User:Alexander E Patrakov
The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.
I was born on February 8, 1980. I live in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
My education and achievements
1987 - 1994: Yekaterinburg School #43.
1994 - 1997: Lyceum of the Urals State University (I specialized in Physics and Math). In all three years, I won first prizes in Olympiads in Physics in Sverdlovsk Region, and second or third prizes in Math. I did not participate in higher-level "official" olympiads because this would involve a move to another city, which at that time was completely impossible for me because of motion sickness (still not fully cured).
1997 - 2004: Urals State University, Physical faculty. I specialized in theoretical physics, and got my Master degree.
2004 - 2007: I was a post-gradiate student at the Institute of Metal Physics (in Yekaterinburg).
2007 - present: I am a minor researcher at the Institute of Metal Physics.
My interests are related to transport phenomena in semiconductors, especially in low-dimensional structures. A paper "Two-dimensional electron system with spin-orbit interaction in ac magnetic field" is published in Physical Review B [1]. I also have papers in the following journals: Low Temperature Physics, The Physics of Metals and Metallography, JETP.
Hobbies: Linux, web design (scripts). Linux server administration and web design were also sources of my additional income in the Dialog center in the Urals State University, from 2002 till 2007.
1998 - 2000: SEM, a ZX Spectrum emulator for Windows, written in Delphi. This was the world's first Spectrum emulator that implemented software-based bilinear filtering of the display output. It also had the unique "undo" button that allows the player to cheat by going 10 seconds back and retrying (hopefully, with better success) from that point. No longer developed.
2003 - present: active participation in Linux From Scratch mailing lists. I became an editor and (until December, 2007) a maintainer of the Official LFS LiveCD.