For "Application for consideration of a waiver of the two-year foreign
residence requirement of the exchange visitor program"


9. DID YOUR EXCHANGE-VISITOR PROGRAM INCLUDE U.S. GOVERMENT FUNDS, FUNDS FROM
YOUR OWN GOVERMENT, OR FROM AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIN? IF SO, PLEASE GIVE
FULL PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE FUNDING

I did not receive grants from my own goverment.

During the first six months of my stay in US from 02/01/96 to 07/31/96
I was supported indirectly by National Science Foundation.
My supervisor D. Goodson from Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas)
had a grant from NSF. In his project, he asked money for postdoctoral
researchers. The amount of financial support is $13,332.00.
Grant No. 9411210 Quantum Chemistry Without the Hartree-Fock and
Born-Oppenheimer Approximations (1994 - 1997).


11. GIVE THE REASONS FOR NOT WISHING TO FULFILL THE  TWO-YEAR HOME-COUNTRY
RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT TO WHICH YOU AGREED AT THE TIME YOU ACCEPTED
EXCHANGE-VISITOR STATUS

In the United States, there is a group of scientists in different universities
actively working on my particular speciality related to quantum-mechanical
perturbation theory, summation of divergent perturbation series, and
quasiclassical methods for resonant states. I worked on this topic in Russia for
many years, and I found my present co-workers in US when I read their
publications and visited a conference.

After switching to democracy in Russia, new
opportunities for travelling abroad arose for many Russian scientists that were
engaged previously in partially classified goverment projects. During the last
two years, I enjoyed these new opportunities by working on projects
of mutual interest in several American universities. It allowed me to view my
specific problems in broader perspective and to acquire immence experience.

Currently, big changes and restructuring are in progress in many former Soviet
research institutes including State Optical Institute in my home city (St.
Petersburg, Russia) where I am working as a researcher since 1980. As a result,
there are temporary organizational reasons to continue my research abroad
instead of in Russia because American computer facilities, scientific
communication and access to scientific information allow to reveal the research
potential in full. I think that one or two extra years are necessary to
realize most of my theoretical ideas and to finish my present project.

Reorganization of Russian science is underway in many respects including
conversion of classified defense scientific projects to open international
academic science. At present, the Optical Institute (formerly attached to
Russian Defense Ministry) where I am employed is resuming its normal work. After
passing of extra 1 - 2 years necessary to complete this
reorganization, I shall be ready to share with my countrymen the knowledge and
experience much more effectively than it may be possible now.


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