Dr. Rudolf Dvorak

University of Vienna

Curator and author

• Sitnikov problem
• (2014) Rudolf Dvorak, Christoph Lhotka

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Curriculum Vitae

date of birth     February 26th 1946
place of birth Freistadt (Upper Austria)
1966 - 1974       University in Vienna: mathematics, physics,
philosophy, astronomy
1972 April     Ph.D. (Astronomy)
1972/1973        Center for Nuclear studies, Seibersdorf, Austria
1973-1984         postdoctoral position at the University in Graz, Austria
1974/1975         Bureau des Longitudes, Paris
1977              venia docendi at the University in Graz
1989 Sep./Oct.: Guest professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville
1990-1995 :       Vice-director of the Institute of Astronomy, Vienna
since 1994:       Head of the Astro Dynamics Group (ADG)
1994 Sep./Oct.: Guest professor at the University of Nanjing, China
1995/1996:        Guest professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville
1997 Feb.:        Bureau des Longitudes, Paris
2000 Sep./Oct.: DANOF, Observatoire de Paris
2001 Oct./Nov.: IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris
2003 September: Scientific director 3rd Helmholtzschool: Chaos and Stability in
Planetary Systems (POTSDAM)
since 2007 CoI of the Eurpean satellite project CoRoT
since 2007: Vice chairman of the Institute of Astronomy, Vienna
since 2008 Member of the EPRAT commitee, an advisery team for an
exoplanet roadmap of ESA
since 2010, Doctoral school at the University of Vienna, From Asteroids
to Impacts

Scientific Memberships and Activities

  International Astronomical Union (IAU)
  SOC of IAU commission 7 (Celestial Mechanics) (1991-2003)
  Associate editor of Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 

Organizer of  international colloquia

7 international Alexander von Humboldt Colloquia for Celestial Mechanics 
   (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018 Austria)
Perturbation Theory and Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamics 
   with Emphasis to Celestial Mechanics (1995, Universidade da Madeira)
Modern Astrometry and Astrodynamics (1998, University of Vienna)

4 Austrian-Hungarian Workshops on Trojans and related Topics (1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, Vienna and Budapest

       European and Austrian Scientific Projects

Human Capital and Mobility (1993-1995)
FWF (Austrian Science Foundation) several projects during the 
     last 15 years
Amade programme (Nice)
Sokrates: exchange of professors (Thessaloniki)

selection of recent publications, out of ca 250

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Eggl, S.; Dvorak, R. 2010, An Introduction to Common Numerical
 Integration Codes Used in Dynamical Astronomy, in Dynamics of Small 

Solar System Bodies and Exoplanets by J. Souchay and R. Dvorak (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Physics Vol. 790 Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp.431-480

Dvorak, R.; Schneider, J.; Eybl, V., 2010, On the variation of orbital
 inclination of planets in the CoRoT-7 extrasolar planetary system, eprint
 arXiv:1004.4129 

Dvorak, R.; Bazso, Á.; Zhou, L.-Y., Where are the Uranus Trojans?,
 Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy,  Publication Date: 03/2010

Zhou, Li-Yong; Dvorak, Rudolf; Sun, Yi-Sui, 2009,The dynamics of
       Neptune Trojan - I. The inclined orbits, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 398, Issue 3, pp. 1217-1227

Dvorak, R. 2008,  

Extrasolar planets-A challenge for Astronomy, in Proceedings of ``Let's Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics 7th International Summer School and Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1076, pp. 43-52 (2008)