Education


  • licencjat (undergraduate): Mathematics
    Thesis: Minimality, equicontinuity and uniform rigidity of topologically transitive dynamical systems (in Polish)
    advisor: Piotr Oprocha
    AGH University of Krakow


  • magister (Masters): Mathematics
    Thesis: Topological properties of sin(1/x)-type continua (in Polish)
    advisor: Piotr Oprocha
    AGH University of Krakow
    specialization: Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences


  • ongoing
    doktor (PhD): Mathematics
    Research topic: complex structures in topology and dynamics
    advisor: Piotr Oprocha
    AGH University of Krakow

Reaserch visits and internships


  • University of Maribor
    2 weeks internship
    Maribor, Slovenia
    Funded by: AGH IDUB grant


  • ICTP
    5 weeks internship
    Trieste, Italy
    Funded by: AGH IDUB grant


  • Charles University
    1 week stay
    Prague, Czech Republic
    Funded by: AGH IDUB grant


  • Fudan University
    3 months internship
    Shanghai, China
    Funded by: AGH IDUB grant

Last publications

  • Tranched graphs: consequences for topology and dynamics

    Authors: Michał Kowalewski, Piotr Oprocha

    Fundamenta Mathematicae 273, no. 1, 1–46 • 2026 • doi:10.4064/fm240613-5-12

    We compare quasi-graphs and generalized sin(1/x)-type continua, which are two classes of continua that generalize topological graphs and contain the Warsaw circle as a nontrivial common element. We show that neither class is a subset of the other, provide some characterizations, and present illustrative examples. We unify both approaches by considering the class of tranched graphs, compare it to concepts known from the literature, and describe how the topological structure of its elements restricts possible dynamics.

  • Every nondegenerate Peano continuum admits a pure mixing selfmap

    Authors: Klára Karásová, Michał Kowalewski, Piotr Oprocha

    Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 154, no. 10, 4389–4403 • 2026 • doi:10.1090/proc/17765

    We prove that every Peano continuum (a space that is a continuous image of [0,1]) admits a topologically mixing but not exact map. The constructed map has a dense set of periodic points.

  • Observable Dynamics and the Generic Coincidence of Milnor, Statistical, and Physical Attractors

    Authors: Magdalena Foryś-Krawiec, Jana Hantáková, Michał Kowalewski, Piotr Oprocha

    arXiv:2511.09718 (submitted) • 2025

    We study observable dynamics of generic continuous interval maps. We prove that, for a residual subset of C([0,1]), the global Milnor, statistical, and physical attractors coincide with the non-wandering set. Thus, for a typical interval map, the asymptotic dynamics detected by Lebesgue-almost every initial condition recovers all recurrent dynamics. The common attractor is a robust Cantor set of zero Hausdorff dimension. Moreover, every invariant probability measure has a basin of zero Lebesgue measure. We also present examples showing that, outside the generic setting, positive topological entropy may occur outside the global Milnor attractor, and the three attractors need not coincide.

Presentations & Talks

October 2023

Conference on Generic Structures

Talk: “Topological properties of tranched graphs” — Będlewo, Poland

January 2024

The 1st Maribor Mini Workshop on Topological Dynamics, Continuum Theory, and related topics

Talk: “Topological properties of tranched graphs” — Maribor, Slovenia

June 2024

From Topology to computations in dynamical systems

Poster: “Graphs with tranches” — Kraków, Poland

June 2024

The 38th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications

Talk: “Graphs with tranches” — Coimbra, Portugal

February 2025

The 2nd Maribor Mini Workshop on Topological Dynamics, Continuum Theory, and related topics

Talk: “Connections between tranched graphs and Class W” — Maribor, Slovenia

August 2025

Topological, Analytic, Algebraic and Geometric methods in the dynamics of differential equations and homeomorphisms on manifolds, and related topics

Talk: “Tranched graphs: consequences for topology and dynamics” — Shanghai, China

October 2025

Special Session on Continuous and Complex Dynamics, AMS Sectional Meeting

Talk: “Dynamics of tranched graph maps” — Online

June 2026

9th Ostrava–Prague Seminar on Topology & Dynamics

Talk: “Mixing and exact maps of Peano continua” — Ostrava, Czech Republic

July 2026

New Challenges in Celestial Mechanics

Talk: “Observable dynamics and the generic coincidence of Milnor, statistical and physical attractors” — Cetraro, Italy

September 2026

2nd ISTA Summer School in Dynamical Systems

Poster: “Mixing and exact maps of Peano continua” — Strobl, Austria

October 2026

1st Hebei International Conference on Dynamical Systems

Poster: “Mixing and exact maps of Peano continua” — Shijiazhuang, China

Workshops & Schools

spring 2023

Big Ideas in Dynamics

— remote

March-May 2023

Simons Semester: Topological, smooth and holomorphic dynamics, ergodic theory, fractals

— Warsaw & Będlewo, Poland

September 2023

Spanish+Polish Mathematical Meeting

— Łódź, Poland

fall 2023

Big Ideas in Dynamics

— remote

February 2024

Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science

— Marseille, France

July-August 2024

School and Workshop in Dynamical Systems

— Trieste, Italy

June 2025

Beyond Uniform Hyperbolicity

— Trieste, Italy

Jan-Feb 2026

Simons Semester: Invariant Structures in Groups, Spaces, and Algebras

— Warsaw & Będlewo, Poland

May 2026

Simons Semester: Continued Fractions, Fractals, Ergodic theory and Dynamics

— Warsaw, Poland

Teaching

2024/25

Dynamical Systems by Example

Problem-solving classes (10h) and Python computer labs (20h), 2 groups, in English — AGH University of Krakow

2024/25

Topological Dynamics and Chaos

Problem-solving classes (30h), in Polish — AGH University of Krakow

2024/25

Topology

Problem-solving classes (30h), in Polish — AGH University of Krakow