А.Б.Сосинский,
Проректор НМУ по международным связям
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Alexei SOSSINSKI
Born October 7, 1937 in Paris, educated in France, USA, and
USSR
Equally fluent in Russian, French, and English
Married, two adult children
Permanent address: Russia, Moscow 117296, Lomonosovski pr., 14 kv.473
Telephone in Moscow: +7 (499) 241 0500 (off.)
E-mail: asossinsky@yan
Fax: +7 (499) 795 1015
Present positions
- Senior researcher. Laboratory of mathematical methods,
Institute for
Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences (since
1995)
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Professor. Higher Mathematics College, Independent
University of Moscow (since 1992)
Previous employment
- Senior researcher. Moscow Institute of Electronics and
Mathematics
(1987-1994)
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Mathematics editor. Kvant magazine (1975-1987)
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Associate professor, Chair of higher geometry and topology,
Department
of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University
(1970-1974)
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Assistant professor at the same chair (1965-1970)
Education
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French primary and secondary schooling (except for 5th and
6th grades in
an American public school), 1944-1955.
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Graduated from the Lycee Francais de New York with
honors (Prix
d'Excellence) and obtained the Baccalaureat 2ieme
degre in 1954.
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Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Washington Square College at
New
York University (cum laude, with honors in
mathematics, Phi Beta
Kappa), 1957
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MSc degree (``diplomnaya rabota"). Chair of
higher geometry and topology. Department of mechanics and
mathematics.
Moscow State University. 1961
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Postgraduate work (under professor L.~V.~Keldysh). Chair of
higher geometry and topology. Department of mechanics and
mathematics.
MSU (1961-1965)
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Ph D. Moscow State University, 1966 (topic:
``Multidimensional
topological knots", thesis referees professors
M.F.Bokshtein and
R.L.Frum-Ketkov)
Membership
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Moscow Mathematical Society, member (since 1967)
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Kvant magazine (USSR Acad. of Sciences). Editorial
board
member (since 1983)
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Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, editor
(since 1991)
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Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications,
associate editor
(since 1991)
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Tournament of Towns mathematics competition, Jury member
(since 1988)
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American Mathematical Society. Member (since 1993)
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Matematicheskie Zametki. Editor (since 1995)
Main publications since 1992
- Preparation theorems for isotopy invariants of links
in
3-manifolds, in: Quantum Groups, Lecture Notes in
Mathematics,
Vol.1510, Springer Verlag, 1992
- Feynman diagrams and Vassiliev knot invariants, IHES
Preprint,
M30, February 1992
- Formal cliche grammars (in Russian), Nauchno
Tekhnicheskaya
Informatsiya, б_аЁп 2, N12, 1992
- In the other direction, in: The Golden Years of Moscow
Mathematics,
AMS, Providence, 1993
- Russian popular math traditions: then and now.
Notices Amer. Math. Soc., Vol.40, N2 (1993)
- Codage des Noeuds, LaBRI, Univ. Bordeaux I, N791-94,
1994
- A classification of generic curves on oriented
surfaces,
Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol.2, N2,
1994
- Knots and low-dimensional topology (in Russian), IUM
Publications,
Moscow, 1993 (jointly with V.Prasolov)
- How to write a mathematical paper in English (in
Russian),
IUM Publications, Moscow, 1993;
2nd Edition ISLC, Minsk, 1994;
3rd Edition, Factorial Publ., Moscow, 1998.
- Knots, links, braids, and 3-manifolds (jointly with
V.Prasolov)
Amer. Math. Soc. Publ., Providence, R.I., 1996
Russian edition: MCCME Publ., Moscow, 1998
- Vassiliev spaces and classical invariants,
Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol.5. No.1,
1997
- Noeuds, Genese d'une theorie mathematique,
Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1999
German, Russian, Rumanian, and Italian editions in
preparation
- Smooth spaces and nongeneric hinge mechanisms
Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol.7, No.3,
1998