CURRICULUM  VITAE  of  GEORGE  JANELIDZE

 

1 August 2002

 

 

DATE OF BIRTH:       19 May 1952

 

NATIONALITY:          Georgian

 

STATUS:                      Married (two children)

 

HOME ADDRESS:       36/2/10 Nutsubidze str., Tbilisi, Georgia

 

WEB SITE: http://www.rmi.acnet.ge/~gjanel/

 

SCIENTIFIC DEGREES:

1974 – Diploma of Highest Education, Mathematician, Tbilisi State University;

1978 – Ph.D. ("Candidate of Sciences"), Tbilisi State University, confirmed by Highest Certification Commission (VAK) in Moscow;

1992 – D.Sc. ("Doctor of Science"), St.-Petersburg State University confirmed by Highest Certification Commission (VAK) in Moscow.

 

POSITIONS HELD: Mathematical Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1 M. Alexidze str., Tbilisi, Georgia) –

1975-1978 Assistant

1978-1985 Junior Research Scientist

1985-1989 Senior Research Scientist

from 1989  Leading Research Scientist

 

VISITING PROFESSOR POSITIONS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC VISITS FOR ONE MONTH OR MORE:

McGill University (Canada) 1990, 1995;

York University (Canada) 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999;

Milan University (Italy) 1990, 1993;

The University of Chicago (USA) 1990;

Bielefeld University (Germany) 1991, 1992;

Sydney University (Australia) 1991, 1993-4, 1996, 1997-8, 1999-2000, 2001-2;

Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Acad. Sci. 1991, 1993, 1998;

Trieste University (Italy) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997;

Genova University (Italy) 1994, 1995;

The University of Wales (UK) 1995;

The University of Tours (France) 1995;

Louvain-la-Neuve University (Belgium) 1996, 1998, 1999;

Littoral University (France) 1997;

Coimbra University (Portugal) 1998, 2002;

Insubria University (Italy) 1999;

Aveiro University (Portugal) 2000-1;

Instituto Superior Téchnico in Lisbon (Portugal) 2002.

 

TALKS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (inclung three talks on joint work given by coauthors):

National Conferences in Algebra in USSR: 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, and 1989;

Eastern European Category Seminar, Predela 1986;

International Meetings in Topology: Baku 1987, Trieste 1993;

International Meetings in Category Theory: Prague 1988, Bangor 1989, Como 1990, Montreal 1991, Sussex 1992, Tours 1994, Halifax 1995, Cambridge 1995, Coimbra 1999 (three talks), Como 2000;

Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic: Trieste 1993, Utrecht 1998, Trieste 1998, Lovain-la-Neuve 1999;

International Meeting in Universal Algebra and Category Theory, Berkeley 1993;

International Meetings in Descent Theory: Oberwolfach 1995, Alle-sur-Semois 1996;

Seminar in Honour of G. M. Kelly, Sydney 1996;

International Conference “Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups”, Brussels 1998;

Special session on "Smooth categories in geometry and mechanics" of the 943nd regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Buffalo 1999;

International Meeting “Categorical Methods in Algebra and Topology”, Nassogne 1999;

International Conference on Galois Connections, Potsdam 2001;

International Meeting on Semiabelian Categories, Haute-Bodeux 2001

 

TEACHING:

Teaching in Georgia: Special courses in General Algebra, Homological Algebra, Category Theory, Galois Theory (Tbilisi State University, 1980-1990).

Ph.D. students:

1. D. Zangurashvili, Dissertation "Categorical algebraic properties in functor categories and Grothendieck topoi" defended at Tbilisi State University in 1993;

2. N. Inasaridze, Dissertation "Nonabelian tensor product and homology of groups" defended at Tbilisi State University in 1997;

3. B. Mesablishvili, Dissertation "Galois Theory of connected commutative rings in topoi" defended at Tbilisi State University in 1998;

4. Sh. Gogoladze, Dissertation "Solvability in radicals of separable polynomials over commutative rings", ready for defense;

5. J. Xarez (Aveiro University, Portugal; from 2000);

6. A. H. Roque, (Aveiro University, Portugal; from 2000);

Teaching experience in English – one semester courses for undergraduate or/and postgraduate students:

Foundation of Mathematics (McGill University, Canada, 1995);

Calculus I (Sydney University, Australia, 1996);

Category Theory (Sydney University, Australia, 1996);

Galois Theory (Louvain-la-Neuve University, Belgium, 1996);

Category Theory (York University, Canada, 1995);

Category Theory (Coimbra University, Portugal, 1998);

Linear Algebra (York University, Canada, 1999);

Classical Mathematical Structures and Category Theory (Aveiro University, Portugal, 2000);

Algebraic Topology (Aveiro University, Portugal, 2000);

Seminário I and II – Introduction to sets, categories, number systems defined via universal properties (Aveiro University, Portugal, Three courses in 2000/01).

                                                                 

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES:

Category Theory Seminar (Mathematical Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, from 1980).

Aveiro Category Seminar (from 2000).

Member, Scientific Committee in Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Analysis, Geometry, and Topology at Tbilisi State University (This is the examining committee responsible for awarding the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in Georgia in the subjects mentioned above).

Member, Editorial Board of Proceedings of the Mathematical Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

Member, Editorial Board of Applied Categorical Structures.

Editor (together with A. Carboni and R. H. Street) of Special Volume of Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra dedicated to G. M. Kelly.

Co-organizer (together with I. Moerdijk and W. Tholen) of International Meeting in Descent Theory (Oberwolfach 1995).

Co-organizer (together with B. Pareigis and W. Tholen) of International Workshop on Categorical Structures for Descent and Galois Theory, Hopf Algebras and Semiabelian Categories, to be held at The Fields Institute in September 2002. http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/02-03/galois_and_hopf/

Member, Programming Committee of International Meeting in Category Theory (Como 2000).

Member, Scientific Committee of International Meeting on Semiabelian Categories (Haute-Bodeux 2001).

Local Coordinator at Mathematical Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences of the International projects

- "Algebraic K-theory, Groups, and Categories" – INTAS-93-416-ext. (Coordinator: R. Brown; other local coordinators: A. Bak, V. Gerasimov, A. Mikhalev, A. Suslin, N. Vavilov);

- "Algebraic Homotopy, Galois Theory, and Descent" –INTAS-97-31961 (Coordinator: T. Porter; other local coordinators: M. Sobral, D. Zangurashvili).

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF G. JANELIDZE

1. Galois theory in categories with inclusions, Proc. Junior Sci., Tbilisi State University, 2, 1974, 9-16 (in Russian)

2. Profinite extensions of rings and the Harrison isomorphism, Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci. 78, 3, 1975, 529-532 (in Russian)

3. On satellites in arbitrary categories, Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci. 82, 3, 1976, 529-532 (in Russian)

4. Satellites with respect to Galois extensions, Proc. Math. Inst. Georgian Acad. Sci. LXII, 1979, 38-48 (in Russian)

5. Description of the finite Galois extension functor of an arbitrary commutative ring, Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci. 101, 1, 1981, 17-20 (in Russian)

6. Cohomology of category objects and Galois extensions of commutative rings, Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci. 102, 1, 1981, 17-20 (in Russian)

7. Computation of Kan extensions by means of injective objects and the functors Ext in nonadditive categories, Proc. Math. Inst. Georgian Acad. Sci. LXX, 1982, 42-51 (in Russian)

8. Cohomology of pairs of monoids and homological algebra of internal modules, Proc. Math. Inst. Georgian Acad. Sci. LXX, 1982, 56-68 (in Russian)

9. On abelian extensions of commutative rings, Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci. 108, 3, 1982, 477-480 (in Russian)

10. Galois extensions of commutative rings by profinite families of groups, Proc. Math. Inst. Georgian Acad. Sci. LXXIV, 1983, 39-51 (in Russian)

11. Magid's theorem in categories, Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci. 114, 3, 1984, 497-500 (in Russian)

12. Galois theory of separable polynomials over a commutative ring, Investigations in Algebra, Tbilisi and Moscow State Universities, Tbilisi 1985, 44-64 (in Russian)

13. Abelian extensions (of invertible rank, with normal basis) of commutative rings with an infinite number of idempotents, Proc. Math. Inst. Georgian Acad. Sci. LXXVII, 1985, 36-49 (in Russian)

14. The fundamental theorem of Galois theory, Math. USSR Sbornik 64 (2), 1989, 359-384

15. Galois theory in categories: the new example of differential fields, Proc. Conf. Categorical Topology in Prague 1988, World Scientific 1989, 369-380

16. Pure Galois theory in categories, Journal of Algebra 132, 1990, 270-286.

17. Cohomology and extensions of internal modules, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1437, 1990, 157-168

18. What is a double central extension? (the question was asked by Ronald Brown), Cahiers de Topologie et Geometrie Differentielle Categorique XXXII-3, 1991, 191-202

19. Precategories and Galois theory, Springer Lecture Note in Mathematics 1488, 1991, 157-173

20. (with W. Tholen) How algebraic is the change-of-base functor?, Springer Lecture Note in Mathematics 1488, 1991, 174-186

21. A note on Barr-Diaconescu covering theory, Contemporary Mathematics 131, 3, 1992, 121-124

22. (with D. Schumacher and R. H. Street) Galois theory in variable  categories, Applied Categorical Structures 1, 1993, 103-110

23. (with W. Tholen) Facets of Descent I, Applied Categorical Structures 2, 1994, 245-281

24. (with L. Marki) Radicals of rings and pullbacks, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 97, 1994, 29-36

25. (with G. M. Kelly) Galois theory and a general notion of a central extension, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 97, 1994, 135-161

26. (with A. Carboni) Modularity and Descent, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 99, 1995, 255-265

27. (with A. Carboni) Decidable (=separable) objects and morphisms in lextensive categories, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 110, 1996, 219-240

28. (with A. Carboni and A. R. Magid) A note on Galois correspondence for commutative rings, Journal of Algebra 183, 1996, 266-272

29. (with A. Carboni, G. M. Kelly, and R. Pare) On localization and stabilization of factorization systems, Applied Categorical Structures 5, 1997, 1-58

30. (with R. Brown) Van Kampen theorems for categories of covering morphisms in lextensive categories, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 119, 1997, 255-263

31. (with W. Tholen) Facets of Descent II, Applied Categorical Structures 5, 1997, 229-248

32. (with M. C. Pedicchio) Internal categories and groupoids in congruence modular varieties, Journal of Algebra 193, 1997, 552-570

33. (with G. M. Kelly) The reflectivness of covering morphisms in algebra and geometry, Theory and Applications of Categories 3, 1997, 132-159

34. (with D. Bourn) Protomodularity, descent, and semidirect products, Theory and Applications of Categories 4, 1998, 37-46

35. (with L. Marki and W. Tholen) Locally semisimple coverings, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 128, 1998, 281-289

36. (with R. Brown) Galois theory of second order covering maps of simplicial sets, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 135, 1999, 23-31

37. (with W. Tholen) Functorial factorization, well-pointedness and separability, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 142, 1999, 99-130

38. (with W. Tholen) Extended Galois theory and dissonant morphisms, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 143, 1999, 231-253

39. (with R. H. Street) Galois theory in symmetric monoidal categories, Journal of Algebra 220, 1999, 174-187

40. (with G. M. Kelly) Central extensions in Mal’tsev varieties, Theory and Applications of Categories 7, 10, 2000, 219-226

41. (with G. M. Kelly) Central extensions in universal algebra: a unification of three notions, Algebra Universalis 44, 2000, 123-128

42. (with F. Borceux) Galois Theories, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 72, Cambridge University Press, 2001

43. (with M. C. Pedicchio) Pseudogroupoids and commutators, Theory and Applications of Categories 8, 15, 2001, 408-456

44. (with G. M. Kelly) A note on actions of a monoidal category, Theory and Applications of Categories 9, 4, 2001, 61-91

45. (with L. Marki and W. Tholen) Semi-abelian categories, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 168, 2002, 367-386

 

ACCEPTED FOR THE PUBLICATION

46. (with M. Sobral) Finite preorders and topological descent I, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

47. Categorical Galois theory: revision and some recent developments, Proc. International Conference on Galois Connections, Potsdam 2001

48. (with L. Marki) Kurosh-Amitsur radicals via a weakened Galois connection, Communications in Algebra

49. (with M. Sobral) Finite preorders and topological descent II: étale descent, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

 

RECENT PREPUBLICATIONS

50. Internal crossed modules, Preprint 14/2002, Dept. Math. Instituto Superior Téchnico, Lisbon 2002

51. (with A. Carboni) Boolean Galois theories, Preprint 15/2002, Dept. Math. Instituto Superior Téchnico, Lisbon 2002

52. (with D. Bourn) Characterization of protomodular varieties of universal algebras, Preprint 16/2002, Dept. Math. Instituto Superior Téchnico, Lisbon 2002