Victor V. Kotlyar is the head of the Laboratory at Image Processing Systems Institute of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" and professor of Computer Science at Samara National Research University. He received his M.S., Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Samara State University (1979), Saratov State University (1988) and Moscow Central Design Institute of Unique Instrumentation, the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992). He is a co-author of 400 scientific papers, 10 books and 7 inventions. Evgeniy G. Abramochkin graduated from Kuibyshev State University in 1984 with a degree in Mathematical Physics. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2006), works as a leading researcher at the Samara branch of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The list of scientific works includes about 60 articles. Scientific interests are related to complex analysis, theory of special functions and equations of mathematical physics.Alexey A. Kovalev, graduated (2002) from Samara National Research University, majoring in Applied Mathematics. He received his Doctor in Physics & Maths degree in 2012. He is a senior researcher of Laser Measurements laboratory at Image Processing Systems Institute of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Samara National Research University He is a co-author of more than 270 scientific papers and 4 book. His research interests are mathematical diffraction theory and optical vortices.
