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| | Svetlana A Malinovskaya | | Associate Professor |  | | School: | Schaefer School of Engineering & Science | | Department: | Physics and Engineering Physics | | Program: | Physics / Nanotechnology
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| | Location: | 509 Burchard | | Phone: | 201.216.8094 | | Fax: | 201.216.5638 | | Email: | smalinov@stevens.edu |
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PEP 111:Mechanics
Vectors, kinetics, Newton’s laws, dynamics or particles, work and energy, friction, conserverative forces, linear momentum, center-of-mass and relative motion, collisions, angular momentum, static equilibrium, rigid body rotation, Newton’s law of gravity, simple harmonic motion, wave motion and sound. |
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PEP 112:Electricity and Magnetism
Coulomb’s law, concepts of electric field and potential, Gauss’ law, capacitance, current and resistance, DC and R-C transient circuits, magnetic fields, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law of induction, inductance, A/C circuits, electromagnetic oscillations, Maxwell’s equations and electromagnetic waves. |
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PEP 538:Introduction to Mechanics
Particle motion in one dimension. Simple harmonic oscillators. Motion in two and three dimensions, kinematics, work and energy, conservative forces, central forces, and scattering. Systems of particles, linear and angular momentum theorems, collisions, linear spring systems, and normal modes. Lagrange’s equations and applications to simple systems. Introduction to moment of inertia tensor and to Hamilton’s equations. |
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PEP 642:Mechanics
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of mechanics, rigid body motion, elasticity, mechanics of continuous media, small vibration theory, special relativity, canonical transformations, and perturbation theory. Typical text: Goldstein, Classical Mechanics. |
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PEP 800:Special Topics in Physics (MS)
Topics include any one of the following: magnetohydrodynamics, quantum mechanics, general relativity, many-body problem, nuclear physics, quantum field theory, low temperature physics, diffraction theory,and particle physics. Limit of six credits for the master’s degree. |
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PEP 801:Special Topics in Physics (PhD)
One to six credits. Limit of six credits for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. |
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| | Research & Education | |
| | | | Education | | Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Novosibirsk State University and Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of Russian Academy of Science, Russia 1996-2000 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Research Scientist, University of Heidelberg, Germany 2000-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida2001-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow in Ultrafast Optical Science at FOCUS Center and Lecturer in Physics, University of Michigan | | Research | - AMO theory, stimulated Raman spectroscopy, X-ray and Auger electron emission spectroscopy
- Coherent control of molecular dynamics via shaped laser pulses
- Ultrafast dynamics of core-excited molecules and non-adiabatic effects
- Dynamics of atomic and molecular collisions
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| | Selected Publications | |
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S.A. Malinovskaya. "Observation and control of molecular motion using ultrafast laser pulses", invited book chapter in Trends in Chemical Physics Research, Linke, A.N., Nova Science Publishers, Inc., pp. 257-280 (2005) .
Journals
B. Corn, S.A. Malinovskaya. (2009). "An ab initio analysis of charge redistribution upon isomerization of retinal in rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin", Int. J. Quant. Chem. (109), 3131.
S.A. Malinovskaya. (2009). "Optimal Coherence via Adiabatic Following", Opt. Comm. (282), 3527.
S.A. Malinovskaya. (2009). "Robust control by two chirped pulse trains in the presence of decoherence", J. Mod. Opt. (56), 784-789.
Svetlana A. Malinovskaya. "Prevention of decoherence by two femtosecond chirped pulse trains", Optics Lett. 33, 2245 (2008) .
S.A. Malinovskaya, V.S. Malinovsky. "Chirped Pulse Adiabatic Control in CARS for Imaging Biological Structure and Dynamics", Optics Lett. 32, 707 (2007) .
S.A. Malinovskaya. "Mode selective excitation using ultrafast chirped laser pulses", Phys. Rev. A. 73, 033416 (2006) .
S. Malinovskaya, P. Bucksbaum, P. Berman. "Theory of selective excitation in Stimulated Raman Scattering", Phys. Rev. A 69, 013801 (2004).
S. Malinovskaya, P. Bucksbaum, P. Berman. "On the role of coupling in mode selective excitation using ultrafast pulse shaping in stimulated Raman spectroscopy", J. Chem. Phys. 121, 3434 (2004).
S. Malinovskaya, R. Cabrera-Trujillo, J.R. Sabin, E. Deumens and Y. Ohrn. "Dynamics of proton-acetylene collisions at 30 eV", J. Chem. Phys. 117, 1103 (2002) .
Malinovskaya S.A., and Cederbaum L.S.. "Violation of electronic optical selection rules in X-ray emission by nuclear dynamics: time-dependent formulation", Phys. Rev. A 61, 42706 (2000).
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