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Welcome to the site of Faina Mikhailovna Kirillova, professor, Head of the Department of Control Processes Theory of Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Corresponding member of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Corresponding member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Art and Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Major dates

• Born on September 29, 1931, in the vil. Zuevka, Kirov region, Russia
• M.S. – Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia (1954)
• Ph.D. – Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (1961)
• Doctor of Sci. in Physics and Mathematics – State University of Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia (1968)
• Professor in Applied Mathematics – Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus (1971)

Professional experience

• Lecture Assistant, Department of Mathematics of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), Russia (1957-1961)
• Senior Research Worker, Department of Power Engineering and Automation of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, Ekaterinburg), Russia (1964-1967)
• Head of the Department of Control Processes Theory, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus (1970-present)
• Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus (1986-1992)

Awards

• Prize of a Commission of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1981)
• Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for the development and introduction of multipurpose software to engineering computations (1986)
• Award of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for the elaboration of constructive methods of extremal problems (1995)
• Honorary Doctor of Sci. of the Irkutsk State University, Russia (2001)
• Award of Education Ministry of Vietnam for "Merits in Edu-cation and Training" (2001)
• Merited Scientist of Belarus (2002)

Ph.D. Supervised

46 theses dealing with the qualitative and the constructive theory of optimal control, fast algorithm, observation, feedback controls, stabilization and applications.

Professional Activities

Member of the National (Russia) Committee of Automatic Control (1975-1992), Member of the IFAC Working Group on Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming, (1975-1989), Vice-Chairman of the IFAC Committee on Mathemat-ics in Control (1981-1990), Chairman of the IFAC Working Group on Control Applications of Optimization (1990-present), Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Optimization Methods (1994-1996), Chairperson of the Working group on Control Application of Optimization of the IFAC Technical Committee on Optimal Control (1996-2004) President of Belarusian Association of Control and Management (1994-present ), member of Editorial Board of Journals: "Optimization" (Berlin, Editorin Chief Prof. D. Pallaschke), "Cybernetics and Control" (Poland), Central European Journal of Mathematics.

Invited talks

Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Poland (1973), Irkutsk State University, USSR (1976, 1990, 1993), Vilinius State University, USSR (1978), University of Oran, Algeria (1989), ETH-Zentrum, Zurich Switzerland (1992), Universita'di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy (1992), Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (1992), Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (1993), Oberwolfach Mathematical Institute, Germany (1992, 1994) University of Illinois at Urbana-Shampain, USA (1995), University of Iowa, USA (1995), Samsung Electronics Co., Korea (1996), Seoul National University, Korea (1996), Humboldt, University of Berlin, Germany (1992, 1996), Technical University of Munchen, Germany (1995, 1996), Santa Clara University, USA (1996), University of Science and Technology, China (1996, 1999), Universitat der Bundeswehr, Munchen / Neubiberg, Germany (1997), Weierstrass-Institut fur Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, Berlin, Germany (1999, 2000), Kansas University, Lawreance, USA (2001), Military Technical Academy, Hanoi, Vietnam (2001), International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing, China (2002), International IFAC Congress, Barcelona, Spain (2002), International Conferences on Control Problems, Georgia (2004), Azerbaijan (2005), Poland (2005).

Publications

9 monographs and over 350 papers in the field of optimal control to dynamic systems, controllability, observability of time delay systems, constructive methods of optimization, the synthesis of optimal systems (linear, nonlinear, time-delay systems), optimal indirect control, decentralized control, large-scale control systems and their optimization, stabilization, tracking problems.

Contacts

• Department of Control Processes
• Institute of Mathematics
• National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
• 220072, Surganov str., 11, Minsk, Belarus
• Phone: +375-17-284-27-92
• Fax: +375-17-284-17-01
• E-mail: kirill@nsys.by