Oleg Lupanov - Biography

Biography

O. B. Lupanov graduated from Moscow State University's Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1955. He received his PhD in 1958 from the USSR Academy of Sciences and his Doctorate degree in 1963. He began teaching at Moscow State University in 1959 and became professor there in 1967. From 1955 he had appointment at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and he was a professor at Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (1970 – 1980). He had served as the Dean of the Moscow State University's Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1980 – 2006), and as the founding head of the Chair of Discrete Mathematics of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1981 – 2006).

Lupanov became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1972 and a full member of Russian Academy of Sciences in 2003. He was the lead scientist of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics since 1993 and was awarded the title of a distinguished professor of Moscow State University in 2002. He was a recipient of the prestigious Lenin Prize (1966) and of the Moscow State University's Lomonosov Award (1993).

His students count more than 30 PhD degree holders and 6 holders of the Soviet/Russian Doctorate degree. As a dean of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics he had a reputation of a democratic and accessible person.

O. B. Lupanov died at around 7pm, on May 3, 2006 in his office at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University.

  • Ad memoriam installed at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University

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