Institute/Faculty:Institute of Computer Science and Project Management

The Department of Physics and Mathematics was established on October 1, 2022, through the merger of the Department of Advanced Mathematics and the Department of Physics within the Educational and Research Institute of Computer Science and Project Management at NUK.
Mykhailo Viktorovych Ushkats, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and professor, was appointed acting head of the newly established Department of Physics and Mathematics.
As of spring 2023,the academic and teaching staffof the Department of Physics and Mathematics consists of the following:
  • Mykhailo Viktorovych Ushkats, Chair of the Department, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor;
  • Serhiy Stanislavovych Koval, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor;
  • Igor Vasilyevich Petkov, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Acting Associate Professor;
  • Oleksandr Valeriyovych Mayboroda, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor;
  • Anton Anatoliyovych Karpechenko, Ph.D. in Engineering, Associate Professor;
  • Zhanna Yurievna Burunina, Ph.D. in Engineering, Associate Professor;
  • Natalia Oleksandrivna Romanchuk, Ph.D., Associate Professor;
  • Natalia Oleksandrivna Shapoval, Ph.D. in Engineering, Associate Professor;
  • Sergey Dmitrievich Titov, Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv.
In addition, the department's support staff includes:
  • Alexander Leonidovich Chorny;
  • Tetyana Oleksandrivna Tkachenko;
  • Olena Petrivna Boiko;
  • Anna Fedorivna Romanovska;
  • Vladimir Valentinovich Kondratenko;
  • Viktor Yevgenyevich Pavlin.
The main areas of the department's research activities:
  • a study of the behavior of classical and quantum thermodynamic systems in various states of matter and phase transitions in such systems based on statistical mechanics (M.V. Ushkats);
  • research in the fields of technical thermophysics, thermal power engineering, and mathematical modeling of thermophysical processes (S.S. Koval, N.O. Shapoval, M.V. Ushkats);
  • Optimization Theory and Computational Mathematics (S.D. Titov);
  • Theoretical and game-theoretic modeling in discrete optimization problems (S.D. Titov);
  • Simulation modeling in the Maple symbolic mathematics environment (S.D. Titov);
  • function theory, complex analysis, study of the limit behavior of solutions to Beltrami equations (Petkov, I.V.);
  • materials science, computer modeling and design of products and manufacturing processes (A.A. Karpechenko);
  • design, construction, and operation of unmanned tethered underwater vehicles and systems (Burunina, Zh. Yu.);
  • Development and implementation of modern student-centered teaching methods (Romanchuk N.O.).