Faculty Members
The following faculty members participate in this program:
Iakov Afanassiev - experimental oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics; numerical modelling of geophysical flows (Ph.D. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Acad.)
Jahrul Alam - turbulent flows in the atmosphere, oceans and porous media (Ph.D. McMaster)
Ivan Booth - general relativity; black hole physics (Ph.D. Waterloo)
Stephanie Curnoe - electronic, magnetic and structural properties of solid state materials, including unconventional superconductivity, magnetic and non-magnetic ordering, and structural phase transitions (Ph.D. British Columbia)
Serpil Kocabiyik - computational fluid dynamics; scientific computing and mathematical modeling; applied analysis and perturbation methods (Ph.D. Western Ontario)
Margarita Kondratieva - asymptotical methods in quantum mechanics; optimization in discrete structures (Ph.D. Tomsk State)
Hari Kunduri - general relativity, black holes, Riemannian geometry (Ph.D. Cambridge)
Jolanta Lagowski - modeling and simulation of biopolymers and synthetic polymers, electronic and optical properties of conducting polymers (Ph.D. Toronto)
Marco Merkli - mathematical physics, quantum dynamical systems (Ph.D. Toronto)
Martin Plumer - magnetic phase transitions, frustrated antiferromagnets, thin-film ferromagnets, Monte Carlo simulations, micromagnetics (Ph.D. Toronto)
Chris Radford - partial differential equations of mathematical physics; general relativity (Ph.D. Sydney)
Sergey Sadov - asymptotical and numerical analysis; electromagnetic diffraction theory (Ph.D. Keldysh Inst. for Applied Math)
Ivan Saika Voivod - thermodynamics and dynamics of supercooled liquids, focussing on aspects of crystal nucleation and the glass transition. Systems studied include silica, attractive colloids, Lennard-Jones liquid and nanoclusters(Ph.D. Western Ontario)