• M.Sc. Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia, 1990
• Ph.D. Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 1996
• Postdoctoral Research:
  • Junior Researcher, Budker Institute, Novosibirsk, 1990-1992
  • Research Assistant, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1993-1996
  • Dicke Fellow, Department of Physics, Princeton University, 1996-1999
  • J.R. Oppenheimer Fellow, CNLS/T-13, LANL, 1999-2001
  • Full Term Technical Staff Member, T-13, LANL, 2002-present
• Employment:
  • Technical Staff Member, T-13, LANL, 2002-present

Research Interests:

• Statistical Hydrodynamics (Turbulence)
• Information Theory
• Optical Communications
• Macromolecules

Selected Recent Publications:

1. M. Chertkov, I. Kolokolov, V. Lebedev, Effects of surface tension on immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, submitted (2004).
2. M. Chertkov, V. Chernyak, M. Stepanov, B. Vasic, Error correction on a tree: An instanton approach, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 198702 (2004).
3. M. Chertkov, Phenomenology of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 115001 (2003).
4. M. Chertkov, V. Chernyak, I. Kolokolov, V. Lebedev, Probability of anomalously large Bit-Error-Rate in long haul optical transmission, Phys. Rev. E 68, 066619 (2003).
5. M. Chertkov, Y. Chung, A. Dyachenko, I. Gabitov, I. Kolokolov, V. Lebedev, Shedding and interaction of solitons in weakly disordered optical fibers, Phys. Rev. E 67, 036615 (2003).
6. M. Chertkov, V. Lebedev, Boundary effects on chaotic advection-diffusion chemical reactions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 134501 (2003).
7. M. Chertkov, V. Lebedev, Decay of scalar turbulence revisited, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 034501 (2003).