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Dr. Ivan Kiguradze

 

AFFILIATION


Andrea Razmadze Mathematical Institute
I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
2 Merab Aleksidze II Lane, Tbilisi 0193, Georgia
Telephone: +995 99 234678 (mobile)
+995 32 230847 (home)
E-mail:     ivane.kiguradze@tsu.ge


PERSONAL DATA

Birthdate: January 12, 1937
Birthplace: Khidistavi village, Chokhatauri municipality, Georgia
Parents: Tariel Kiguradze (1906-1942)
  Valentina Kiguradze (1909-1987)
Marital status: Married, Spouse – Mzia Grigolia (1939-2023)
  Children - Maia Kiguradze (born in 1964)
                  Tariel Kiguradze (born in 1967)
Nationality: Georgian


EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

1944-1955 Pupil of Khidistavi Secondary School (graduated in 1955 with a gold medal)
1955-1960 Student of Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
June, 1960 Diploma in Mathematics (with honour), Tbilisi State University
1960-1963 Post-graduate student of Tbilisi State University
June, 1963 Ph. D. in Mathematics, Tbilisi State University
June, 1968 Certificate of Docent (Supreme Certification Commission under the USSR Higher Education Ministry)
September, 1972 Defended his doctoral thesis at Tbilisi State University, on the basis of which the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR awarded him the scientific degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
June, 1976 Certificate of Professor
December, 1979 Elected as a Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
June, 1993 Elected as a Full Member (Academician) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (now the Georgian National Academy of Sciences)

 

HONORARY SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

November 7, 2016 Doctoris Honoris Causa of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
June, 2017 Honorary Doctor of Odessa I. I. Mechnokov National University
December, 2017 Honorary Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Ukraine

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Differential equations (boundary value problems, qualitative theory of nonautonomous differential equations, oscillation theory)

 

LABOR ACTIVITY

September, 1963 – February, 1966 Assistant at the Chair of Differential and Integral Equations of Tbilisi State University
February, 1966 – September, 1966 Senior Researcher at A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
October, 1966 – March 1973 Senior Researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Tbilisi State University and Docent of the Chair of Differential and Integral Equations of Tbilisi State University
March, 1973 – June, 1989 Head of the Department of Ordinary Differential Equations of Ilia Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of Tbilisi State University
December, 1973July, 2006 Professor of Tbilisi State University 
June, 1989May, 2006 Director of A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
August, 1995 – December, 1996 Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Georgia
June, 2006 − up to now Head of the Department of Differential Equations and Chief Researcher at Andrea Razmadze Mathematical Institute
October, 2012 – October, 2016 Member of the Parliament of Georgia and Chairman of the Education, Science and Culture Committee

 

SUPERVISION OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS

I. Toroshelidze        defended the Ph. D. in 1967 at Tbilisi State University
D. Izyumova defended the Ph. D. in 1968 at Tbilisi State University
T. Chanturia defended the Ph. D. in 1971 at Tbilisi State University
M. Kakabadze defended the Ph. D. in 1974 at Tbilisi State University
B. Shekhter defended the Ph. D. in 1977 at Tbilisi State University
J. Mirzov defended the Ph. D. in 1977 at Tbilisi State University
G. Tabidze defended the Ph. D. in 1980 at Tbilisi State University
G. Kvinikadze defended the Ph. D. in 1983 at Tbilisi State University
Ch. Skhalyakho defended the Ph. D. in 1983 at Tbilisi State University
G. Gaprindashvili defended the Ph. D. in 1984 at Tbilisi State University
M. Ashordia defended the Ph. D. in 1985 at  A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
G. Gegelia defended the Ph. D. in 1986 at  A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
D. Bitsadze defended the Ph. D. in 1986 at Tbilisi State University
A. Lomtatidze defended the Ph. D. in 1986 at Tbilisi State University
Sh. Gelashvili defended the Ph. D. in 1988 at N. Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics
O. Tskhadaia defended the Ph. D. in 1989 at Tbilisi State University
G. Tskhovrebadze defended the Ph. D. in 1989 at A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
R. Tsitskishvili defended the Ph. D. in 1994 at Tbilisi State University
D. Chichua defended the Ph. D. in 1994 at A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
Z. Sokhadze defended the Ph. D. in 1996 at A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
L. Kokilashvili defended the Ph. D. in 1999 at A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
S. Mukhigulashvili defended the Ph. D. in 1999 at A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
N. Partsvania defended the Ph. D. in 1999 at A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute

 

MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COUNCILS

June 1999June 2002 Member of the INTAS Council of Scientists
2004-2015 Member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic


EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

1976-1993 Member of Editorial Board of the journal "Differentsial'nye Uravneniya"
1993-2002 Member of Editorial Board of the journal "Archivum Mathematicum" (Brno)
1994-up to now Member of Editorial Board of the journal "Fasciculi Mathematici"
1994-2019 Member of Editorial Board of the journal "Functional Differential Equations"
1994-up to now Editor-in-Chief of the "Georgian Mathematical Journal"
1994-up to now Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics"
1998-2016 Associate Editor of the Electronic Journal "Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations"
2004-up to now Member of Editorial Board of the journal "Nonlinear Oscillations"
2004-2019 Associate Editor of the journal "Boundary Value Problems"
2008-up to now Member of Editorial Board of the “Journal of the Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Informatics”

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

  • Fellowship of Development Fund of Czech Universities - Masaryk University (Brno), October 1994-March 1995

  • Soros Professor's Grant - 1995-1999

  • Fellowship of Development Fund of Czech Universities - Masaryk University (Brno), November 1996-January 1997

  • NATO Research Fellowship - University of Ioannina, November 1997-December 1997

  • INTAS Grant # 96-1060, August 1997-August 1999

  • Research Grant of the Greek Ministry of Development in the framework of Bilateral S&T Cooperation between the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Georgia, 2001

  • INTAS Grant # 00136, August 2001-August 2003

  • CRDF-GEORGIA Grant # 3318, March 2003-October 2004

  • INTAS Grant # 03-51-5007 - 2004-2007

  • Grant of the Georgian National Science Foundation # GNSF/ST06/3-002 - 2006-2008
  • Grant of the Georgian National Science Foundation # GNSF/ST09_175_3-101 - 2010-2012
  • Grant of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation # FR/317/5-101/12 – 2013-2016

     

    PRIZES AND AWARDS

  • A. Razmadze prize of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1976
  • Silver medal of Purkyne University (Brno), 1978
  • I. Javakhishvili medal of Tbilisi State University, 1987
  • Gold medal of Faculty of Sciences of Purkyne University (Brno), 1988
  • Medal of the Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists, 1990
  • Order of Georgia - "Order of Honour", 1997
  • B. Bolzano Honorary Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2006

     

    PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC FORUMS

    ·         Equadiff 2 – Czechoslovak Conference on Differential Equations and Their Applications (Bra­tislava, Slovakia, 1966).

    ·         Fourth International Conference on Nonlinear Oscillations (Prague, Czech Republic, 1967).

    ·         Fifth International Conference on Nonlinear Oscillations (Kiev, Ukraine, 1969).

    ·         Second All-Union Conference on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Ryazan, Rus­sia, 1970).

    ·         Third Belarussian Mathematical Conference (Minsk, Belarus, 1971).

    ·         Third All-Union Conference on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1973).

    ·         Difford 74 – Summer School on Ordinary Differential Equations (Stara Lesna, Slovakia, 1974) – invited speaker.

    ·         Fourth All-Union Conference on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Ryazan, Rus­sia, 1976) – invited speaker.

    ·         Equadiff 4 – Czechoslovak Conference on Differential Equations and Their Applications (Pra­gue, Czech Republic, 1977) – invited speaker.

    ·         Eighth Scientific Conference of Mathematicians of Georgia (Kutaisi, Georgia, 1979) – invited speaker.

    ·         Colloquium on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Szeged, Hungary, 1979) –invited speaker.

    ·         Equadiff 5 – Czechoslovak Conference on Differential Equations and Their Applications (Bratislava, Slovakia, 1981) – invited speaker.

    ·         Ninth International Conference on Nonlinear Oscillations (Kiev, Ukraine, 1981) – invited speaker.

    ·         All-Union Symposium on Partial Differential Equations (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1982) – invited speaker.

    ·         Joint Sessions of the Petrovski Seminar and of the Moscow Mathematical Society (Moscow, Russia, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1994).

    ·         Sixth All-Union Conference on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Irkutsk, Rus­sia, 1986) – member of the Organizing Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         All-Union Symposium on Current Problems of Mathematical Physics dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Academician I. Vekua (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1987) – deputy-chairman of the Orga­ni­zing Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Equadiff 7 – Czechoslovak Conference on Differential Equations and Their Applications (Pra­gue, Czech Republic, 1989) – invited speaker.

    ·         Third Seminar on Differential Equations (Poznan, Poland, 1990) – invited speaker.

    ·         Seventh All-Union Conference on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Riga, Lat­via, 1989) – member of the Organizing Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         International Congress of Mathematicians (Kyoto, Japan, 1990).

    ·         School on Dynamical Systems and Their Applications (Samos, Greece, 1990) – invited speaker.

    ·         Belarussian Conference on Ordinary Differential Equations (Minsk, Belarus, 1990) – invited speaker.

    ·         International Symposium on continuum Mechanics of Related Problems of Analysis dedicated to the centenary of Academician N. Muskhelishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1991) – chairman of the Organizing Committee.

    ·         Equadiff 8 – Czechoslovak Conference on Differential Equations and Their Applications (Bra­tislava, Slovakia, 1993) – member of the Scientific Committee.

    ·         First Congress of Mathematicians of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1993) – invited speaker.

    ·         Enlarged Seminar on Differential Equations of Masaryk University (Šlapanice, Czech Republic, 1995) – invited speaker.

    ·         Belarussian Conference on Ordinary Differential Equations dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Professor Yu. S. Bogdanov (Minsk, Belarus, 1995) – member of the Organizing Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         The Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis (Athens, Greece, 1996) – invited speaker.

    ·         Second European Congress of Mathematicians (Budapest, Hungary, 1996).

    ·         Fifth Colloquium on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Szeged, Hungary, 1996) – invited speaker.

    ·         DEMPh-97 – International Symposium on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics dedicated to the 90th birthday anniversary of Academician I. Vekua (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1997) – chairman of the Organizing Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Equadiff 9 – Czechoslovak Conference on Differential Equations and Their Applications (Brno, Czech Republic, 1997) – member of Honorary and Advisory Board and invited speaker.

    ·         International Conference “Differential Equations and Related Topics” (Moscow State Univer­si­ty, Russia, 1998).

    ·         Fourth International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications (Poznan, Poland, 1998) – member of the Scientific Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Workshop on Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Brno, Czech Republic, 1998) – member of Honorary and Advisory Board and invited speaker.

    ·         International Congress of Mathematicians (Berlin, Germany, 1998).

    ·         DEMPh-98 – Symposium on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics dedicated to the 95th birthday anniversary of Academician V. Kupradze (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1998) – chairman of the Programm Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Borůvka Mathematical Symposium (Brno, Czech Republic, 1999) – member of Honorary and Ad­visory Board and invited speaker.

    ·         International Conference on Differential and Functional Differential Equations (Moscow, Rus­sia, 1999) – invited speaker.

    ·         International Conference on Functional Differential Equations and Applications (Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2002) – invited speaker.

    ·         International Conference on Differential & Difference Equations and Applications (Melbourne, Florida, USA, 2005) – invited speaker.

    ·         CDDE-2006 - International Colloquium on Differential and Difference Equations dedicated to Professor Jaroslav Kurzweil on the occasion of his 80th birthday (Brno, Czech Republic, September 5-8, 2006) – invited speaker.

    ·         Workshop on Differential Equations “Boundary Value Problems and Related Topics” (Hejnice, Czech Republic, September 16-20, 2007) – invited speaker

    ·         The Fifth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts (Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2-9, 2008) –invited speaker.

    ·         International Scientific Conference “Differential Equations and their Applications (Kyiv, Ukraine, June 8-10, 2011) – member of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2011 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations dedicated to the 70th birthday anniversary of Professor T. Chanturia (Tbilisi, Georgia, November 4-6, 2011) - Chairman of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Czech-Georgian Workshop on Boundary Value Problems (Brno, Czech Republic, December 5-9, 2011) – invited speaker.

    ·         All-Ukrainean conference “Differential Equations and their Role in Applied Mathematics” (Chernovtsy, June 11-13, 2012) – invited speaker.

    ·         International Conference Dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of Birthday of Professor D. I. Martinyk (Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine, June 6-8, 2012) – invited speaker. 

    ·         QUALITDE-2013 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations dedicated to the 100th birthday anniversary of Professor Levan Magnaradze (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 20-22, 2013) – Chairman of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Czech-Georgian Workshop on Boundary Value Problems – WBVP-2014 (Brno, Czech Republic, January 21-24, 2014) – invited speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2014 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 18-20, 2014) – Chairman of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Czech-Georgian Workshop on Boundary Value Problems – WBVP-2015 (Brno, Czech Republic, January 26-27, 2015) – invited speaker.

    ·         International Mathematical Conference "Sixth Bogdanov reading on ordinary differential equations" (Minsk, Belarus, December 7-10, 2015) – member of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2015 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 27-29, 2015) – Chairman of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Czech-Georgian Workshop on Boundary Value Problems – WBVP-2016 (Brno, Czech Republic, February 8-11, 2016) – invited speaker.

    ·         International Scientific Conference “Differential Equations and Their Applications” dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Academician of NAS of Ukraine Mykola Perestyuk (Uzhhorod, Ukraine, May 19-21, 2016) – member of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2016 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 24-26, 2016) – Chairman of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Czech-Georgian Workshop on Boundary Value Problems – WBVP-2017 (Brno, Czech Republic, January 10-13, 2017) – invited speaker.

    ·         International Workshop “Nonlinear Analysis and Nonautonomous Ordinary Differential Equations” (Odessa, Ukraine, June 23-27, 2017) – invited speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2017 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 24-26, 2017) – Chairman of Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Czech-Georgian Workshop on Boundary Value Problems – WBVP-2018 (Brno, Czech Republic, January 29 – February 2, 2018) – invited speaker.

    ·         XVIII International Scientific Conference on Differential Equations “Erugin’s Readings - 2018” (Grodno, Belarus, May 15-18, 2018) – Member of the International Scientific Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         The Seventh International Workshop-2018 “Constructive Methods for Non-Linear Boundary Value Problems” dedicated to Prof. M. Ronto on the occasion of his 75th birthday (Miskolc, Hungary, July 5-8, 2018) – Member of the Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2018 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations dedicated to the 100th anniversary of I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 1-3, 2018) – Chairman of the Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Conference of A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute of I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University dedicated to the 90th birthday anniversary of Academician N. Berikashvili (Tbilisi, Georgia, February 25-28, 2019) – speaker.

    ·         Czech-Georgian Workshop on Boundary Value Problems – WBVP-2019 (Brno, Czech Republic, May 27-30, 2019) – invited speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2019 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 7-9, 2019) – Chairman of the Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Conference of A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute of I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University dedicated to the 125th birthday anniversary of Prof. A. Kharadze (Tbilisi, Georgia, February 11-14, 2020) – speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2020 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 19-21, 2020) – Chairman of the Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         Conference of A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute of I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University dedicated to the 75th birthday anniversary of Prof. T. Shervashidze (Tbilisi, Georgia, February 16-19, 2021) – speaker.

    ·         International Mathematical Conference “Seventh Bogdanov Readings on Ordinary Differential Equations”, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Prof. Yu. S. Bogdanov (Minsk, Belarus, June 1-4, 2021) – Member of the Program Committee and online speaker.

    ·         QUALITDE-2021 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations dedicated to the 130th birthday anniversary of Academician N. Muskhelishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 18-20, 2021) – Chairman of the Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·         International Conference “Differential Equations and Related Topics” dedicated to Ivan G. Petrovskii (Moscow, Russia, December 26-30, 2021) – keynote speaker (online).

    ·         Conference of A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute of I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University dedicated to the 90th birthday anniversary of Academician H. Inassaridze (Tbilisi, Georgia, February 15-18, 2022) – speaker (online).

    ·         QUALITDE-2022 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 17-19, 2022) – Chairman of the Program Committee and invited speaker.

    ·          QUALITDE-2023 – International Workshop on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations dedicated to the 120th birthday anniversary of Professor V. Kupradze (Tbilisi, Georgia, December 9-11, 2023) – Chairman of the Organizing Committee and speaker.