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Stanislav(Stas) Molchanov is a full professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Stas was born on December 21, 1940, in Snetinovo, a small village in the Ivanovo region of Russia. His parents were high school teachers. After finishing high school in 1958, he became a student of Moscow State University. Starting from his sophomore year, Stas was a regular participant (together with his classmates Nicolai V. Krylov, M. Malutov and some older students, such as Mark Freidlin and A. Wentzel) in a student research seminar chired by Professor Eugene Dynkin. Later, Dynkin became his Ph.D. adviser. Stas defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled Martin boundary for Markov processes, in 1966. He then became an Assistant Professor in the probability theory division at the Department of Meachnics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. Stas receive the advanced degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical sciences in 1983. His advanced thesis was entitled Spectral theory of one-dimensional Schrodinger operators. He taught at Moscow State University for 25 years, first as An Assistant, then as an Associate and eventually Full Professor. Stas arrived in the United States in 1991. He worked for three semesters at the University of California, Irvine and a year at the University of Southern California. Since 1994, Stas has been Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Under the influence of Vladimir Arnold Stas started working in the field of spectral Theory. He published a very importnatn paper in 1975 on exact asymptotic expansions (for small t) for fundamental solutions of parabolic problems on Riemannian manifolds.