Topology in Condensed Matter

Michael Monastyrsky, professor of mathematics and theoretical physics at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow/Russia, graduated the mathematical department of Moscow State University(1967). He authored numerous papers in various fields of mathematics and theoretical physics. He presented invited plenary talks on many conferences and was the visiting professor of many universities and institutes including IAS (Princeton), Harvard,Princeton and Yale Universities (USA),Cambridge and Oxford Universities (Great Britain), IHES and Universite de Paris (France).