А.Б.Сосинский,

Проректор НМУ по международным связям

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Alexei SOSSINSKI
Born October 7, 1937 in Paris, educated in France, USA, and USSR
Equally fluent in Russian, French, and English
Married, two adult children
Permanent address: Russia, Moscow 117296, Lomonosovski pr., 14 kv.473
Telephone in Moscow: +7 (499) 241 0500 (off.)
E-mail: asossinsky@yandex.ru
Fax: +7 (499) 795 1015

Present positions

• Senior researcher. Laboratory of mathematical methods, Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1995)
• Professor. Higher Mathematics College, Independent University of Moscow (since 1992)

Previous employment

• Senior researcher. Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (1987-1994)
• Mathematics editor. Kvant magazine (1975-1987)
• Associate professor, Chair of higher geometry and topology, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University (1970-1974)
• Assistant professor at the same chair (1965-1970)

Education

• French primary and secondary schooling (except for 5th and 6th grades in an American public school), 1944-1955.
• Graduated from the Lycee Francais de New York with honors (Prix d'Excellence) and obtained the Baccalaureat 2ieme degre in 1954.
• Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Washington Square College at New York University (cum laude, with honors in mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa), 1957
• MSc degree (``diplomnaya rabota"). Chair of higher geometry and topology. Department of mechanics and mathematics. Moscow State University. 1961
• Postgraduate work (under professor L.~V.~Keldysh). Chair of higher geometry and topology. Department of mechanics and mathematics. MSU (1961-1965)
• Ph D. Moscow State University, 1966 (topic: ``Multidimensional topological knots", thesis referees professors M.F.Bokshtein and R.L.Frum-Ketkov)

Membership

• Moscow Mathematical Society, member (since 1967)
• Kvant magazine (USSR Acad. of Sciences). Editorial board member (since 1983)
• Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, editor (since 1991)
• Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, associate editor (since 1991)
• Tournament of Towns mathematics competition, Jury member (since 1988)
• American Mathematical Society. Member (since 1993)
• Matematicheskie Zametki. Editor (since 1995)

Main publications since 1992

1. Preparation theorems for isotopy invariants of links in 3-manifolds, in: Quantum Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol.1510, Springer Verlag, 1992
2. Feynman diagrams and Vassiliev knot invariants, IHES Preprint, M30, February 1992
3. Formal cliche grammars (in Russian), Nauchno Tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya, б_аЁп 2, N12, 1992
4. In the other direction, in: The Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics, AMS, Providence, 1993
5. Russian popular math traditions: then and now. Notices Amer. Math. Soc., Vol.40, N2 (1993)
6. Codage des Noeuds, LaBRI, Univ. Bordeaux I, N791-94, 1994
7. A classification of generic curves on oriented surfaces, Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol.2, N2, 1994
8. Knots and low-dimensional topology (in Russian), IUM Publications, Moscow, 1993 (jointly with V.Prasolov)
9. How to write a mathematical paper in English (in Russian), IUM Publications, Moscow, 1993; 2nd Edition ISLC, Minsk, 1994; 3rd Edition, Factorial Publ., Moscow, 1998.
10. Knots, links, braids, and 3-manifolds (jointly with V.Prasolov) Amer. Math. Soc. Publ., Providence, R.I., 1996 Russian edition: MCCME Publ., Moscow, 1998
11. Vassiliev spaces and classical invariants, Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol.5. No.1, 1997
12. Noeuds, Genese d'une theorie mathematique, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1999 German, Russian, Rumanian, and Italian editions in preparation
13. Smooth spaces and nongeneric hinge mechanisms Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol.7, No.3, 1998