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net.mail.msggroup,net.math,net.math.stat,net.math.symbolic,net.ai Distribution: usa Keywords: pure/applied mathematics, computer science, speech recognition, bioengineering C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e DIMITRI KANEVSKY School of Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study Princeton NJ 08540 (609) 734-8112 Home address: 52 Einstein Drive, Princeton NJ 08540. Tel. (609) 683- 5579 Professional objectives: Research position in mathematics and/or computer sci- ence Fields of expertise: algebraic geometry, (computational) number theory, control and system theory, numerical analysis, cellular automata, parallel computing, combinatorics, coding theory, speech recognition, interpretation of visual motion, bioengineering Education: 1975-78 Moscow State University, Moscow USSR Ph.D. in Mathematics Thesis: "The structure of groups associated with cubic varieties" Advisor: Profesor Ya. Manin 1969-75 Moscow State University M.Sc. in Mathematics Professional experience: 1984-present Visiting scholar, Member of School of Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ 1983-84 & 4-9/85 Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn, W. Germany 1983 Founder and Director, Sensoraid Industries, Ltd. (speech recognition, training and aid systems for the deaf) 1981-83 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 1979-81 Researcher, School of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel 1977-78 Research Associate, Department of Commerce, Moscow USSR (mathematical modelling in economics) (concurrently) Research Associate, Moscow Institute of Defectology of the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (mathematical modelling in medicine, computer programming, analysis of electrocortical potentials) Honors, Awards, Grants: 1984-86 NSF Grant MCS-8108814 1985 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship 1983 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship 1981-82 Research Grant, Israel Academy of Sciences 1980 Research grant, French Fund for Young Scientists Patents: Audiotactile Communication System (pending, registration no. C-63521) Personal: U. S. Permanent Resident Married, one child References: 1. Professor Y. I. Manin, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow (copy of an updated letter of recommendation from Manin may be obtained from: Professor B. Mazur, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, tel. (617) 495-2171) 2. Professor E. Bombieri, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ 08540, tel. (609) 734-8112 3. Professor M. Kruskal, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08540, tel. (609) 452-4220 4. Dr. A. M. Odlyzko, Mathematical Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill NJ, tel. (201) 582-7286 5. Dr. J. Kruskal, Mathematical Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill NY, tel. (201) 582-3853 6. Professor B. Dickinson, Electrical Engineering Dept., Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08540, tel. (609) 452-4644 7. Professor H. Furstenberg, Dept. of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jersulalem, Jerusalem Israel 8. Professor I. Piatesky-Shapiro, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv Israel, and Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven CT 06520 9. Professor Michael Hazewinkel, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Kruislaan 413 1098SJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands, tel. (020) 5929333 10. Professor L. Levitin, College of Engineering, Computer and Engineering Sciences, Boston University, 110 Cummington Street, Boston MA 02215, tel. (617) 738-5279 Publications and Preprints: [1] Classes of points of cubic surfaces defined over finite fields. Mathematical Notes 20(1): 625-630 (1976) [2] The structure of groups connected with cubic surfaces. Uspehi Mat. Nauk. 32, No. 1(193): 195-66 (1977) [3] The structure of groups connected with automorphisms of cubic surfaces. Mathematics of the USSR Sbornik 32(2): 252-264 (1977) [4] Automorphisms of groups connected with cubic surfaces. Uspehi Mat. Nauk 3(195): 163-164 (1977) [5] Morphisms of traces and groups connected with cubic surfaces Geometricheskie Methodi v Zadachah Analiza i Algebri, Jroslavl 67 - 99 (1978) [6] (with G. Skurovich) A vibrotactile articulator. In: "Uses of Computers in Aiding the Disabled," (J. Raviv, Ed.), pp. 273-278, Amsterdam: North Holland (1982) [7] On cubic planes and groups connected with cubic varieties. J. of Algebra 80(2): 559-565 (1983) [8] On an example of Manin. Duke Mathematical Journal 49(3): 621-627 (1982) [9] On the algebro-geometric structure of the moduli space of completely reachable systems. "Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 29: 143-150 (1983) [10] An approach to the description of some algebraic varieties arising in systems theory. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Vol. 58. (P. A. Fuhrman, Ed.) Proceedings of the 1983 International Mathematical Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Beer Sheva, Israel (1983) [11] Application of conjecture on the Manin obstruction to various diophantine problems. Journees Arithmetiques" (to appear) [12] (with J. L. Colliot-Thelene & J. J. Sansuc) Surfaces cubiques diagonals. (to appear) [13] (with A. Pashenkov) A combinatorial model with local interactions of its elements. Proceedings of the 1986 Conference on Information and System Sciences, Princeton University (to appear) [14] (with G. Skurovich & A. Yabrov) Some aspects of perceptual development and rehabilitation. "Nuevos Technologios y Lenguajes Alternativos" Conference in Spain, 1986 (to appear) [15] Comments on combinatorial models for reaction-diffusion processes. Preprint (in preparation) [16] Some remarks on Brauer equivalence for cubic surfaces. Preprint, Max-Planck Institute f"uer Mathematik (in preparation) [17] (with J. L. Colliot-Thelene & J. J. Sansuc) On Cassels-Guy cubic surfaces. Preprint (in preparation) COLLOQUIUM ABSTRACTS Brief synopses of some of the author's work in pure and applied mathematics (author is prepared to speak on any of these): (1) "Nonstandard Automatic Speech Recognition" The problem of developing machines for enhancing speech recognition by means of lip-reading and tactile sensors in the context of a vibrotactile device invented by the author to aid the hearing-impaired. (2) "Knot Theory and its Applications" Applications to speech recognition and robotic vision of recent developments in knot theory. (3) "A Combinatorial Model With Local Interactions of Elements" Combinatorial and dynamical features of a new combinatorial model with interesting properties, including potential applications to classification problems in computer science. (4) "Algebro-geometric Methods in Control and Systems Theory" New results on the Kalman construction, which allows the orbit space of accessible machines (appearing as the control part of dynamical systems with m inputs and n degrees of freedom) to be treated as a certain manifold of dimension nm. (5) "Applications of Computers to Number Theory" An algorithm that determines whether certain cubic forms have nontrivial integer solutions; algorithm has been computer-implemented and used to test certain number- theoretic conjectures. (6) "Nonlinear Superposition and Control Theory" The extension to nonlinear equations of the superposition method of solving general 1st-order ordinary differential equations from a finite number of particular ones, with applications of recent developments to control theory. Please address replies to princeton!mind!harnad