Professor Julius Kaplunov - Keele University
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Professor Julius Kaplunov

"Mathematics of Waves: from Earthquakes to Metamaterials"

Monday 10th June 2013 6pm Westminster Theatre, Chancellor's Building

“We address mathematical models of wave phenomena arising from various real world problems including non-destructive testing of naval airspace and civil structures, fabrication of advanced metamaterials, prediction of earthquakes and tsunami. We argue primary importance of a multiparameter asymptotic approach and demonstrate elegance and efficiency of underlying mathematics.”

Professor Kaplunov received his MSc(including BSc) in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University of Railway Engineering in 1984. His PhD (completed in 1984) and DSc (awarded in 1993) are both from the Institute for Problems in Mechanics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Professor Kaplunov is a Full Certified Professor of Russian Federation since 1997. He was affiliated with the Russian Academy till 2000 when he moved to the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics. He left Manchester in 2005 as a Reader to join Brunel University as a Professor in Applied Mathematics. In Brunel Professor Kaplunov was appointed as the Head of the Mathematics Department for the period from 2006 to 2009.

Professor Kaplunov is a leading international authority in Continuum Mechanics and Wave Propagation. He has about 120 publications, including three books and has received numerous awards and prizes including the most prestigious Russian State Annual Prize in Science and Technology and a Humboldt Fellowship. Professor Kaplunov is a member of the organising committees of a number of major international meetings and edits five journals including Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids and Mechanics of Time-Dependant Materials. He has held visiting positions all over the world including Tel-Aviv University, the Technical University of Munich, Bordeaux University, the University of Alberta and the City University of Hong Kong.

This lecture is free and open to all to attend. If you'd like to attend please confirm your attendance by contacting the events team at: events@keele.ac.uk or by calling: 01782  734906.