Affiliation & Contact

1. Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), University of Warsaw (UW), Poland

2. Institute of Physics, Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Piotrowo 3, 60-965 Poznań, Poland

E-mail: michal AT {my_surname} DOT eu

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Research

Mainly focused on:

• ab-initio computational materials science;
• density functional theory (DFT);
• surface electronic structure of solids;
• Dirac materials.

Selected papers:

• M. Elsebach, E. Sierda, J.J. Goedecke, L. Bignardi, M. Hermanowicz, M. Rohde, R. Wiesendanger, M. Bazarnik, In Situ Synthesis of Metal–Salophene Complexes on Intercalated Graphene, J. Phys. Chem. C 124, 7, 4279-4287 (2020).

• M. Bazarnik, M. Abadia, J. Brede, M. Hermanowicz, E. Sierda, M. Elsebach, T. Hänke, and R. Wiesendanger, Atomically resolved magnetic structure of a Gd-Au surface alloy, Phys. Rev. B 99, 174419 (2019).

• M. Hermanowicz, W. Koczorowski, M. Bazarnik, M. Kopciuszynski, R. Zdyb, A. Materna, A. Hruban, R. Czajka, M.W. Radny, Stable bismuth sub-monolayer termination of Bi₂Se₃, Appl. Surf. Sci. 479, 701-705 (2019).

• M. Hermanowicz, M.W. Radny, Iodine Adsorption on Bi₂Se₃ Topological Insulator, Phys. Status Solidi RRL, 1800460 (2018).

• M. Hermanowicz, M.W. Radny, Topological electronic effects in exfoliated thin films of bismuth telluride, Phys. Status Solidi B 254, No. 9, 1700086 (2017).

• M. Hermanowicz, M.W. Radny, Topological electronic states of bismuth selenide thin films upon structural surface defects, Comput. Mater. Sci. 117 (2016) 76-82.

• P.V. Smith, M. Hermanowicz, G.A. Shah, M.W. Radny, Spin–orbit and modified Becke-Johnson potential effects on the electronic properties of bulk Ge: A density functional theory study, Comput. Mater. Sci. 54 (2012) 37-42.

Resources

Teaching materials

[PL] KNFO: Koło Naukowe Fizyki Obliczeniowej

Links & References

Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020: An annual conference on quantum computing, connectome, optical computing, computation studies of brain, neuromorphic computing and microbiome. Organised by ICM and Held in Warsaw, Poland, March 23-26, 2020.

A paper by Collberg et al. on Repeatability and Benefaction in Computer Systems Research: A Study and a Modest Proposal.

On problems with spreadsheets – some interesting notes by Oliver Knill.

Snowden Digital Surveillance Archive: A searchable collection of the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Here's also some background information on global surveillance.

On e-mail encryption and the necessity for digital privacy. See also the following articles: on I've got nothing to hide argument, and on surveillance interfering with democracy.

A handful of reasons to stop being used by Facebook. There is more – a transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's responses to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The document contains a list of information that are being collected by Facebook which even includes your mouse movements (sic) – see e.g. page 86. The hearing took place on April 10, 2018.

Videos from LibrePlanet Conference – run by Free Software Foundation and held annualy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA).

Software Freedom Day at PUT: A seminar at the Faculty of Technical Physics (lecture hall D, 2017-09-26, starting at 9:00). More (in Polish) at www.sfd.put.poznan.pl