LEV S.TSIMRING
Address: Institute for Nonlinear Science University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0402 (858) 534-0816 FAX (858) 534 7664 E-mail: ltsimring 'at' ucsd.edu http://inls.ucsd.edu/~lev/
Education: B. S. Physics, Gorky State University, Gorky, USSR, 1980 Ph.D. Physics, Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, USSR, 1986
POSITIONS:
July, 1998 - present: Research Physicist, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
July, 1999 - present: Associate Director, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
July, 1996 - July, 1998: Associate Research Physicist, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
July, 1992 - June, 1996: Assistant Research Physicist, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
March, 1992 - June, 1992: Visiting Associate Professor, Physics Department, University of California, San Diego
January, 1992 - February, 1992: Visiting Scholar, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
July, 1980 - December 1991: Research Assistant, Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Applied Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Gorky, USSR
January, 1988 - December, 1991: Senior lecturer, Radiophysics Department, Gorky State University, Gorky, USSR
OTHER:
Co-Principal Investigator, Systems Biodynamics Lab, Bioengineering Department, UCSD,
2004-present
Visiting Professor, University of Marseille, Luminy, Marseille, France
Germany, June, September 2007.
Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Insitute for Complex Systems, Dresden
Germany, June-July 1999.
Visiting Scientist, Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, Israel,
May-June, 1994
Visiting Scientist, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute,
Utrecht, Netherlands, May - June, 1991
Visiting Scientist, Institute for Coastal Hydrodynamics, Gdansk, Poland,
January, 1989, July, 1989
Co-chair, Gordon Research Conference on Granular Flows, 2002.
Member of Organizing Committee, Winter Schools on Nonlinear Waves,
Gorky, 1985,1987,1989
Member of Organizing Committee, Fall Schools on Methods for Hydrophysical
Research, 1988, 1990
Scientific referee for Nature, Physical Review Letters,
The Physical Review E; Europhysics Letters; Biophysical Journal; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA; Chaos; Nonlinearity, Journal of Fluid Mechanics;
Journal of Physical Oceanography;
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics; Physical D, Physics Letters A,
Izvestiya -- Atmospheric and Ocean Physics;
PUBLICATIONS:
More than 100 papers in leading scientific journals including Nature; Physical Review Letters; Physical Review A,B,E;
Reviews of Modern Physics; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA; Europhysics Letters, Physics Letters A; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems; Journal of Fluid Mechanics; Physica A,D; Chaos; etc.
ISI citation index: 2970; h-index: 24
RESEARCH GRANTS:
Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences grant
``Modeling for Process Control: High-Dimensional Systems'' (PI);
April, 1995 - present
NSF grant "QSB: The Design and Construction of Coupled Genetic
Regulatory Modules", 2003 - present (co-PI)
NIH grant "Model-based construction of designer gene networks",
2005 - present (co-Investigator)
Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences grant
``Spatiotemporal Wave Patterns: Models and Analysis'';
1996 - 2005 (co-PI)
NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant ``Information dynamics of
complex networks" (PI); 2002 - 2003
Department of the Army, Army Research Office,
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
(MURI) ``Digital Communication Devices Based on
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos''; 1998 - 2003 (co-PI)
UC-MEXUS CONACYT,
``Research and Development of Novel Methods for Controlling
Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications''; 2000 - 2002
(US PI)
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), for ``Process
Validation and Control: Nonlinear Modeling'' (PI);
February, 1996 - 1998
INVITED SPEAKER AT:
IUTAM Symposium "Nonlinear Deformation Waves", Tallin,
Estonia, May, 1982
International Conference "Nonlinear and Turbulent Processes in Physics",
Kiev, Ukraine, October, 1987
Euromech Colloquium #241 "Nonlinear Waves in Active Media",
Tallinn, Estonia, May, 1988
5-th Liquid State Conference on Turbulence of the European Physical Society,
Moscow, USSR, October, 1989
International Workshop "Nonlinear World", Kiev, Ukraine, October, 1989
XV EGS General Assembly, Copenhagen, Denmark, April, 1990
Fall School "Methods for Hydrophysical Research", Kaliningrad, USSR,
September, 1990
XVI EGS General Assembly, Wiesbaden, Germany, April, 1991
International Workshop "Nonlinear Water Waves", Bristol, England, October, 1991
NSF-CBMS Conference "Weak Turbulence and Nonlinear Waves", Clevelend,
Ohio, May, 1992
International Workshop "Spatially Extended Nonequilibrium Media", Santa Barbara,
California, July, 1992
UCSD/Nizhni Novgorod Nonlinear Science School, San Diego, California, January 1993.
NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium
Complex Patterns", Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1993.
FSU-USA Chaos conference, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 1993.
2-nd Experimental Chaos Conference, Washington D.C., October 1993.
Technion, Haifa, Israel, June 1994.
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, June 1994.
Physics Department Colloquium, California State University,
Long Beach, October, 1994
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Florence, Italy, April, 1995
Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice, France, April, 1995
SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems,
Snowbird, Utah, May, 1995
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, April 1996
V International Bar-Ilan Conference "Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics",
Israel, April 1997
Complex Systems Seminar, UCSD, May 1997
UNED, Madrid, Spain, May 1997
SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 1997
SPIE Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 1997
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas, Austin, November 15, 1997
Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder,
February 1998.
Workshop "Theory of Granular Materials", Argonne National Lab, April 1998.
Energy Sciences Conference, Argonne National Lab, May 1998.
Workshop on Physics of Granular Matter, Pisa, Italy, October 1998.
AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting, Tucson, AZ, November 1998.
Physics Colloquium, San Diego State University, November 1998.
Oak Ridge National Labortory, March 1999.
Workshop on Defects in Nonequilibrium Media, Dresden, Germany, July 1999.
Workshop on combustion ``Flameday-1999'', Rome, Italy, November 1999.
DOE BES Workshop "Complex Interactions in Granular Materials",
Argonne National Laboratory, April 7-8, 2000.
Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Leon, Mexico, September 19, 2000.
Instituto Nazionale di Ottica, Florence, Italy, October 23, 2000
NOLTA-2001, Miyagi-Zao, Japan, Oct.27-Nov.1, 2001
Northwestern University, Evanston, March 15, 2002
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Georgia Tech, October 25, 2002.
MEDYFINOL-02, Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, December 2002.
Second Workshop on Granular Flow and Kinetics, Argonne, January, 2003.
UCLA, Physics Department, 15 October 2003.
Southern Workshop on Granular Materials, Pucon, Chile, December 2003
Workshop "Stochastic systems with delay and memory", Wittenberg, Germany, 2-5 February 2004.
Winter school "Nonlinear Waves - 2004",
Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, March 2004.
Chemical Engineering Seminar, UCSB, Santa Barbara, June 3, 2004.
SIAM Conference on Life Sciences, Portland, Oregon,
July 11-14, 2004.
APS March meeting, Los Angeles, March 21-25, 2005
SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 2005
3rd SPIE International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, Austin, Texas, May 2005
Dynamics Days Europe, Berlin, July 25-28, 2005
Workshop "Pattern formation and Transport Phenomena", Joao Pessoa, Brazil, August 5-12, 2005
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Israel, November 22, 2006
APS March meeting, Denver, March 5-9, 2007
January 2007