Polina Landa

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Solomonovna and the family name is Landa.

Polina Solomonovna Landa (Russian: Полина Соломоновна Ланда; February 15, 1931 – September 21, 2022) was a Russian physicist.

Polina Landa
Полина Соломоновна Ланда
Polina Landa, from a 2010 publication
Born	Polina Solomonovna Landa February 15, 1931 Kyiv
Died	September 21, 2022 Moscow
Occupation	Physicist

Early life and education

Landa was born in Kyiv, the daughter of Solomon V. Landa. Her family was Jewish. She graduated from high school in Moscow in 1948. She earned a master's degree in physics from Moscow State University in 1953, and completed her doctoral studies there in 1960; her dissertation research, "On the stability of self-oscillatory systems and automatic control systems in the presence of random influences", was written under advisor Sergei Pavlovich Strelkov.^[1] She defended a second dissertation, "Investigation of the dynamic and statistical characteristics of optical quantum generators and amplifiers", in 1972.^[2]

Career

Landa joined the faculty of Moscow State University in 1956, and remained there as a researcher and professor until she retired in 2020. She taught, did research on oscillations, with applications in plasma, lasers, and acoustics, and supervised twelve doctoral students through to the completion of their degrees.^[2] She was a visiting researcher at Lancaster University in 1999 and 2003.^[3][4] She was a member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.^[2]

Publications

Landa published dozens of articles and several monographs from her research. Her work appeared in Russian-language and English-language journals, including Physics-Uspekhi,^[5][6][7][8] Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics,^[9] Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals,^[10] Physical Review E,^[11][12] International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos,^[13] Biological Cybernetics,^[14] and Physics Reports.^[15] She contributed four articles to The Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science (2006).^[16]

Monographs

• Wave and Fluctuation Processes in Lasers (1974, with S. G. Zeiger, Y. L. Klimontovich, E. G. Lariontsev, and E. E. Fradkin)
• Self-Oscillations in Systems with Finite Number of Degrees of Freedom (1980)
• Self-Oscillations in Distributed Systems (1983)
• Stochastic and Chaotic Oscillations (1987, with Yuri Neimark)^[17]
• Nonlinear Oscillations and Waves in Dynamical Systems (1996)^[18]
• Regular and Chaotic Oscillations (2001)^[19]

Articles

• "Natural fluctuations in lasers" (1972, with Y. L. Klimontovich and A. S. Kovalev)^[5]
• "Self-locking of laser modes" (1977, with V. A. Vygodin)^[9]
• "Ionization waves in low-temperature plasmas" (1980, with N. A. Miskinova and Y. V. Ponamarev)^[6]
• "Self-oscillatory systems with high-frequency energy sources" (1989, with Y. B. Duboshinskii)^[7]
• "Synchronizing the chaotic oscillations by external force" (1991, with George I. Dykman and Yuri Neimark)^[10]
• "Noise-induced phase transitions in a pendulum with a randomly vibrating suspension axis" (1996, with A. A. Zaikin)^[11]
• "Universality of oscillation theory laws. types and role of mathematical models" (1997)^[20]
• "Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Subsonic Submerged Jets: Control of the Turbulence" (1999, with A. A. Zaikin, A. S. Ginevsky, and Y. V. Vlasov)^[13]
• "Changes in the dynamical behavior of nonlinear systems induced by noise" (2000, with Peter V. E. McClintock)^[21]
• "Self-oscillations in ring Toda chains with negative friction" (2001, with W. Ebeling and V. G. Ushakov)^[12]
• "A model for the speed of memory retrieval" (2003, with Alexander Kaplan and Elena Zhukovskaya)^[14]
• "Development of turbulence in subsonic submerged jets" (2004, with P. V. E. McClintock)^[15]
• "Delusions versus reality in some physics problems: theory and experiment" (2009, with Dmitrii I. Tributskov and Vladimir A. Gusev)^[8]
• "Nonlinear systems with fast and slow motions. Changes in the probability distribution for fast motions under the influence of slower ones" (2013, with P. V. E. McClintock)^[22]

Personal life

Landa died in 2022, at the age of 91, in Moscow.^[2]

References

1. "Polina Landa". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
2. Rosenblum, Michael; McClintock, Peter V. E. (2022-12-01). "In memoriam—Polina S. Landa (15 February 1931–21 October 2022)". Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 32 (12). doi:10.1063/5.0136898. ISSN 1054-1500.
3. "Visitors to Lancaster". UK Nonlinear News. August 1999.
4. "Lancaster Linear Group Visitors". UK Nonlinear News. August 2003.
5. Klimontovich, Yu L; Kovalev, A S; Landa, Polina S (1972-01-31). "Natural fluctuations in lasers". Soviet Physics Uspekhi. 15 (1): 95–113. doi:10.1070/PU1972v015n01ABEH004947. ISSN 0038-5670.
6. Landa, Polina S; Miskinova, N A; Ponomarev, Yu V (1980-12-31). "lonization waves in low-temperature plasmas". Soviet Physics Uspekhi. 23 (12): 813–834. doi:10.1070/PU1980v023n12ABEH005075. ISSN 0038-5670.
7. Landa, Polina S; Duboshinskiĭ, Ya B (1989-08-31). "Self-oscillatory systems with high-frequency energy sources". Soviet Physics Uspekhi. 32 (8): 723–731. doi:10.1070/PU1989v032n08ABEH002750. ISSN 0038-5670.
8. Landa, Polina S; Trubetskov, Dmitrii I; Gusev, Vladimir A (2009-03-31). "Delusions versus reality in some physics problems: theory and experiment". Physics-Uspekhi. 52 (3): 235–255. doi:10.3367/UFNe.0179.200903c.0255. ISSN 1063-7869.
9. Landa, Polina S; Vygodin, V A (1977-04-30). "Self-locking of laser modes". Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics. 7 (4): 428–431. doi:10.1070/QE1977v007n04ABEH009704. ISSN 0049-1748.
10. Dykman, George I.; Landa, Polina S.; Neymark, Yuri I. (1991-01-01). "Synchronizing the chaotic oscillations by external force". Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 1 (4): 339–353. doi:10.1016/0960-0779(91)90025-5. ISSN 0960-0779.
11. Landa, Polina S.; Zaikin, Alexey A. (1996-10-01). "Noise-induced phase transitions in a pendulum with a randomly vibrating suspension axis". Physical Review E. 54 (4): 3535–3544. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.54.3535. ISSN 1063-651X.
12. Ebeling, W.; Landa, P. S.; Ushakov, V. G. (2001-03-19). "Self-oscillations in ring Toda chains with negative friction". Physical Review E. 63 (4): 046601. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.63.046601. ISSN 1063-651X.
13. Landa, P. S.; Zaikin, A. A.; Ginevsky, A. S.; Vlasov, Ye. V. (February 1999). "Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Subsonic Submerged Jets: Control of the Turbulence". International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. 09 (2): 397–414. doi:10.1142/S0218127499000262. ISSN 0218-1274.
14. Landa, Polina; Kaplan, Alexander; Zhukovskaya, Elena (2003-10-01). "A model for the speed of memory retrieval". Biological Cybernetics. 89 (4): 313–316. doi:10.1007/s00422-003-0423-9. ISSN 0340-1200.
15. Landa, Polina S.; McClintock, P. V. E. (2004-06-01). "Development of turbulence in subsonic submerged jets". Physics Reports. 397 (1): 1–62. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2004.03.004. ISSN 0370-1573.
16. Scott, Alwyn (2006-05-17). Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-45558-3.
17. Neimark, Yurii Isaakovich; Landa, Polina Solomonovna (1992). Stochastic and Chaotic Oscillations. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-7923-1530-8.
18. Landa, Polina Solomonovna (1996-02-29). Nonlinear Oscillations and Waves in Dynamical Systems. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-7923-3931-1.
19. Landa, Polina S. (2001-04-01). Regular and Chaotic Oscillations. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-540-41001-0.
20. Landa, Polina S. (1997). "Universality of oscillation theory laws. types and role of mathematical models". Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society. 1 (2): 99–110. doi:10.1155/S1026022697000113. ISSN 1026-0226.
21. Landa, Polina S.; McClintock, P. V. E. (2000-01-01). "Changes in the dynamical behavior of nonlinear systems induced by noise". Physics Reports. 323 (1): 1–80. doi:10.1016/S0370-1573(99)00043-5. ISSN 0370-1573.
22. Landa, Polina S.; McClintock, P. V. E. (2013-11-01). "Nonlinear systems with fast and slow motions. Changes in the probability distribution for fast motions under the influence of slower ones". Physics Reports. 532 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2013.06.002. ISSN 0370-1573.