr.kotko .-at-. fis.agh.edu.pl




Papers (INSPIRE)

++ Projects ++

Scattering Amplitudes
Studying Quantum Chromodynamics
using the MHV Lagrangian


Forward Jets
Event Generator for Forward Jets
at Next-To-Leading-Order in Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics


++ Software ++

LxJet
C++ Monte Carlo program to simulate collisions at low-x


OGIME
Off-shell Gauge Invariant
Matrix Elements


Short CV
I obtained PhD in 2012 at Jagiellonian University (Krakow) in the field of theoretical physics. Between 2012-2014 I was a postdoc at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) in Krakow. Between 2014-2017 I worked at Penn State University, USA, as a postdoc. From 2017-2019 I was an assistant professor (adjunct) back at INP. In december 2019 I obtained habilitation and got permanent associate professor position at AGH University in Krakow, a leading technical university in Poland.

Research interests
I mostly work on strong interactions in the context of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and formal aspects of scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory.

My MsC project concerned non-local chiral quark models, in particular its application in computing non-perturbative soft matrix elements of field correlators used to describe some exclusive processes. My PhD concerned heavy quarks in the context of jet production at NLO and massive collinear factorization (so called ACOT scheme). See my PhD thesis here. My habilitation was related to off-shell gauge invariant scattering amplitudes, essential in description high energy processes with particles produced at small angles (large rapidity).


Teaching
A big part of working at AGH University is teaching. Our Students become experts in technical physics, data analysis for CERN experiments and programming. In addition to general university physics I teach Quantum Mechanics for Computer Physics and PhD program Students, Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. I also taught several IT courses, like object oriented programming and operating systems.