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Konstantin A. Lurie

Professor

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

• Dynamic materials with formation of clots: application to optimal mass transport in one spatial dimension without takeover, ZAMM, vol.90, No. 3, pp.241-256, 2010.

• Mathematical analysis of the wave propagation through a rectangular material structure in space-time (D. Onofrei and S. L. Weekes, coauthors).  Journal Math. Anal. and Appl., v. 355, pp. 180-194, 2009.
  

• On homogenization of activated laminates in 1D-space and time, Zeitschrift f. Angew. Math. u. Mech. (ZAMM), vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 333-340, 2009.
  

• An introduction to the mathematical theory of dynamic materials, xviii+ 181 pp. Springer Series Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics, vol, 15, 2007.
  

• Wave propagation and energy exchange in a spatio-temporal material composite with rectangular microstructure (S. L. Weekes, coauthor).  Journal Math. Anal. and Appl., v. 314, pp. 286-310, 2006.
  

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Honors & Awards

• John E. Sinclair Professorship, 1997-2000
• Fulbright Fellow, 2000