Viacheslav Pavlovich Belavkin is a professor

Professor

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 in applied mathematics

Applied mathematics

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 at the University of Nottingham

University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

. He was born in Lwów

Lviv

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, and graduated from Moscow State University

Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

 in 1970.http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/vpb/personal/abiogr.html In 1996, he and Ruslan L. Stratonovich

Ruslan L. Stratonovich

Ruslan Leont'evich Stratonovich was an outstanding physicist, engineer, and probabilist. Professor Stratonovich was born on May 31, 1930 in Moscow, Russia...

 were awarded the Main State Prize of the Russian Federation (formerly the Lenin Prize

Lenin Prize

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) for outstanding achievements in science and technology. An active researcherhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=G&oi=qs&q=author:v-belavkin http://arxiv.org/find/math/1/au:+Belavkin_V/0/1/0/all/0/1?skip=0&query_id=fa541cd4b27446cb http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/vpb/vpb_publications.html, he is one of the pioneers of quantum probability

Quantum probability

Quantum probability was developed in the 1980s as a noncommutative analog of the Kolmogorovian theory of stochastic processes. One of its aims is to clarify the mathematical foundations of quantum theory and its statistical interpretation....

. His research spans areas such as quantum filtering, quantum information

Quantum information

In quantum mechanics, quantum information is physical information that is held in the "state" of a quantum system. The most popular unit of quantum information is the qubit, a two-level quantum system...

 and quantum chaos

Quantum chaos

Quantum chaos is a branch of physics which studies how chaotic classical dynamical systems can be described in terms of quantum theory. The primary question that quantum chaos seeks to answer is, "What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and classical chaos?" The correspondence principle...

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External links

• Complete list of publications since 2000
• Prof V. P. Belavkin Homepage at the University of Nottingham