Leonid Pastur

Leonid Pastur in 2004

Leonid Andreevich Pastur (Ukrainian: Леонід Андрійович Пастур, Russian: Леонид Андреевич Пастур) (born 21 August 1937) is a Ukrainian mathematical physicist and theoretical physicist, known in particular for contributions to random matrix theory, the spectral theory of random Schrödinger operators, statistical mechanics, and solid state physics (especially, the theory of disordered systems). Currently, he heads the Department of Theoretical Physics at the B Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering in Kharkiv and a professor and senior research fellow at the Department of Mathematics, King's College London.

Biography

Pastur was born on 21 August 1937 in the village of Udych, Dzhulynka Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast. In 1955, he graduated from secondary school in Mariupol.

In 1961, he graduated from the Faculty of Engineering and Physics of the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and began working at the B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kharkiv. He progressed from junior research fellow in 1961 to deputy director and head of the Institute's Department of Mathematics from 1987 to 1997.

From 1985 to 1997, he simultaneously headed the Department of Statistical Methods in Mathematical Physics.

From 2003 to 2017, he was head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, and from 2017 he has been a chief research fellow in the department.

From 1978 to 1994, he was a professor at Kharkiv State University, and from 1995 to 2004 he was a professor at the University of Paris.

He received an honorary doctorate from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany in 2011.

He received an honorary doctorate from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 2013.

He received an honorary doctorate from the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2018.

Work

Awards and honors

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2025, he was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize

References

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  3. ↑ Leonid Pastur's homepage at King's College London
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  7. ↑ Marčenko, V.A.; Pastur, L.A. (1967). "Distribution of eigenvalues in certain sets of random matrices". Mat. Sb. New Series. 72 (114): 507–536.
  8. ↑ Pastur, L.A. (1973). "Spectra of random selfadjoint operators". Uspekhi Mat. Nauk. 28 (1(169)): 3–64.
  9. ↑ Pastur, L.; Shcherbina, M. (1997). "Universality of the local eigenvalue statistics for a class of unitary invariant random matrix ensembles". J. Statist. Phys. 86 (1–2): 109–147. Bibcode:1997JSP....86..109P. doi:10.1007/BF02180200. S2CID 15117770.
  10. ↑ Pastur, L.A. (1980). "Spectral properties of disordered systems in the one-body approximation". Comm. Math. Phys. 75 (2): 179–196. Bibcode:1980CMaPh..75..179P. doi:10.1007/bf01222516. S2CID 120070709.
  11. ↑ Golʹdšeĭd, I.Ya.; Molčanov, S.A.; Pastur, L.A. (1977). "A random homogeneous Schrödinger operator has a pure point spectrum". Funkcional. Anal. I Priložen. 11 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1007/BF01135526. S2CID 122146088.
  12. ↑ Spencer, T. (2010). "Mathematical aspects of Anderson localization". Int. J. Mod. Phys. B. 24 (12–13): 1621–1639. Bibcode:2010IJMPB..24.1621S. doi:10.1142/S0217979210064538.
  13. ↑ List of members of the Academy of Sciences Archived 2011-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-05-05.
  15. ↑ "LMS Prize Winners 2025 | London Mathematical Society".