Faculty & Staff

Konstantin A. Lurie

Professor

Faculty Listing
Office: Stratton Hall, 010
Phone: +1-508-831-5293
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
klurie@wpi.edu

Educational Background

M.Sc., Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, Russia, 1959
Ph.D., Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Russia, 1964
D.Sc., Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Russia, 1972

Research & Teaching Interests

Mathematical physics; control and optimization of distributed parameter systems; nonconvex variational calculus; optimal design in continuum mechanics

Recent Publications

Bounds for the electromagnetic material properties of a spatio-temporal dielectric polycrystal with respect to one-dimensional wave propagation. Proc. Roy. Soc. London, ser. A, v. 456, pp. 1547-1557, 2000.
Low frequency longitudinal vibrations of an elastic bar made of a dynamic material and excited at one end, Journal Math. Anal. and Appl., v. 251, pp. 364-375, 2000.
Control in the coefficients of linear hyperbolic equations via spatio-temporal composites, in Homogenization, V. Berdichevsky, V. Jikov, G. Papanicolacu, eds., World Scientific, pp. 285-315, 1999.
G-closures of material sets in space-time and perspectives of dynamic control in the coefficients of linear hyperbolic equations, Journal of Control and Cybernetics, v. 27, No. 2, pp. 283-294, 1998.
The problem of effective parameters of a mixture of two isotropic dielectrics distributed in space-time and the conservation law for wave impedance in one-dimensional wave propagation, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., ser. A, v. 454, pp. 1767-1779, 1998.

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Honors & Awards

John E. Sinclair Professorship, 1997-2000

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