Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Propagation of waves in periodic media (photonic crystals)

Nonlinear Maxwell equations

Overall properties of composites

Dual equations method

Parallel programming.

Recent Publications

Analytic approximation of spectra of thin-film three-dimensional photonic crystal.

An asymptotic model of three-dimensional photonic crystal, Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, SIAM 2000,pp.236-240.

Spectral properties of thin-film photonic crystals, SIAM J. Appl. Math.61, (6), 2001,pp.1959-1979.

Tunable photonic crystals, Phys. Rev B57, (5), 1998,pp. 2841-2848.

The computation of spectra of some 2D photonic crystals, J. Comput. Phys.,136, (2), 1997, pp. 585-598.

Axially symmetric torsion problem for elastic medium with penny-shaped crack and sphericalinclusion.ZAMP 46, (6), 1995, pp. 932-945.

Axisymmetric torsion of an elastic medium containing spherical inclusions, Quart. J. Mech.Appl. Math.47, pt. 3, 1994, pp. 429-440.

Educational Background

1994, Ph. D. Technion, Haifa, Israel

1985, M. Sc., St. Petersburg State Technical University,  Russia