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Wave scattering and liquid crystals.
Recently the great interest is aimed on the phenomena near
threshold, such as phase transitions, turbulence, fractals,
selforganised systems, etc. Since these systems are sensitive to
the external actions there are the experimental problems in their
investigations. Therefore in this case are widely used the methods
with minimal external action. Among them the studying of the
parameters of waves transiting through the medium is widely
employed. It may be sound and electromagnetic waves. The
considered problems are of interest in physics and mathematics
simultaneous. Recently the serious attention is paid on the
propagation and scattering of waves in highly inhomogeneous media.
This problem appears in the various spheres of the human activity.
In physics it concerns with the studying of the phase transitions,
liquid crystals, high temperature superconductors, dust crystals
in plasma, studying the systems at high temperature and pressure.
In medicine this problem appeared due to importance of transition
from X-ray to visible light diagnostics. In geophysics there is
the problem of the search
of useful minerals analysing the characteristics of the seismic
waves.In the physics of atmosphere and ocean and astrophysics
this problem exists since the getting of information requires the
studying of the waves transiting a very large distance and
containing a serious deviations. In these problems it is necessary
to extract an information analysing the multiple scattered waves
where this information is contained in a very complicate form.
Similar problems require using both analytical and numerical
calculations including computer simulations.
The unique speciality of liquid crystals is the combination of
liquid and crystal properties. These liquids contain the molecular
orientation and are optically anisotropic media. At the same time
these systems are very sensitive to external fields. In particular
the small electric and magnetic fields vary the system orientation
and its optical properties. At the same time liquid crystals are
sensitive to variation of temperature. They are widely used in the
system of mapping including TV and PC monitors. Moreover their
capability to very their color with the small temperature
variation is widely used in the medicine diagnostics and in
microchem technology for analysing the regions where temperature
is higher.
We have the following specialists in this domain:
D.Sc. professor Alexey Valkov
D.Sc. professor Sergei Ul'janov
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