Mathematics
Researcher
Department of Mathematics
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
Biography
Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol (Since May 2015) He done hPostdoctoral Associate, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in the group "Pattern formation, energy landscapes and scaling laws" (May 2010 - April 2015) Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin (February 2010) Ph.D. Thesis: Derivation, analysis and numerics of reduced ODE models describing coarsening dynamics of liquid droplets Doctoral advisors: Barbara Wagner and Lutz Recke Diploma, Bauman Moscow State Technical University (July 2005)
Research Interest
High-order PDEs and variational problems arising in analysis of complex fluids Topological transitions in Landau-de Gennes theory of nematic liquid crystals. Multiscale modelling of martensitic transformations in shape-memory alloys. Dynamical systems: coarsening dynamics, metastability and finite dimensional reduction. Numerical methods for nonlinear PDEs and nonconvex variational problems.
Publications
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Kitavtsev, G, Robbins, J, Slastikov, V & Zarnescu, A, 2016, ‘Liquid crystal defects in the Landau-de Gennes theory in two dimensions - beyond the one-constant approximation’. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 26.
