Taras Krokhmalskii’s 60th birthday
Taras Krokhmalskii, a senior research fellow of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (ICMP), a renowned specialist in the field of condensed matter physics celebrated his sixtieth birthday on February 6, 2013. The editorial board of the "Con...
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Condensed Matter Physics, 2013, Vol. 16, No 2, 27001: 1–2
http://www.icmp.lviv.ua/journal
Personalia
Taras Krokhmalskii’s 60th birthday
Taras Krokhmalskii, a senior research fellow of the Institute
for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sci-
ences of Ukraine (ICMP), a renowned specialist in the field of
condensed matter physics celebrated his sixtieth birthday on
February 6, 2013.
Taras Krokhmalskii was born in a village of Urizh in Dro-
hobych region. The region is familiar to everybody in Ukraine
and far beyond as a birthplace of a prominent Ukrainian in-
tellectual Ivan Franko, who, along with Taras Shevchenko had
a tremendous impact on modern literary and political thought
in Ukraine. Being born in the village neighbouring to the Ivan
Franko’s birthplace and being Taras Shevchenko’s namesake,
Taras Krokhmalskii had no other way to carry on the profes-
sional life as to choose academic activities. Although he was
eventually captured by theoretical physics, all who are lucky
to know him in person admire his profound interest in Nature
as a whole and his philosophical approach to life.
His way to mastering theoretical condensed matter physics was not simple and standard. After
attending the secondary school he continued studies in the Drohobych petroleum tekhnikum – a
technical school, designed for training technical staff working in petroleum industry (it is worth
mentioning that the region of Drohobych remains to be an important center of petroleum and
natural gas industries), which he finished in 1972. Later on he joked with his friends that all useful
practical knowledge in applied maths he indebted to his studies there. As in every joke, there is
a part of truth here as well: both his mates from the university (he graduated from the physical
department of the Ivan Franko University of Lviv in 1977) and his colleagues from the ICMP
noticed and acknowledged his familiarity with some practical mathematical tools beyond the usual
university curriculum. Taras Krokhmalskii started his professional carrier as an engineer in the
Physico-Mechanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv (during 1978–1980)
and since 1980 he has been working as a researcher in the Lviv Division “Statistical Physics” of the
Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since then, all
his future career is connected with this institution (in 1990 it gave birth to the ICMP) and with
the school of statistical physics formed here by academician Ihor Yukhnovskii. Here, his research
interests were formed, here he learned various methods of theoretical analysis, here he obtained
his first valid scientific results, published first papers and continues his work up to now making
important contributions to the fields of phase transitions, low-dimensional spin systems, electron
gas theory. By his research and organizational activities Taras Krokhmallskii contributed to the
strengthening of the institute as well: in 1990–1995 he was the founder and head of the Department
of computational physics at the ICMP and since 1996 he is the secretary of the Scientific council
for defense of PhD and habilitation theses at the ICMP.
Already as a student Taras showed an exceptional interest in scientific studies, curiosity and
desire to penetrate into fundamental physical problems. His studies of that time on relativistic
mechanics of two particles under supervision of Prof. Roman Gaida were summarized in his first
paper. However, the main knowledge, skills and achievements were gained while studying the prop-
erties of the electron gas in metals. Together with Prof. Markiyan Vavrukh, Taras Krokhmalskii
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examined various characteristics of an interacting degenerate electron gas, calculated the effec-
tive many-particle interactions in simple metals, obtained electron-ion potentials that constitute
the basis of the modern many-particle theory of metals. These results form his PhD thesis “Elec-
tron correlations and many-particle interactions in metals” which was defended in 1987 in Taras
Shevchenko University of Kyiv under the supervisorship of Prof. Yukhnovskii and Prof. Vavrukh.
Although the spectrum of the research carried out by Dr. Krokhmalskii after defending his thesis
concerned a large variety of topics, profoundness and reliability remain to be characteristic features
of his work. He elaborated numerical methods in the theory of phase transitions while constructing a
hierarchical model of phase transitions (in collaboration with M. Kozlovskii and Yu. Kozitsky) and
while evaluating field-theory graphs of high order (together with Yu. Holovatch). He investigated
low-dimensional quantum spin models, suggesting, in particular, a numerical method for the study
of the spin-1/2 XY chains (in collaboration with O. Derzhko, T. Verkholyak, J. Stolze, G. Müller,
H. Büttner, J. Richter, and O. Zaburannyi). He studied quantum frustrated spin systems (together
with O. Derzhko and J. Richter) and electron lattice models (together with J. Jȩdrzejewski and
V. Derzhko). T. Krokhmalskii got interested in quantum informatics and published an extensive
review paper in this field. Moreover, together with J. Jȩdrzejewski he uses the concepts from this
field in describing phase transitions.
Taras Krokhmalskii also showed interest in applied studies for a wide range of physical phe-
nomena. Together with M. Shovgenyuk and M. Kozlovskii he obtained important results for the
properties of binary phase elements in the recognition image systems. Furthermore, they studied
the fractal structure of the Winner spectra of binary phase elements of Kronecker type.
The research style of Taras Krokhmalskii is characterized by a transparent formulation of
the problems, usage of subtle and sophisticated analytical methods for their solution, and entire
numerical support of analytical argumentation. He collaborates with many researchers not only
in Ukraine but also in Europe (Germany, Poland) and in the USA. Many papers were prepared
within the framework of international research projects.
Taras Krokhmalskii is involved in lecturing for students of the Ivan Franko National University
of Lviv (numerical methods, computational physics and quantum informatics). Many theoreticians
remember his profound lectures at the Summer schools “Quantum Information” organized by the
chair for theoretical physics of the National University of Lviv in Verkhnje Synjovydne (Ukraine).
He is the author of about 70 research papers, an experienced theoretician, a teacher, an exception-
ally responsible person and a reliable colleague. He has met his jubilee with noticeable achievements
and new research plans. The editorial board of the “Condensed Matter Physics” joins numerous
congratulations to him and wish him to stay in good health, implement his creative ideas, gain
new achievements in science, and – last but not least – in his own peculiar way to grasp the Nature
and tell us the tale.
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