Education |
1950 |
Graduated from Moscow University,
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics |
1950-53 |
Postgraduate student, Moscow University,
Faculty of Mechanics & Mathematics |
1953 |
Ph.D., Moscow University, Scientific Advisor: A. N. Kolmogorov |
1957 |
D.Sc, Moscow University |
1962 |
Professor (title obtained at Moscow University) |
1993 |
Master of Arts (title obtained at Cambridge University) |
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Positions |
1953-61 |
Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist |
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Institute of Petroleum, USSR Academy of Sciences |
1961-75 |
Head, Department of Plasticity, Institute of Mechanics, |
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Moscow University |
1975-92 |
Head, Theoretical Department, Institute of Oceanology, |
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USSR Academy of Sciences |
1990 |
Visiting Professor, Université de Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie |
1991 |
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, |
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
1991 |
Visiting Scholar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York |
1992 |
Quatercentenary Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, |
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University of Cambridge, UK |
1992 |
Visiting Professor, University of Rome `Tor Vergata' |
1992 |
Adviser, Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences |
1992-94 |
G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University of
Cambridge |
1994- |
Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University
of Cambridge |
1993 |
BBV Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain |
1994 |
Hill Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis |
1995 |
Visiting Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and
Physics, |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
1995-96 |
Iberdrola Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de
Madrid, Spain |
1996 |
Visiting Miller Research Professor, University of California at
Berkeley |
1996,97 |
S.P.Timoshenko Visiting Professor, Applied Mechanics
Division of |
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the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University |
1996,97 |
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of
California at
Berkeley |
1997-2008 |
Mathematician, Dept. of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory |
1997- |
Professor in Residence, Dept. of Mathematics, |
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University of California at Berkeley |
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Honours |
1975 |
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
1984 |
Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics |
1988 |
Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics |
1989 |
Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the |
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Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
1992 |
Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering |
1993 |
Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society |
1993 |
Member, Academia Europaea |
1994 |
Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary
Fellow) |
1995 |
Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazzionale dei Lincei |
1995 |
Modesto Panetti Prize and Gold Medal |
1997 |
Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences |
1999 |
G.I. Taylor Medal, U.S. Society of Engineering Science |
1999 |
J.C. Maxwell Medal and Prize, International Congress for Industrial |
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and Applied Mathematics |
2000 |
Foreign Member, Royal Society of London |
2005 |
Doctor of Civil Engineering |
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Honoris Causa at the Torino Polytechnic Institute, Italy |
2005 |
S.P. Timoshenko Medal, |
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
2009 |
Honorary Fellow, International Congress on Fracture |
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Honorary and Special Lectures |
Mar. 1989 |
12th G. I. Taylor Lecture, Cambridge, England |
Apr. 1991 |
11th L.S.G. Kovasznay Lecture, Houston, Texas |
May 1991 |
Second G. I. Taylor Lecture, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
July 1991 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, Second International Congress on |
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Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Washington, DC |
Aug. 1992 |
Closing Lecture, XVIII International Congress on |
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Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Haifa, Israel |
Sept. 1992 |
Opening Lecture, Italian National Congress on Theoretical and |
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Applied Mechanics, Trento, Italy |
May 1993 |
Special Invited Lecture, Dutch National Symposium: Flows
and Heat |
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Exchange with Applications to Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography |
Sept. 1993 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, International Conference: Chaos,
Order and |
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Patterns. Aspects of Nonlinearity. The
Grand Finale.
Como, Italy |
Sept. 1993 |
Opening Lecture, IUTAM Symposium: Fracture of Brittle |
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Disordered Materials, Brisbane, Australia |
Apr. 1995 |
Lagrange Lecture, Accademia Nazzionale dei Lincei, Rome |
June 1997 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, International Meeting |
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"Mathematical Aspects of Mechanics", Rome |
Aug. 1997 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, International Symposium
Saint-Venant, Paris |
June 1998 |
Closing Lecture, International Symposium on Advances in |
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Applied and Computational Mathematics, Berkeley, California. |
Nov. 1998 |
Alan Tayler Lecture, Oxford University |
Oct. 1999 |
G.I. Taylor Lecture, Society of Engineering Science,
Austin, Texas |
May 2000 |
First David Crighton Memorial Lecture, Santa Barbara, California |
Nov. 2000 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, "Fluid Mechanics in XX Century", |
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Fourth European Conference on Fluid Mechanics, Eindhoven, Holland |
Dec. 2000 |
P. R. Sethna Lecture, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Apr. 2002 |
Shih-I Pai Lecture, University of Maryland, College Park |
June 2003 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, International Conference, |
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"Kolmogorov and Contemporary Mathematics", Moscow, Russia |
June 2003 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, Interquadrial Conference, |
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International Congress on Fracture, Moscow, Russia |
Aug. 2004 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, 2nd International Conference on Combustion |
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and Detonation: Zeldovich Memorial, Moscow, Russia |
Mar. 2005 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, 11th International Congress on Fracture, |
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11th International Congress on Fracture, Torino, Italy |
May 2006 |
Timoshenko Lecture, Stanford University |
June 2006 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, International Symposium, |
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"Contemporary Problems of Analysis and Mathematical Physics", |
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Taormina, Italy |
Oct. 2006 |
Winston Chen Lecture, Harvard University |
Mar. 2007 |
Invited Lecture, Irwin Centennial Conference, University of Maryland, |
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College Park |
May 2007 |
Invited Plenary Lecture, International Symposium on Mechanics of Materials: |
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Perspectives and Recent Advances, University College Dublin |
June 2007 |
Plenary Opening Lecture, International Conference: |
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Non-Linear diffusion: Mathematics and Applications, |
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El Escorial, Spain |
July 2007 |
Plenary Opening Lecture, International Conference, |
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"Mathematical aspects of Mechanics", |
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dedicated to 80th birthday of G.I. Barenblatt, |
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Naples, Italy |
Sept. 2007 |
Harold J. Gay Lecture, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, |
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Worchester, MA |
May 2009 |
Plenary Invited Lecture, Symposium on Complex Fluids Flow, |
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dedicated to 80th birthday of D.D. Joseph, |
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Minneapolis, MN |