History of the Department

 

Kharkov's function-theoretic school exists more than 100 years and is related with the names of A.M.Lyapunov (1857-1918), S.N.Bernstein (1880-1968), N.I.Akhiezer (1901-1980), B.Ya.Levin (1906-1993). 

The Department of Function Theory  was organized in 1969 by  Boris Yakovlevich Levin. B.Ya.Levin was the head of the Department until 1986. I.V.Ostrovskii was the Head of the Department since 1986 up to 2001. Since  2001 G.M.Feldman is the Head of the Department.

 

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The first members of the Department were I.V.Ostrovskii, L.I.Ronkin, V.A.Tkachenko, G.R.Belitskii, I.E.Ovcharenko, P.Z.Agranovich. At the beginning of 70th G.P.Chistyakov, G.M.Feldman, Yu.I.Lyubarskii, N.I.Yakovleva, M.V.Novitskii, A.E.Fryntov  joined to the Department. In the different years A.E.Eremenko, A.Ya.Kheifets,  S.A. Kupin, A.Yu.Rashkovskii, A.M.Russakovskii, M.L.Sodin, A.M.Ulanovskii,  P.M.Yuditskii were members of the Department.
DEPARTMENT OF FUNCTION THEORY in the middle of the 70th.
Sitting left to right: V.A.Tkachenko, I.E.Ovcharenko, L.I.Ronkin, B.Ya. Levin, I.V.Ostrovskii . Standing: A.E.Fryntov, N.I.Yakovleva, M.V.Novitskii, P.Z.Agranovich, G.P.Chistyakov, S.V.Lvova, G.R.Belitskii, G.M.Feldman, Yu.I.Lyubarskii

 

DEPARTMENT OF FUNCTION THEORY 1992.
Left to right: G.M.Feldman, L.B.Golinskii, P.M.Yuditskii, A.Yu.Rashkovskii, L.I.Ronkin, A.M.Ulanovskii, Yu.I.Lyubarskii, M.L.Sodin, M.V.Novitskii, P.Z.Agranovich, G.P.Chistyakov
 
DEPARTMENT OF FUNCTION THEORY, May 2008.
Left to right: P.Z.Agranovich, M.V. Myronyuk, G.M.Feldman, A.I. Danilenko, L.B.Golinskii, L.V. Fardigola.