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Vladimir Volpert

Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

Email Vladimir Volpert

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Departments

Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Education

Ph.D. Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Russia

M.S. Mathematicas and Mechanics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

B.S. Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia


Research Interests

Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation; bifurcation and stability; traveling waves in reaction-diffusion systems; combustion; frontal polymerization; mathematical biology


Significant Recognition

  • McCormick School Teaching Award
  • Northwestern Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award

Significant Professional Service

  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis
  • Editorial Board, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences

Selected Publications

  • Wang, Z.; Bayliss, A.; Volpert, V. A., Competing alliances in a four-species cyclic ecosystem, Applied Mathematics and Computation (2024).
  • Stiadle, Thomas I.; Bayliss, Alvin; Volpert, Vladimir A., Cyclic Ecological Systems with an Exceptional Species, Applied Mathematics and Computation (2023).
  • Stiadle, Thomas I.; Bayliss, Alvin; Volpert, Vladimir, Order and Disorder in a Cyclically Competitive Ecological Community, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (2023).
  • Bayliss, Alvin; Shafirovich, Evgeny; Volpert, Vladimir A., Counterflow combustion waves in short samples of metal powders at natural filtration of oxygen, Combustion Theory and Modelling (2022).
  • Wang, Zihao; Bayliss, A.; Volpert, V. A., Asymptotic analysis of the bistable Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion system, Applied Mathematics and Computation (2022).
  • Bayliss, A.; Nepomnyashchy, A. A.; Volpert, V. A., Beyond rock–paper–scissors systems — Deterministic models of cyclic ecological systems with more than three species, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 411 (2020).
  • Nepomnyashchy, A. A.; Volpert, V. A., Fronts in subdiffusive FitzHugh-Nagumo systems, Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena 14(5) (2019).
  • Bayliss, Alvin; Nepomnyashchy, A. A.; Volpert, Vladimir, Mathematical modeling of cyclic population dynamics, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena (2019).