ISING LECTURERS-1999

	Ostap Baran (Personal webpage ) Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ostap Baran was born in Lviv on 30 November, 1967. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics at Lviv State University in 1992. Since then he has worked at the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics NAS of Ukraine. In 2002 Ostap defended his PhD Thesis ``Cluster approach to investigation of pseudospin models''. Between 2003 and 2014 he delivered a course of lectures ``Computer technology of designing'' at Lviv National Academy of Arts. The main scientific interests of Ostap Baran include the theory of order-disorder type ferroelectrics, Ising models with arbitrary spin, quantum antiferromagnets on 2D frustrated lattices and quantum phase transitions.
	Taras Yavors'kii (Personal webpage ) Coventry University Taras Yavors'kii studied physics at and earned his PhD from National University of Lviv, Ukraine, where he was developing the quantitative theory of critical phenomena in $\varphi$-4 field theories with complex symmetry order parameters. He then worked as a Research Associate and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Universities in Hanover (Germany), Waterloo (Canada), Mainz (Germany) studying quantum and classical spin models on highly geometrically frustrated lattices. He was also employed as a consultant on high-performance GPU computing in molecular dynamics at the University of Waterloo. In 2013, he was appointed a Lecturer in Mathematics at Coventry University. He is an author of over 20 publications in peer-reviewed international professional journals garnering over 400 references to his work, including in journals of ``Science'' and ``Nature''.
	Roman Melnyk (Personal webpage ) Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Roman Melnyk was born 14 June, 1973. In 1995 He completed a MSc in physics at Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ukraine. During 2004 he defended his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the NAS of Ukraine, Lviv. He currently holds positions as a senior researcher and scientific secretary at the ICMP. His main research areas and interests include the statistical mechanics of condensed matter and critical phenomena in simple and complex fluids.
	Svyatoslav Kondrat (Personal webpage ) Warsaw Institute of Physical Chemistry Svyatoslav Kondrat is a theoretical and computational physicist who works in various fields of condensed matter physics, such as critical phenomena, ionic liquids in nano-confinement, diffusion and reactions in biological systems, etc. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, he graduated from Lviv National University, and completed his MSc degree by studying polyelectrolytes and surfactant systems with Professor Holovko. He obtained a PhD at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Warsaw (Poland) by working with Professor Poniewierski on nematic liquid crystals at inhomogeneous substrates. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow and a research associate at Max-Planck Institute in Stuttgart and Stuttgart University (Germany), Imperial College London (UK) and Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany). Recently he accepted an assistant professor position in the department of complex systems at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Warsaw, where he focuses on biophysical and chemical physics problems.
	Myroslav Holovko (Personal webpage ) Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Myroslav Holovko was born on 29 October 1943 in the village Cherniyevi of Ivano-Frankivsk region. He graduated from Ivano-Frankivsk Pedagogical Institute (1965) and completed his postgraduate studies in Ivan Franko Lviv State University (1969). Myroslav Holovko worked in the Lviv department and later in Lviv Division of Statistical Physics of the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR between 1969-1990 (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics NAS Ukraine since 1990). He received his PhD degree in 1970 and his Doctor of Sciences degree in 1981. Since 1985, Holovko has held a Professorship degree and in 2003 became a corresponding member of NAS Ukraine. He is author and co-author of approximately 450 scientific papers.
	Andrij Rovenchak (Personal webpage ) Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Andrij Rovenchak was born 12 November 1976 in Lviv. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, in 1998. He completed his PhD in 2003 and later habilitated in 2016, with his thesis titled: Bose-statistics and fractional types of statistics in the manybody theory and related problems. Rovenchak currently holds a position as an Associate Professor at the Department for Theoretical Physics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. His research interests include statistical physics; Bose–Einstein condensation; systems obeying fractional statistics; quantitative methods in linguistics; studies of writing systems; history of science. He has published 75 articles and 10 books, in particular: Physics of Bose-systems (Lviv University Press, 2015); African writing systems of the modern age: the Sub-Saharan region (Athinkra LLC, 2011; with J. Glavy).
	Kyrylo Tabunshchyk Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine