Winners of the 2011 Young Mathematician Competition were determined

Aleksandr Anatolyevich DOLGOBORODOV

Dolgoborodov is a graduate student, Higher Mathematics Department, National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI).
His research advisor is Professor E. A. Sevast'yanov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
The defense of his candidate of science dissertation “Zeros of analytic functions from Bergman spaces” is planned for 2012.
Dolgoborodov is an author of 7 papers in refereed journals.

Nikolay Yuryevich EROKHOVETS

Erokhovets graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University.
He defended his candidate of science dissertation on the combinatorics of simple polytopes and the topology of moment–angle manifolds in 2011 (after the end of this competition). V. M. Bukhshtaber, Corresponding Member of the RAS, was his research advisor.
Beginning in 2011, he works as a junior researcher in the Department of Higher Geometry and Topology of the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University.
Erokhovets is an author of 5 papers.
His research interests are the combinatorics of convex polyhedra and toroidal topology.

Nikolay Anatolyevich GUSEV

Gusev is an assistant in the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
Gusev defended his candidate of science dissertation devoted to some problems in mathematical physics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute (RAS) in 2011 (after the end of this competition). His advisor was E. G. Shifrin, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, MIPT).
Gusev participated in the special seminar “Classical and quantum dynamics in mathematical physics problems” of the Research and Education Center at the Steklov Mathematical Institute. He participated in international conferences and summer schools in France (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise) and Italy (SISSA).
His research interests are mathematical hydrodynamics, partial differential equations, function theory, and functional analysis.

Ilya Aleksandrovich MEDNIKH

Mednikh graduated from Lavrentiev Specialized Physics and Mathematics School of Novosibirsk State University in 2002.
He received a master's degree from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Novosibirsk State University in 2010.
He became a graduate student at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (SB RAS) in 2010.
He began to give seminars on the theory of functions of a complex variable in the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Novosibirsk State University in 2011.
His research interest is the theory of functions on Riemann surfaces.

Yuri Mikhailovich USTINOVSKI

Ustinovski is a graduate student at the Steklov Mathematical Institute (RAS).
In 2011, he defended the graduation thesis “Geometric structures on moment–angle manifolds” in the Department of Higher Geometry and Topology of the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University. His advisors were T. E. Panov and V. M. Bukhshtaber.
Ustinovski is an author of 3 papers.
His research interests are combinatorial geometry, equivariant topology, and toroidal topology.

Arseniy Vladimirovich AKOPYAN

Akopyan, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, is a senior researcher at the A. A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems (RAS).
Akopyan graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University in 2007.
He defended his candidate of science dissertation “Discrete transversals of convex sets” in 2010. His advisor was V. L. Dol'nikov.
Akopyan does research in discrete and convex geometry and combinatorics.

Ivan Valeryevich OSELEDETS

Oseledets, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, is a senior researcher at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics, RAS (Moscow).
Oseledets graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 2006. He defended his candidate of science dissertation at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics in 2007. His research advisor was Е. Е. Tyrtyshnikov.
His research interests are matrix analysis, linear algebra, numerical methods for working with multidimensional arrays (computational tensor methods), and the approximation of multivariate functions.
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Mikhail Borisovich SKOPENKOV

Skopenkov, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, is a senior researcher at the A. A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems (RAS).
He defended his candidate of science dissertation in 2008 at Moscow State University.
Skopenkov is an author of 20 papers.
His research interests are geometry, topology, and their applications.
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Aleksandr Isaakovich ESTEROV

Esterov, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, is a docent of the Mathematics Department at the Higher School of Economics.
He defended his candidate of science dissertation on Newton polytopes in 2005. His research advisor was S. M. Gusein-Zade (Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty, MSU).
Esterov worked at the University of Toronto and the Complutense University.
His research interests are convex, tropical, and toroidal geometry and the topology of singularities and almost periodic sets.

Ivan Vladimirovich ARZHANTSEV

Arzhantsev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, is a docent of the Higher Algebra Department, Moscow State University (since 2005).
Arzhantsev graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University with honors in 1995.
Arzhantsev defended his candidate of science dissertation in 1998. His research advisor was Professor E. B. Vinberg.
Arzhantsev defended his doctor of science dissertation “Embeddings of homogeneous spaces and the geometric invariant theory” in 2010.
He regularly collaborates with the Fourier Institute (Grenoble, France) and the Karl Eberhard University (Tübingen, Germany).
He has given reports at several international conferences.
He received a Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young candidates of science (2004–2005), the European Academy Prize (2006), a Pierre Deligne Grant (2008–2010), and a Simons Grant (2011).
Arzhantsev is an author of 40 scientific papers. He was the research advisor to six candidates of science.
His research interests are algebraic geometry, representation theory, algebraic groups, and invariant theory.

Aleksandr Igorevich BUFETOV

Bufetov graduated from Moscow Independent University in 1999.
He did graduate studies in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University in 2000–2005. His research advisor was Ya. G. Sinai. Bufetov received a Ph. D. in 2005.
Bufetov was a 2005 laureate of the Moscow Mathematical Society for a series of works on the application of the theory of transformations and hyperbolic dynamical systems theory to the Teichmuller flow.
He was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship (2010–2012) and a Grant of the President of the Russian Federation (2010–2011).
Bufetov is a senior researcher in the Department of Differential Equations, Steklov Mathematical Institute, since 2009.
Bufetov is an acting lead researcher of a section of the A. A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems (RAS) and a professor in the RAS Steklov Institute of Mathematics Department of Vocational Training of the Mathematical Faculty, Higher School of Economics.

Roman Nikolaevich KARASEV

Karasev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, is a docent at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
Karasev defended his candidate of science dissertation devoted to some issues of combinatorial and convex geometry at the MIPT in 2003. His research advisor was V. L. Dol'nikov (Yaroslavl State University). He defended his doctor of science dissertation on applications of theorems of the Borsuk–Ulam type in combinatorial and convex geometry at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in 2010.
Karasev is an author of over 40 scientific papers.
Karasev does research in the field of combinatorial and convex geometry, usually using topological methods.
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Andrey Evgenyevich MIRONOV

Mironov graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 1998.
He defended his candidate of science dissertation in 2002 and his doctor of science dissertation in 2010 at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS.
From 2002 to 2003, Mironov was a senior researcher, Laboratory of Conditionally Correct Problems, IM SB RAS.
He was a senior researcher, Laboratory of Dynamical Systems, IM SB RAS, from 2003.
He was a docent in the Geometry and Topology Department of Novosibirsk State University from 2004.
Mironov has been a member of the Bogolyubov Laboratory of Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, Moscow State University, since 2010.
Mironov is an author of 30 papers.
His research interests are mathematical physics, integrable systems, and differential geometry.

Aleksey Vladimirovich USTINOV

Ustinov graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1995 and became a graduate student in this faculty.
He defended his candidate of science dissertation “Some questions of Diophantine equation theory” in 1999. His advisor was N. M. Korobov.
He worked in the Department of Number Theory of the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty, Moscow State University, from 1999 to 2006.
Ustinov gave the special courses “Fundamentals of number theory,” “Additional chapters in number theory,” “Trigonometric sums and their applications,” and “Number theoretic methods in approximate analysis” and directed the special seminars “Trigonometric sums and their applications” (together with N. G. Moshchevitin), “Theorems and problems in number theory” (together with A. I. Galochkin), and “Automorphic forms” (together with V. V. Zudilin and A. I. Zykin).
Ustinov taught in the Department of Mathematics, Specialized Educational Scientific Center, Moscow State University (SESC MSU) from 1995 to 2006 (with a break from 2000 to 2005). He gave lectures and seminars in algebra and geometry. During this time he co-authored the books Entrance Examination Variants for the Kolmogorov School, Algebra and Number Theory, Collection of Problems for Mathematics Schools, Polygons on Lattices, Problems on Quadrille Paper, and 18 × 18.
He has been a member of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Khabarovsk Branch, FEB RAS, since 2006.
He defended his doctor of science dissertation “Application of estimates for Kloosterman sums to some problems of the metric and analytic theory of numbers” in 2009. His research advisor was V. A. Bykovsky.
Ustinov taught at Olympiad Summer Schools of the Specialized Educational Scientific Center, Moscow State University (SESC MSU) in 2004–2008 and 2010–2011; at the CBOSS–MSU Summer School in 2005; and at the “Contemporary Mathematics” Summer School in 2008, 2010, and 2011.
He was a member of the Russian National Team at the 5th World Championship of Puzzle-solving (Netherlands, 1996).
His research interests are number theory and elementary mathematics.