Valery Vasilevich Kozlov (Валерий Васильевич Козлов, born 1 January 1950 in
Ryazan Oblast
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) is a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist.
Education and career
Kozlov studied from 1967 at the
Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
with his undergraduate degree in 1972 and his
Candidate of Sciences
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degree in 1974 under
Andrei Kolmogorov
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ( rus, Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf, a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Sovi ...
with thesis Качественное исследование движения тяжёлого твёрдого тела в интегрируемых случаях (Qualitative study of the motion of a heavy rigid body in integrable cases). At Moscow State University he was a lecturer and assistant and completed in 1978 his Russian
Doctor of Sciences
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degree (habilitation) in 1978 with thesis Вопросы качественного анализа в динамике твёрдого тела (Questions of qualitative analysis in the dynamics of a rigid body). At Moscow State University he became in 1983 a professor of theoretical mechanics and in 2002 the head of the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Random Processes. At the
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute (russian: Математический институт имени В.А.Стеклова) is a premier research institute based in Moscow, specialized in mathematics, and a part ...
he became in 2003 head of the mechanics department and in 2004 the Institute's deputy director.
From 1980 to 1987 he was Moscow State University's deputy dean for science and research of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. From 1997 to 2001 he was Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation.
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Kozlov's research deals with theoretical and statistical mechanics and related mathematical areas such as the qualitative theory of differential equations and topological considerations in the integrability of dynamic systems. In 1979 he proved that for 2-dimensional manifolds with genus greater than 1 (i.e. excluding topological spheres and tori) the geodetic flow (and general solutions of Hamilton's equations on the associated tangential bundle of ) has no real-analytic first integrals other than energy.
He was elected in 1997 a corresponding member and in 2000 a full member of the ]Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
. He became the Academy's vice-president in 2001 and was its acting president for a few months in 2017 (upon the resignation of Vladimir Fortov
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). Kozlov is also a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...
and the European Academy of Arts and Sciences.[
Kozlov was the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal ''Regular and Chaotic Dynamics''.
In 2007 he received the ]Leonhard Euler Gold Medal The Leonhard Euler Gold Medal (Золотая медаль имени Леонарда Эйлера) is a medal named after the Swiss, German, and Russian mathematician Leonhard Euler, awarded by the Отделением математических ...
of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2018 its Demidov Prize
The Demidov Prize (russian: Демидовская премия) is a national scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Originally awarded from 1832 to 1866 in the Russian Empire, it was reviv ...
, in 2009 the Gili Agostinelli Prize of the Turin Academy of Sciences, in 2000 the Kovalevskaya Prize
Kovalevskaya Prize (russian: link=no, Премия имени С. В. Ковалевской) is a national scientific prize awarded by Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in mathematics since 1997 in honor of Sofya Kovalevs ...
of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sciences and in 1988 its . and in 1994 the State Prize of the Russian Federation
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Selected publications
Articles
Topological obstructions to the integrability of natural mechanical systems
Doklady Akad. Nauka SSSR, vol. 249, 1979, pp. 1299–1302 (English translation, Sov. Math. Doklady, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 1413–1415)
*Integrability and non-integrability in Hamiltonian mechanics, Russian Mathematical Surveys, vol. 38, 1983, pp. 1–76
*Calculus of variations in the large and classical mechanics, Russian Mathematical Surveys, vol. 40, 1985, issue 2
*with Alexander Harin: Kepler's problem in constant curvature spaces, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, vol. 54, 1992, pp. 393–399
Books
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** Fedorov, Yuri N., and Valery V. Kozlov. "Various aspects of n-dimensional rigid body dynamics." (1995): 141-172. (book chapter in ''Dynamical Systems in Classical Mechanics'')
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References
External links
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mathnet.ru
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1950 births
Living people
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Academic staff of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
Mathematical physicists