Meir (Fiki) Shillor
Professor
Department
of Mathematics and Statistics
Oakland
University
Rochester, MI 48309-4401, USA
AREAS OF EXPERTISE & RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modeling of Industrial Processes using PDEs and Variational Inequalities
Contact,
Friction, Wear, and Adhesion; quasistatic, dynamic, with thermal effects
Material Damage, Piezoelectric materials
Free Boundary and Stefan-type Problems
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting
Professor, Univ. of Perpignan,
France: June 1997, June 1998, June-July 2001,
June-July
2003, and December 2006.
Visiting
Professor, Korea Inst. Advanced Study, May 2005.
Visiting Professor, Univ. of Santiago, Spain, September 2002.
Visiting Professor, Univ. of Reunion, France: May-June 1999, and May-June 2000.
Visiting
Professor, Univ. of Kentucky,
Lexington, Fall 1994.
Professor, Oakland University, 1993-present
Associate Professor, Oakland University, 1988-1993
Visiting Lecturer, Claremont Grad. School, 1987-1988
Research Assistant, Imperial College, UK, 1986-1987
Researcher, Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentine, 1985
Post Doc, Oxford University, UK , 1982-1984
Recipient
of the Oakland
University
2002
Research Excellence Award
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1982
- M.Sc. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1976
- B.Sc. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1974
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS
I am on Sabbatical leave and have no teaching responsibilities until September 2008.Previous Teaching Assignments -- click here
Articles:
Submitted or Accepted
The papers are in
the PDF
formats and may be downloaded.
Also, the abstract of each paper is clickable.
Published
The abstracts of some of the papers are clickable.I also added some comments to some of the papers.
Books:
Models and Analysis of Quasistatic Contact
Variational Approach
by
Meir Shillor, Mircea Sofonea, and J. Joachim Telega
Lecture Notes in Physics 655, Springer, Berlin, 2004.
A monograph which deals with recent models
and
mathematical
analysis of quasistatic contact problems.
For the abstract click here Abstract .
For further details click here.
with Adhesion or Damage
by
Mircea Sofonea, Weimin Han, and Meir Shillor
Pure and Applied Mathematics 276, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press,
Boca Raton, Florida, 2006.
A monograph which deals with mathematical and
numerical
analysis of
recent models
for contact
processes with adhesion or material damage. For the
abstract click
here Preface.
For further commercial info click
here.
Korea
Institute for
Advanced Study The Talks
Damageable Vibrating StringFluids and Waves - Recent Trends in Applied Analysis
The University of Memphis, 11-13 May 2006 The Talk (and the animations)
Recent Results for Contact Problems with Material Damage
Second Iintl. Conference on
NONSMOOTH/NONCONVEX MECHANICS
WITH APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING
Aristotle University of THESSALONIKI, Greece,
7 & 8 July, 2006 The Talk and the animation Animation
Recent Results for Contact Problems with Material Damage
In "Inverse Problems, Homogenization and Related Topics in Analysis"
On the occasion of Prof. Robert Gilbert's 75th Birthday
Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando
January 13-15, 2007 The Talk and the Animation
Models of Material Damage
Colloquium
Department of Mathematics
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
9 March 2007 The Talk and the animation Animation
Models for Material Damage or Adhesion
ICTCAM 2007 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"Trends and Challenges in Applied Mathematics"
June 20-23, 2007, Bucharest, Romania The Talk
Mathematical Models for Material Damage
6th Congress of Romanian mathematicians
28 June - 4 July 2007
Bucharest, Romania The Talk
Models for Material Damage or Adhesion
Colloquium
Department of Mathematics
Saginaw Valley State University
29 January 2008 The Talk
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Sigma XiMathematical Association of America - MAA
Theories of
Everything, Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi), Ken Wilber and
more.
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Tel: 248-370-3439
Fax: 248-370-4184
