Leonid Bunimovich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Leonid Bunimovich

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1947

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Profession: professor, mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Leonid Bunimovich

  • Leonid Bunimovich (born August 1, 1947) is a Soviet and American mathematician, who specializes in dynamical systems.
  • He is known for discovery of a fundamental mechanism of chaos in dynamical systems called the mechanism of defocusing.
  • The most famous class of chaotic dynamical systems of this type, dynamical billiards are focusing chaotic billiards (e.g., the "Bunimovich stadium","Bunimovich flowers", etc.).
  • More recently he introduced so called Bunimovich mushrooms, which are visual examples of billiards with mixed regular and chaotic dynamics.
  • In many physics labs over the world were built experimental devices in the form of various Bunimovich billiards.
  • Bunimovich received his bachelor's degree in 1967 and PhD in 1973 from the University of Moscow.
  • His thesis adviser was Yakov G.
  • Sinai.
  • In 1986 he was awarded Doctor of Sciences degree in "Theoretical and Mathematical Physics".
  • Bunimovich is a Regents' Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
  • He has studied numerous topics in pure and applied dynamical systems, mathematical physics, probability theory and mathematical biology.
  • Notably, Bunimovich introduced and investigated hierarchical models of human populations, traps of internal waves in non-homogeneous stratified fluids, and deterministic walks in random environments.
  • Bunimovich (with Khudyakov and Skums) discovered the phenomenon of local immunodeficiency.
  • He also pioneered rigorous studies of finite time evolution of dynamical systems.
  • Bunimovich has been a Fellow of the Institute of Physics since 1999, and was awarded the Humboldt Prize in Physics in 2002.

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