Dr Eytan Katzav
Telephone: +44 020 7848 2864
Email: eytan.katzav@kcl.ac.uk
Office: S4.13a, Strand Building, Strand Campus
Title: Lecturer in Disordered Systems
Biography
2008 – Present: Lecturer in Disordered and Complex Systems, Department of Mathematics, King’s College, London, UK.
2006 – 2008: Postdoctoral position (Marie-Curie Fellow) in the Laboratory of Statistical Physics of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France.
2004 – 2005: Postdoctoral position (Chateaubriand Fellow) in the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France.
2003 - 2004: Postdoctoral position (Anixter Fellow) in the department of Chemical Physics in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
1999 – 2003: Ph.D. degree in Physics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Thesis: "The Self Consistent Approach to Nonlinear Stochastic Field Theories".
1996 – 1999: MSc. degree in Physics, Magna Cum Laude, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Thesis: “Some Aspects of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation”.
1998 – 2004. M.A. degree in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Thesis: "Case Study in Cognitive Neuropsychology – Not a Lost Case".
1993 – 1997: Studies in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Excellent Students, Tel-Aviv University, Israel (a fully funded 4-years programme that allows complete academic freedom, and direct access to any MSc/MA programme afterwards)
Research Interests
Applications of Statistical Mechanics in a broad range of fields including soft condensed matter (fracture, friction, crumpled papers), Packing Problems (hard spheres, viral DNA in capsids), Random Matrix Theory (Coulomb gas approach) and fundamental methods in Statistical Mechanics (the Self-Consistent Expansion).
Selection of Publications
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L. Boué and E. Katzav, "Folding of flexible rods confined in 2D space", Europhys. Lett 80 54002 (2007).
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E. Katzav, M. Adda-Bedia, M. Ben Amar and A. Boudaoud, "Roughness of moving elastic lines – crack and wetting fronts" Phys. Rev. E 76 051601 (2007).
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A. Gigi, R. Babai, E. Katzav, S. Atkins and T. Hendler, "Prefrontal and parietal regions are involved in naming of objects from unusual views" Behavioral Neuroscience 121 836 (2007).
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E. Katzav and M. Adda-Bedia “The spectrum of large powers of the Laplacian in bounded domains”, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 022002 - Fast Track Communication.
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M. Schwartz and E. Katzav “The ideas behind the Self Consistent Expansion”, J. Stat. Mech. P04023 (2008).
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M. Adda-Bedia, E. Katzav and D. Vella, “Solution of the Percus-Yevick equation for hard discs”, J Chem Phys 128, 184508 (2008); Erratum 129, 049901 (2008).
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E. Katzav and M. Adda-Bedia, "The Spectrum of the Fractional Laplacian and First-Passage-Time Statistics”, Europhys. Lett 83 30006 (2008).
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M. Adda-Bedia, E. Katzav and D. Vella, “Solution of the Percus-Yevick equation for hard hyper-spheres in even dimensions”, J Chem Phys 129, 144506 (2008).
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F. Corson, M. Adda-Bedia, H. Henry and E. Katzav, “Thermal fracture as a framework for quasi-static crack propagation”, International Journal of Fracture 158, 1 (2009).
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J. Scheibert, E. Katzav, M. Adda-Bedia, A. Prevost and G. Debrégeas, "Steady sliding contact stress: local measurements and an exact model", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids