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FULL-TIME FACULTY

 

 GALINA GORBORUKOVA

 Chair

 

 DANIYAR KARABAEV

Instructor

Academic Background 

MA in Education and Cultural Policy, University of Tsukuba, Japan

MA in Political Science (Central Asia), OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Diploma in Linguistics, Khorog State University, Tajikistan

 Research Interests 

Education and politics of Central Asia

 

 ENVER ATAMANOV

 Professor

atamanov_e@auca.kg

Academic background

1980 - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Novosibirsk

1966-1971  Kyrgyz State University. Qualification:  Mathematician, Teacher on mathematics

Conferences and Publications

 At least 70 publications: scientific articles, monographs. Some monographs are published in The Netherlands and Japan.

 Atamanov E. R., Sklyar S. N. The problem of restoration of temperature according to the indications of flexible sensors: uniqueness, stability and numerical solution. Academic Preview AUCA №3, Bishkek 2005, p100-118

 Atamanov E. R., Shishatsky S. P., Asanov A. “Uniqueness Problems for degenerating Equations and Non-classical Problems” VSP. Tokyo, Japan, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2002, 178p.

 Asanov A. and Atamanov E. R. ”Non-classical and inverse problems for pseudoparabolic equations” VSP. Tokyo, Japan, the Netherlands, 1997, 152 p.

 Atamanov E. R., Momayusupov M. Sh. “Non-classical tasks for pseudoparabolic equations” Frunze, “Ilim”, 1991,  100 p.

 Annual Records - Research Project of the Institute of Mathematics. Ill-posed problems of mathematical physics.

2007- Novosibirsk, International conference on differential equations

2003, 2001, - Bishkek, International conference on differential equations

 Research Interests

 Doctoral dissertation “Non-classical and inverse problems for pseudo parabolic equations” is ready for defense.

 Courses Taught

 An Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics I

An Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics II

Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry

Mathematical analysis I  

An introduction to probability and statistics

College Mathematics (Cont. Education Center)

   

TEMIRBEK BOBUSHEV 

Professor

tembob@mail.auca.kg

Courses Taught

Geography of the USA

Geography of Kyrgyzstan

Research Methods

Nature of the Earth: Environment protection in worldwide countries

 

VALERI HARDIN 

Assistant Professor 

hardin_v@auca.kg

Courses Taught

Literature and Art of Central Asia

American literature

Comparative Art

American drama

First Year Seminar

  

MICHELLE HOFFMAN

Assistant Professor

hoffman_m@mail.auca.kg

Courses Taught

Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
First Year Seminar (liberal arts course on political, ethical, and scientific thought)

  

UZAK IMANALIEV

 Professor

imanaliev_u@auca.kg

 Academic Background

 Candidate Phys.-Mat. Nauk on Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

 

Courses Taught

 Concepts of Modern Sciences

History and Philosophy of Science

Physics

 

 Research Interests

 Cosmology, Quantum Gravity

 Conferences and Publications 

 V. Ts. Gurovich, M. Baibosunov, U. Imanaliev Model of the early Universe in f(R) – theory. Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz, 98, 1138-1150, October, 1990.

 Imanaliev U., Moldonacirov R., Carminati-McLenaghan’s scalar invariants for Friedmann’s closed model. Accepted for publishing in Vestnik of Kyrgyz-Slavyanic University in 2014 Fall.

 

DUANE LACEY

Associate Professor

lacey_d@mail.auca.kg

Academic Background

 Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research

Research Interests

History of Philosophy, History of Science

Conferences and Publications

 “Hermeneutics of the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement,” Presented in August, 2010, History of Hermeneutics Society, Vienna, Austria.

 “Geometry without Space,” Presented in 2009, ATINER, published in: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES VOLUME 5, Edited by Patricia Hanna, ISBN: 978-960-9549-24-0, 344 pages, First published in 2011 by ATINER.

 “Real-Time Narrative in War,” presented in 2008, Inter-Disciplinary.net, “War and Peace,” Budapest, Hungary.

 “Принципнепреднамеренности: «Логико-философскийтрактатЛ. Витгенштейна и принцип непреднамеренности” // Проблемы политической философии: переводы, комментарии, полемика. Ростов-на-Дону: Ростиздат, 2012. C. 549-566.

[“THE INADVERTENCY PRINCIPLE: WITTGENSTEIN`S TRACTATUS AND POLITICAL INADVERTENCY.” In: Problems of Polititical Philosophy: Translations, Commentaries, Polemics. Rostov-on-Don: Rostizdat, 2012. P. 549-566].

 “Принцип непреднамеренности: «Логико-философский трактат Л. Витгенштейна и принцип непреднамеренности” // Политическяа концептологияЖ Журнал метадисциплинарных исследований. 2009. № 4. С 33-44. – http://politconcept.sfedu.ru/2009.4/contents.html

[English version: Lacey D.J. “THE INADVERTENCY PRINCIPLE: WITTGENSTEIN`S TRACTATUS AND POLITICAL INADVERTENCY.” In: The Political Conceptology: Journal of Metadisciplinary Research. 2009. Vol. 4. P. 45-54. - http://politconcept.sfedu.ru/2009.4/contents.html]

 “Tutor Report: On OLEG and Teaching in the Republic of Georgia,” in OLEG (Organization for Liberal Education in Georgia) Newsletter (vol. 1, Fall 2008).

 “Unity in Plato’s Timaeus,” presented on July 7, 2008 at Grigol Robakidze University, Tbilisi, Georgia, for the conference Neo-Platonism and Modernity.

 “Philosophy and the Battlefield,” presented Dec. 6-9 in Vienna, Austria, at KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Society, Patron: Dr. Heinz Fischer, President of Austria. Publication in TRANS, vol. 17, 2008.

Courses Taught

First Year Seminar

Introduction to Philosophy

 

 

ELMIRA MUSURALIEVA

 

elmiratm@mail.auca.kg

 

Professor

 

  

Academic Background

 

Ph.D. (kandidat nauk in mathematics and physics ) Moscow Electronic- Building University. The title of the research is “First kind Integral equations with discontinuity on the diagonal”.

 

Mathematics Department of Kyrgyz State University. Diploma with honors.

 

 

Research Interests

 

Mathematical Models in Business, Economics and Political Sciences

Integral equations, integro-differential equations

Models and Patterns in Music

 

 

Conferences and Publications 

 

List of publications includes31 articles and textbooks of methods. Series of articles on issues of differential calculus in economics in Academic Review of American University-Central Asia

 

29 seminars and conferences

 

 

Awards and Grants

 

 Third prize among young researchers of eighth International Scientific Conference in Kyrgyz Academy of sciences, May 1986.

 

Sorros foundation grant 1995

 

Fulbright Scholar Program in 1996

 

DAAD Scholar Program 1998

 

DAAD Scholar Program 2007

  

 

 

ANGELINA POPOVA

  

NATALIA POPOVA

 

MARAT USMANOV

 

NATALIYA VOLKOVA

 

 

 

IAIN WEBB 

 

webb_i@auca.kg

 

Assistant Professor

 

Academic Background 

 

Masters, University of St Andrews (Applied and Pure Mathematics)

 

 

Research Interests 

 

Applied Mathematics for the Humanities

 

 

Conferences and Publications 

 

Calculus in Plain English

An Examination into the Origin of the Universe

A Concise History of Chinese Mathematics

 

 

 

ALEXANDER ZAITSEV

 

OLGA ZHIZHERINA