Mikhail V. Medvedev; Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas

• Postdoctoral fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), 2000-2002
• Postdoctoral fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics, Harvard University / Center for Astrophysics (CfA), 1998-2000
• Ph.D. , Plasma Physics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), 1993-1997
• M.S., Physics, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MIPT), Russia, 1987-1993

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My major research interests are in theoretical astrophysics. I also have interests in related fields, such as plasma physics and statistical/quantum physics. More specifically, I am interested in:

theory of gamma-ray bursts, shocks, radiation   theory of accretion flows onto NSs and BHs   astrobiology, influence of cosmogenic events on life   origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays   cosmology, galaxy clusters, dark matter physics   galaxies and other self-gravitating systems

theory of stellar and solar winds   MHD waves and instavbilities   nonlinear wave dynamics   classical and quantum statistical physics   dissipative systems, self-organized criticality   plasma theory

I am presently working on the projects :

  Selected Publications:

1. M.V. Medvedev, M. Fiore, R.A. Fonseca, L.O. Silva, W.B. Mori, Long-time evolution of magnetic fields in relativistic GRB shocks, Astrophysical Journal Letters 562, L75 (2005).
   
   
2. A. Melott, B. Lieberman, C. Laird, L. Martin, M.V. Medvedev, B. Thomas, J. Cannizzo, N. Gehrels, and C. Jackman, Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction?, International Journal of Astrobiology 3, 55 (2004).
   
   
3. M.V. Medvedev, Constraint on Electromagnetic Acceleration of Highest Energy Cosmic Rays, Physical Review E 67, 045401 (2003).
   
   
4. R. Narayan, M.V. Medvedev, Thermal Conduction in Clusters of Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal Letters 562, L129 (2001).
   
   
5. M.V. Medvedev, Theory of ``Jitter'' Radiation from Small-Scale Random Magnetic Fields and Prompt Emission from Gamma-Ray Burst Shocks, Astrophysical Journal 540, 704 (2000).
   
   
6. M.V. Medvedev and A. Loeb, Generation of Magnetic Fields in the Relativistic Shock of Gamma-Ray-Burst Sources, Astrophysical Journal 526, 697 (1999).
   
   
7. M.V. Medvedev, P.H. Diamond, M.N. Rosenbluth, and V.I. Shevchenko, Asymptotic Theory of Nonlinear Landau Damping and Particle Trapping in Waves of Finite Amplitude, Physical Review Letters 81, 5824 (1998).
   
   
8. M.V. Medvedev, P.H. Diamond, V.I. Shevchenko, and V.L. Galinsky, Dissipative Dynamics of Collisionless Nonlinear Alfven Wave Trains, Physical Review Letters 78, 4934 (1997).
   
   
9. M.V. Medvedev, Properties of Particles Obeying Ambiguous Statistics, Physical Review Letters 78, 4147 (1997).
   
   
10. M.V. Medvedev and P.H. Diamond, Self-Organized States in Cellular Automata: Exact Solution, Physical Review E 58, 6824 (1998).
    
    

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