CURRICULUM VITAE - 2014 CONTACT INFORMATION Surname, First Name Kvaratskhelia Vakhtang Address Mukhiani, microdistrict 4B, b. 28. ap. 24, Tbilisi, 0171 Country Georgia Telephone +995322632933 Cell Phone +995555129750 Email v.kvaratskhelia@gtu.micm.ge; v_kvaratskhelia@yahoo.com PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth 15 July 1950 Place of Birth Chkhorotsku, Georgian SSR, USSR Citizenship Georgian Gender Male Marital Status Married Children 2 EDUCATION 1966-1971 Student of the Department of Cybernetics Tbilisi State University, and Applied Mathematics 1971-1974 Post-Graduate Student Georgian SSR, USSR Tbilisi State University, Georgian SSR, USSR PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 1978 PhD Dissertation: “Probabilistic Distributions in Some Sequence Spaces” 2002 Doctoral Dissertation:“Unconditional Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, USSR Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Convergence of Functional Series Mathematics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, in Problems of Infinite-Dimensional Georgia Probability Theory” EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Work History 2008-up today Director of the Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics of the Georgian Technical University 2007-2013 Head of Mathematical Laboratory of the Tbilisi State University 2006-2010 Leading Researcher, Researcher, Senior Researcher of the Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics 2005-2006 Deputy Director, Director of the Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Leading Researcher 1975-2005 Junior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Leading Researcher, Scientific Secretary of the Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences Academic Positions 2010-up today Professor of the Georgian Technical University, Department of Computational Mathematics 2013-up today Professor of the Sokhumi State University, Sub-department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics 2003- 2010; 1973 – 1977 Visiting Professor of the Tbilisi State University 2002-2007 Visiting Professor of the Sokhumi State University 1978-1979 Visiting Professor of the Georgian Politechnical Institute 2 AWARDS 2003 Niko Muskhelishvili Prize of the Georgian Academy of Sciences 2013 Order of Honor - Georgian State award PUBLICATIONS Books 1 The Basics of the Algorithm Theory. Publishing House “Technical University”, Tbilisi, 2013, in Georgian (co-authors: T. Davitashvili, H. Meladze, M. Menteshashvili, Z. Tsveraidze). Papers 1 Gaussian measures in some Banach spaces. Bulletin Acad. Sci. Georgian SSR, 75, 3, 1974, 533-536, in Russian. 2 On convergence of series of Gaussian random elements. Bulletin Acad. Sci. Georgian SSR, 76, 1, 1974, 41-44, in Russian. 3 The central limit theorem in the spaces l p X ( 1 p 2) . Bulletin Acad. Sci. Georgian SSR, 81, 3, 1976, 533-536, in Russian (co-author Nguen Dui Tien). 4 The central limit theorem and the strong law of large numbers in the spaces l p X , 1 p . Theory Probab. Appl., 21, 4, 1977, 780-790 (co-author Nguen Dui Tien). 5 Unconditional convergence of the Gaussian series. Proceedings of Computing Center of the Georgian SSR, 18, 2, 1978, 71-79, in Russian. 6 On unconditional convergence in a Banach space. Bulletin Acad. Sci. Georgian SSR, 90, 3, 1978, 533-536, in Russian. 7 A note to the definition of the Gaussian random processes. Proceedings of Computing Center of the Georgian SSR, 19, 2, 1979, 5-7, in Russian (co-author N.P. Kandelaki). 8 On unconditional convergence of random series in Banach spaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 828, 1980, 162-166. 9 Absolute and unconditional convergence in l1 . Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 160, 2, 1999, 201-203 (co-author N. Vakhania). 10 Unconditional convergence of Gaussian random series in Banach spaces. Theory Probab. Appl., 45, 1, 2000, 147-152. 3 11 Unconditional convergence of random series and Geometry of Banach spaces. Georgian Math. J., 7, 1, 2000, 85-96. 12 The structure of summable sequences and p-summing operators. Demonstratio Math., 33, 2, 2000, 379-87 (co-author V. Tarieladze). 13 The analogue of the coefficient of correlation in Banach spaces. Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 161, 3, 2000, 377-379. 14 Linear approximation of random elements in Banach spaces. Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 162, 2, 2000, 203-205. 15 On a criterion for unconditional convergence of Hadamard series in the spaces l p ,1 p . Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 162, 2, 2000, 199-202 (co-author N. Vakhania). 16 Convergence of Sylvester series in Banach space l p ,1 p . Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 164, 1, 2001, 7-9 (co-author N. Vakhania). 17 Some inequalities related with Hadamard and Sylvester matrices. Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 164, 1, 2001, 10-13. 18 Some inequalities related to Hadamard matrices. Funct. Anal. Appl., 36, 1, 2002, 68-70. 19 A numerical characteristic of the Sylvester matrix. Discrete Math. Appl., 11, 5, 2001, 501- 506. 20 An Application of the Brunel-Sucheston Spreading Model. Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 165, 3, 2002, 453-457 (co-author N. Vakhania). 21 On a method of finding of sign invariant pair of elements in normed spaces. Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 168, 3, 2003, 423-425 (co-authors G. Chelidze and K. Ninidze). 22 Weakly Sub-gaussian random elements and Banach spaces with finite cotype. Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 171, 2, 2005, 221-224 (co-author N. Vakhania). 23 On inequalities between moments of normed measures. Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci., 172, 2, 2005, 173-175 (co-author N. Vakhania). 24 Weakly Sub-Gaussian Random Elements in Banach Spaces. Ukrainian Mathematical Journal, 57, 9, 2005, 1387-1412 (co-authors: N. Vakhania and V. Tarieladze). 25 Unconditional Convergence of Weakly Sub-Gaussian Series in Banach Spaces. Theory Probab. Appl., 51, 2, 2007, 305-324 (co-author N. Vakhania). 26 On unconditional convergence in Banach spaces with unconditional basis. Bull. Georgian National Acad. Sci., 3, 1, 2009, 10-14 (co-author N. Vakhania). 4 27 Greedy Algorithm Fails in Compact Vector Summation. Bull. Georgian National Acad. Sci., 4, 2, 2010, 5-7 (co-authors: G. Chelidze, S. Chobanyan and G. Giorgobiani). 28 A note on the rearrangement theorem in a Banach space. In “Information and Computer Technologies – Theory and Practice: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference ICTMC2010 Devoted to the 80th Anniversary of I.V. Prangishvili, 531-535, Nova Publishers, 2012” (coauthors: S. Chobanyan, G. Giorgobiani and V. Tarieladze). 29 On an integral inequality. In “Information and Computer Technologies – Theory and Practice: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference ICTMC-2010 Devoted to the 80th Anniversary of I.V. Prangishvili, 567-570, Nova Publishers, 2012” (co-authors: R. Denchev and N. Vakhania). 30 Professor David Kveselava. Proceedings of A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute, 160, 2012, 1-9 (coauthor N. Vakhania). 31 Denjoy-Luzin systems, absolute convergence systems and unconditional convergence in Banach spaces. In “Several Problems of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. Nova Science Publishers; Mathematics Research Developments, Editors: I. Gorgidze and T. Lominadze, 2013, p. 81-92” (coauthor V. Tarieladze). 32 An application of Sylvester matrices. Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 195, 4, December 2013, 487-495 (co-author N. Vakhania). 33 Diagonally canonical and related Gaussian random elements. Theory Probab. Appl., 58, 2, 2014, 286-296 (co-author V. Tarieladze). 34 An algorithmic solution to the problem of compact vector summation with an application to scheduling theory. 9th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT-2013), September 23-27, 2013, Yerevan, Armenia. Proceedings, p. 58-60 (co-author L. Chobanyan). 35 Unconditional convergence of functional series in problems of probability theory. Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 200, 2, July 2014, 143-294. 36 On rearrangement theorems in Banach spaces. Georgian Math. Journal, 2014, accepted (co-authors: S. Chobanyan, G. Giorgobiani, S. Levental, V. Tarieladze) 5 GRANTS 2014-2017 Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, grant # FR/539/5-100/13 2014-2014 FP7-MC-IRSES; Marie Curie Actions – International Research Staff Exchange Scheme. Project # 317721, # 318202, 2010-2012 FP7 Capacities Work programme 2010; Activity 7.6. Area INCO.2010-6.1: Eastern Europe and South Caucasus. Project # 266155 2010-2012 Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, grant # GNSF/ST09_99_3-104 2006-2008 Georgian National Science Foundation, grant # GNSF/ST06/3-009 2005-2006 Georgian Research and Development Foundation (GRDF), grant # GEM1-3328-TB-03 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Georgian Mathematical Union (GMU) and member of GMU council Member of the Georgian Statistical Society Member of the American Mathematical Society Reviewer of the refereed journal “Zentralblatt fur Mathematiks” Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Reports of Enlarged Session of the Seminar of I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics” LANGUAGES Georgian native Russian fluent Polish fluent English intermediate 6