Faculty and their interests.

Aleksander Balk:
 



Andrej Cherkaev: Structured materials, Optimization.
I study mechanics and physics of structured materails, especially structural optimization   and optimal  composites.  Mathematically, most of these problems are  addressed by means of calculus of variation and homogenization.  The areas of my research, vitae and the list of publications are displayed on my homepage. Recently, I start to work on two intriging projects: Understanding the essence of optimality of "living structures" by observing various bio-structures, and analysis of an unusual dynamic behavior  of nonlinear structures  due to their inner instabilities.

I teach several related graduate courses: Homogenization, Methods of optimization, Calculus of variations, and  Methods for structural optimization . This year, Springer publishes my book Variational Methods for Structural Optimization, that covers many topics of these courses.



Elena Cherkaev

Paul Fife

Tim Folias

Ken Golden

Graeme Milton

Jungui Zhu