Polina Landa
Polina Solomonovna Landa was a Soviet 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. She defended a second dissertation, "Investigation of the dynamic and statistical characteristics of optical quantum generators and amplifiers", in 1972.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. She was a visiting researcher at Lancaster University in 1999 and 2003. She was a member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.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, ''Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals, Physical Review E, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Biological Cybernetics, and Physics Reports. She contributed four articles to The Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science''.Monographs
Wave and Fluctuation Processes in Lasers Self-Oscillations in Systems with Finite Number of Degrees of Freedom Self-Oscillations in Distributed Systems Stochastic and Chaotic Oscillations Nonlinear Oscillations and Waves in Dynamical Systems Regular and Chaotic Oscillations ''''Articles
- "Natural fluctuations in lasers"
- "Self-locking of laser modes"
- "Ionization waves in low-temperature plasmas"
- "Self-oscillatory systems with high-frequency energy sources"
- "Synchronizing the chaotic oscillations by external force"
- "Noise-induced phase transitions in a pendulum with a randomly vibrating suspension axis"
- "Universality of oscillation theory laws. types and role of mathematical models"
- "Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Subsonic Submerged Jets: Control of the Turbulence"
- "Changes in the dynamical behavior of nonlinear systems induced by noise"
- "Self-oscillations in ring Toda chains with negative friction"
- "A model for the speed of memory retrieval"
- "Development of turbulence in subsonic submerged jets"
- "Delusions versus reality in some physics problems: theory and experiment"
- "Nonlinear systems with fast and slow motions. Changes in the probability distribution for fast motions under the influence of slower ones"