Dear friends,

I am Alexander Kukush, Professor of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine.

I propose you the cooperation in three directions.

1. I am an expert in Mathematical Statistics, in particular in fationable theory of errors-in-variables models. There are a lot of unsolved problems there! I invite you to visit my research seminar Asymptotic Methods of Statistics, which I supervise together with Professor R. E. Maiboroda. Sessions take place each Tuesday at 14:15 at the faculty campus.

2. I am a member of jury of the Open Matematical Olympiad for Kyiv students, which is held on March – April at the campus. Original problems for students of 1^st – 4^th grades are wanted. Please deliver problems with solutions to me to the Department of Mathematical Analysis. During the Olympiad, the problems where the author name is indicated are given to participants, and after the Olympiad that problems, again with indication of the author name, are published in the journal “In the World of Mathematics”.

3. I compose chess problems, the two of which were published in the German chess journal “feenschach”. In the journal “In the World of Mathematics”, I organized a column “Mathematics on Chessboard” where essays are published about the relation between Mathematics and chess, both practical chess and chess composition. Original papers are wanted on that topic, ans we will publish it very quickly! Please send the file – preferably tex.file but doc.file is admissible as well – to me or the secretary of the journal Dr. O. Vasylyk ( vasylyk@univ.kiev.ua ).
I played twice in the International Open chess tournaments in Belgium, where I my performace was 2219 and 2080. I invite everybody to play blitz in my office at the room N4 of the campus. Students who will show deep understanding of chess, will gain my personal sympathy.