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Сongratulations to Alexander Elizarov on his glorious anniversary!

On August 14, 2024, the prominent mathematician and our friend Alexander Mikhailovich Elizarov celebrates his 70th anniversary.

He was born in 1954 in the village of Dolgoe, Irshavsky district, Zakarpattia region. In 1976, he graduated with honors from Kazan State University (KSU, since 2010 – Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, KFU) with a degree in Mathematics.

In 1976-1978, he worked as an intern-teacher and assistant at the Department of Differential Equations, Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of KSU. In 1978, he entered graduate school at the Department of Mathematical Analysis of KSU, which he graduated ahead of schedule in 1980 with the defense of his PhD thesis in the specialty “Mathematical Analysis”.

In 1980-2013б he worked at the N.G. Chebotarev Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics (RIMM) of Kazan Federal University, where he rose through the ranks from a junior research fellow to a professor and director of the research institute. He held the position of director from 1995 to 2013.

In 1991, he defended his doctoral dissertation in the specialty “Mechanics of liquids, gas and plasma”. He is a recognized authority in the field of mathematical modeling and inverse boundary value problems.

In 1998, he participated in the creation of the first independent private research company in the country dealing with ICT4D problems – the Institute of the Information Society. Since then, he has been an invariable member of the supreme body of the institute. He conducted a number of studies related to the development of the information society, the formation of digital scientific libraries, the markup of mathematical texts and search methods in them, and the development of electronic book publishing.

From 2012 to 2014, he was an advisor to the rector of KFU, in 2014-2016 he worked as a deputy director, head of the department, and then professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics (IMM) named after N.I. Lobachevsky KFU. Since 2017, he has been working as a professor at the Higher School of Information Technology and Intelligent Systems (HSITIS) of KFU.

The total number of scientific works of A.M. Elizarov is more than 500, including 8 monographs, 22 collective monographs, more than 250 scientific papers in leading Russian and foreign journals; he also has 7 certificates of registration of computer programs; wrote 4 textbooks. He spoke as an invited lecturer with plenary and sectional reports at many international and all-Russian conferences.

A.M. Elizarov has been and continues to be actively involved in teaching as a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Informatics of Kazan Federal University; the Departments of Differential Equations, Aerohydromechanics, Computer Mathematics and Informatics at the N.I. Lobachevsky Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of Kazan Federal University; the Department of Informatics at the Information and Library Faculty of Kazan University of Culture and Arts (KazGUKI); the Department of Software Engineering at the Higher School of ITIS of Kazan Federal University.

He has supervised 18 candidates of science, and was a scientific consultant for 2 doctoral dissertations. He was a member of a number of doctoral dissertation councils, and is currently the Chairman of the Dissertation Council of KFU in specialty 023.2. He has repeatedly acted as an opponent for doctoral and candidate dissertations.

A.M. Elizarov is one of the organizers (1996), deputy editor-in-chief, and since 2015 – editor-in-chief of the Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics (published by Springer Publishing House since 2008); editor-in-chief of the journal Electronic Libraries, member of the editorial board of the scientific and analytical journal Information Society, member of the editorial boards of leading domestic and foreign journals.

He is a member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the American Mathematical Society, the German Society of Mathematicians and Mechanics, and the International Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He supervised the creation and support of the Internet Center of Kazan State University (1998-2001).

In 1997-2005, he supervised the project “Creation of the N.I. Lobachevsky Mathematical Center for Conducting All-Russian Youth Scientific Schools and Conferences”, carried out within the framework of the relevant federal target program. He was the initiator of the publication of the “Proceedings of the N.I. Lobachevsky Mathematical Center” (more than 50 volumes have been published to date), and is the scientific editor of a significant part of them. In 1995-2001, he supervised the project to create the Volga region fragment of the data transmission network for science and education, carried out within the framework of the relevant federal target program.

In 2009, A.M. Elizarov became the director-organizer of the Kazan branch of the Interdepartmental Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A. M. Elizarov was awarded the academic titles of senior research fellow (1982), associate professor (1984), professor (1996); the title “Honored Scientist of the Republic of Tatarstan” (2004); the titles of honorary professor of KazGUKI and honored professor of KFU; he was awarded the badge “Honored Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation” (2007). In 2014, he was awarded the gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation.

On October 7, 2022, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 713, for his achieved labor successes and many years of conscientious work, A. M. Elizarov was awarded the honorary title “Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation”.

We sincerely congratulate our friend and colleague Alexander Mikhailovich Elizarov on his glorious anniversary and sincerely wish him health, happiness, longevity and new achievements!