Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Education:

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Applied Mathematics, 1990

Career Highlights:

Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1996
NSF CAREER Award, 1995
Director's Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1989
Preseren's Student Prize, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1985

Research Areas:

Applied mathematics of nonlinear optics and neuroscience.

Selected Publications:

J. A. Byrne, G. Kovacic, and I. R. Gabitov [2003]. Polarization switching of light interacting with a degenerate two-level optical medium, Physica D 186, 69-92.

R. V. Abramov, G. Kovacic, and A. J. Majda [2003]. Hamiltonian structure and statistically relevant conserved quantities for the truncated Burgers-Hopf equation, Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 56 (1), 1-46.

R. Camassa, G. Kovacic, and S.-K. Tin [1998]. A Melnikov method for homoclinic orbits with many pulses, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 143, 105-193.

T. J. Kaper and G. Kovacic [1996]. Multi-bump orbits homoclinic to resonance bands, Trans. AMS 348, 3835-3887.

G. Kovacic [1995]. Singular perturbation theory for homoclinic orbits in a class of near-integrable dissipative systems, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 26, 1611-1643.

G. Kovacic [1993]. Singular perturbation theory for homoclinic orbits in a class of near-integrable Hamiltonian systems, J. Dynamics Diff. Eqns. 5, 559-597.

Contact Information:

Gregor Kovacic
(518) 276-6908
kovacg@rpi.edu

More Info:

http://www.rpi.edu/~kovacg/