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MIKHAIL VLADIMIROVICH VOLKOV
Born:
27 May 1955, Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), Russia
Degrees:
May 1994: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree awarded by St Petersburg State University
March 1980: Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (=PhD) degree awarded by Mathematics Institute of Moldavian Academy of Sciences
June 1977: Diploma in Mathematics (=M.Sci.) awarded by Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Ural State University
Academic carrier:
since 2006: Chair of Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg
2001--06: Vice-Chair of Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg
1995--2001: Full Professor, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg
1991--95: Associate Professor, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg
1988--91: Postdoctoral Research Fellow [research position granted to prepare the Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Thesis], Ural State University, Sverdlovsk
1983--88: Associate Professor, Ural State University, Sverdlovsk
1979--83: Assistant Professor, Ural State University, Sverdlovsk
Visiting positions:
February--March 2009: Research I Foundation Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
March--May 2007: Visiting Professor, University of Turku, Finland
March--May 2006: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
April--May 2004: Visiting Professor, Laboratoire d'Informatique Algorithmique: Fondements et Applications, Universit\'e Paris Denis Diderot et CNRS, Paris, France
February--March 2004: Landau--Volta Fellowship (granted by the CARIPLO Foundation) at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
June 2002 and June--July 2001: Visiting Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
March--June 1999: Visiting Professor, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
March--April 1996: European Fellowship (granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at Laboratoire Informatique Th'eorique et Programmation, Institut Blaise Pascal, Universit'e Paris-VII, France
July 1995 -- June 1996: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
June--July 1994: Visiting Professor, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
December 1993 -- January 1994: Visiting Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia
July 1990: Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia
August--September 1988: Visiting Professor, University of Brno, Czechoslovakia
October 1982 -- June 1983: Research Fellow, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Editor of mathematical journals:
"Semigroup Forum" since 1998 [Executive Editor since 2003]
"Izvestija Ural'skogo Universiteta. Matematika i Mekhanika'' (Proceedings of Ural University. Mathematics and Mechanics) since 1997 [Managing Editor]
"MIF" (a regional quarterly journal for high school students interested in mathematics, physics and computer science) in 1996--2001
"Matematicheskie Zapiski Ural'skogo Universiteta'' (Mathematical Proceedings of Ural University) in 1982--1990
Reviewing:
Reviewer for Zentralblatt MATH since 1990, more than 150 reviews published; reviewer for Mathematical Reviews since 2006
Member of steering committee:
CSR -- International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (since 2006)
Member of organizing committees:
2nd Russian-Indian Workshop on Algebra, Combinatorics and Complexity, Ekaterinburg, Russia, October 2008
Russian-Indian Workshop on Algebra, Combinatorics and Complexity (a satellite workshop of the 3rd International Computer Science Symposium in Russia), Moscow, Russia, June 2008
2nd International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, Ekaterinburg, Russia, September 2007 [Conference Chair]
Workshop on Words and Automata (a satellite workshop of the International Computer Science Symposium in Russia), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2006
International Algebraic Conference dedicated to the centennial of the birthday of P.G. Kontorovich and to the 70th birthday of L.N. Shevrin, Ekaterinburg, Russia, August--September 2005
Workshop on Semigroups and Automata (a satellite workshop of the 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2005
Workshop on Synchronizing Automata (a satellite workshop of the 31st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming), Turku, Finland, July 2004
International Conference on Semigroups with Applications, including Semigroup Rings, St Petersburg, Russia, June 1995
III All-Union Symposium on the theory of semigroups, Sverdlovsk, USSR, June 1988
Member of program committees:
14th International Conference ``Developments in Language Theory'', London, Ontario, Canada, August 2010
7th International Conference on Words, Salerno, Italy, September 2009
13th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory", Stuttgart, Germany, July 2009
12th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory'', Kyoto, Japan, September 2008
School on Algebraic Theory of Automata, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2008
5th IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, Milano, Italy, September 2008
13th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, San Francisco, USA, July 2008
11th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory'', Turku, Finland, July 2007
International Conference "Automata: from Mathematics to Applications'', Palermo, Italy, June 2007
International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, St Petersburg, Russia, June 2006
Workshop on Words and Automata (a satellite workshop of the International Computer Science Symposium in Russia), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2006
International Algebraic Conference dedicated to the centennial of the birthday of P.G. Kontorovich and to the 70th birthday of L.N. Shevrin, Ekaterinburg, Russia, August--September 2005
Workshop on Semigroups and Automata (a satellite workshop of the 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2005
Workshop on Synchronizing Automata (a satellite workshop of the 31st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming), Turku, Finland, July 2004
IV International Conference on Words, Turku, Finland, September 2003
International Meeting on Semigroups and Related Topics, Braga, Portugal, June 2003
International Workshop on Semigroups, Automata and Formal Languages, Crema, Italy, June 2002
III International Colloquium on Words, Languages and Combinatorics, Kyoto, Japan, March 2000
First International Conference on Semigroups and Algebraic Engineering, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 1997
International Conference on Semigroups and Their Applications, Prague, Czech Republic, July 1996
Participation in PhD juries:
80 PhD theses or equivalents in Russia, Portugal and Czech Republic
External reading of PhD theses:
15 PhD theses or equivalents in Russia, Australia and Canada
Participation in Dr. Sci. juries:
16 Dr. Sci. theses or equivalents in Russia and Portugal
External reading of Dr. Sci. theses:
4 Dr. Sci. theses or equivalents in Russia, Austria and Germany
PhD students:
D.S. Ananichev (PhD 1997), I.A. Goldberg (PhD 2006), S.V. Goldberg (PhD 2008), V.S. Grishchenko PhD 2007), O.B. Paison (PhD 1998), E.V. Pribavkina (PhD 2009), E.S. Skvortsov (PhD 2008), G.V. Tanana (PhD 2007) + 9 current PhD students