Igor A. Tsukerman

Igor Tsukerman
Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 
The University of Akron,
Akron, OH 44325-3904

E-mail: itsukerman (add: "at" uakron "dot" edu) 

Office: 553 ASEC
Phone: (330) 972-8041

Teaching

Spring 2009  4400:666 Computer Simulation of Nanoscale Systems.

Spring 2009  4400:231 Circuits-I

4400:343 Signals and Systems. 

4400:650 EM Theory I

Spring 2006. 4400:646; 4400:391. Digital Signal Processing.

4400:651 Electromagnetic Theory II.

4400:101 Tools for Electrical & Computer Engineering Lab.

4400:354 Electromagnetic Fields II.

4400:353 Electromagnetic Fields I.

4400:243 Signal Analysis. 

4400:753 Topics in Electromagnetics

Special course: Finite Element Techniques in Electromagnetics and Micromagnetics, Summer 1998, Center for Magnetic Recording Research, The University of California at San Diego


Professional Activities

Board Member, the International Compumag Society.

Editorial Board of IEEE CEFC, Compumag and Intermag Conferences.

Extensive reviewing for IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

Reviewer for Prentice Hall.

Reviewer for Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, and Applied Numerical Mathematics.

Reviewer for ACES Journal, COMPEL, IEE Proceedings on Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, International Journal of Theoretical Electrotechnics, IGTE Symposium, International Electric Machines and Drives Conference.

Editor / Session Chairman, the 7th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference and the Compumag 1997-2003 Conferences.

 

Ph.D. students:

MailJianhua Dai

MailFrantisek Čajko

M.S. student:

MailDing Ning

"Professors ... are wholly useless

most of them."

John Major, former British Prime Minister

(quoted from P. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, Touchstone Edition, NY 1996, p.183)

Research Interests

(click here for more information).

A list of publications

Book:

Igor Tsukerman, Computational Methods for Nanoscale Applications: Particles, Plasmons, and Waves, Springer, Nanostructure Science and Technology series, 2007.

 Computational Methods for Nanoscale Applications: Particles, Plasmons and Waves (Nanostructure Science and Technology)

Book errata

 

Simulation of  nanoscale systems.
Nanoscale optics and photonics. Plasmon-enhanced optical microscopy with molecular-scale resolution. Metamaterials.
Simulation of nanoparticle assembly.
Interactions of colloidal particles. 
Computational models of Molecular Dynamics: efficient algorithms for long-range fields and forces.
New Flexible Local Approximation MEthod (FLAME): simple grids for complex problems.
Generalized Finite Element Method and its parallel implementation.
Application of multigrid methods.
Electromagnetic problems in geophysics and oil exploration.
Field simulation in electric machines.
Finite element modeling of scattering.
Finite element shape and accuracy.
Modeling of magnetic recording media.


Here is a list of frequently asked questions (why study electromagnetics? is there life after death? etc.)

My Compumag conference diary (Sapporo, 1999, just before Y2K).

Here are my Faraday Evening skits: Never Give Up! (May 1997), New Ventures (April 2001), The Methods of Mass Instruction (April 2004) and Doctor Oooooooh.

Here is Prof. Veillette's Faraday Evening Skit (May 1998).

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This site is rated PG-13 for its computational and electromagnetic content. Parents strongly cautioned.

 

Last modified in March 2009
© Igor Tsukerman, 1997-2009.



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