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Nelly Vladimirovna Litvak (Russian: Нелли Владимировна Литвак, born January 27, 1972)[1] is a Russian and Dutch applied mathematician whose research includes the study of complex networks, stochastic processes, and their applications in medical logistics. Formerly a professor at the University of Twente, she moved to the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2023.[2]

Education and career

Nelly Litvak was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), Russia[1] to Nina Zvereva [ru] and Vladimir Antonets.[3][4] In 1995 Litvak graduated from the N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod,[5] and in 1998 she earned the candidate's degree in physical and mathematical sciences from the latter university with the dissertation Adaptive Control of Conflicting Flows supervised by Mikhail Andreevich Fedotkin.[6] In 1999 she moved to the Netherlands.[1] She completed another doctoral degree in 2002, a Ph.D. from the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the dissertation Collecting Items Randomly Located on a Circle, completed in EURANDOM,[7] jointly promoted by Ivo Adan, Jaap Wessels, and Henk Zijm.[8]

She became a lecturer at the University of Twente in 2002, and was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2018. In 2017, she took on a second part-time affiliation with the Eindhoven University of Technology, and in 2023 she moved from Twente to a full-time position at the Eindhoven University of Technology,[2] as professor of algorithms for complex networks.[9]

Books

Litvak is the author of several popular science books, including:

  • Наши хорошие подростки (Our good teenagers, in Russian, Alpina, 2010)
  • Формула призвания – 7 правил выбора вуза (Vocation formula – 7 rules for choosing university, Alpina, 2012)
  • IQ to Love: What makes highly intelligent men attractive to women (self-published, 2014)
  • Кому нужна математика? Понятная книга о том, как устроен цифровой мир (Who Needs Mathematics? [ru] A Clear Book about how the Digital World Works, with Andrey Raygorodsky [ru], in Russian, Mann-Ivanov-Ferber («Манн, Иванов и Фербер»), 2017)
  • Математика для безнадежных гуманитариев (Mathematics for hopeless humanities geeks, with Alla Kechedzhan, in Russian, AST, 2019)

Recognition

Litvak was awarded the 2002 Stieltjes Prize for her Ph.D. dissertation.[11] She was the 2011 recipient of the Professor De Winter award of the University of Twente, given annually to recognize the research of a female faculty member.[12] She was named the university's teacher of the year in 2022.[13]

Personal

While in the Netherlands, Nelly Litvak married to Pranab Mandal.[14] She has two daughters: Natalia (born in 1993 from the first marriage[3]) and Piyali (born in 2005 to Nelly and Pranab).[1] She has younger sister Yekaterina and brother Pyotr.[15][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d PERSONAL, retrieved 2023-10-19
  2. ^ a b "Hoogleraar Nelly Litvak verlaat de UT", U Today (in Dutch), 25 August 2023, retrieved 2023-10-18
  3. ^ a b c семья что надо, Nina Zvereva personal website
  4. ^ Антонец Владимир Александрович и Зверева Нина Витальевна
  5. ^ Short CV
  6. ^ Адаптивное управление конфликтными потоками (Adaptive Control of Conflicting Flows)
    The subject of the thesis belongs to queueing theory. Quote: "Наиболее распространенным реальным примером системы с конфликтными потоками является перекресток, регулируемый светофором. <...> В данной работе будет изучен класс алгоритмов управления транспортом, где длительность зеленого света зависит от длины очереди и наличия поступлений по "зеленому" направлению, а порядок переключений при определенных условиях зависит от очередности подхода машин."
  7. ^ Collecting n items randomly located on a circle
  8. ^ Nelly Litvak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  9. ^ "Full Professor Nelly Litvak", Researchers, Eindhoven University of Technology, retrieved 2023-10-18
  10. ^ Юлия Гусарова. Дотракийский язык, депрессия горожан и ложь в интернете. О чем книги номинантов на премию «Просветитель», October 6, 2017, Snob Magazine [ru]
  11. ^ Stieltjes Prize
  12. ^ Professor de Winter award, University of Twente, retrieved 2023-10-18
  13. ^ "Nelly Litvak Teacher of the year 2022", U Today, 10 June 2022, retrieved 2023-10-18
  14. ^ Diana Dalenoord, Pranab Mandal, the international programme director of Applied Mathematics with plans
  15. ^ Introduction in: Наши хорошие подростки (Our good teenagers, in Russian, Alpina, 2010)
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