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

2022 - currently. Master degree student Justas Kvedaravičius (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics).
2021 - 2022. Bachelor degree student Justas Kvedaravičius (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics): "Scaling of empirical compartmental distributions".
2017 Spring. Bachelor degree student Lukas Bagdonavičius (Vilnius University Faculty of Physics): "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): "Diffusion model of Sąjūdis growth".
2016 Autumn. Interns Brigita Čelkytė, Goda Damaševičiūtė, Milda Venckutė, Ugnė Šiurienė (various years and faculties at Vilnius University): "Modeling of the Sajudis growth by using interacting agent-based model". Together with co-supervisors prof. Ainė Ramonaitė, dr. Julius Ruseckas, and dr. Tomas Žalandauskas. Organized by Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology, supported by ESO.
2013 Summer. Intern Ignas Kazakevičius (first year student at Vilnius University Faculty of Physics): "Control of Complex Stochastic Processes". Supported by Research Council of Lithuania.

2023 spring. Bachelor thesis defense panel member (30+ fourth year students at Vilnius University Faculty of Physics).
2023 spring. "Agent-based modeling" (for first year Master degree students Vilnius University Faculty of Physics). 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).
2022. Dissertation defense panel member for G. Žlabys "Ultracold atom dynamics in quasi-one-dimensional optical lattices". PhD thesis was written and defended at Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius University).
2019 - 2022. "Numerical Methods I" (for first year Bachelor degree students at Vilnius University Faculty of Physics). Course focus: introduction to programming and common numerical methods using Matlab. Slides used in 2022.
2018, 2019, 2022. Exam committee member of "Random Processes" (for PhD students at Vilnius University Faculty of Physics).
2011 Spring. "Theoretical Mechanics" (for second year Bachelor degree students at Vilnius University Faculty of Physics). Seminars for one of the groups taking the course. Course focus: Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics.

I have served as a reviewer for two Bachelor/Master degree theses (at Vilnius University Faculty of Physics).