Vladimir D. Tonchev

Biographical Sketches (see Curriculum Vitae for more)

Address:

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295

Phone:

Office/Fax: (906) 487-3360;(906)487-3133;
Home: (906) 482-6807
E-mail: tonchev@mtu.edu

Research Interests

Combiantorics, Coding Theory, Computer Algebra, Algorithms, Computational Biology.

Education

• Doctor of Mathematical Sciences, Sofia 1987
• PhD, Sofia University, Bulgaria, 1980
• M.Sc. (honors), Sofia University, Bulgaria, 1977

Current Position:

External Grants

• NSA, "Classical and Quantum Codes", 2006-2008.
• Fulbright Senior Specialist Program Grant #2211, 2007.
• NSF, ``Codes for Multiple-Access Channels, Genetic Testing, Deletion-Insertion Correction, and Synchronization'', 2003-2007.
• Fulbright Senior Specialist Program Grant #1868, 2006.
• NSA, ``Codes, Designs and Finite Geometry'', 2003-2005.
• ``Codes for multiple-access channels, genetic testing, and asynchronous error-correction'', NRC, 2001-2003.
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fellowship Continuation Grant, 1998.
• NSA, ``Codes and Designs'', 1995-97.
• NRC, ``Twinning Program Grant'', 1995-97.
• NSF, ``Second Upper Michigan Combinatorics Conference'', 1994.

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

• The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award, 2007.
• Michigan Technological University Research Award, 2003.
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship, 1998.
• London Mathematical Society Distinguished Lecture Series Award, 1995
• Mathematical Sciences Research Award, Michigan Technological University 1992, 1995, 2003.
• University of Concordia Research Fellowship, 1993.
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship, 1989-90.
• Eindhoven University of Technology Research Fellowship, 1987-88.
• National Award for Young Scientists, Sofia 1986.
• Award of the Union of Balkan Mathematicians, Ankara, 1980.

Editorial Board

• Designs, Codes and Cryptography
• Journal of Combinatorial Designs
• Applications and Applied Mathematics, An Electronic Journal, (2006 - present)
• Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (1998-2004)

Recent Invited Talks:

• ``Combinatorial Designs and Code Synchronization'', NATO Advanced Study Institute "New Challenges in Digital Communications", Vlora, Abania, May 2008.
• ``Combinatorial Designs and Code Synchronization'', UNAM, Mexico City, May 2007, Fulbright Senior Specialist Program # 2211.
• ``Symmetric Nets and Hamada's Conjecture'', University of Sofia, July 2006, Fulbright Senior Specialist Program #1868.
• ``Steiner systems with two block sizes and group testing designs'', DIMACS Workshop on Combinatorial Group Testing, May 17 - 19, 2006.
• ``Generalized Hadamard matrices and Hamada's Conjecture'', Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June 2005.
• ``Conflict-avoiding codes and cyclic triple systems'', International Conference on Designs of Experiments: Theory and Applications, Memphis, May 13-15, 2005.
• ``Difference Systems of Sets and Code Synchronization'', Conference on experimental design and analysis and related mathematical structures with applications, Ise, Japan, November 17-19, 2004.
• ``Generalized Incidence Matrices and a Characterization of the Classical Designs'', University of Nagoya, Japan, November 22, 2004.
• ``Linear Orthogonal Arrays and Affine Designs'', University of Tsukuba, Japan, November 25, 2004.
• ``Symmetric nets and generalized Hadamard matrices over groups of order 4'', International Workshop on Combinatorics, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, January 20-22, 2004.

Publications

Ph.D. Theses Supervised

• Hao Wang, "Applications of Combinatorial Designs to Coding Theory", Michigan Technological University, 2006.
• Chekad Sarami, ''Topics in Coding Theory and Combinatorial Structures'', Michigan Technological University, 2004.
• Ivan Landgev: ''Constructive methods in Combinatorics'', University of Sofia, 1990.
• Stojan Kapralov: ''Combinatorial Configurations and Automorphism Groups", University of Sofia, 1989.