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Dr. Jacek F. Gieras, Ph.D.
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Dr. Jacek F. Gieras, Ph.D.
Dr. Jacek F. Gieras, Ph.D.
Jacek F. Gieras graduated in 1971 from the Technical University of Lodz , Poland, with distinction. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electrical Machines) in 1975 and Dr. Habilitowany degree (corresponding to DSc), also in Electrical Engineering, in 1980 from the University of Technology, Poznan, Poland. His research area is Electrical Machines, Drives, Electromagnetics, Power Systems, and Railway Engineering.
Prof. Gieras authored and co-authored 11 books of international standing, over 250 scientific and technical papers and over 60 patents and patent publications. The most important books are "Linear Induction Motors", Oxford University Press, 1994, UK, "Permanent Magnet Motors Technology: Design and Applications", Marcel Dekker, New York, 1996, second edition 2002, third edition 2010 (Taylor & Francis), "Linear Synchronous Motors: Transportation and Automation Systems", CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1999, second edition 2012 (Taylor & Francis) ",Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Brushless Machines", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston-Dordrecht-London, 2004 (co-authors R. Wang and M.J. Kamper), second edition 2008 (Springer), "Noise of Polyphase Electric Motors", CRC Press - Taylor & Francis, 2005 (co-authors C. Wang and J.C. Lai) and "Advancements in Electric Machines", Springer, 2008. He is a Fellow of IEEE , USA, Full-Member of International Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences, and member of Steering Committees of numerous international conferences. Number of citations without autocitations: over 1550, h-index: 25 (Web of Sciences).
The trip to Smolensk was expected to highlight Russia finally admitting culpability in the massacre, after long having blamed it on the Germans, an atrocity they had tried to conceal for over 70 years.
As for the reception committee, it had different ideas. Putin wasn’t looking forward to such an occasion. Into this poisonous reception brew was President Kaczynski’s well-known public criticism of Moscow and Putin, a habit that has ended the lives of others within Russia – and abroad. A few discouraging Russian requirements – that Kaczynski could not attend in any official capacity – did not halt the Poles. Kaczynski would go anyway on non-official, “personal” business. To Russians, such a distinction would be meaningless, not lessening the possible international excoriation of such an event. A problem ripe for a modern, Russian solution: a tragic, ‘natural’ accident.
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