Boris A. Kalinikos    [ Boris.Kalinikos@colostate.edu ]

Boris Kalinikos' permanent position is with the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is professor and Head of the Department of Electron-Ion Processing of Solids. His scientific interests lie in the field of linear and nonlinear spin waves in magnetic films and their applications for microwave signal processing. Currently, he is with Colorado State University's Magnetics group as a Visiting Professor.

Professor Kalinikos first visit to CSU was for four months in 1990 as a Fulbright Professor. From that time he has maintained a fruitful collaboration with the group. In the years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 he was working in the lab together with his colleague Dr. Nikolai Kovshikov. Those visits were under the NATO Linkage Grant Program. They studied spin wave envelope solitons in ferrite films. their work was, they believe, very successful. At least, they enjoyed it very much. He likes the international flavor of the group. He believes that a cooperation between cultures is necessary. At the moment, he is working on self- generation of envelope black solitons. He have many friends here. he enjoys his stays in Ft.Collins very much. He likes the sunny weather, picturesque mountains and national parks. Here it is easy to jump from civilization to what he considers the real world - the wilderness.