:: homepage of martin topinka (toast) ::
,,Je ne reconnaitrai jamais le
droit d'ecrire ou de peindre qu'a des
voyants.''
-- Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
,,Je ne reconnaitrai jamais le
droit d'ecrire ou de peindre qu'a des
voyants.''
-- Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
:: whoami ::
- name: martin topinka
- born: 9.9.
- work: asu av cr ondrejov (high energy astrophysics dept.)
- call: (asu) +420 323 620242
- objectives: gamma-ray bursts, mhd simulations, magnetic field reconnections, supernovae, active galactic nuclei, member of the bart team, cosmology, visualization
- hobbies: archeoastronomy, winnie the pooh, shadowrun, floorball, snowboard, tai-ji, art, radio akropolis
- cv
:: actual ::
- jak přijt ze dne na den o střechu nad hlavou... firma TipIzol nám zcela zničiila přii rekonstrukci střechy domu náš byt - přátelé, vyhněte se jí a panu Kopčilovi velikým obloukem! výsledek devastující práce paznehtů z TipIzolu: video na youtube, prostě zmar, zlost, zoufalství
- march 18-25 2007 in amsterdam - "070228 - the next decade in grb afterglows" conference, poster integral grbs from the edge of spi
- january 2007 - visiting dublin brian mcbreen grb group
- 3rd integral data analysis workshop at isdc in versoix, switzerland, 18.-20. october 2006
- radio cr leonardo - edit pulsary (broadcasted July 2006)
- long-term work on search for correlations between BATSE gamma-ray bursts and supernovae gives the fruits 2006A&A...452..439P
:: science ::
- publications through ads
- from june 2006 to june 2007 worked at fzu av cr (pierre auger - argentinian cosmic ray project) and in fram robotic telescope team
- heading to venezia for swift and grbs conference 5.-9. june 2006
- fram detected optical afterglows from grb 060117 and grb 060418
- beautiful time on la corse spring school
- my staying in the rain (germany) finished on march 1, 2006
- the e_peak - e_rad correlation in grbs in the batse catalogue - astro-ph/0503264
- heading to krakow for astrophysical jets conference 25. june - 1. july 2006
- roma 2004 "gamma-ray bursts in the afterglow era" proceedings: 1, 2 (both accepted)
- 20-24 june 2005 - conference on astrophysical sources of high energy particles and radiation in torun, poland
- mar 2 - sep 2, 2005 - phd in mpa garching, supervisor henk spruit
- grb 040403: a faint x-ray rich gamma-ray burst discovered by integral - 2005A&A...433..113M
- visiting tuorla observatory in finland again to see aimo, joni and kari nov 4-14, 2004
- 3rd ibws in Chocerady - nov 1-3, 2004
- heading to roma: gamma-ray bursts in the afterglow era - oct 18-22, 2004, poster 1, poster 2
- seminar auuk, oct 13, 2004, presentation: slides, video 1, video 2
- high energy gamma-ray astronomy symposium in heidelberg jul 26-30, 2004
- visiting mpa garching jun 30 - jul 3, 2004
- gamma-ray burst pulses as magnetic reconnections? see my proceeding at local WDS conference
- gamma-ray burst host galaxies - merging supermassive black holes? (2.56m Nordic Optical Telescope - La Palma, proposal deadline 3 nov 2003)
- currently working on integral "labour burst" grb 030501 using wavelet denoising, trying (unsuccessfully) to deconvole complex lightcurve into single peaks of different shape (see working dir)
- finland - lapland journey 12-29 apr 2004 tuorla observatory enigma winter scull
- a uk seminar on using wavelets in astronomy lecture notes
- a uk seminar 22 oct 2003 structure of gamma-ray burst host galaxies (presentation in OpenOffice, used mpeg video is here)
- 2nd integral progress meeting and bart workshop 16-18 oct 2003
- new mexico summer 2003 (santa fé 8-12 sep 2003 grb symposium) - proceeding about to be published 1 a 2.
- krakow, 24-28 june 2003 - conference on particle acceleration in astrophysical objects
- conference covering supernovae and gamma-ray bursts and cosmology apr 22-26 2003 in valencia (search for correlations between batse gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, abstract)
- planned disertation: cosmological implications of high redshifted gamma-ray bursts mostly from integral
- lobster eye (poster: ppt)
- gamma-ray bursts (diploma on gamma-ray bursts - origin and correlations, including batse/sne correlation, grb ot and hg color indices, beaming and dust destruction, de rujula's cannonball - slideshow)
- sgr 1806-20 (arrowed fit)
- integral mission (esa integral homepage, newsletter)
- paper(s): detection of an optical transient following the 13 march 2000 short/hard gamma-ray burst (2002A&A...393L..55C), time resolved spectroscopy of grb030501 using integral (astro-ph/0307070)
- bart & integral workshop senohraby 2002: open problems in gamma-ray burst science (packed presentation)
- tour de sunclocks, morava (prerov, kromeriz...) aug 2002 (details coming soon, old web version)
:: photos y deimos ::
- toast: working hard in aussois, trio de canarian islands, auto-portrait from santorini, lake in bavaria, donkey rider in petra, the glowing one, in (on) dead sea, pillow man
:: bookmarx ::
- cds strasbourg :: ned :: sai
- apj :: e-print :: ads
- international astronomy meetings list
- gravitational lensing in astronomy
- cosmology calculator
- ubuntu
- greiner's grb page :: gcn circular archive :: grblog :: grb cat
- glast :: swift :: hete :: bepposax :: chandra :: konus :: batse :: rhessi
- o'reilly books
- large-scale structures of the universe by j. peacock :: infaltionary cosmology
- lascaux - ancient art :: web gallery of art :: divadlo alfred ve dvoe :: teatr novogo fronta :: ubu web
- hst :: pic of the day
- live365 :: radio akropolis
- PDE matlab howto :: mathworld :: theoretical physics
:: working area ::
plasma, blackman, korpi, nordlund, zeus - munin
