Nonlinear Dynamics Conference in Memory of Alexei Pokrovskii

University College Cork, Ireland

September 5-9, 2011

Sponsors

• Open Innovation Partners (Cork)
• Science Foundation Ireland
• Cork Institute of Technology
• University of Limerick
• Irish Mathematical Society

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Invited Participants and Their Email Addresses

Programme

Organizing Committee

Andreas Amann, James Grannell, Guillaume Huyet, Tom Kelly, Petra Kordulova, Ben McKay (Co-Chairman), Michael Mortell, Kieran Mulchrone (Co-Chairman), Michael O’Callaghan, Michael Quinlan, Dima Rachinskii (Co-Chairman), Gareth Thomas

Program Committee

Eugene Asarin, Zalman Balanov, Finbarr Holland, Marina Kleptsyna, Alexander Krasnosel’skii, Victor Kozyakin, Pavel Krejci (Co-Chairman), Isaak Mayergoyz, Michael P. Mortell, J. Philip O’Kane, Robert E. O’Malley, Nikola Popovic, Dima Rachinskii (Co-Chairman), Elena Shchepakina, Vladimir Sobolev

Contact

Dima Rachinskii Department of Applied Mathematics University College Cork Ireland Email: d.rachinskii@ucc.ie Tel: +353 21 4205832

Invited Speakers and Presentations

• Andreas Amann (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Brian Appelbe (Imperial College London, UK)
• John Appleby (DCU)
• Eugene Asarin (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France)
• Eugene Benilov (University of Limerick, Ireland)
• Kevin Cronin (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Rod Cross (University of Strathclyde)
• Fergal Deasy (Institute of Mathematics, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Mathieu Desroches (University of Bristol)
• Mihai Dimian (Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania & Howard University, Washington, USA)
• Denis Flynn (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Gary Friedman (Drexel University, USA)
• James Gleeson (University of Limerick, Ireland)
• Vladimir Goldshtein (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
• James Grannell (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Tanya Habruseva (Tyndall National Institute and CIT)
• Finbarr Holland (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Ondrej Hovorka (University of York, UK)
• Ram Iyer (Texas Tech University)
• Amalia Ivanyi (University of Pecs, Hungary)
• Leonid Kalachev (University of Montana, Missoula, USA)
• Tom Kelly (University College Cork, Ireland)
• M. Peter Kennedy (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Marina Kleptsyna (Université du Maine, France)
• Jana Kopfova (University of Opava, Czech Republic)
• Natalia Kopteva (University of Limerick, Ireland)
• Petra Kordulova (University of Opava, Czech Republic)
• Andrei Korobeinikov (University of Limerick, Ireland)
• Victor Kozyakin (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia)
• Alexander Krasnosel’skii (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia)
• Pavel Krejci (Institute of Mathematics, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Petr Kucera (Institute of Mathematics, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Sergei Kuksin (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK and l'Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
• Nikolai Kuznetsov (Institute of Radio Engineering & Electronics, Moscow, Russia)
• Thomas Lorenz (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
• Isaak Mayergoyz (University of Maryland, USA)
• Stephen McCarthy (University College Cork, Ireland)
• John McInerney (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Ben McKay (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Hugh McNamara (University of Oxford, UK)
• Michael Mortell (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Raymond O'Connor (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Julie O’Donovan (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland)
• Edward O’Grady (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Philip O’Kane (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Robert E. O’Malley (University of Washington, USA)
• Suzanne O’Regan (University of Georgia, USA)
• Catriona de Paor (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Alexey Pokrovskiy Jr. (London School of Economics, UK)
• Nikola Popovic (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Dima Rachinskii (University College Cork)
• Oleg Rasskazov (J. P. Morgan, London, UK)
• Natalia Rebrova (Tyndall National Institute & CIT)
• Gearoid Ryan (University College Cork)
• Vincenzo Recupero (Politecnico di Torino)
• Sergei Sazhin (University of Brighton, UK)
• Elena Shchepakina (Samara State Aerospace University, Russia)
• Victor Shrira (Keele University, UK)
• Zdenek Skalak (Institute of Mathematics, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Vladimir Sobolev (Samara State Aerospace University, Russia)
• Gerard Tronel (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
• Alexander Veretennikov (University of Leeds, UK)
• Alexander Vladimirov (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia)
• Paweł Wilczyński (Institute of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University, Poland)
• Andrew Zhezherun (J.P. Morgan, London, UK)

Memorials

• Finbarr Holland (an extended version of the obituary published in Irish Times)
• Rod Cross
• Victor Kozyakin (in Russian)
• Dima Rachinskii, Elena Shchepakina, Vladimir Sobolev (Proceedings of MURPHYS 2010)
• Elena Shchepakina and Vladimir Soboloev (in Russian)
• Petr Petrovich Zabreiko (in Russian)
• Professor J. Philip O’Kane
• Dima Rachinskii, at Alexei's funeral mass:

  Alexei was a truly kind man, a warm hearted man. Always friendly, always cheerful, often funny. A wise man. A good man who did a lot of good to people.

  He was devoted to his family and cared for his family.

  And he was devoted to what he did, Mathematics and Science. That means in the first place he cared for people doing science, students, his colleagues, and the community.

  He was a legend among the students here Cork and in each and every place he worked, in Voronezh in Russia, Moscow, Australia, and Ireland.

  A professor most beloved by students and most esteemed by colleagues.

  I was lucky to know him when I was an undergraduate student, his student, and then to be close to him for the last few years in Cork, most enjoyable, dear and exciting scientifically for me.

  Working with Alexei both now and then was like being in Wonderland. Full of miracles and interesting intriguing things and unexpected facts. A Wonderland where it is so easy to make discoveries. These Wonderlands were created by Alexei for us, for his students, collaborators and colleagues. I have seen him making this miracle again and again, wondering how he does it, how he makes research and teaching a most enjoyable quest.

  He had this extraordinary and rare mind, extraordinary imagination, which let him see the thing from a different perspective. He was a pioneer and a creator. Whichever area he went to he initiated a fascinating work and brought his students and collaborators with him. He was always exploring, always open to new knowledge, eager to learn, he had this fresh interest in the world around us in all its variety and diversity whether that were aspects of life, physics, society, biology, economics, and, of course, mathematics. And it was an exploring and creative interest, as from this information stream he created models amenable to scientific approach. He was so rich of ideas, so generous in sharing them with his students and colleagues, so proud whenever they made a success, especially proud for success of younger colleagues whom he taught, inspired and encouraged to think and to explore. I have heard many times people saying Alexei knows everything – and that was about right. Whenever you were stuck with any problem or question – and that could come from any background really – a good idea would have been to go chat with Alexei. Whenever a student had an idea, a problem – he went to Alexei.

  Wherever he worked he was a centre of scientific life, an attractor of excellent researchers, a generator of novel ideas and a leading mind. Alexei's scientific accomplishment is huge. With renowned results in an extraordinary range of Mathematical disciplines, Applied Mathematics and Science. The community of his students, his scientific school, is huge, as is the scientific network he built.

  We will be missing him a lot. The joy of working with him and talking to him and listening to him. His kindness. His advice. His wisdom.

  And we will remember him a lot. Memories of him will be with us. His scientific legacy will be with us and will be affecting and influencing us for many years to come. The ideas we picked from him will be with us, as well as the things we learned from him, the ways of doing science and caring for people we learned from him will be with us.

  
  
• Eugene Asarin, at Alexei's funeral mass:
  

  Dear Friends,

  It is a sad day, Alexei Pokrovskii is no more with us.

  I will not talk about the biography of Alexei, a brilliant and original researcher, a great scientist who transcended disciplinary borders, an intelligent and open-minded person.

  I will just say a few personal words about him. Seeing how many friends of Alexei are here today, and were here yesterday, and thinking that he came to Ireland just about 10 years ago, I am really impressed. But this is not all, there are many other friends who were with Alexei when he was younger, and who are now in Russia , US, France and other countries. Many of them asked me to represent them here and to say how they loved Alexei. Natasha, Olya, Aliosha, you have many friends on this planet!

  I came to Alexei's laboratory 27 years ago, and I learned many things from him, in research and in life, but one surprised and influenced me probably more than others. Alexei, himself a strongest researcher, admired everybody, and it is not so common in the competitive research community. He looked at everybody he met with a huge interest and discovered in everyone a special talent or a special merit (it could be about proving theorems, reading research literature, playing chess, speaking to authorities or telling funny stories). I am trying to do like he did, but it is really not easy. Dear friends, let us all try to admire each other like Alexei did.

Publications of Professor Alexei Vadimovich Pokrovskii

Publications

Positions

• Professor of Applied Mathematics, University College Cork
• Associate Director of the Institute for Nonlinear Science, University College, Cork, Ireland
• Adjunct Professor, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
• Director of European Operations, Centre for Applied Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Analysis and Probability, University of Queensland, Australia
• Head of Group of Mathematical Methods in Control, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Qualifications

• B.S. and M.S. (Hons), Voronezh, Russia
• PhD in Mathematics and Automatic Control (1974), Moscow, Russia
• Dr.Sci. in Mathematics and Computer Sciences (1989), Russian Academy of Sciences
• Andronov Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1983

Research Interests

• Systems with hysteresis
• Systems with chaotic behavior
• Nonlinear functional analysis
• Numerical methods
• Control theory
• Probability theory
• General functional analysis

Mathematical genealogy of Alexei Pokrovskii