Lyubomir Ivanov (explorer)

Lyubomir Ivanov

Lyubomir Ivanov (Bulgarian: Любомир Иванов, born October 7, 1952 in Sofia) is a scientist, non-governmental activist, and Antarctic explorer. He is a graduate of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia with M.S. degree in Mathematics in 1977, and earned his Ph.D. from Sofia University in 1980 under the direction of Dimiter Skordev, with a dissertation entitled Iterative Operative Spaces.

Head of the Department of Mathematical Logic at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1990. Founding member (1991) and chairman since 2001 of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria. Founding president of the Manfred Wörner Foundation since 1994. Member of the Streit Council, Washington, DC since 2006. Member, Interministerial Working Group on Antarctica since 2002. Chairman, Antarctic Place-names Commission since 1994.

Former MP, chairman of the Green Party parliamentary faction in the VII Grand National Assembly, and co-author of the new Bulgarian Constitution in 1990-91. Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Ministry in 1991-92. Sponsor of the 1990 parliamentary decision for Bulgaria to join the European Union, and the 1991 parliamentary decision for Bulgaria to participate in the Allied liberation of Kuwait.

Participant in the National Round Table for transition to democracy, and member of the coordinating council of the Union of Democratic Forces in 1990-91. Co-founder of Wilderness Fund - Bulgaria, and Green Party of Bulgaria in 1989. Individual campaign against winter Olympics on Mount Vitosha in 1985-88.

Publications in mathematics and informatics, foreign and security policy, immigration policy, toponymics, and linguistics. Author of the Streamlined System, adopted as the official national system for the Romanization of Bulgarian. Author of the proposed Basic Roman orthography and Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English. Topographic surveys in four Bulgarian Antarctic expeditions during the austral summers of 1994/95, 1995/96, 2002/03, and 2004/05. Author of the first Bulgarian topographic map of Livingston Island, Antarctica.

Winner of the 1987 Nikola Obreshkov Prize — Bulgaria’s highest award for achievements in mathematics — awarded for his book Algebraic Recursion Theory published in England in 1986.

See also

• Department of Mathematical Logic
• Antarctic Place-names Commission
• Atlantic Club of Bulgaria
• Manfred Wörner Foundation
• Tangra 2004/05

Principal publications

• Ivanov, L.L. Algebraic Recursion Theory. (Chichester, West Sussex: Ellis Horwood, and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986). 256 pp. ISBN 9780130269072; ISBN 9780745801025
• Ivanov, L.L. Charter '89 for Preservation of the Bulgarian Nature heritage. Independent Society of Ecoglasnost, Club for Glasnost and Restructuring, and Wilderness Fund Bulgaria. Sofia, 1989.
• Ivanov, L. and M. Milouchev. Draft parliamentary decision for the full EU (EC) membership of Bulgaria. Sofia, 1990. (in Bulgarian)
• Ivanov, L.L. Toponymic Guidelines for Antarctica. Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria. Sofia, 1995.
• Ivanov, L.L. St. Kliment Ohridski Base, Livingston Island. 1:1000 scale topographic map. Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria. Project supported by the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute. Sofia, 1996. (in Bulgarian)
• Popov, S. et al. NATO's Global Mission in the 21st Century. 1998-99 NATO Manfred Wörner Fellowship. Sofia: Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, 2000. 123 pp.
• Ivanov, L.L. Platek Spaces, Fundamenta Informaticae. 44 (2000). 145-181.
• Ivanov, L.L. Boldface recursion on Platek Spaces. Fundamenta Informaticae. 44 (2000). 183-208.
• Ivanov, L.L. On the Romanization of Bulgarian and English. Contrastive Linguistics. XXVIII, 2003, 2. pp. 109-118.
• Ivanov, L.L. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution). 1:100000 scale topographic map. Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria. Sofia, 2005.
• Ivanov, L.L. The role of immigration for the demographic and national development of Bulgaria in the 21^st Century, in: Towards New Immigration Policies for Bulgaria. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2006. 54 pp. (in Bulgarian, English summary) ISBN 9789549203219
• Ivanov, L. et al. Bulgaria: Bezmer and adjacent regions — Guide for American military. Sofia: Multiprint Ltd., 2007. 40 pp. ISBN 9789549043785
• Ivanov, L. and V. Yule. Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English. Contrastive Linguistics. XXXII, 2007, 2. pp. 50-64.
• Ivanov, L. et al. Българската политика спрямо Република Македония — Бугарската политика спрема Република Македониjа — Bulgarian Policies on the Republic of Macedonia. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2008. 80 pp. (Trilingual publication in Bulgarian, Macedonian and English) ISBN 978-954-92032-2-6

External links

• Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
• Atlantic Club of Bulgaria
• Antarctic Place-names Commission - Bulgaria
• Wilderness Fund
• Who's Who in Bulgarian Politics