Dr. Tamara G. Stryzhak is Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Higher Mathematics of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" and the National Secretary of the Ukrainian National Committee of IAESTE. She studied at the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev and defended her Candidate of Science thesis at the Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences as well as her Doctor of Science dissertation at the Novosibirsk Section of the USSR Academy of Sciences. She is the author of nine monographs, three textbooks, and many publications in mathematical journals.