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Adriaan Schakel (Personal webpage )Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig |
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Alexander Olemskoi (Personal webpage )Sumy State UniversityAlexandr Olemskoi was born on September 19, 1949 in the village of Ekatirinovka, Voronezh province in Russia. He graduated from the Voronezh Polytechnical Institute and defended his PhD in 1977. In 1987 at the Moscow State University he defended his thesis for the degree of a Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences. In 1988 he started working in the Sumy division of the Institute of Physics of Metals, NAS of Ukraine (now – the Institute of Applied Physics). Since 1995 he has been the head of the Chair for Electronics of Sumy State University and in 2006 he was appointed head of the Laboratory of Microstructural Research of Reactor Materials of the Institute of Applied Physics. Olemkoi was awarded the title of Soros professor and Pekar Prize of the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine. He received the honorary title of a Recipient of the Order of Merit in Science and Technology. The field of scientific interests of Olemskoi concerns many aspects of statistical physics, such as fractals in condensed matter, spin glasses and complex systems. He passed away on August 3, 2011. |