Boris Konopeltchenko
Department of Mathematics and Physics
University of Salento
Italy
Biography
Konopelchenko Boris Georgievich was a Professor in Department of Physics, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy. Tel: +39 0832 297437 (off.), E-mail: konopel@le.infn.it Education and degrees: 1966-1971- Novosibirsk State University, Department of Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. Diploma in Physics (equivalent to M.S.) 1971-1973- Graduate student, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. 1973 - Degree of Candidate of Physics-Mathematical Sciences (equivalent to Ph.D), Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ucraine. Thesis: ”Some problems of conformal fields theory and dynamical groups”, thesis advisor: Prof. Yu. B. Rumer. 1986 - Degree of Doctor of Physics-Mathematical Sciences, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. Thesis: ” Recursion, group and Hamiltonian structures of nonlinear integrable equations”. Positions: 1973-1993 - Researcher, senior and leading researcher, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Academy of Sciences of USSR, Novosibirsk, Russia. 1993- until now- Professor, Department of Physics, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy. Visiting positions: 1984- until now - University of Rome I (Rome , Italy), University of Paris VII (Paris, France), Yale University ( New-Haven, USA), New-York University (New-York, USA), Caltech ( Los-Angeles, USA), UNSW (Sydney, Australia), Berlin Technical University ( Berlin, Germany), Complutence University (Madrid, Spain), Isaac Newton Institute ( Cambridge, UK)... Invited talks at conferences and meetings: Numerous lectures and seminars at conferences and universities world-wide.
Research Interest
Theory of nonlinear integrable systems; interrelations between algebra, geometry and continuous and discrete nonlinear integrable equations; symmetry of nonlinear equations.
