Curriculum Vitae

Andrej V. CHERKAEV

Professor of Mathematics

Personal:

Address: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Phone: +1 (801) 581-6822
e-mail cherk@math.utah.edu

Education (Degrees):

Doctor of Sciences: - 1988. Leningrad State University.
Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) - 1979. Leningrad Polytechnic Institute.
MS. (diploma) - 1973. Leningrad Polytechnic Institute.

Research Fields:

Variational Problems and Structural Optimization.
Homogenization.
Physics and Mechanics of Inhomogeneous Media.
Dynamics of unstable and damageable materials

Affiliations:

January 1992 -- present: Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Utah.
January 1991 - December 1991: Senior Visiting Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
September 1989 - December 1990: Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Saint Petersburg University of Ocean Technology.
January 1988 - September 1989: Senior Researcher, A.F.Ioffe Institute of Technical Physics, Academy of Sciences of U.S.S.R.
May 1975 - January 1988: Research Fellow, Junior Research Fellow, Engineer, A.F.Ioffe Institute of Technical Physics, Academy of Sciences of U.S.S.R.
1984 - 1988: Assistant Professor at Leningrad Technical University (part time)

Elected member of European Academy of Sciences (2002):

Member of International Advisory Board for Archive of Mechanics (2003)
Member of Editorial Board of Structural Optimization (2004)

Participation in organizing committees in last years:

The World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2005.
ETOPIM 6, Salt Lake City, July 2002.
The World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Dalian, China, June 2001.
SIS minisymposium on structural optimization, Austin, Tx, October, 1999.
The NIST International Workshop on Optimal Design of Materials and Structures. Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1995.
The World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Goslar, Germany, June 1995.
The World Congress in Structural Optimization Rio de Janeiro, 1993.
SIAM minisymposium on composite materials, Salt Lake City, April, 1993.

Grant history (from 1992):

NSF: DMS-0707974: Optimal Structures of Multimaterial Composites (09/15/07 - 08/31/10), PI
NSF: CCLI - 0127814 Unifying Themes of Undergraduate Math Online. CoPi. 2004-2007 (co-Pi)
ARO - 41363-MA Controllable Protective Structures with Waiting Elements. PI. 2002-2005. PI
NSF: DMS- 0072717 "Dynamics of and Optimization of Structures". PI. 2000-2004.
Grant 9600827. Danish Technical Research Council and NATO Research Office. "Topology Optimization of three dimensional elastic continuum structures using optimum microstructures." 1996-1998 . PI.
Binational Science Fondation (USA -Israel) grant "Structured Materials of High Strain Energy on Extension." 1995- 1998. PI.
NIST Grant, "International Workshop "Methods of Optimal Design for Materials and Structures" " 1984 . PI.
NSF Grant No: DMS- 9625129 Mathematical Sciences: "Theoretical and Computatial Methods in Optimal Design of Elastic Structures', 1995-1999. PI.
NSF Grant DMS - 93 07 324 Mathematical Sciences: "Mathematical methods for composite materials theory', 1992- 1995. Co-PI.

Selected invited lectures (colloquia):

University of Trento, May 2003.
Moscow University, Moscow, Russia, December 2002.
Institute of Mechanics, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, December 2002, September 2001, October 2000.
Pennstate, November 2002.
Everdeen Army Research Lab, October 2002.
University of Kentukki, March 2002.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, March 1991, October 2001,
Institute of Fundamental Problems in Technic, Warsaw, Poland, September 2001.
Danish Technical University (DCAMM lectures), December 2000, April 1985, September 1999,April 1985.
University of Bradford, UK, November 2000.
Monet University in st. Etienne, France, October 2000.
Tel Aviv University, Israel, December 1999.
University of Cambridge, UK, September 1999.
University of Liverpool, UK, September 1999, November 2000.
University of Delft, Netherlands, September 1999.
University of Aalborg, Denmark, September 1999.
U. of Minnesota, January 1999
Tel Aviv University, September 1996, June 1998
Cal. Tech, April 1998
Stanford University, February 1998
University of Bath, UK. September 1997
University of Cambridge, UK, September 1997.
International summer school on mathematical methods in material science, Coimbra, Portugal, September 1997.
University of Erlangen, July, 1996.
University of Aalborg, June 1996, December 1995, June 1994.
University of Texas, October 1995.
University of Delaware, September, 1994.
Princeton University, September, 1994.
University de Provence, Marseilles, France, June, 1994.
Danish Technical University, June 1994.
International School for Advanced Studies, Truest, Italy, July 1992.
University of Michigan, April 1991, February 1988.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, February 1991, January 1988.
Institute of Mechanics and Biomechanics, Bulgarian Acad. of Science, June 1990, October 1988.
University of Minnesota, February 1988.
University of Maryland, March 1988.
Institute of Problems in Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of U.S.S.R., November 1988.

Selected conferences:

NATO Workshop in Nonlinear mechanics, Kazimier Dolny, June 2003
Advances summer school in math and mechanics, Repino, June 2003.
World Congress in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Venice, May 3`2003.
AMS sectional meeting. Baton Rouge, LA, March 2003.
EuroMech 442, Erlangen, Germany, February 2003.
ETOPIM 6, Snowbird, UT, August 2002.
Euromex Symposium.Liverpool,UK, July 2002.
Annual meeting of ASMO, July 2002, Portland, UK. Invited address
Advanced Summer School: Mechnics of bones. Lisbon, Portugal, June 2002, Lecturer
Euromex Symposium. April 2002, AUSTIN TX
2nd Max Planck Workshop on Engineering Design Optimization Nyborg, Denmark October 2001.
International Conference on Structural Optimization, Poznan, Poland, September 2001.
SIAM Annual meeting, San Diego, July 2001.
Euromech 2000, Metz, France, June 2000.
SIAM meeting on Mathematical Aspects of Material Sciences, Philadelphia, May 2000, P.
Special year in Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, September 1999.
SES Annual meeting, Austin Tx, September 1999.
9-th International Symposium on Continuum Models and Discrete Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1998.
Danish Symposium on PDE: Analysis and Applications. Odense, Denmark, May 1998.
IUTAM Symposium: Synthesis in bio solid mechanics. Lyngby, Denmark, May 1998.
Southeastern Sectional AMS Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997.
International Summer school on mathematical methods in material science, Coimbra, Portugal, September 1997.
SES Meeting, Chicago, June 1997.
Optimization and mechanics of bones. New York, January 1997.
The World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Goslar, Germany, June 1995.
SES meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 1994
SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, July 1994
SIAM meeting "Emerging issues in mathematics and computation from the materials sciences", Pittsburgh, April, 1994.
Second Workshop on composite media and homogenization theory, Truest, Italy, September 1993.
First World Congress of Structural Optimization, Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil, August 1993.
XVIII International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Haifa, Israel, August 1992.
NATO Workshop in Structural Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1992.
SIAM workshop in micromechanics, Leesburgh, Virginia, October 1991, .
Second Polish conference in Optimal Design, Jablonna, Poland, May 1990,
Workshop on composite media and homogenization theory, Truest, Italy, January 1990.
IUTAM Conference in nonhomogeneous media, Dijon, France, June 1989.
Optimal control in mechanics. Kazan, June 1987, Moscow, November 1985, Kiev, 1982.
All Union Meetings on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Kiev, 1975, Alma-Ata, 1980, Tashkent, 1986.
Memorial Petrovsky seminars in PDE, Moscow, 1985, 1987, 1989,
Memorial A.Lurie seminars in nonlinear mechanics, Moscow, Leningrad, Tallinn. 1985-1990.

Curriculum Vitae

Andrej V. CHERKAEV

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