Aleksejus Kononovicius

Senior researcher at Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy (Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University). Research interests: stochastic and agent-based modeling, complex systems, Econophysics, Sociophysics, Statistical Physics and Data Science. Contributor to Physics of Risk science blog.

Supervision and defense panels

2022. Dissertation defense panel member (PhD candidate: G. Žlabys; thesis: "Ultracold atom dynamics in quasi-one-dimensional optical lattices"; written at Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius University).
2021 - 2022. Bachelor degree student: Justas Kvedaravičius (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics). Thesis topic: "Scaling of empirical compartmental distributions".
2017 Spring. Bachelor degree student: Lukas Bagdonavičius (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics). Thesis topic: "Power spectrum analysis of a point process driven by the fractional Gaussian noise".
2016 - 2017. Bachelor degree student: Jonas Tupčiauskas (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics). Thesis topic: "Diffusion model of Sąjūdis growth".
2016 Autumn. Internship co-supervisor (together with prof. Ainė Ramonaitė, dr. Julius Ruseckas and dr. Tomas Žalandauskas). Students: Brigita Čelkytė, Goda Damaševičiūtė, Milda Venckutė, Ugnė Šiurienė (Vilnius University, various faculties). Topic: "Modeling of the Sajudis growth by using interacting agent-based model" (lt. "Sąjūdžio plėtros modeliavimas naudojant matematinį sąveikaujančių agentų modelį"). Internship was organized by Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology and supported by ESO.
2013 Summer. Internship supervisor. Student: Ignas Kazakevičius (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics, first year). Topic: "Control of Complex Stochastic Processes". Internship was supported by Research Council of Lithuania.

Lectures and exam committees

2023 spring. "Agent-based modeling" (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics; fifth year students). Two lecture tutorial as a part of "Quantum statistical physics" course. Tutorial focus: introduction to agent-based modeling and physics of social systems. Slides (in Lithuanian).
2019 - 2022. "Numerical Methods I" (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics; first year students). Course focus: introduction to programming and common numerical methods using Matlab. Slides used in the spring semester of 2022.
2018, 2019, 2022. Exam committee member of "Random Processes" (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics; lecturer: habil. dr. Bronislovas Kaulakys; PhD students).
2011 Spring. Seminars of "Theoretical Mechanics" (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics; second year students). Course focus: Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics.