1. Name and Academic Rank:

Dmitri Vainchtein, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Full-time

2. Degrees with Fields, Institution and Date:

B.S. – Institute of Physics and Technology, 1993

M.S. — Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1995

Ph.D. – Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia, 1997

Ph.D. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001

3. Number of Years of Service on this Faculty:

Initial appointment: September 2008, Assistant Professor

4. Other Related Experience:

1996-2000 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Research Assistant

2000-01 Harvard University, Postdoctoral fellow

2001-05 University of California Santa Barbara, Postdoctoral fellow

2005-08 Georgia Institute of Technology, J. Ford Postdoctoral fellow

5. Consulting, Patents, Copyrights:

none

6. States in which Registered:

none

7. Principal Publications in the Last Five Years:

· Using resonances to control chaotic mixing within a translating and rotating droplet (2010), R. Chabreyrie, D. Vainchtein, C. Chandre, P. Singh, and N. Aubry, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 15, pp. 2124-2132.

· Electron dynamics in a parabolic magnetic field in the presence of an electrostatic wave (2009), D. Vainchtein, A. Vasiliev, and A. Neishtadt, Plasma Physics Reports, 35, pp. 1021-1031.

· Surfatron acceleration in electromagnetic waves with a low phase velocity (2009), A. Neishtadt, A. Artemyev, L. Zelenyi, and D. Vainshtein, JETP Letters, 89, pp. 441-447.

· Schelling’s Segregation Model: Parameters, Scaling, and Aggregation (2009), A. Singh, D. Vainchtein, and H. Weiss, Demographic Research, 21, pp. 342-366.

· Robustness of tuned mixing within a droplet for digital microfluidics (2009), R. Chabreyrie, D. Vainchtein, C. Chandre, P. Singh, and N. Aubry, Mechanics Research Communications, 36, pp. 130-136.

· Resonant mixing in perturbed action-action-angle flow (2008), D. Vainchtein, J. Widloski, and R. Grigoriev, Phys. Rev. E, 78, art. #026302.

· Tailoring mixing inside a translating drop (2008), R. Chabreyrie, D. Vainchtein, N. Aubry, C. Chandre, and P. Singh, Phys. Rev. E, 77, art. #036314.

· Adiabatic invariance in volume-preserving systems (2007), A. Neishtadt, D. Vainchtein, and A. Vasiliev, in “IUTAM Symposium on Hamiltonian Dynamics, Vortex Structures, Turbulence”, IUTAM Bookseries , 6, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 89-108.

· Resonant chaotic mixing in a cellular flow (2007), D. Vainchtein, J. Widloski, and R. Grigoriev, Phys. Rev. Lett., 99, art. #094501.

· Mixing properties of steady flow in thermocapillary driven droplets (2007), D. Vainchtein, J. Widloski, and R. Grigoriev, Physics of Fluids, 19, art. #067102.

· On passage through resonances in volume-preserving systems (2006), D. Vainchtein, A. Neishtadt, and I. Mezic, Chaos, 16, art. #043123.

· Quasi-adiabatic description of nonlinear particle dynamics in typical magnetotail configurations (2005), D. Vainchtein, L. Zelenyi, A. Neishtadt, and J. Buechner, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 12, pp. 101-115.

8. Scientific and Professional Societies of which a Member:

none

9. Honors and awards:

none

10. Institutional and Professional Service in last Five Years:

Mechanical Engineering Department Committees: Graduate Committee, Faculty Search Committee (various years), Seminar series organizer.

College of Engineering Committees: Nominations and Election Subcommittee (since 2009).

11. Percentage of Time Available for Research or Scholarly Activities:

66%.

12. Percentage of Time Committed to the Program:

34% committed to teaching, advising, and administrative duties.