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Stephanos Venakides

Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708-0320
120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Tuesday and Thursday 3:00-4:00pm  

Overview


Fields of work: Pure and applied mathematics, physics and biology. Specific areas: Differential equations,  integrable systems, acoustic and electromagnetic scattering (especially transmission anomalies and resonances), photonic crystals, exciton polaritons and micromagnetics.

Invited as one of the three Abel lecturers in the award of the Abel Prize to Peter Lax, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway, May 2005

http://www.abelprize.no/c57575/seksjon/vis.html?tid=58729

    Current Appointments & Affiliations


    Professor of Mathematics · 1991 - Present Mathematics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
    Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Mathematics · 2024 - Present Mathematics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

    Recent Publications


    Chiral skyrmions of large radius

    Journal Article Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena · April 1, 2021 Featured Publication We study the structure of an axially symmetric magnetic skyrmion in a ferromagnet with the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction. We examine the regime of large skyrmions and we identify rigorously the critical value of the dimensionless parameter at which the ... Full text Open Access Cite

    The profile of chiral skyrmions of small radius

    Journal Article Nonlinearity · July 1, 2020 Chiral skyrmions are stable particle-like solutions of the Landau-Lifshitz equation for ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction, characterized by a topological number. We study the profile of an axially symmetric skyrmion and give exac ... Full text Cite

    Traveling domain walls in chiral ferromagnets

    Journal Article Nonlinearity · May 30, 2019 We show that chiral symmetry breaking enables traveling domain wall solution for the conservative Landau-Lifshitz equation of a uniaxial ferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. In contrast to related domain wall models including stray-field bas ... Full text Cite
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    Recent Grants


    Wave-breaking and Resonant Phenomena

    ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2012 - 2018

    Wave-breaking and Resonant Phenomena

    ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2014

    Nonlinear Waves in Uniform and Periodic Media

    ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2002 - 2008

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    Education, Training & Certifications


    New York University · 1982 Ph.D.
    Georgia Institute of Technology · 1979 M.S.
    National Technical University of Athens (Greece) · 1969 B.S.