M.S., Leningrad University, USSR, 1967
Professor Emeritus, Emory University, Atlanta, 2021-present
Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, 1984-2021
Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1980-84
Associate Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1977-80
Visiting Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1975-77
Group Manager, Operations Research Group, Department of Transportation, Leningrad, 1972-74
Senior Researcher, Hydrometeorological Institute, Division of
the Air Force Meteorological Services, Leningrad, 1970-72
Visiting Member,
Differential Geometry
Applied Mathematics
NSF, BSF, US Air Force (AFOSR), STTR, private - $1,441,461, Jan 1, 1987 - Apr 30, 2022
NSF, AFOSR - $172,037, June 1, 1980 - Nov 15, 2009
($ amounts are indicated below only for the most recent 3 grants)
US Air Force Research Grant, AFOSR, 2018-2022, $359,969.
US Air Force Research Grant, AFOSR, 2012-2015, $366,065.
Binational Science Foundation Grant, BSF - Israel, jointly with J. Rubinstein and G. Wolanski (Technion, Israel), 2011-2016, $98,000; Emory portion $47,840.
NSF Grant in support of Southeast Geometry Seminar, 2009-2014
US Air Force Research Grant (STTR, Phase I & Phase II), 2005-2008
NSF Research Grants, 1980-82, 1983-85, 1987-90, 1992-94, 1994-1997, 2004-2008
NSF Grant in support of Southeast Geometry Seminar, 2004-2008
US Air Force Research Grant, AFOSR, 1983-91
Fulbright Award, Senior Research/Lecturership, 1991
Emory University Research Committee Awards (URC), 1991-92, 1994-95 , 1998, 2003, 2012-2013
German Academic Service Award for Foreign Scientists, 1982 & 1985
Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1978, 1980
Senior Member of SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics), Elected in 2017
Fulbright Award, Senior Research/Lecturership, 1991
Invited 1-hour address, Nonlinear Problems in Geometry, American Mathematical Society Meeting, Fayetteville, Arkansas, March, 1990,
Invited 45-min. lecture, Geometry Today, Annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science, New Orleans, LA, February, 1990
Invited 1-hour address, Numerical Solution of a Class of Strongly
Nonlinear
PDE's, SIAM Annual Meeting, Southeastern Atlantic Section, Atlanta,
March,
1986
Invited 30-min talk at the Optical Society of America Optical Design and
Fabrication Congress: Washington, DC, June 11, 2019
Invited 30-min talk at the Annual SPIE Nonimaging Optics conference: San Diego, CA, August 19, 2018
Invited 1-hour talk at the 26-th SouthEast Geometry Seminar, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Febr. 26, 2017
Invited 40-min talk at the Annual SPIE Nonimaging Optics conference: San Diego, CA, August 17, 2014, & August 28, 2016
Invited 1-hour plenary lecture at the Banach Center at the Mathematical Conference Center Bedlewo, Poland, June, 2012
Invited 1-hour talk at the Workshop on Optimization and stochastic methods for spatially distributed information,
University of Information Technologies and Euler International Mathematical Institute,
St. Petersburg, Russia, May, 2010
Invited 1-hour talk at the 19-th SouthEast Geometry Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, April, 2009
Invited 45-min talk at the Workshop on dynamical and statistical cosmology: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology March, 2009
Invited 1-hour lecture at the Banach Center at the
Mathematical
Conference Center Bedlewo, Poland, June, 2008
Invited 1-hour talk at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel,
March, 2008
Invited
45-min talk at the Workshop on variational methods: Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology March, 2008
Invited 1-hour talk at the Workshop on Convex Geometry - Analytic Aspects: Cortona, Italy, June, 2007
Invited 30-min talk at the International Optics Design Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June, 2006
Invited 1-hour talk at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, November, 2005
Invited 1-hour plenary lecture at the Banach Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Bedlewo, Poland, September, 2005
Invited 40-min talk at the Workshop on High Frequency Wave Propagation held at the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, U. of Maryland, September, 2005
Invited 30-min talk at the Nonimaging and Efficient Illumination Design Conference held at SPIE's Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, August, 2005
Invited 1-hour plenary lecture at 23-rd Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference, Kennesaw, GA, October, 2003
Invited 1-hour plenary lecture at Workshop on Optimal Transportation and Nonlinear Dynamics, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, Canada, August, 2003
Invited 1-hour plenary lecture at the Banach Center at the Mathematical Conference Center Bedlewo, Poland, September, 2003
Invited 1-hour plenary lecture at the symposium Trends in Nonlinear Analysis - Theory, Modelling and Computation (This conference is a part of the World Mathematical Year 2000), Heidelberg, Germany, October, 2000
Invited 1-hour plenary lecture at the conference PDEs, Submanifolds and Affine Differential Geometry, Banach Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, September, 2000
Invited 1-hour plenary talk at the 10-th School of Differential Geometry, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July, 1998
Invited 1-hour plenary talk at the NSF-CBMS Conference on Monge-Ampere equations, July, 1997
Distinguished Visitor, A series of 3 lectures on Geometric Diffusion and Monge-Ampere equations, University of Toledo, Ohio, April 1996
Keynote Address at International Workshop on Computer Vision and Applied Geometry, Nordfjordeid, Norway, August, 1995
Principal Speaker at "Analysis-Tag", University of Koln, Germany, February, 1995
A three weeks series of 18 lectures on advanced topics in Differential Geometry, Summer School, Cortona, Italy, July-Aug., 1994
Invited 1-hour address at the Symposium in memory of I. Bakelman, Texas A&M Univ., TX, Oct., 1993
Invited 1-hour address at the conference in honor of Professor O.A. Ladyzhenskaya, Cleveland, OH, May, 1993
Invited 1-hour address at Sonderforschungsbereich 123 closing Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, December, 1992
Invited Plenary Lecture, Conference on PDE's of Elliptic Type, Cortona, Italy, October 1992
A series of lectures on geometric evolutionary flows (Senior Fulbright Researcher/Lecturer), Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil, July-August 1991
A (two weeks) series of lectures on flows moving with curvature-dependent speed (Invited Professor), Leningrad Institute of Electrical Engineering, Leningrad, USSR, June 1990
A (one week) series of lectures on Nonlinear PDE's and Differential Geometry (Distinguished Visitor), University of Alberta, Edmondton, Canada, November 1986
A series of 7 lectures on Monge-Ampere Equations, Center for Global
Analysis, University of Florence, Italy, October 1980
Invited 1-hour lecture, High-dimensional seminar, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, March 4, 2020
Session chair, A research workshop in honor of Prof. H. Brezis, Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Haifa, Israel, June 2-6, 2019
Invited 1-hour talk, Seminar-Colloquia Series, Department of Mathematics, Hill Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 2, 2019
Seminar, J. Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Israel, June 7, 2018
Invited 30-min talk at minisymposium at SIAM meeting, March 1, 2017
Colloquium: NYU, New York, December 11, 2014
Colloquium: NYU-Poly, New York, December 2, 2013
Invited 1-hour talk at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, January, 2012
Invited 1-hour talk at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, January, 2012
Colloquium: NYU-Poly, New York, November 28, 2011
Invited talk at the Freeform Optics Incubator meeting, Optical Soc. of America, Washington, DC, October 31, 2011
Invited talk at the Workshop on Convex Geometry - Analytic Aspects: Cortona, Italy, June 14, 2011
Invited talk at General Relativity and the Einstein Equations meeting: Akko, Israel, May 25, 2011
Colloquium: Georgia Institute of Technology, September 2, 2010,
Seminar, J. Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Israel, June 28, 2010
Invited talk in the V.I. Smirnov Seminar on Mathematical Physics at V.A. Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Acad. of Sci., St. Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 2010
Invited talk, Hopkins Center for Opt. Design and Eng., Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, NY, March 17, 2010
Colloquium, University of Tennesee at Knoxville, 5/23/2010
Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, 12/15/2009
Colloquium, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, 11/23/2009,
Seminar, University of Florence, Italy, 11/13/2009,
Seminar, University of Florence, Italy, 10/30/2009,
Invited talk, Conference on Nonimaging Optics:VI, SPIE Annual Meeting,
San Diego, CA, August, 2009
Invited talk, Symposium on PDE and Optical Design, SIAM Annual Meeting,
Denver, CO, July, 2009
University of California at Merced, December, 2008
Colloquium, IBM Almaden Research Center, December, 2008
Colloquium, University of Alabama at Birmingham, October, 2008
Differential Geometry Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin. July, 2008
Colloquium, New York Polytechnical University, April, 2008
Topology/Geometry Joint Seminar, University of Georgia, Athens,
October, 2007
Differential Geometry Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin. May, 2007
Special session on Affine invariants, Randomness, and Approximation
in Convex Geometry,
1026-th Meeting of the AMS, Hoboken, NJ, April 2007
Principal organizer, Southeast Geometry Seminars X & XI, Emory
University, December 2006 and Georgia
Institute of Technology, May 2007
One-hour invited talk at the meeting on Calculus of Variations, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, July, 2006
Principal organizer, Southeast Geometry Seminars VIII & IX, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 2005 & U. of Alabama at Birmingham, March 2006
Workshop "Geometric Inequalities", Florence, Italy, May 2005
Graduate Students Seminar, Emory, April 2005
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, 1004-th AMS meeting, Bowling Green, Kentucky, March 2005
Principal organizer and Session Chair, Southeast Geometry Seminars VII & IV, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 2005 & December 2003
Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, February 2005
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Southeast Geometry Seminar VI, December 2004
Seminar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, November 2003
Seminar, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 2003
Seminar, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, September 2003
Seminar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, April 2003
Seminar, Technical University of Berlin, January 2003
Georgia Institute of Technology, Southeast Geometry Seminar, Atlanta, December 2002
Colloquium, University of Rome, Italy, June 2002
Session Chair and Speaker, Special Session at 1-st Joint Meeting of American Mathematical Society and Italian Mathematical Union, Pisa, Italy, June 2002
Session Chair, Meeting on Singularities and Concentration Phenomena, Mathematical Institute at Oberwolfach, Germany, January, 2002
Seminar, Technical University of Berlin, August 2001
Colloquium, Technical University of Berlin, July 2001
Colloquium, New York Polytechnical University, March 2001