RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Leading Scientist, Astronomical Council,
USSR Academy of Sciences, 1985-1986.
- Senior Research Scientist, Astronomical
Council, USSR Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, 1979-1985.
- Head of Laboratory, Institute of Terrestrial
Magnetism, Ionosphere and Propagation
of Radiowaves, USSR Academy of Sciences,
Irkutsk, 1971-1979.
- Senior Research Scientist, Institute of
Nuclear Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences,
Novosibirsk, 1969-1971.
- Junior Research Scientist, Institute of
Nuclear Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences,
Novosibirsk, 1966-1969.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Invited Professor, University of Maryland, 1991 (spring semester).
- Professor, Moscow Physics and Technology
Institute, 1979-1986.
- Head of Department, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, 1971-1979.
- Associated Professor, Novosibirsk State
University, Novosibirsk, 1966-1971.
- Assistant Professor, Novosibirsk State
University, Novosibirsk, 1963-1966.
EDUCATION
- Full Doctor of Sciences in Physics
and Mathematics, P.N. Institute
of Space Research, USSR Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, 1972.
(Dissertation: "Stability
Theory of Gravitating Ionized Media").
- Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics
(equivalent to Ph.D.),
Institute of Nuclear Physics, USSR
Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1966
(Ph.D.Thesis: "Some Topics in the
Stability Theory of Non-Homogeneous
Plasma").
- Master's Degree in Theoretical and
Mathematical Physics, Novosibirsk
State University, Novosibirsk, 1963.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- State Prize of the USSR, 1989.
- Corresponding member of Russian
Academy of Sciences, 1994-
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
- Member, International Astronomical
Union, 1979-
- Member, Organizing Committee of the
IAU Commission No 33. 1991-
PUBLICATIONS
More than 170 scientific papers in plasma physics, quantum physics
of solid body, theoretical physics, cosmology, relativistic
astrophysics, general problem of gravity physics, dynamics of
stellar systems, gravity hydrodynamics, nonlinear dynamics
(solitons, shock waves, vortices, turbulence), dynamics of gaseous
galactic disk, problem of spiral structure generation, laboratory
simulation of spiral-vortex structure generation on the set-up
with rotating shallow water, models of the Milky Way, dynamics of
accretion disks, dynamics of circumstellar disks, cosmogony,
physics of planetary rings, dynamics of space tether systems,
seismic activity of the Earth, as well as several books. List of
publication is attached.
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