Viacheslav Belavkin
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|birth_date = 20 May 1946
|birth_place = Lviv
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|field = Mathematics
|work_institutions = University of Nottingham
|alma_mater = Moscow State University
|doctoral_advisor = Ruslan Stratonovich
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|known_for = Belavkin equation
Choi's theorem on completely positive maps
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|prizes = State Prize of the Russian Federation
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Viacheslav Pavlovich Belavkin ({{langx|ru|Вячеслав Павлович Белавкин}}; 20 May 1946 – 27 November 2012) was a Russian-British professor in applied mathematics at the University of Nottingham. An active researcher, he was one of the pioneers of quantum probability. His research spanned areas such as quantum filtering, quantum information and quantum chaos.
Biography
He was born in Lviv, and graduated from Moscow State University in 1970 where his teachers include Evgeny Lifshitz, Victor Pavlovich Maslov, Andrey Kolmogorov and Ruslan L. Stratonovich. In the 1980s Belavkin held visiting professorship in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Volterra Centre in Rome before taking up an appointment at the University of Nottingham in 1992. He was promoted to a Chair in Mathematical Physics in 1996.{{cite web|last=Guta|first=Madalin|title=In Memory of Professor Viacheslav P Belavkin|url=https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/vpb/|publisher=the University of Nottingham}} He and Ruslan L. Stratonovich were awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation (formerly the Lenin Prize) for outstanding achievements in science and technology, in part due to his work on the measurement problem.{{citation|url=http://www.msu.ru/science/prem/prem96.html#gos|title=Премии и награды 1996|publisher=Moscow State University|access-date=13 January 2017}}{{cite web|last=Aula|first=Dottorato|title=Quantum Causality and Eventum Mechanics|url=http://www.qubit.it/upcoming/locandine/belavkin.html|publisher=qubit.it}} He is survived by his wife Nadezda Belavkin and son Roman Belavkin.{{cite web|title=Newsletter|url=http://www.nottinghamorthodox.org.uk/2013%20Jan%20Newsletter.pdf|publisher=Nottingham Orthodox|access-date=21 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071127/http://www.nottinghamorthodox.org.uk/2013%20Jan%20Newsletter.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
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External links
- [https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/vpb/personal/abiogr.html]
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Category:Academics of the University of Nottingham
Category:Recipients of the Lenin Prize
Category:State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
Category:Soviet mathematicians
Category:Moscow State University alumni
Category:Probability theorists
Category:20th-century British physicists
Category:Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies