Department of Physics Faculty

• Visiting Scholarship, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, October - December, 2017
• Visiting Fellowship, Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, August - December, 2017  (Principal Organizer of research program Growth, From, and Self-Organization)
• Visiting Fellowship, Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, July–Aug. & Nov. 2012
  
• Boston College Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2011
  
• Teaching with New Media Award, Boston College, May 2007
  
• University Fellowship, Lehigh University, 1985-1986

• A. Herczyński, Reminiscence of my Father, Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw newspaper,in Polish), April 18, 2019.
• A. Herczyński, Reminiscence of my Mother, Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw newspaper, in Polish), December 5, 2016.
• A. Herczyński, Reminiscence of my Father, Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw newspaper, in Polish), March 26, 2014.
• P. D. Weidman and A. Herczyński, The Sloshing-Induced Motion of Free Containers, in Fluid Dynamics in Physics, Engineering, and Environmental Applications, J. Klapp et al. (eds.), pp. 41-56, Springer 2012.
• A. Herczynski, Between the Two Cultures, in Collegium College Kolegium, College and the Academic Community in the European and the American Tradition, M. O Connor and P. Wilczek editors, Warsaw University, 2011.
• C. Cernuschi, and A. Herczynski, "Cutting Pollock Down to Size: the Boundaries of the Poured Technique", in Pollock Matters, Ellen G. Landau and Claude Cernuschi, eds. McMullen Museum, August 2007.
• C. Cernuschi, A. Herczynski, and D. Martin, "Abstract Expressionism and Fractal Geometry," in Pollock Matters, Ellen G. Landau, and Claude Cernuschi, eds. McMullen Museum, August 2007.
• A. Herczynski, "Introductory Physics Laboratory Manual," second edition revised, Wiley 2007; second edition, Wiley 2004; first edition, Wiley 2002.
• A. Herczynski, in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics (J.S. Rigden, ed.). Macmillan Reference 1996: "Density" (Vol. I, 342-343); "Doppler Effect" (Vol. II, 378-382); "Rotating Reference Frame" (Vol. II, 616-619).

• V.R. Gabriele, A. Shvonski, C.S. Hoffman, M. Giersig, A. Herczynski, M.J. Naughton, and K. Kempa, Towards spectrally selective catastrophic response, Phys. Rev. E, 101, 062415 (2020) 
• Paul Menker and Andrzej Herczyński, Form of spinning liquids in diverse geometries, Am. J. Phys. 88, 475 (2020). 
• W. Wei, W. He, B. Shi, G. Dong, X. Lu, M. Zeng, X. Gao, Q. Wang, G. Zhou, J. Liu, A. Herczynski, K. Kempa, J., Gao, Bio-inspired 3D quasi-fractal nanostructure for improved oxygen evolution reaction, Chem. Comm., 55, 357 (2019) 
• A. Herczyński and J. Bush, Editorial: Introduction to 33^rd annual gallery of fluid motion, Phys. Rev. Fluids 1(5), 050001 (2016)  
• B. Han, Q. Peng, R. Li, Q. Rong,  X. Wang,  X. Lu, G. Zhou,  J.M. Liu,  Z. Ren, Q. Wang, M. Giersig, A. Herczynski, K. Kempa, and J. Gao,  Optimisation of hierarchical structure and nanoscale-enable plasmonic refraction for window electrodes in photovoltaics, Nature Comm., 7, Article number 12825, (2016) 
• P. D. Weidman, A. Herczynski, J. Yu, and L. N. Howard, Experiments on standing waves over a corrugated bottom, J. Fluid Mech. 777, 122-150 (2015).
• B. Han, Y. Huang, R. Li, Q. Peng, J. Luo, K. Pei, A. Herczynski, K. Kempa, Z. Ren, and J. Gao, Bio-inspired networks for optoelectronic applications, Nature Comm., 5, Article number 5674, (2014).
• A. Herczynski, C. Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan, Painting with drops, Jets, and Films, Parity, March 2013, 26-34. [in Japanese, translation from Physics Today]
• A. Herczynski, Bound charges and currents, Am. J. Phys. 81, 202 (2013).
• A. Herczynski and P. D. Weidman, Experiments on the Periodic Oscillations of Free Containers Driven by Liquid Sloshing, J. Fluid. Mech. 693, 216 (2012).
  
• A. Herczynski, C. Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan, Painting with drops, Jets, and Films, Physics Today, June 2011, 31-36.
• K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, A. Herczynski, T. Kirkpatrick, J. Rybczynski, and Y. Gao, Hot electron effect in nanoscopically thin photovoltaic junctions, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 233121 (2009).
• C. Cernuschi, and A. Herczynski, "The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock Abstractions," The Art Bulletin XC (4), 616 (2008).
• K. Kempa, J. Rybczynski, Z. Huang, K. Gregorczyk, A. Vidan, B. Kimball, J. Carlson, G. Benham, Y. Wang, A. Herczynski, and Z. Ren, Carbon Nanotubes as Optical Antennae, Adv. Mater. 19, 421 (2007).
• J. Rybczynski, K. Kempa, A. Herczynski, Y. Wang, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, D. Cai, and M. Giersig, Subwavelength Waveguide for Visible Light, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 021104 (2007).
• Y. Wang, K. Kempa, B. Kimball, J. B. Carlson, G. Benham, W. Z. Li, T. Kempa, J. Rybczynski, A. Herczynski, and Z. F. Ren, Receiving and Transmitting Light Like Radio Waves: Antenna Effect in Arrays of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (13), 2607 (2004).
• P. D. Weidman, and A. Herczynski, Response to “Comment on ‘Force on a Spinning Sphere Moving in a Rarefied Gas,’ and ‘On the Inverse Magnus Effect in Free Molecular Flow, Phys. Fluids 16, 3822 (2004).
• A. Herczynski, P.D. Weidman, and G.I. Burde, Two-Fluid Jets and Wakes, Phys. Fluids 16, 1037 (2004).
• P. D. Weidman, and A. Herczynski, On the Inverse Magnus Effect in Free Molecular Flow, Phys. Fluids 16, L9 (2004).

My interest in the connections between physics, mathematics, and the visual arts originated in a collaboration with art historian Claude Cernuschi, a leading expert on Jackson Pollock. In the fall of 2007, we co-organized an exhibition Pollock Matters at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College curated by Ellen Landau. We contributed two essays to the catalogue and wrote two more papers on Pollock later. In 2017, Roberto Zenit and I ran a workshop on Form in Art, Toys, and Games as a part of the research program on Growth, From, and Self-Organization at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge, UK, for which I served as the principal organizer. The program was accompanied by an art exhibition Form in Art: Art of Form, co-organized with Barry Phipps, Curator of Art at Churchill College. In March 2020, a roundtable discussion on Opportunities at the Intersection of Science and Art was hosted by INI and Churchill College, co-organized with David Abrahams, INI Director, and Barry Phipps, and sponsored by the NSF. The links below provide more details on these and related actives.

Exhibitions & Workshops

Workshop Form in Art, Toys, and Games  (Nov. 28 – Dec.1,2017)

http://www.newton.ac.uk/event/gfsw04

Exhibition Form in Art: Art of Form(Nov. 22 – Dec. 22,2017)

http://www.newton.ac.uk/news/20171109/1289993

Exhibition Pollock Matters (Sept. 1 – Dec. 7, 2007) 

www.bc.edu/sites/artmuseum/exhibitions/pollock/

Papers & Essays

A. Herczynski, From depicting to deploying fluids in art, Bulletin of Am. Phys. Soc., 64 No 13, (2020)

A. Herczyński, C. Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan, Paintings with drops, jets and films, Parity, March 2013, 26-34 [in Japanese, translation of the article from Physics Today]

A. Herczyński, C. Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan, Fluid Dynamics and Pollock’s paint applicators, Physics Today, 64(11), 9 (2011).

A. Herczynski, C. Cernuschi, and L. Mahadevan, Paintings with drops, jets and films, Physics Today, 64(6), 31-36 (2011).

A. Herczyński, Between the Two Cultures, in Collegium – College – Kolegium:  College and the Academic Community in the European and the American Tradition, M. O’Connor and P. Wilczek Eds., Warsaw Univ. 2011.

C. Cernuschi and A. Herczynski, The Subversion of gravity in Jackson Pollock abstractions, The Art Bulletin, XC, No 4, 616-639 (2008).

C. Cernuschi and A. Herczynski, Cutting Pollock Down to Size: the Boundaries of the Poured Technique – in Pollock Matters, Ellen G. Landau and Claude Cernuschi editors, McMullen Museum, August 2007.

C. Cernuschi, A. Herczynski, and D. Martin, Abstract Expressionism and Fractal Geometry – in Pollock Matters, Ellen G. Landau and Claude Cernuschi editors, McMullen Museum, August 2007.

Recorded Talks

Paul Klee Notebooks: Form and Mathematics, Nov. 28, 2017 (INI, Cambridge)

https://www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/20171128141014501

Growth, Form, and Self-Organisation Programme, Aug.-Dec., 2017 (INI Cambridge)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTk9_f-JKT4

Pollockian Mechanics: Painting with Viscous Jets, August 9, 2012 (INI Cambridge)

https://www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/20120809113012301