Yuri Kivshar
USERN Advisory Board
Head of Department, ARC Federation Fellow
Address: Nonlinear Physics Center
Research School of Physical SCiences and Engineering
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
Phone: (02) 6125-3081
Fax: (02) 6125-8588
Email: [email protected]
Research Node: Central/CCS
Role in Network
Academic - Researcher
COSNet Research Themes
2. Turbulence and Coherent Structures, Control and Computation
3. Dynamics and Statistics of Multi-Scale Systems
COSNet Application Areas
1. Complex Physical Systems
2. Complex Biological Systems
Research Topics
coherent structures, nonlinear localization, solitons
Publications
Published over 350 papers in scientific peer-reviewed journals, including more than 15 book chapters and review articles and 2 books published in 2003 by Academic Press (translated to Russian in 2005) and 2004 by Springer-Verlag. The publication H-factor 46.
Ten career-best publications of Yuri Kivshar
1. Yu.S. Kivshar and B.A. Malomed,
Dynamics of solitons in nearly integrable systems,
Rev. Mod. Phys. 61 (1989) 763-915.
2. Yu.S. Kivshar, S.A. Gredeskul, A. Sanchez, and L. V�zquez,
Localization decay induced by strong nonlinearity in disordered systems,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 64 (1990) 1693-1696.
3. Yu.S. Kivshar, Fei Zhang, and L. V�zquez,
Resonant soliton-impurity interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67 (1991) 1177-1180.
4. Yu.S. Kivshar, Self-induced gap solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (1993) 3055-3058.
5. D.E. Pelinovsky, A.V. Buryak, and Yu.S. Kivshar,
Instability of solitons governed by quadratic nonlinearities,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995) 591-595
6. A.V. Buryak, Yu.S. Kivshar, and S. Trillo,
Stability of three-wave parametric solitons in diffractive quadratic media,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (1996) 5210-5213.
7. Yu.S. Kivshar and B. Luther-Davies,
Optical dark solitons: Physics and Applications,
Physics Reports 298 (1998) 81-197.
8. Yu.S. Kivshar, D.E. Pelinovsky, T. Cretegny, and M. Peyrard,
Internal modes of solitary waves, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 5032-5035.
9. S.F. Mingaleev and Yu.S. Kivshar,
Self-trapping and stable localized modes in nonlinear photonic crystals,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 5474-5477.
10. Yuri S. Kivshar and Govind P. Agrawal
Optical Solitons: From Fibers to Photonic Crystals,
(Academic Press, San Diego, 2003), 540 pp. (ISBN 0124105904)
Professional or Public Outreach Activities
Organizer of the Internationla Seminar and Meeting
"Nonlinear physics of periodic structures and metameterials"(Max Plank Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany): March 19-30, 2007
Membership/Fellowship of Key Organisations
OSA (Fellow), APS (Fellow), AIP (Fellow)
Awards and Distinctions
- 1989 Medal and First Prize in Physics, the National Academy of the Ukraine
- 1995 Pnevmatikos International Award for Research in Nonlinear Phenomena
- 1998 Pawsey Medal, the Australian Academy of Science
- 1999 Fellow, the Optical Society of America (OSA)
- 2000 Fellow, the Australian Academy of Science
- 2001 Federation Fellow, the Australian Research Council
- 2005 Boas Medal, the Australian Institute of Physics
- 2006 Fellow, the American Physical Society (APS)
- 2006 Zeiss Professorship, the University of Jena and the Zeiss Foundation
- 2007 Lyle Medal, the Australian Academy of Science
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