FELIKS LEONIDOVICH CHERNOUS’KO (On his 70th birthday)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 322 KB
• Volume: 72
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8928
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jappmathmech.2008.04.015

✦ Synopsis

FELIKS LEONIDOVICH CHERNOUS'KO (On his 70th birthday) ଝ

Academician Feliks Leonidovich Chernous'ko, a prominent scientist in the fields of mechanics, control theory and applied mathematics and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, will celebrate his 70th birthday on May 16, 2008.

The range of his scientific interests and achievements is extremely broad; it covers the dynamics of rigid bodies with cavities filled with a fluid, optimal control theory, the theory of differential games, the theory of oscillations, asymptotic methods of non-linear mechanics, the theory of estimation of the phase state for dynamical systems, numerical methods of the variational calculus and optimal control, and robotics. In these fields he obtained fundamental results that have been internationally recognized. He is the author of more than 350 scientific publications, including 10 monographs.

His talent as a scientist had already been recognized when he was a student. In 1961, he graduated with honors from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. By that time he had already published 4 papers on gas dynamics and soil mechanics in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. One of these studies, "Convergent Shock Waves in a Gas of Variable Density", was awarded First Prize at the All-Union Competition of Student Scientific Papers. In 1963, he graduated ahead of schedule from postgraduate courses at the same Institute and received his Ph.D. degree for a dissertation on the dynamics of the rotation of satellites about the centre of mass.