User:Caltrop/Mikhail Lyubich

Mikhail Yu Lyubich (b. February 25, 1959 in Kharkov, Ukraine) is an American mathematician known for his work in dynamical systems. He received the Leningrad Mathematical Society prize in 1987, a Sloan Foundation research fellowship from 1991-95, and was a National Science Foundation grantee in 1991. As of 2009, Lyubich is a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Director of the Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook, NY.

Life
Born in what was then the Soviet Union to Yuri I. Lyubich and Lidia L. Finkelstein, he received his Master of Science, from Kharkov State University in 1980, and his PhD from Tashkent State University in 1984. His PhD advisor was his father Y. I. Lyubich.

In 1984 he married Lilia I. Gandelsman.

Work
Complex dynamics in the real quadratic family; Renormalization Theory; measure of maximal entropy in holomorphic dynamics; construction of a hyperbolic 3-dimensional lamination associated to a rational map.