Dimitri D VvedenskyDimitri Dimitrievich Vvedensky is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. He obtained his B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Maryland and his S.M. and Ph.D in Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institut of Technology (MIT). He has been on the faculty at Imperial since 1985. He is the author of more than 250 technical publications, including eight authored or edited books, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. He has been a Guest Professor in the Department of Physics at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich and at the University of Aix-Marseille, the Roentgen Professor at the University of Wurzburg, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA. He is a three time recipient of the Rector's Award for Teaching Excellence. Read More Read Less