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 Pretoria, South Africa, April-May 2008.
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

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS

Fall 2009.

    APM 557 --  Advanced Partial Differential Equations, Syllabus (not yet)

    MTH 302 --  Introduction to Advanced Mathematical Thinking, Syllabus (not yet)


Previous Teaching Assignments -- click here

                     
My developing view of Everything:

               Theories of Everything,  Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi),  Ken Wilber and more.


An unsusual course I taught:
    Winter 2009 -- HC 207 - Spiral Dynamics and a Theory of Everything,   Syllabus


PUBLICATIONS

      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.

    Analysis and Approximations of Contact Problems
   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.



 

    Recent Talks and Presentations

   Korea Institute for Advanced Study   The Talks

    Damageable Vibrating String
    Fluids 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

   Models for Material Damage
    Colloquium
    Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mathematics
    The University of Cape Town, South Africa
    12 May 2008   The Talk

   Models for Material Damage
    Seminar
    Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
    University of Pretoria, South Africa
    8 May 2008   The Talk

   A Model for the Chagas Disease
    Colloquium
    Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
    University of Pretoria, South Africa
    19 May 2008

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

    Sigma Xi
    Mathematical Association of America  -  MAA



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Office: 554 Science and Eng. Bldg. (SEB)

Email: shillor@oakland.edu

Tel: 248-370-3439

Fax: 248-370-4184

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Meir Shillor (shillor@oakland.edu) / January 5, 2009