
Prof. Nickolay N. Smirnov
Moscow M.V.Lomonosov State University, Russia
Title: Strategic Computatrional Technologies application for modeling natural, technical and social processes
Abstract:
Information technologies are not only telecommunications systems, information storage, processing and decision–making. Strategic information technologies are determined by the creation of an interconnected triad in the state – the infrastructure of supercomputers and networks, software systems for modeling complex technological, natural, physiological, economic and social processes, as well as technologies for using these two components in the daily activities of scientists, designers, technologists, doctors, economists, managers, aimed at achieving strategic national priorities.
The lecture provides examples of tasks that need predictive computational modeling:
· Global processes in the Universe: the formation of supernovae, interactions of molecular clouds
· Ecology of near-Earth space, flight safety.
· Modeling of processes in power plants and in engines of various types.
· Modeling of the effectiveness of fire and explosion safety measures.
· Predictive modeling of traffic flows, evaluation of the effectiveness of various regulatory strategies
Biography:
Prof., Dr.Sc. habilitat Nickolay N.Smirnov received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow M.V.Lomonosov State University in the years 1976 and 1980 respectively. He defended habilitation dissertation in 1990 and got a degree of Dr.Sc.-hab. Degree of Scenior Scientist was awarded in 1987, degree of full Professor was awarded in 1994. He is currently full professor in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Head of Wave Processes Laboratory and deputy director of Gas and Wave Dynamics Department. He was Visiting Professor in the Karlsruhe University, Germany (in 1994), in Free University of Brussels, Belgium (1995/96 and 2000). Currently he is holding half a position of head of strategic information technologies in the Federal Science Center “Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences”. Prof. N.N. Smirnov was elected the Corresponding Member to Russian Academy of Technological Sciences in 1992. He received Shuvalov's prise (1993) for the book "Heterogeneous Combustion". Since 1992 he is a member of the Combustion Institute (Int.), since 2007 President of the Combustion Institute Russian Section. Full member of the Scientific Council of Russian Academy of Sciences on Combustion and Explosion since 1995, in the period 1999-2015 – Vice President of the Council. Member of the Microgravity Science Committee of the International Astronautical Federation since 1995, since 2015 till 2018 – Committee Chair. Member of the Scientific Council on Ecology of the Russian Space Agency in 1994-1998. Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences since 1998, academician since 2007. Corresponding Member of International Academy of Astronautics since 2005, Academician – since 2008, Commission 1 Space Physical Sciences Chair (2013-2018). Elected the member of National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2005. He is/was a member of the board of “Combustion and Flame”, “Acta-Astronautica”, “Shock Waves” and other national and international journals, science foundations, congresses. He was awarded Kapitsa Gold Medal of the Academy of Natural Sciences for the scientific discovery (2007), S.P. Korolev (2007), M.V. Keldysh (2008), G.A.Tyulin (2014) and Yu.A.Gagarin (2015) medals of the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics, V.G. Grabin medal of the Russian Academy for Rocket and Artillery Sciences (2009), Kh.A. Rakhmatulin medal of National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2010), Ministry of Emergency medal (2011), M.T.Kalashnikov medal (2013), A.Ya.Sagomonyan medal (2014), B.E.Gelfand medal of the Combustion Institute Russian Section (2013). Awarded the honor title “Distinguished professor of Moscow M.V.Lomonosov State University” in 2017. Distinguished service Award from the International Astronautical Federation in 2019 for the outstanding contribution to the Microgravity Science and Process Committee for more than 20 years. Engineering Science Award of the International Academy of Astronautics in 2020. Lomonosov Prize for pedagogical accomplishments in 2024.
Published 11 books and more then 250 papers in peer reviewed journals, and 200 communications to scientific meetings in the fields of Mathematical modeling, Information technologies, Physical Chemistry, Wave Dynamics, Combustion and Explosion, Space Physical Sciences. H-index = 30.
Under the supervision of Prof. Smirnov N.N. more than 100 students defended their master diploma thesis, 15 Ph.D. students defended their Ph.D. thesis, and 2 Professors Ph.D. defended habilitation dissertations.