Leonid Bunimovich

Leonid Abramowich Bunimovich is a Soviet and American mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to the theory of Dynamical Systems, Statistical Physics and various applications. Bunimovich received his bachelor's degree in 1967, master's degree in 1969 and PhD in 1973 from the University of Moscow. His masters and PhD thesis advisor was Yakov G. Sinai. In 1986 he received Doctor of Sciences degree in "Theoretical and Mathematical Physics" from Institute of Theoretical Physics. Bunimovich is a Regents' Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1990-91 Bunimovich was Volkswagen Professor of Physics in the Bielefeld University, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and awarded Humboldt Prize in Physics.