Sergei Ipatov
Sergei Ipatov's research interests are related to modeling and interpreting physical processes, mainly the processes of the formation and evolution of the solar system. He made computer simulations of the orbital evolution of celestial bodies and dust particles in the solar system and of the accumulation of planetary objects. Based on the computer simulation results, Dr. Sergei Ipatov studied different problems of the migration of celestial bodies (i.e., asteroids, comets, trans-Neptunian objects, planetesimals, planet embryos) and dust particles in the forming and present Solar System, the accumulation of planets, the formation of the Kirkwood gaps, the asteroid and comet hazard to the Earth, the distribution of interplanetary dust originated in different parts of the Solar System, etc. Results of the computer simulations were compared with observations. Ipatov also conducted observations of asteroids and lectured on the migration of celestial bodies. Besides astronomy, he has an experience in mathematical modeling of other physical processes such as modeling the generation of acoustic waves in porous media and the channel routing for two-layer chips. During January 2005 - August 2006 Ipatov was a member of the Deep Impact team and analyzed the images made by this spacecraft.
Since September 2006 Ipatov has been a visiting research scientist at Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of Carnegie Institutions of Washington. Together with Alan Boss he applied the FLASH adaptive mesh refinement code to study the dynamics of mixing and transport processes in the presolar cloud and in the solar nebular. Since July 2007 together with James Cho, Ipatov has studied the radiative transfer in atmospheres of test extrasolar planets.--- ---
-(list publications in Russian was not changed since 2005)- You can get many my publications via (new) and a few of them via . ---- You can also read some information about me and my work. Recent presentations: http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/ipatov/present.htm Codes for removal of cosmic ray signatures: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ipatov/CRcodes.htm Photos made at Department of Terrestrial Magnetism: http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/ipatov/dtm-photos.htm Photos made at conferences: http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/ipatov/conference-photos.htm My photos (6 albums): http://foto.mail.ru/list/siipatov/Links to ADS listing and astro-ph listing for Sergei Ipatov are available from http://www.astro.umd.edu/people/ipatov.html