Кафедра Теоретической Кибернетики

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT – Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich.

The department graduates specialists, bachelors and masters in “Applied mathematics and informatics”, teaches students, post-graduates and Ph.D.s in the following directions:

• Stability and oscillations of dynamic systems;

• Optimal and adaptive control;

• Complex systems and chaos control;

• Data processing algorithms and theoretical robotics;

• Control and estimation using communication network;

   

• Control, computation and communication theories;

• Optimal and adaptive signal filtering;

• Chaos in deterministic systems;

• Molecular and quantum systems control;

• Stochastic systems of control and communication;

• Communication and computer network dynamics;

• Mathematical analysis of mobile communication networks;

• Mathematical control theory of technological processes;

• Modeling and mathematical analysis of medical and biological systems.

The department was founded in 1970 based on the laboratory of the same name, opened in Leningrad State University in 1959. From the moment of foundation till present days the team is headed by Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of physiсs and mathematics, Professor Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich. At present one Corresponding member of RAS, four Doctors of Sciences and Professors, five Candidates of Sciences work at the Department. Research output of the Department amounts to many hundreds of publications, including more than sixty books. Graduates of the Department work in many Russian and foreign universities, among them there are Professors of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), the University of New South Wales (Australia), the Umeå University (Sweden). They have defended more than a hundred theses, including 18 those of Doctor of Science. Yakubovich’s scientific school has obtained the recognition in major branches of theoretical cybernetics. Its contribution to forming the subject was recognized by awarding V.A.Yakubovich with prestigious international prize named after the father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener. The Department cooperates with many Russian and foreign scientific centers including the Umeå University (Sweden), Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), the University of New South Wales (Australia), universities of Germany, Denmark, France. Researches performed by the Department’s members are supported by numerous Russian, international and foreign grants.

Modern world changes rapidly. In this world the most successful and competitive are not the workers coached for particular task, but the researchers able to adapt to new needs and furthermore foresee their emergence and work proactively. The basis of these abilities is fundamental education. One easily masters new areas having learned general, fundamental theories. It is these theories that our Department’s students will learn. “There is nothing more practical than a good theory!”. Education system is designed to form the students’ skill of independent research. From the second year advanced students are enlisted in the practical solving mathematical problems. As all students of Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics they receive fundamental knowledge in not only ‘general math’ subjects like calculus, theory of probability, theory of stochastic processes, mathematical statistics, theory of differential equations and others, but also programming and in information technology. This makes our graduates competitive, and not only in their field.