Results of the 2009 Young Mathematicians Competition

GAIFULLIN Alexander Alexandrovich

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences; junior research fellow of the Department of Geometry and Topology, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University; senior researcher of the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems.
His candidate’s dissertation, devoted to a combinatorial approach to the classic Steenrod problem on the realization of cycles, was defended in 2008 under the guidance of V. M. Buchstaber, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Area of scientific interest: combinatorial geometry and topology, algebraic topology, geometric group theory. Author of 15 publications.
He received the first place in the August Möbius Contest for undergraduate and graduate student works in mathematics for the work “Local formulas for combinatorial Pontryagin classes” in 2005 and a grant for support of young scientists–candidates of science from the President of the Russian Federation in 2009.

GORSKY Evgeny Alexandrovich

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences; postdoc at the Laboratoire J.-V. Poncelet.
His candidate’s dissertation, devoted to motivic integration and its relation to invariants of plane curve singularities and algebraic knots, was defended in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, under the guidance of Professor S. M. Gusein-Zade in 2009.
He participated in the Mцbius Contest in 2006 (first place in the undergraduate category) and 2007 (second place in the undergraduate and graduate category).

KIRICHENKO Valentina Alekseevna

PhD in mathematics, her dissertation was defended at the University of Toronto under the guidance of Professor A. G. Khovanskii.
She studies algebraic geometry, in particular, extending the theory of Newton polytopes from toric varieties to more general varieties with the action of an algebraic group.
Since 2009 she works at the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
She previously worked at Stony Brook University (USA), at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn, and with the Max Planck Institute in Bonn (Germany).