Almas Sherbaf Associate Professor of Mathematics and Physics Department, Belarusian State Pedagogical University Executive secretary of the journal "Computational methods in applied mathematics"   Education: Belarusian State University Diploma, Applied Mathematics, Minsk, Belarus, 1976 Thesis: "The study of convergence and stability of difference schemes for some nonstationary nonlinear problems of mathematical physics", 1986

Research interests

1. information technologies in higher education

2. new paradigms for education

3. mathematics curriculum for a new educational paradigm

May 2016

Winner of an EU funded project for enhancing professional contacts between Belarus
and the EU (MOST); within the frameworks in the project visited Mathematikum in Giessen (the world's first mathematical science center)

January - May 2008
US Department of State Fulbright Scholar in Education; Mathematics Department of the George Washington University, Washington DC

September 2006
Awarded an ECA Alumni Small Grant administrated by the Academy for International Education and Research (AIER)

July 2005
Visiting Scholar at Jesus College, University of Oxford, on an Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme grantJanuary

2001 - December 2005
Project Coordinator "Development of distance courses for a Pedagogical University", State Program for Basic Research INFOTEX 17, registration No. 20014665

March 2002
Completed the International Program "Training for Trainers", Kalmar University, Kalmar, Sweden under the auspices of SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

August - December 2001
US Department of State Regional Scholar in Education; Mathematics Department of the George Washington University, Washington DC

June - December 2000
Project Coordinator "Study Course for distance learning at a Pedagogical University" granted by IATP (small grants) ECA State Department