Mikhail V. Medvedev, Associate Professor

3085 Malott Hall
TEL: (785) 864-4025
FAX: (785) 864-5262
Email: medvedev@ku.edu
Home Page: http://bear.phsx.ku.edu/~medvedev

Professional Background:

KU FACULTY: 2002-Present
2006-Present: Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas
2002-2006: Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas
2000-2002: Post Doctoral Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
1998-2000: Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Education:

1996: Ph.D. (Physics) University of California at San Diego
1994: M.S., (Physics) University of California at San Diego
1993: M.S., (Supreme Laude) Moscow Institute for Physics & Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia

Honors Awards:

1996: Friends of the International Center Fellowship, University of California at San Diego
1993-1994: General Atomics Takeo Fukuda Fellowship
1993: American Physical Societo Study Grant
1987-1993: Awards for excellence in Education, Moscow Institute for Physics & Technology

Research Interests:

My research interests cover a wide variety of subjects in high-energy astrophysics and space physics, including: Gamma-ray bursts (the strongest and brightest explosions in the Universe), relativistic shock waves, magnetic field generation, radiation physics, observational aspects. Astrobiology: how life on Earth has been (and will be) affected by cosmogenic factors, such as gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, energetic solar flares, etc. Accretion physics: the dynamics of the gas infall onto strongly gravitating objects, signatures of black holes and neutron stars in the accretion spectra. Colsmology: transport phenomena (e.g. thermal conduction) in galaxy clusters, transport in irregular and chaotic magnetic fields, origin of magnetic fields in the Universe. Solar and stellar wind physics: structure of termination shocks, charge-exchange x-rays from shocks, nonlinear waves in the solar wind.

Selected Publications:

1. M.V. Medvedev, A.L. Melott, Do extragalactic cosmic rays induce cycles in fossil diversity?, Astrophysical Journal, in press (2007)

3. M.V. Medvedev, Electron Acceleration in Relativistic Gamma-Ray Burst Shocks, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 651, 9 (2006)

3. M.V. Medvedev, L.O. Silva, M. Kamionkowski, Cluster Magnetic Fields from Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Cluster Shocks, Astrophysical Journal Letters 642, 1 (2006)

4. M.V. Medvedev, The Theory of Spectral Evolution of the Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission, Astrophysical Journal 637, 869 (2006)

5. 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 618, L75 (2005).

6. M. Medvedev, Boundary Layer Self-Similar Solution for the Hot Radiative Accretion onto a rapidly Spinning Neutron Star, Astrophysical Journal 613, 506 (2004).

7. A. Melott, B. Lieberman, C. Laird, L. Martin, M. 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).

8. L.O. Silva, R.A. Fonseca, J.W. Tonge, J.M. Dawson, W.B. Mori, and M.V. Medvedev, Interpenetrating Plasma Shells: Near-Equipartition Magnetic Field Generation and Non-Thermal Particle Acceleration, Astrophysical Journal Letters 596, L121 (2003).

9. M.V. Medvedev, Constraint on Electromagnetic Acceleration of Highest Energy Cosmic Rays, Phyhsical Review E 67, 045401 (2003).

10. Narayan and M.V. Medvedev, Thermal Conduction in Clusters of Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal Letters 562, L129 (2001).

11. M.V. Medvedev and R. Narayan, Self-Similar Hot Accretion Flow onto a Neutron Star, Astrophysical Journal 554, 1255 (2001).

12. 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).

13. M.V. Medvedev, Interstellar Scintillations of Polarization of Compact Sources, Astrophysical Journal Letters 532, L63 (2000).<

14. M.V. Medvedev and A. Loeb, Generation of Magnetic Fields in the Relativistic Shock of Gamma-Ray-Burst Sources, Astrophysical Journal 526, 697 (1999).

15. 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).

16. M.V. Medvedev and P.H. Diamond, Self-Organized States in Cellular Automata: Exact Solution, Physical Review E 58, 6824 (1998).

17. M.V. Medvedev, V.I. Shevchenko, P.H. Diamond, and V.L. Galinsky, Fluid Models for Kinetic Effects on Coherent Nonlinear Alfven Waves. II. Numerical Solutions, Physics of Plasmas 4, 1257 (1997).

18. M.V. Medvedev and P.H. Diamond, Fluid Models for Kinetic Effects on Coherent Nonlinear Alfven Waves. I. Fundamental Theory, Physics of Plasmas 3, 863 (1996).

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