Viacheslav Belavkin

Viacheslav Belavkin Pavlovich (Russian Вычеслав Павлович Белавкин, German transcription Vyacheslav Pavlovich Belawkin; born May 20, 1946 in Lviv, † November 27, 2012 ) was a Russian -born British mathematician who was a pioneer of quantum stochastics.

Belavkin made ​​in 1970 graduated from the Moscow State University, where he was a student of Ruslan Stratonowitsch and heard among others, Andrei Kolmogorov. In 1973 he received his doctorate there. Subject of his thesis was the extension of stochastic calculus and the filter theory of Stratonovich and generally of stochastic processes to the quantum case (Quantum Markov Model, Quantum Stochastic Processes). He was at the Moscow Institute of Electronics Engineering. In the 1980s, he was a visiting scientist at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and at the center of Volterra in Rome. From 1992 he was at the University of Nottingham, where he was Professor of Mathematical Physics in 1996.

In 1996 he received the Prize of the Russian Federation with Stratonovich.

He was married and had a son.