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 career:
since 2016: Federal Professor of Mathematics
since 2011: Chair of Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg
2006-11: 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:
October-November 2017: Visiting Professor, Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale, Universite Paris Denis Diderot et CNRS, Paris, France
May 2017: Visiting Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
October 2016: Visiting Professor, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
January-May 2016: Ada Peluso Visiting Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, USA
November-December 2015: Erudite Programme Fellow, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India
September 2013: Visiting Professor, University of Turku, Finland
April 2013: Visiting Professor, Politechnika Warszawska, Warsaw, Poland
April-May 2011: Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
March 2011: Visiting Scholar, La Trobe University, Bandoora, Victoria, Australia
February-March 2009: Research I Foundation Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
November 2008: INNOLEC Lectureship, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
March-May 2007: Visiting Professor, University of Turku, Finland
March-May 2006: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, Bandoora, Victoria, Australia
April-May 2004: Visiting Professor, Laboratoire d'Informatique Algorithmique: Fondements et Applications, Universite 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 Theorique et Programmation, Institut Blaise Pascal, Universite 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:
"Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics" since 2016
"Ural Mathematical Journal" since 2015
"International Journal of Algebra and Computation" since 2010
"Semigroup Forum" since 1998 [Executive Editor since 2003]
"Izvestija Ural'skogo Universiteta. Matematika i Mekhanika'' (Proceedings of Ural University. Mathematics and Mechanics) in 1997-2010 [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 215 reviews published; reviewer for Mathematical Reviews since 2006, more than 40 reviews published
Refereeing:
Refereeing for the journals:
Acta Informatica, Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum (Szeged), Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Algebra Colloquium, Algebra i Logika, Algebra Universalis, Arkiv for Matematik;
Beitraege zur Algebra und Geometrie, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society, Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society;
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, Communications in Algebra, Contributions to General Algebra;
Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Diskretnyj Analiz i Issledovanie Operacij;
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics;
Formal Aspects of Computing, Forum Mathematicum, Fundamenta Informaticae;
Glasnik Matematicki;
Information and Computation, Information Processing Letters, International Journal of Algebra and Computation, International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, Israel Journal of Mathematics, Izvestija Irkutskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Matematika, Izvestija Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Serija matematicheskaja, Izvestija Ural'skogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Matematika i Mekhanika, Izvestija Vysshih Uchebnyh Zavedenij. Matematika;
Journal of Algebra, Journal of Algebra and its Applications, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Journal of Graph Theory, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Journal of Symbolic Computation, Journal of the European Mathematical Society;
Logica Universalis;
Matematicheskie Zametki, Matematicheskie Zapiski Ural'skogo Universiteta, Mathematika Slovaca, Milan Journal of Mathematics, Monatshefte fuer Mathematik;
Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen;
Quaestiones Mathematicae;
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications;
Sarajevo Journal of Mathematics, Semigroup Forum, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports, Simon Stevin, Studia Logica;
Theoretical Computer Science, Theory of Computing Systems, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Trudy Instituta Matematiki i Mekhaniki UrO RAN, Trudy Moskovskogo Matematicheskogo Obshchestva;
Universitatis Iagellonicae Acta Mathematica;
Yokohama Mathematical Journal.
Refereeing for various conference volumes including the proceedings of:
International Conference on Automata and Formal Languages (AFL), International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA), Computability in Europe (CiE), International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR), Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science Conference (FSTTCS), Journees Montoises d'Informatique Theorique (JM), Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS)
Assessing and expert activities:
Assessor or expert for grant agencies and science foundations in Australia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, USA
Member of steering committees:
CSR - International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (since 2006)
DLT - Developments in Language Theory (since 2010)
WORDS (since 2011)
Member of organizing committees:
International conference "Graphs and Groups, Algorithms and Automata" dedicated to the 80th birthday
of V. A. Belonogov and to the 70th birthday of V. A. Baranskii, Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 2015
[Conference Co-chair]
18th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory'', Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 2014
[Conference Co-chair]
International conference "Algebra and combinatorics'' dedicated to the 60th birthday of A. A. Makhnev,
Ekaterinburg, Russia, June 2013
International Conference "Algebra and Linear Optimization" dedicated to the 100th anniversary
of the birthday of S.N.Chernikov, Ekaterinburg, Russia, May 2012
International Conference on Algebra and Geometry dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birthday
of A.I.Starostin, Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 2011
5th Spring/Summer Young Researchers' Colloquium on Software Engineering, Ekaterinburg, Russia, May 2011
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/scientific committees:
22nd International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, Marne-la-Vallee, France, June 2017
12th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, Kazan, Russia, June 2017
20th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory", Montreal, Canada, July 2016
International Conference on Semigroups and Automata celebrating the 60th birthday
of Jorge Almeida and Gracinda Gomes, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2016
10th Spring/Summer Young Researchers' Colloquium on Software Engineering, Krasnovidovo, Russia, May-June 2016
10th International Conference on Words, Kiel, Germany, September 2015
6th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics, Stuttgart, September 2015
International conference "Graphs and Groups, Algorithms and Automata" dedicated to the 80th birthday
of V. A. Belonogov and to the 70th birthday of V. A. Baranskii, Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 2015
[Conference Co-chair]
19th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory", Liverpool, UK, July 2015
10th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, Listvyanka, Russia, July 2015
9th Spring/Summer Young Researchers' Colloquium on Software Engineering, Samara, Russia, May 2015
AutoMathA 2015. Jewels of Automata: from Mathematics to Applications, Leipzig, Germany, May 2015
3rd Russian-Finnish Workshop on Discrete Mathematics, Petrozavodsk, Russia, September 2014
18th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory'', Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 2014
7th School for students and young researchers "Computer Science Ekaterinburg Days", Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 2014
9th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, Moscow, Russia, June 2014
8th Spring/Summer Young Researchers' Colloquium on Software Engineering, St Petersburg, Russia, May 2014
5th International Workshop "Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications", Umea, Sweden, August 2013.
18th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, Halifax, Canada, July 2013
6th School for students and young researchers "Computer Science Ekaterinburg Days", Ekaterinburg, Russia, June-July 2013
17th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory'', Paris, France, June 2013
8th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, Ekaterinburg, Russia, June 2013
7th Spring/Summer Young Researchers' Colloquium on Software Engineering, Kazan, Russia, May 2013
2nd Russian-Finnish Symposium on Discrete Mathematics, Turku, Finland, September 2012
16th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory'', Taipei, Taiwan, August 2012
17th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, Porto, Portugal, July 2012
6th Spring/Summer Young Researchers' Colloquium on Software Engineering, Perm, Russia, May 2012
International Algebraic Conference dedicated to the centennial of the birthday of V.V.Morozov, Kazan, Russia, September 2011
15th International Conference "Developments in Language Theory'', Milan, Italy, July 2011
4th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics, Hagenberg, Austria, June 2011
6th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, St Petersburg, Russia, June 2011
5th Spring/Summer Young Researchers' Colloquium on Software Engineering, Ekaterinburg, Russia, May 2011
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
4th 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
3rd International Colloquium on Words, Languages and Combinatorics, Kyoto, Japan, March 2000
1st 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:
139 PhD theses or equivalents in Russia, Portugal, and Czech Republic
External reading of PhD theses:
31 PhD theses or equivalents in Russia, Australia, Canada, France, and Ukraine
Participation in Dr. Sci. juries:
26 Dr. Sci. theses or equivalents in Russia and Portugal
External reading of Dr. Sci. theses:
10 Dr. Sci. theses or equivalents in Russia, Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany
PhD students:
D.S. Ananichev (PhD 1997), M.V. Berlinkov (PhD 2011), O.B. Finogenova (nee Paison) (PhD 1998, Dr. Sci. 2016), N.Yu.Glazyrin (PhD 2015, not confirmed by the Highest Attestation Commission), I.A. Goldberg (PhD 2006), S.V. Goldberg (PhD 2008), V.S. Grishchenko (PhD 2007), V.V. Gusev (PhD 2013), I.A. Mikhailova (PhD 2011), M.I. Maslennikoba (PhD 2015), T.V. Pervukhina (PhD 2014), G.A. Povarov (PhD 2010), E.V. Pribavkina (PhD 2009), E.S. Skvortsov (PhD 2008), G.V. Tanana (PhD 2007), Yu.I. Zaks (PhD 2012) + 4 current PhD students