Vadim Zharnitsky

Address:   
Department of Mathematics 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
1409 W. Green Street 
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2975  


Office: 269 Altgeld Hall

phone: (217)244-5032  

fax: (217)333-9576

email:  vz at math dot uiuc dot edu   



Research Interests: 
Dynamical systems and differential equations.  
Stability of motion in forced  Hamiltonian systems. 
Caustics and periodic orbits in convex  billiards.

Nonlinear guided  waves. 
Averaging  techniques in nonlinear fiber optics systems.
Stable  pulse  propagation in dispersion managed systems. 




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Previous Affiliations
 

Research Staff Member,  PACM,Princeton University Spring 2003. 
Member of Technical Staff at  the Center of Mathematics Research  ,  Bell Laboratories ,  Lucent Technologies  2000-2002.
 
NSF Postdoc in Mathematical Sciences, Brown University 1998-2000. 
Director's funded postdoc at the Center for Nonlinear Studies in  Los Alamos National Laboratory 1996-1997. 



Education
 

Ph.D. (Mathematics),  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 1996.
M.A.     (Mathematics),  Boston University. 1991. 
 
B.Sc. (Eng. Physics),  St. Petersburg Technical University. 1989. 







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