Full Professor, University of Haifa, Israel.
Professor Vladimir Rovenski, born May 12, 1953, in Karaganda (Kazakhstan, USSR), is a distinguished mathematician. He has been a professor emeritus at the University of Haifa since 2021, having held various academic positions, including full professor at the University of Haifa and senior scientist at Technion. Rovenski’s research spans differential geometry, topology, applied mathematics, and mathematical modeling. Over his career, he has contributed to the study of foliations, curvature, and anisotropic elasticity. He has published over 195 papers and 14 books and organized multiple international conferences. Rovenski is also a guest editor for numerous special issues in mathematics journals. He remains an active contributor to the academic community with extensive involvement in international projects and conferences.
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Education
Professor Rovenski obtained his M.Sc. degree in 1976, Ph.D. in 1985, and D.Sci. in 1994. His academic journey began with a focus on geometry and topology, particularly foliations and curvatures. His M.Sc. thesis on quasi-affine functions and programming was supervised by Prof. G.S. Rubinshtein. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on uniquely projecting surfaces in spheres and projective spaces, guided by Prof. V.A. Toponogov. His D.Sci. dissertation, on geometry and topology of foliations, advanced research on nonnegative curvature in mixed directions. Rovenski earned prestigious diplomas, including Correspondent Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences (1995) and Full Professor (1996).
Experience
Professor Rovenski’s academic career spans several prestigious institutions. He served as a full professor at the University of Haifa from 2004 to 2021, and as a senior scientist at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, from 1999 to 2004. Before moving to Israel, he was a professor at the State Pedagogical University in Krasnoyarsk, USSR, and at Karaganda State University. His early academic experience also included work at Siberian Building Institute and Karaganda State Polytechnic Institute. Rovenski has been active in supervising postdoctoral students and has organized several international mathematical workshops and conferences. His extensive career reflects a commitment to research, teaching, and advancing mathematical knowledge globally.
Awards and Honors
Professor Rovenski has received numerous awards and honors throughout his career. In 1994, he was awarded the Russian Fund of Fundamental Investigations grant for his work on the geometry and topology of foliations with nonnegative curvature. He was supported by Marie Curie Actions grants between 2008 and 2014 for his work on extrinsic geometry of foliations. He is a long-standing member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Israel Mathematical Union (IMU), and the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Rovenski has also received invitations to visit several universities as a guest professor, further solidifying his reputation as a leading expert in the field.
Research Focus
Professor Rovenski’s primary research interests include differential geometry, topology of submanifolds and foliations, anisotropic elasticity, and piezoelectricity. His work on extrinsic geometry of foliations led to the development of “extrinsic geometric flows,” an innovative method to study foliations with variable adapted metrics. He has explored the Ricci flow on foliated manifolds and the geometry of codimension-one foliations. Rovenski has also contributed to modeling and teaching mathematics using computational tools like MAPLE and MATLAB. His work integrates theoretical developments in geometry with practical applications in engineering, physics, and material science.
Publications
- Analytical methods in anisotropic elasticity: with symbolic computational tools 📘
- Foliations on Riemannian manifolds and submanifolds 📚
- Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with MAPLE 📐
- Topics in extrinsic geometry of codimension-one foliations 🔎
- Modeling of Curves and Surfaces with MATLAB® 📊
- Integral formulae on foliated symmetric spaces 📜
- Extrinsic geometry of foliations 🧩
- An example of Lichnerowicz-type Laplacian 📝
- Mirzakhani’s curve counting and geodesic currents 🔄
- Integral formulae for a Riemannian manifold with two orthogonal distributions ➗
- Deforming metrics of foliations 🔄
- Saint-Venant’s problem for homogeneous piezoelectric beams ⚡
- Variations of the total mixed scalar curvature of a distribution 🔠
- On solutions to equations with partial Ricci curvature 🔍
- New metric structures on g-foliations 🔑
- Mixed gravitational field equations on globally hyperbolic spacetimes 🌌
- Almost -Ricci solitons on Kenmotsu manifolds 💫
- On the rigidity of the Sasakian structure and characterization of cosymplectic manifolds 🧩
- Integral formulas for a metric-affine manifold with two complementary orthogonal distributions 📏
- Integral formulas for a Riemannian manifold with several orthogonal complementary distributions 📐