Lyubomir Ivanov ( bg, Любомир Иванов, born 7 October 1952 in

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ...

) is a Bulgarian scientist, non-governmental activist, and

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explorer. He is a graduate of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia with M.S. degree in mathematics in 1977, earned his PhD from Sofia University in 1980 under the direction of Dimiter Skordev, with a dissertation entitled ''Iterative Operative Spaces'', and was the 1987 winner of ''Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize'', the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics.

Academic and NGO work

Appointed head of the Department of Mathematical Logic at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics,

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in 1990, Dr Ivanov has since helped found the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, in which he held the position of chairman from 2001 to 2009. In 1994 he founded the Manfred Wörner Foundation, an organisation dedicated to trans-atlantic co-operation. Member of the Streit Council Advisory Board, Washington, DC since 2006. Founding Chairman,

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since 1994. He authored the modern Bulgarian system for Romanization of Cyrillic alphabet, adopted also for official use both by UN, and by the US and UK. In the course of his work for, among others, the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, Dr Ivanov has given interviews to various news outlets, at times espousing views that NATO must expand eastwards due to a deficit in its military capacity.

Political career

Ivanov was a member of the UDF Coordinating Council and took part in the 1990 Bulgarian Round Table Talks. He served as a Member of Parliament in Bulgaria (1990–1991), acting as Chairman of the Green Party parliamentary group, and co-authored the current

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. He has also served as parliamentary secretary for the Bulgarian ministry of foreign affairs.

Antarctic expeditions

Dr Ivanov has taken part in several Antarctic expeditions. In 2004, Ivanov went with Doychin Vasilev on the Tangra 2004 topographic expedition, noted by

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as a timeline event in Antarctic exploration.14 November 2004: Tangra. ''Discovering Antarctica Timeline''.
Discovery Channel UK website, 2012 Awarded the jubilee medal ''30th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition'' by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute for his active participation in the expeditions and in the building of St. Kliment Ohridski polar base.

Notes

Principal publications

* Ivanov, L.L
''Algebraic Recursion Theory''.
Chichester, West Sussex: Ellis Horwood; and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986. 256 pp. ; * Ivanov, L
Winter Olympics.
''The Times'' (London, England), 15 October 1986. p. 17. Issue 62589. * Ivanov, L.L. wikisource: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
English translation
* Ivanov, L.L. wikisource: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) * Ivanov, L.L. Skordev's contribution to Recursion theory. ''Annual of Sofia University'', Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, 90 (1998), 9–15. * 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

Contrastive Linguistics, XXVIII, 2003, 2, pp. 109–118. ; ''Errata, id.'', XXIX, 2004, 1, p. 157. * 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 21st century
in: ''Towards New Immigration Policies for Bulgaria''. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2006. 54 pp. (in Bulgarian, English summary) * Ivanov, L
A Wider Atlantic: Further integration of the Wider Middle East and Russia in the framework of Euro-Atlantic Structures.
''Freedom & Union'' Vol. I, No. 2, Summer 2006. pp. 16–18. * Ivanov, L. et al. . Sofia: Multiprint Ltd., 2007. 40 pp. * Ivanov, L. and V. Yule. . ''Contrastive Linguistics''. XXXII, 2007, 2. pp. 50–64. * Ivanov, L. et al. Wikisource:Bulgarian Policies on the Republic of Macedonia, ''Bulgarian Policies on the Republic of Macedonia: Recommendations on the development of good neighbourly relations following Bulgaria’s accession to the EU and in the context of NATO and EU enlargement in the Western Balkans''. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2008. 80 pp. (Trilingual publication in Bulgarian, Macedonian and English) * Ivanov, L.L.
There Is Simply No Way of Joining Those Clubs Other Than by Accepting Their Rules
in: ''Changing Balkans: Macedonia on the Road to NATO and EU''. 11th International Conference, 20–21 February 2009, Ohrid. Sofia: Balkan Political Club Foundation, 2009. * Ivanov, L.L. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. ) * Ivanov, L.L
''Bulgaria in Antarctica. South Shetland Islands''.
Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. 16 pp., with a folded map. * Ivanov, L.L.
Falklands and Crimea the new cold war.
''Penguin News'' Falkland Islands, Vol. 25 No. 46, 2 May 2014. p. 7. * Ivanov, L. and N. Ivanova
''Antarctic: Nature, History, Utilization, Geographic Names and Bulgarian Participation''.
Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2014. 368 pp. (in Bulgarian)
Second revised and updated edition
2014. 411 pp. ) * Ivanov, L
General Geography and History of Livingston Island.
In: ''Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis''. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28. * Ivanov, L. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. * Ivanov, L
Streamlined Romanization of Russian Cyrillic.''Contrastive Linguistics''. XLII (2017) No. 2.
pp. 66–73. * Ivanov, L
Demographic priorities and goals of the Government Program 2017–2021.
Presentation at the round table ''Demographic Policies and Labour Mobility'' organized by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, and the State Agency for the Bulgarians Abroad. Sofia, 19 September 2017. 4 pp. (in Bulgarian and English) * Ivanov, L
Measures to solve demographic problems.
''Business Club Magazine''. Issue 11, 2017. pp. 18–20. (in Bulgarian and English) * Ivanov, L
''Bulgarian Names in Antarctica''.
Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2019. 526 pp. (in Bulgarian)
Second revised and updated edition
2021. 539 pp. ) * Ivanov, L
History of Bulgarian Polar Research – 30 Years of Bulgarian Antarctic Expeditions (in Bulgarian)
''Bulgarian Polar Journal'', 2021 No. 1, pp. 2-7.
English version
* Ivanov, L.L
Kissinger’s Plan for Ukraine Revised.
In: ''Russia-Ukraine War: Consequences for the World''. Ed. V.V. Marenichenko. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Internet Conference, Dnipro, Ukraine, 28-29 April 2022. pp. 34–36. ISBN 978-617-95229-3-2 (illustrated)
Bulgarian version
* Ivanov, L. and N. Ivanova
''The World of Antarctica''.
Generis Publishing, 2022. 241 pp.

External links

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

Antarctic Place-names Commission – Bulgaria

Atlantic Club of Bulgaria

Wilderness Fund

Who's Who in Bulgarian Politics

Lyubomir Ivanov on ResearchGate
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