Sergei F. Shandarin

Education and Degrees
M.S. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow, Russia

Ph.D. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow, Russia
(The thesis advisers: A.G. Doroshkevich and Ya.B. Zel'dovich)

Senior Doctorate Moscow State University Moscow, Russia


Fellow of American Physical Society with citation:
"For seminal work in the theory of gravitational instability,
particularly our understanding of the formation of superclusters in the Universe."

Contact Information
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Malott Hall 1251 Wescoe Hall Dr., Room 1082
Lawrence, KS 66045-7582, U.S.A.

e-mail: sergei@ku.edu
Telephone: (785) 864-5274 Fax: (785) 864-5262



Publications
Student Pages
Past and Recent Collaborators
Miscellaneous Pages

After obtaining PhD I worked at the Astrophyscs and Cosmology Department (chair Ya.B. Zel'dovich from 1963 to 1982) of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics until 1987.

In January 1987 I joined the Theoretical Department (chair Ya.B. Zel'dovich from 1982 until his death on December 2, 1987) of the Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems .

Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kansas since 1989.

Main interests:

(*) dynamics and statistics of the supercluster - void network in spatial distribution of galaxies in the universe often referred to as the cosmic web;

(*) nonlinear dynamics of gravitational instability which - the major mechanism for the formation of a large variety of objects in the universe;

(*) geometrical and topological statistical descriptors of the distribution of mass and galaxies in space such as percolation statistics, Minkowski functionals, tessellations.