Prof. Ing. Peter Lichard, DrSc.

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Prof. Ing. Peter Lichard, DrSc.

Personal Information

Education and academic qualification

  • Master: 1963 Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Technical and Nuclear Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Doctoral: 1970 Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Habilitation: 1980 Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Doctor of Science: 988 Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava
  • Professorship: 1990 Subnuclear Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University in Bratislava

Employment and position

  • Assistant Professor: 1964 – 1975 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
    1975 – 1980 Faculty of Natural Science, Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Associate Professor: 1980 – 1989 Faculty of Math and Physics, Comenius University
  • Professor: 1990-1994 Faculty of Math and Physics, Comenius University Bratislava
  • Professor: 1994 – now Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava
  • Researcher: 2004 – now Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague

Teaching experience

  • Courses:
    Current – Introduction to Particle Physics I (l)
    Past – Quantum Field Theory I, II (l), Introduction to Particle Physics I, II (l.s)
  • Bachelor/Master/Doctoral students: 1/3/5

Research experience

  • Research interests:
    Particle physics: analytic properties of scattering amplitudes, models of multiparticle and dilepton production, weak decays of hadrons, mesoniums
  • Papers in Impact Journals (ADS / WoS): 743 / 96
  • Citations without self-citations (ADS / WoS): 55 938 / 2 127
  • H-index (ADS / WoS): 113 / 23
  • Conference talks > 20
  • Scientific stays abroad:
    • CERN, Visiting Scientist, 1.2.1974-31.1.1975
    • CERN, Paid Scientific Associate, 1.3.-31.8.1987
    • USA, Series of invited lectures, 23.4.–21.6.1989 (U of Pittsburgh, U of Minnesota, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Brookhaven National Lab)
    • University of Pittsburgh 21.8.–20.11.1990
    • University of Minnesota in Minneapolis 21.11.1990–21.2.1991
    • University of Minnesota in Minneapolis 3.6.–21.11.1992
    • University of California in Santa Barbara 30.7.–17.12.1993
    • State University of New York at Stony Brook 1.3.–31.8.1994
    • University of Minnesota in Minneapolis 30.6.–30.9.1995
    • University of Washington in Seattle 16.9.–7.12.1996
    • University of Pittsburgh 1997-2003 (part-time job in parallel with employment at the Silesian University in Opava)
    • University of Bergen, Norway, 2003, 1 month
    • Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA, 25.5.-21.6.2003
    • McGill University, Montreal 18.9.–21.12.2006
    • McGill University, Montreal 18.9.–20.10.2007
    • Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA, 3.7.-17.7. 2010
    • Stony Brook University 7.11.-8.12.2019

Scientific projects

  • GAČR 202/98/0095, Application of meson dominance in weak interactions – principal investigator (1998 – 2000)
  • GAČR 202/01/1592, Many-particle states in dilepton production -principal investigator (2001 -2003)
  • LC07050, Centre for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics – co-researcher (2007- 2011)

Papers in Impact Journals – the most important (including highly-cited papers, up to 5 papers)

  1. J. Kapusta, P. Lichard, D. Seibert, Phys. Rev. D 44, 2774, 1991
  2. J. Ftacnik, P. Lichard, J. Pisut, Phys. Lett. B 207, 194, 1988
  3. C. Gale, P.Lichard, Phys. Rev. D 49, 3338, 1994
  4. S. Pislak, …P. Lichard, et al. (26 authors), Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 221801, 2001
  5. J. Ruppert, C. Gale, T.Renk, P. Lichard, J. Kapusta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 162301, 2008

Papers in Impact Journals – published in last 5 years (2017 – 2022)

  1. P. Lichard, Phys. Rev. D 98, 113011, 2018
  2. P. Lichard, Phys. Rev. D 101, 111501(R), 2020
  3. P. Lichard, Phys. Rev. D 102, 073004, 2020
  4. P. Lichard, Phys. Rev. D 102, 113005, 2020

Membership and leadership

  • Member of an Internal Evaluation Board, Silesian University in Opava
  • Member of Scientific Board, Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava
  • Member of a Board of Graduate Studies (SU, MFF UK, Prague, Palacky university in Olomouc)
  • Member of Subcommittee of Czech Science Foundation (GAČR, 1998 – 2003)
  • Member of Scientific Board, MFF UK Bratislava (1990-1993)
  • Chair, Department of Theoretical Physics, MFF UK Bratislava (1990-1993)
  • Co-chairman of the Czechoslovak commission for awarding scientific degrees DrSc. (1990-1992)
  • Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists
  • Czech Physical Society
  • American Physical Society

Conference Organization

Awards

  • Silver Medal of the Comenius University in Bratislava (1991)

Research plan

  • Analyzing mesoniums properties on the basis of experimental data from electron-positron colliders
  • Multiparticle initial states in dilepton production from a hadron gas