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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

 

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