ASKOLD KHOVANSKII CURRICULUM VITAE A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 1. BORN: June 3, 1947, Moscow, USSR 2. EDUCATION: Russian Doctoral degree - 1988, "Newton Polyhedra and fewnomials", Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow Ph.D. - 1973, "Representability of functions in quadratures", Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow Graduate Studies - 1970-1973, Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR M.S. - Moscow State University, 1970 3. ACADEMIC POSITIONS: Since 1996 - Full Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada Since 1976 - Institute for System Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Russia, Main scientific staff member Since 1991 - Professor at the Moscow Independent University 1973 -1976 - Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Junior scientific staff member Addresses: Department of Mathematics University of Toronto Toronto, ON. M5S 3G3, Canada Phone: (416) 978-4868 Moscow Independent University Bol'shoi Vlas'evskii per, d. 11, Moscow 121002, Russia B. ACADEMIC HISTORY 4. MEMBERSHIP: - Moscow Mathematical Society (1994-1998 - member of Boarding Committee) - Scientific Committee of the Independent Moscow University - Boarding Committee of the Journal "Functional Analysis and its applications'' - Editorial Board of the Moscow Mathematical Journal - Editorial Board of the PHASIS Publishing House 5. INVITED TALKS: a. General meetings International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw (1983) Congress of Singularities, France (1991) Conference of Canadian Mathematical Society, Toronto (1995) Conference of Canadian Mathematical Society, Kingston (1998) Sessions of Moscow Mathematical Society (1975, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1994-1997) Sessions of Moscow Mathematical Society and Petrovsky Seminar (1978, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1990) Sessions of Leningrad Mathematical Society (1980) b. Lectures Series RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan University of Valladolid, Spain L'IRMA, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA Stefan Banach International Center, Warszawa, Poland University of Toronto, Canada Institute of Fourier, Grenoble, France Independent Moscow University, Moscow, Russia University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA University of Bern, Switzerland Winter Mathematical School, Voronezh, Russia Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia XIII All-Union School on the Operator Theory in Functional Spaces, Kuibyshev, Russia c. Invited lectures Arnold's seminar on singularity theory, MSU, Moscow, Russia (1967-2001) Seminar on Algebraic Geometry, Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia Topological Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia All-Union Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan Rene Tom's seminar, IHES, France Courant Institute, NY University, USA MIT, USA Siberian School on the Algebra and Analysis, Baikal, Russia Harvard University, USA Rice University, USA Siberian School on the Algebra, Tomsk, Russia Michel Gromov's seminar, IHES, France Utrecht University, The Netherlands Twent University, The Netherlands Cornell University, USA Rice University, USA Stanford University, USA University of North Carolina, USA Uppsala University, Sweden Scola Normala Superiora, Pisa, Italy University of Toronto, Canada University of Montreal, Canada University of Pisa, Italy Seminar on Combinatorial analysis, Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia Ecole Normale Superieure, France University Paris 11, France University of Bordeaux, France Nelson lecture, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Seminar on Numbers Theory, Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia Seminar on Control Theory, Department of Computer Sciences, MSU, Moscow, Russia Workshop on Model Theory of Analytic Functions, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada Workshop on Geometry and Complexity, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada Conference in Honour of Vladimir Arnol'd, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada Weizmann Institute of Science, Rekhovot, Israel Technion, Haifa, Israel International Conference "Solitons, Geometry and Topology: On the Crossroads" (in Honour of Sergei P. Novikov), Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Colloquium, L'IRMA, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Colloquium, Instituto de Matematicas - UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico Instituto de Matematicas - UNAM, UNIDAD Cuernavaca, Mexico Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, Spain Seminario Iberoamericano de Singularidades en Tordesillas, Spain International Conference on Foundation of Computational Mathematics Celebrating Smale's 70th birthday, City University of Hong Kong General seminar ``Globus'', the Independent Moscow University, Moscow, Russia Workshop on ``Combinatorial Convexity and Algebraic Geometry'', Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany Algebraic geometry seminar, Saitama University, Urawa, Japan Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Japan International Conference Monodromy in Geometry and Differential Equations Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow Summer school ``Modern Mathematics'', Dubna, Russia Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA 6. MISCELLANEOUS: 1978 Short talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians Helsinki, Finland 1984 A meeting of Bourbaki's seminar (France) was devoted to Khovanskii's theory of fewnomials 1991-94 Member of Boarding Committee of the ``The Selecta Mathematica Sovietica'' 1997 Member of Organizing Committee Singularity Theory and Geometry Program at the Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada 1997 Member of Organizing Committee of Conference in Honour of Vladimir Arnol'd at the Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada 1997 Member of Organizing Committee of workshop on Geometry and Complexity at the Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada