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For his outstanding research work in systems theory, Bayreuth mathematician Dr. Andrii Mironchenko has been awarded this year's von Kaven Honorary Award by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Dr. Andrii Mironchenko took up a Heisenberg position in the University of Bayreuth’s Applied Mathematics research group last year. There, he works on so-called infinite-dimensional systems. For his work, the DFG will award him the von Kaven Prize on 29 October as part of the Gauss Lecture of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) in Bochum. The award is endowed with 10,000 euros and traditionally goes to mathematicians who conduct research in the DFG's Heisenberg or Emmy Noether programmes.

About Mironchenko's work

Much of mathematical systems theory is based on the fundamental structural assumption that the state space does not change over time. However, this assumption does not hold in many natural and man-made systems. A typical problem of this kind is to design an optimized, adaptive traffic control system so that the controller remains functional and scalable even when new roads and vehicles enter or leave the network. A related problem is the organization of a smart power grid that ensures robust and efficient power generation and transmission even when the size and topology of the grid change due to the connection and disconnection of microgrids. Mironchenko is working to develop a general paradigm for modelling such systems.

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Dr. Andrii Mironchenko
Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Mathematik

E-Mail: andrii.mironchenko@uni-bayreuth.de
Telefon: + 49 (0)921 55-3283