Pavel Kurasov's CV

Research speciality:

• spectral theory of Schrödinger operators
• quantum graphs
• scattering theory
• operator theory
• partial differential equations
• inverse problems
• mathematical physics

Academic Degrees

• 1987, M.A. in Mathematical Physics (Dept. of Mathematical Physics, Leningrad University).
  Supervisor Prof. B.Pavlov
  
  
• 1989, Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics (Dept. of Mathematical Physics, Leningrad University)
  Title: "Waveguide Bands of Continuous Spectrum".
  Supervisor Prof. B.Pavlov
  
  
• 1993, Ph.D.in Mathematics (Filosofie Doktorsexamen) (Dept. of Mathematics, Stockholm University )
  Title: "On Direct and Inverse Scattering Problems in Dimension One".
  Supervisor Prof. J.Boman
  
  
• 1999, Docent in Mathematics (Dept. of Mathematics, Stockholm University)
  
  
• 2008, Professor in Mathematics (Dept. of Mathematics, Lund University)

Positions

15.05.87 - 30.10.89	Postgraduate student,	Dept. of Math. Physics, Leningrad Univ., Russia
01.12.89 - pres.	Scientific Researcher,	St.Petersburg Univ., Russia
25.10.90 - 31.12.93	Postdoctoral fellow,	Faculty of Nat. Sci., Stockholm Univ., Sweden
01.01.94 - 30.06.94	Associate professor	Dept. of Math., Luleå Univ., Sweden
01.07.94 - 30.06.01	Associate professor	Dept. of Math., Luleå Univ., Sweden
31.10.94 - 31.10.97	Alexander von Humboldt fellow	Dept. of Math., Bochum Univ., Germany
01.07.96 - 30.06.01	Research assistant	Dept. of Math., Stockholm Univ., Sweden
01.03.01 - 31.05.01	Alexander von Humboldt fellow	Dept. of Math., Bonn Univ., Germany
01.09.00 - 18.12.08	Associate professor	Dept. of Math., Lund Inst. of Tech., Sweden
18.12.08 - pres.	Professor	Dept. of Math., Lund Inst. of Tech., Sweden

Visiting professorships

15.02.99-13.03.99	Guest professor	Dept. of Math., Gakushuin Univ., Tokyo, Japan
01.04.02 - 15.04.02	Guest research associate	Dept. of Math., Gakushuin Univ., Tokyo, Japan
96-99, regular visits	Guest professor	Dept. of Math., Bochum Univ., Germany
00-02, regular visits	Guest professor	Dept. of Math., Bonn Univ., Germany
07-12.11.04	Guest professor	Dept. of Math., Univ. of Birminham, UK

Licentiate and PhD thesis supervised

Marlena Nowaczyk,	Licentiate	"Inverse spectral problems for quantum graphs".	( PDF file)	Dept. of Math., Lund Univ., Sweden, 05.12.05.
Marlena Nowaczyk,	PhD	"Inverse problems for graph Laplacians".	( PDF file)	Dept. of Math., Lund Univ., Sweden, 22.01.08.

Master thesis supervised

Karel Packalen	"On the scattering problem with positon potentials"	Dept. of Math., Stockholm Univ.,
	( J.Phys.A, 32 (1999), 1269-1278 )	Sweden, 15.03.98
Jonas Larson	"Periodic second order differential operators with	Dept. of Math., Stockholm Univ.,
	singular perturbations" ( JMAA, 266 (2002), 127-148 )	Sweden, 05.12.00
Fredrik Stenberg	"Scattering on branching graphs"	Dept. of Math., Stockholm Univ.,
	(J.Phys.A, 35 (2002), 101-121)	Sweden, 18.12.00
Anders Nordenfelt	"Spectral Analysis of Discrete Approximations of	Dept. of Math., Lund Univ.,
	Quantum Graphs" ( PDF file)	Sweden, 20.04.07
Erik Wernersson	"Spectral Problems for some Finite and Infinite	Dept. of Math., Lund Univ.,
	Quantum Graphs" ( PDF file)	Sweden, 08.02.08
Maria Astudillo	"Pseudo-Hermitian Laplace operators on star-graphs:	Dept. of Math., Lund Univ.,
	real spectrum and self-adjointness" ( PDF file)	Sweden, 12.06.08

Organized conferences

Marcus Wallenberg Symposium in memory of S.Kovalevsky,	Dept. of Mathematics, Stockholm Univ.,	June 18-22, 2000, (main organizer).
Spectral analysis of differential and difference operators	Banach Center, Warszawa, Poland	Regular annual meetings in 1997-2003 (session organizer).
Operator Methods and Applications in Mathematical Physics - OTAMP2002 Proceedings	Bedlewo Math. Center, Poland	May 13-18, 2002 (session organizer).
Operator Methods and Applications in Mathematical Physics - OTAMP2004 Proceedings	Bedlewo Math. Center, Poland	July 6-12, 2004 (conference organizer).
Operator Methods and Applications in Mathematical Physics - OTAMP2006 Proceedings	Lund Univ., Sweden	June 15-22, 2006 (main organizer).
Öresund seminar över Matematisk Analys (Öresund seminar on Mathematical Analysis)	Lund Univ., Sweden (joined with Copenhagen Univ.)	November 23, 2007 (co-organizer).
Operator Methods and Applications in Mathematical Physics - OTAMP2008 Proceedings	Bedlewo Math. Center, Poland	June 15-22, 2008 (co-chair).
Integral Geometry and Tomography - IGT2008 Proceedings	Stockholm Univ., Sweden	August 12-15, 2008 (co-chair).
Öresund seminar över Matematisk Analys (Öresund seminar on Mathematical Analysis)	Lund Univ., Sweden (joined with Copenhagen Univ.)	June 16, 2009 (co-organizer).
Spectral Problems and Related Topics	Moscow Univ., Russia (joined with Copenhagen Univ.)	November 18-21, 2009 (member of the Advisory Board).
Operator Methods and Applications in Mathematical Physics - OTAMP2010	Bedlewo Math. Center, Poland	August 5-12, 2010 (co-chair).

Participation in the conferences

Major recent presentations:

• Evolution Equations and their Applications in Physical and Life Sciences, Bad Herrenalb, Germany, September 14 - 19, 1998.
  
  
• Functional analysis and applications: memorial conference for Bela Szökefalvi-Nagy, Szeged, Hungary, August 2--6, 1999.
  
  
• Conference on Analysis and Mathematical Physics in Honour of Lars Gårding, Lund, Sweden, August 16-20, 1999.
  
  
• International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications - IWOTA 2000, Univ. of Bordeaux, France, June 13-16, 2000.
  
  
• Partial Differential Equations, Univ. of Clausthal, Germany, July 24-28, 2000.
  
  
• Function Spaces, Interpolation Theory and Related Topics, Conference in honour of Jaak Peetre on his 65-th birthday, Lund, Sweden, August 17-22, 2000.
  
  
• Dynamical inverse problems, Euler International Center, St.Petersburg, Russia, June 18-23, 2001.
  
  
• Schrödinger Operators, (Random) Potentials and Singular Perturbations, XV Max Born Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland, June 26-30, 2001.
  
  
• The 2002 UAB International Conference on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, March 26-30, 2002.
  
  
• Öresund symposium on partial differential equations, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, May 23-25, 2002.
  
  
• The 4th Gregynog Workshop on Computation and Analytic Problems in Spectral Theory, Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Great Britain, July 21-26, 2002.
  
  
• Eleventh Summer St.Petersburg Meeting in Mathematical Analysis, Euler International Math. Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia, August 15-20, 2002.
  
  
• International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications - IWOTA 2003, Cagliari, Italy, June 23-27, 2003.
  
  
• Twelfth Summer St.Petersburg Meeting in Mathematical Analysis, Euler International Math. Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia, August 15-20, 2003.
  
  
• Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, Tokyo Univ., October 22-24, 2003.
  
  
• Colloquium on Operator Theory, Vienna Univ. of Technology, March 4-6, 2004.
  
  
• Differential Equations and Related Topics dedicated to I.G.Petrovskii, Moscow State University, May 16-22, 2004.
  
  
• m-function and related topics, Cardiff, UK, July 19-21, 2004.
  
  
• Workshop on Spectral Theory, Warwick Mathematical Research Center, Warwick, Great Britain, April 4-9, 2005.
  
  
• Quantum Graphs and Their Applications, Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences, Snowbird, Utah, USA, June 18-24, 2005.
  
  
• Spectral Analysis of Differential and Difference Operators VI, Banach Center, Warszawa, Poland, July 4-15, 2005.
  
  
• The 5th Gregynog Workshop on Computation and Analytic Problems in Spectral Theory, Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Great Britain, July 24-29, 2005.
  
  
• Operator Theory and Spectral Analysis, LMS Durham Symposium 2005, Durham, Great Britain, August 2-12, 2005.
  
  
• Dijksma conference, Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands, February 22-24, 2006.
  
  
• Semiclassical Analys and Mathematical Quantum Mechanics, Bologna Univ., Italy, March 9-11, 2006.
  
  
• Operator Theory and Applications to Mathematical Physics- OTAMP2006, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, June 16--21, 2006.
  
  
• 15th Summer S:t Petersburg Meeting in Mathematical Analysis, Euler International Math. Institute, S:t Petersburg, Russia, July 6--11, 2006.
  
  
• 6th Workshop Operator Theory in Krein Spaces and Operator Polynomials, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, December 14-17, 2006.
  
  
• Partial Differential Equations: Analysis, Applications, and Inverse Problems, Copthorne Waitangi Resort, New Zealand, January 8-13, 2007.
  
  
• Quantum Graphs, their Spectra and Applications, Newton Institute, Cambridge, April 2-5, 2007.
  
  
• Modern Analysis and Applications (MAA 2007) dedicated to the centenary of Mark Krein, Odessa, Ukraine, April 9-14, 2007.
  
  
• The 6th Gregynog Workshop on Computation and Analytic Problems in Spectral Theory , Gregynog Hall, Wales, UK, July 12-18, 2008.
  Lecture: On the inverse problem for magnetic Schrödinger operators on graphs
  
  
• Nordic-Russian Symposium in honour of Vladimir Maz'ya , KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, August 25--27, 2008
  Lecture: How to recover potential on graphs with cycles?
  
  
• Critical Stability Erice, Italy, October 12-18, 2008.
  Lecture: How to model p-scattering using point interactions and related three-body problems
  
  
• 4th Workshop on Quantum Chaos and Localisation Phenomena Warszawa, Poland, May 22-24, 2009.
  Lecture: Localization and quantum blockade on graphs and inverse problems for Aharonov-Bohm rings
  
  
• 25th Nordic and 1st British-Nordic congress of Mathematicians Oslo, Norway, June 8-10, 2009.
  Lecture: Triplet extensions of semibounded operators
  
  

Selected presentations

• Why should physicists ask mathematicians? September 26, 2006, Lund Mathematical Society PS file