Family name: GORBAN'
Given name: ALEXANDER
Fathers name: NIKOLAY
(Letter of the alphabet - G)
Address: Institute of Computational Modeling, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk-36, 660036, Russia. E-mail: gorban@cc.krascience.rssi.ru
Personal:
Born April 19, 1952, Omsk, USSR; married.
Full Professor in Modeling & Simulation.
Education:
" 1990 - Doctor of Physics & Math (Biophysics), (Second
russian doctoral degree), Krasnoyarsk, Institute of Biophysics. Thesis
title: "Extremal Principles and a priori Estimations in Biological
and Formal Kinetics".
" 1980 - Candidate of Physics & Math (Differential Equations
& Math.Phys), (First russian doctoral degree), Kuibyshev State
University and Pedagogical Institute. Thesis title: "Slow Relaxations
and Bifurcations of Omega-Limit Sets of Dynamical Systems".
" 1971-1973 - a student, Omsk Pedagogical Institute (Physical
Department and Mathematical Department).
" 1967-1970 - a student, Novosibirsk State University (Physics).
" 1965-1967 - a pupil, Novosibirsk Special School for Physics
& Mathematics.
Experience:
" 1978-up now - Computing Center, USSR Academy of Sciences,
Siberian Branch, (1978-1983 - junior researcher, 1983-1989 - senior
researcher, 1989-present - head of the Nonequilibrium Systems Laboratory,
1995-present deputy director and head of the Computer sciences department);
new name of the Institute: Institute of Computational Modeling, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch.
" 1977-1978 - engineer, Institute of Catalysis, USSR Academy
of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk.
" 1978 - engineer, Institute of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics,
USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk.
" 1977 - junior researcher, Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Laboratory
of Kinetics.
" 1976 - junior researcher, Omsk State University, Laboratory
of Kinetics.
" 1973-1976 - engineer, Omsk Railway Engineering Institute, Research
Division.
Half-time:
" 1972-1976 - advisor of the Omsk Physical & Mathematical
School at the Omsk Pedagogical Institute.
" 1981-present - Krasnoyarsk State University associate professor,
Higher Mathematics Chair (1981-1989), associate professor, Psychological
Department (1989-1991).
" 1993-present - Krasnoyarsk State Technical University, head
of Neurocomputers Chair.
Visiting:
05/1999, 08/2001-09/2001, 02/2002-06/2002 - ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
03/2000-08/2000 - Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
04/2000 - Courant Mathematics Institute, NY, USA.
10/2000-12/2000, 08/2001-09/2001, 12/2002 -Institute des Hautes Etudes
Scientifiques (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
Positions held:
" Head of Nonequilibrium Systems Laboratory and Computer Sciences
Department, Deputy Director, Institute of Computational Modeling,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk.
" Head of Neurocomputers Chair, Krasnoyarsk State Technical University.
Expert positions:
" Chairman of the Analytic Games Committee, Krasnoyarsk.
" Ministry of Science and Technology Russian Federation, Head
of Workgroup on Neurocomputing.
" Soros Professor.
Membership of Associations
" Full member of Russian Psychological Association (1989).
" Director of Krasnoyarsk International AMSE Center (Association
for the Advancement of Modeling and Simulation Techniques in Enterprises)
(1990).
" Active member of International Informatization Academy (1994).
" Member of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) (1997).
" Member of Advisory Board Russian Neural Networks Society.
Participant
of 51 conferences, including 11 international, position as a member
of organizing committee or a (co-)chairman at 14 conferences, including
5 international.
Leader of 18 full-scale Analytic Games, including:
" "Project of a Free Economic Zone of the Leningrad Region"
(Leningrad, September 1990);
" "Problems of Russian Culture" (Krasnoyarsk, June
1991);
" "Critical Situations at a Transfer to a Market" (Krasnoyarsk,
December 1990).
Co-organizer of 15 Krasnoyarsk Summer Schools, organizer of 2 Tobolsk
Summer Schools for Talented Children.
Publications:
14 monographs, 4 patents, over 200 articles.
Research interests:
" Architecture of neurocomputers and training algorithms for
neural networks,
" Dynamics of systems of physical, chemical and biological kinetics,
" Adaptance of humans to hard living conditions,
" Methods and technologies of collective thinking.
