Teaching Courses Prepared and Given

1.

``Nonlinear Waves and Solitons'' (for fifth-year students), 1988-1989, Department of Theoretical Physics, Kharkov University (Ukraine).

2.

``Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics'' (for fourth-year students), 1989, Department of Theoretical Physics, Kharkov University (Ukraine).

3.

``Theoretical Mechanics'' (for second- and third-year students), 1989-1990, Department of Theoretical Physics, Kharkov University (Ukraine).

4.

``Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics: From Anharmonic Oscillator to Solitons'' (18 lectures for PhD students), 1991, Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain).

5.

``Elements of the Soliton Theory'', September 1991, Short Advanced Lecture Course (5 lectures) at Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (Spain).

6.

``Mathematical Physics of Solitons'', Course for honour students in mathematics (16 lectures), February-July 1994, Department of Mathematics, The Australian National University (Australia).

7.

``Nonlinear Waveguides and Devices'', 2 lectures at the Second Photonics Summer School, Maroochydore, Qeensland (The Coach House, Maroochy River Resort, 29 November-2 December, 1995) (Australia).

8.

``Theoretical Mechanics'', 14 lectures of the Course in Theoretical Physics for PhD students, March-May 1996, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University (Australia).

9.

``Bright and Dark Optical Solitons in non-Kerr Media'', 4 lectures given at the NATO Advance Study Institute ``All-optical switching in materials with quadratic nonlinearities'' (September 21-30, 1997: Sozopol, Bulgaria).

10.

``From Nonlinear Oscillators to Nonlinear Waves'', 4 lectures for PhD students at the Institut fur Festkorperphysik, Technische Universitat Darmstadt (September 1998, Darmstadt, Germany).