Valentin Afraimovich (, 2 April 1945 – 21 February 2018) was a Russian-Mexican mathematician. He made contributions to dynamical systems theory, qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations, bifurcation theory, concept of attractor, strange attractors, space-time chaos, mathematical models of non-equilibrium media and biological systems, travelling waves in lattices, complexity of orbits and dimension-like characteristics in dynamical systems.
Biography Afraimovich was born on 2 April 1945 in Kirov, Soviet Union. He got his PhD (Kandidat) degree in 1974 at the Nizhny Novgorod State University under the advice of L. P. Shil'nikov. Also in 1990 he received his Doctor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics, at Saratov State University in Russia. After then, he held several academic positions, including: 1992-1995 Visiting Principal Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 1995-1996 Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1996-1998 Visiting Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1998–present Professor–researcher, IICO, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico Afraimovich's students include Mark Shereshevsky, Nizhny Novgorod 1990; Todd Ray Young, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995; Antonio Morante, San Luis Potosí (SLP) Mexico, 2002; Salomé Murgia, SLP Mexico, 2003; Alberto Cordonet, SLP Mexico, 2002; Francisco Ordaz, SLP Mexico, 2004; Leticia Ramirez, SLP Mexico, 2005; Irma Tristan-Lopez, SLP Mexico, 2010; Rosendo Vazquez-Bañuelos, 2013.
He died on 21 February 2018 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Selected bibliography
Afraimovich award
Afraimovich Award has been granted to outstanding young scholars in nonlinear physical science by NSC since 2020. The following researchers were awarded since then: Vitali Vougalter (Canada), 2020
Ivan Ovsyannikov (Germany), 2020
Nikolay V. Kuznetsov (Russia), 2021
Michael Small (Australia),2022
Edson Denis Leonel (Brazil), 2023
Wei Lin (China), 2024
Alexey Slunyaev (Russia), 2024
Johanne Hizanidis (Greece), 2025
Cristian Bonatto (Brazil), 2025
See also
Homoclinic orbit Topology Catastrophe theory Torus
References
External links Personal website Conference celebrating Afraimovich's 65th anniversary
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences A super short curriculum vitae
Torus breakdown article at Scholarpedia Lagrange Award 2012 Book dedicated to V. Afraimovich preface