Name
Victor Alexandrov
Position
Personal Data
- date of birth - 21 December 1958
- place of birth - Omsk city, USSR
- citizenship - Russia
- marital state -
married, has one
son
Fields of research
- rigidity and flexibility of polyhedra and frameworks
- surfaces in Euclidean space
- global surface theory
- global implicit function theorem
Education
- 1983-1986 - Post Graduate Student at Department of Analysis and Geometry at
the Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of Academy of Science USSR, Novosibisk, USSR
- 1976-1981 - Student at Mathematical Department at the Novosibirsk State University,
USSR
Professional experiences
Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
- March 1, 2005 - present time - Leading Research Fellow
- 1993-2005 - Senior Research Fellow
- 1987-1993 - Research Fellow
- 1986-1987 - Junior Research Fellow
Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
- June 16, 2006 - present time - Head of the Department of Higher Mathematics at the Physics Division (half time job)
- February 22, 2006 - present time - Professor in Mathematics (half time job)
- 1991-2006 - Associate Professor in Mathematics (half time job)
- 1984-1991 - Teaching Assistant in Mathematics (half time job)
Courses taught
Undergraduate courses
Fundamentals of Functional Analysis (1997-present time)
Fundamentals of Functional Analysis and Theory of Functions (1991-1997)
Graduate courses
Inverse Function Theorem and its Applications to the Theory of Polyhedra (2005)
Polyhedra in the Hyperbolic Space (1998/99)
Hyperbolic Geometry (1996/97 and 1997/98)
Differential Geometry (1986/87)
Problem Solving (1985/86)
Undergraduate classes
Fundamentals of Functional Analysis (1997-present time)
Fundamentals of Functional Analysis and Theory of Functions (1989-1997)
Differential Geometry (1985-1989)
Analytic Geometry (1985-1987)
Calculus (1984-1989)
Other professional activity and membership
2007 (January-May), visiting professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2001 (March-May), visiting researcher at l'Institut de Mathematiques de l'Universite Paris 7
2000-present time, American Mathematical Society (member of)
1998-present time, Mathematical Reviews (reviewer of)
1996-present time, Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik (Local-team-leader and a reviewer of)
1987-1997, Siberian Mathematical Society (member of)
Degrees and awards obtained
29th of September 2009 - `Certificate of Merit' of the Novosibirsk State University and the Siberian Branch of the Russia Academy of Sciences (awarded on the 50th anniversary of the Novosibirsk State University)
21st of January 2005 - `Doctor of Science' degree in Geometry and Topology
(corresponds to habilitation), awarded by the High Certifying Commission
of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia.
The habilitation dissertaion was defended at the Mechanical and
Mathematical Department of Moscow State University on October 1, 2004
2000, 1997 and 1995 - Soros Associate Professor, selected and named by International Soros
Science Educational Program in recognition and appreciation of outstanding contributions
to science education at the university level, Moscow, Russia
1993 - Docent degree in mathematics awarded by the State Committee on High Education
of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia (the docent title corresponds to the title
of associate professor)
1986 - `Candidate of Science' degree in Geometry and Topology
(corresponds to Ph.D. in Mathematics), awarded by the Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of
Academy of Science USSR, Novosibisk, USSR
1981 - graduated from Mathematical Department of the Novosibirsk State University
(corresponds to MS in Mathematics), USSR
Last updated: January 28, 2010