Prof. Victor I. Gerasimenko National Academy of Sciences Institute of Mathematics 3 Tereshchenkivs'ka St., 01601, MSP, Kiev-4, Ukraine Tel: (380 44) 224-4564 Fax: (380 44) 235-2010 gerasym@imath.kiev.ua

Data: Born January 26 1954; 1976 -B.S. degree from Physics Faculty of the Kyiv National University; 1976 - 1978 - post-graduate courses of the Kyiv National University; 1978-1986 - research engineer, Junior Scientific Researcher, Senior Scientific Researcher, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kyiv; 1986-1991 - Senior Scientific Researcher, Institute of Mathematics, Kyiv; 1991-Pres. - Professor, Leading Scientific Researcher, Institute of Mathematics, Kyiv. 1981 -Ph.D., 1991 - Professor, Dr.Sci. Award: 2001- State Prize of the Ukraine.

Area of expertise: Statistical mechanics and quantum field theory; Infinite particle evolution equations; Kinetic and hydrodynamic equations. Research and Development Activity: Evolution of infinite particle systems; Methods of the construction of solutions to the BBGKY hierarchy of the infinite particle systems; The mathematical justification to the derivation of kinetic and hydrodynamic equations from the dynamics of many-particle systems of various nature: plasma like and condensed media (metals, semiconductors, granular materials); Inverse osmotic processes in the inhomogeneous systems of charged particles; Dynamics of quantum-classical systems.

Selected Publications: Many-particle dynamics and kinetic equations, Dordrecht: Kluwer Akad. Publ., 1997, 252 p. (with C.Cercignani, D.Petrina). Mathematical foundations of classical statistical mechanics, (with D.Petrina and P.Malyshev), Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 1985, 264 p. second edition: N.Y.: Gordon and Breach Sci. Publ., 1989, 356 p. third edition: London: Taylor & Francis , 2002, 352 p. Mathematical problems of the statistical mechanics of a hard sphere system. Russ. Math. Surv. (Uspekhy Math. Nauk), v.45., No.3, 1990, pp.135-182 (with D.Petrina). A mathematical description of the evolution of the states of infinite systems of classical statistical mechanics , Russ. Math. Surv.(Uspekhy Math. Nauk), v.38, No.5, 1983, pp.3-58 Uncorrelated equations of motion of the quantum-classical systems. Reports of Acad. Sci. Ukrainian SSR, No.10, pp.65 - 68, 1981.