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Igor V. Pivkin
MIT
I have moved to the University of Lugano, Switzerland.
PhD and Postdoctoral positions are currently available.
Please visit my web page here.

Education
  • Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Brown University
    • Thesis: Algorithms for Continuum and Atomistic Modeling of Blood Platelet Phenomena
  • Sc.M. (Computer Science), Brown University
    • Thesis: Visualization and Interpretation of the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of Bat Wing Kinematics

  • Sc.M. (Applied Mathematics), Brown University

  • Sc.M. (Mathematics), Novosibirsk State University, Russia
    • Thesis: Numerical Investigation of the Influence of Wedge Vibration of the Reflection of Strong Shock Waves
  • B.S. with honors (Mathematics), Novosibirsk State University, Russia
    • Thesis: Numerical Solution of a Problem of the Penetration of a Blunt Solid Contour into an Ideal and Weakly Compressible Liquid
Publications

  • Book chapters

    • I.V. Pivkin, B. Caswell, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Dissipative Particle Dynamics", Reviews in Computational Chemistry, in press, 2010.

  • Journal publications

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis,"Effects of red blood cells on platelet aggregation", IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, vol. 28, pp. 32-77 , 2009.

    • X. Li, I.V. Pivkin, H. Liang, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Shape transformations of membrane vesicles from amphiphilic triblock copolymers: A Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulation study", Macromolecules, vol. 42, pp. 3195-3200, 2009.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "Accurate coarse-grained modeling of red blood cells", Physical Review Letters, vol. 101, p. 118105, 2008.

    • W. Pan, I.V. Pivkin, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Single-particle hydrodynamics in DPD: A new formulation", EPL, vol. 84, p. 10012, 2008.

    • D.A. Fedosov, I.V. Pivkin, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Velocity limit in Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulations of wall-bounded flows", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 227, pp. 2540-2559, 2008.

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Blood flow velocity effects and role of activation delay time on growth and form of platelet thrombi", Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 103, pp. 17164-17169, 2006.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "Controlling density fluctuations in wall-bounded Dissipative Particle Dynamics systems", Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, p. 206001, 2006.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "Coarse-graining limits in open and wall-bounded DPD systems", Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 124, p.184101, 2006.

    • E.E. Keaveny, I.V. Pivkin, M. Maxey, and G.E. Karniadakis, "A comparative study between dissipative particle dynamics and molecular dynamics for simple- and complex-geometry flows", Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 123, p. 104107, 2005.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "A new method to impose no-slip boundary conditions in dissipative particle dynamics", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 207, pp. 114-128, 2005.

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, D.H. Laidlaw, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Combined effects of pulsatile flow and dynamic curvature on wall shear stress in a coronary artery bifurcation model", Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 38, pp. 1283-1290, 2005.

    • J.S. Sobel, A.S. Forsberg, D.H. Laidlaw, R.C. Zeleznik, D.F. Keefe, I.V. Pivkin, G.E. Karniadakis, P. Richardson, and S. Swartz, "Particle flurries - Synoptic 3D pulsatile flow visualization", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Feature Article), vol. 24, pp. 76-85, 2004.

  • Refereed conference publications

    • J. Chen, M. Kostandov, I.V. Pivkin, D.K. Riskin, S.M. Swartz, and D.H. Laidlaw, "Visual analysis of dimensionality reduction in an interactive virtual environment for exploring bat flight kinematics", Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - ICAT - EuroVR, 2009.

    • M. Kostandov, J. Chen, I.V. Pivkin, S.M. Swartz, and D.H. Laidlaw, "Exploring dimensionality reduction of animal flight kinematics in an interactive virtual reality setting", ACM I3D 2008 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2008.

    • P.D. Richardson, I.V. Pivkin, and G. Karniadakis, "Red cells in shear flow: Dissipative Particle Dynamics modeling", Biorheology, 45:107-108, 2008.

    • I.V. Pivkin, P. D. Richardson, and G. E. Karniadakis, "Effect of presence or absence of red cells on early growth rates of platelet mural thrombi", Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 5:P-T-301, 2007.

    • P.D. Richardson, I.V. Pivkin, G.E. Karniadakis, and D.H. Laidlaw, "Blood flow at arterial branches: complexities to resolve for the angioplasty suite", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3993, pp. 538-545, 2006.

    • M. Kostandov, I.V. Pivkin, K.S. Breuer, S.M. Swartz, and D.H. Laidlaw, "Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Particle Image Velocimetry in bat flight", IEEE Visualization, 2006.

    • I.V. Pivkin, E. Hueso, R. Weinstein, D.H. Laidlaw, S. Swartz, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Simulation and visualization of air flow around bat wings during flight", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3515, pp. 689-694, 2005.

    • I.V. Pivkin, N. Yang, P.D. Richardson, G.E. Karniadakis, and D.H. Laidlaw, "Visualization of blood platelets in a virtual environment", SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, CA, August 2004.

    • R. Weinstein, E. Hueso, I.V. Pivkin, S. Swartz, D.H. Laidlaw, G. Karniadakis, and K. Breuer, "Simulation and visualization of flow around bat wings during flight", SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, CA, August 2004.

    • E. Hueso, I.V. Pivkin, S. Swartz, D.H. Laidlaw, G. Karniadakis, and K. Breuer, "Visualization of vortices in simulated air flow around bat wings during flight", IEEE Visualization, 2004.

    • I.V. Pivkin, D.H. Laidlaw, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Moving meshes and flow simulations in coronary arteries", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, pp. 467-475, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2002.

    • J. Sobel, A. Forsberg, P. Richardson, D.H. Laidlaw, D. Keefe, I.V. Pivkin, and G. Karniadakis, "Arterial flows seen in virtual reality", In J. Vossoughi, editor, Proceedings of the 21st Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, p. 349, Washington DC, September 2002.

    • I.V. Pivkin, R.M. Kirby, and G.E. Karniadakis, "High-order discontinuous Galerkin methods: simulation of COIL flows", Proceedings of the Third AFOSR International Conference, Arlington, TX, August 5-9, 2001.

    • G.N. Markelov, I.V. Pivkin, and M.S. Ivanov, "Impulsive wedge rotation effects on the transition from regular to Mach reflection", Proceedings of 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, pp. 1243-1248, London, UK, July 1999.

  • Conference presentations, abstracts

    • I.V. Pivkin, D.J. Quinn, M. Dao, G.E. Karniadakis, and S. Suresh, "Biorheology of red blood cells via Dissipative Particle Dynamics", The 2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, Blacksburg, VA, June 2009.

    • X. Li, I.V. Pivkin, H. Liang, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulations of shapes transformations of membrane vesicles from amphiphilic triblock copolymers", International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry, Shanghai, China, September 2008.

    • W. Pan, I.V. Pivkin, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Stokes flow study by Fluid Particle Model with single particle", 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2008. 

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, "A stochastic coarse-grained model of a red blood cell", 60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2007.

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulations of deformable red blood cells in small blood vessels", APS March Meeting, Denver, CO, March 2007. 

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Red blood cells and platelet aggregation in small blood vessels via Dissipative Particle Dynamics", 59th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 2006.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "Density fluctuations and coarse-graining limits in DPD systems", 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, CA, August 2006.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "Coarse-graining limits and solid-wall boundary conditions in DPD", 3rd International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science, Hampton, VA, August 2006.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "Dissipative particle dynamics simulations of colloidal suspensions", 58th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 2005.

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Simulation of mural platelet aggregation", Biomedical Engineering Society 2004 Annual Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 2004.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "Slip and no-slip boundary conditions in DPD", 13th International Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge, MA, August 2004.

    • E.E. Keaveny, M.R. Maxey, I.V. Pivkin, and G.E. Karniadakis, "A comparison of MD and DPD in simple and complex geometries", 13th International Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge, MA, August 2004.

    • S. Swartz, K. Bishop, I.V. Pivkin, G. Karniadakis, D.H. Laidlaw, E. Vote, and D. Keefe, "3D kinematics of flying bats: challenges of complex multidimensional comparison", 7th International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology, Boca Raton, FL, 2004.

    • I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, "Spectral element mesh generation using Gridgen for bioflows", Gridgen User Group Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, April 2004.

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Simulation of platelets in arterioles and venules", 56th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Meadowlands, NJ, November 2003.

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, D.H. Laidlaw, and G.E. Karniadakis, "The combined effect of pulsatile inflow and unsteady geometry on flow in coronary arteries", Proceedings of International Symposium on Modeling Of Physiological Flows, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2003.

    • A. Forsberg, P. Richardson, J.A. Sobel, D.H. Laidlaw, D.F. Keefe, I.V. Pivkin, and G.E. Karniadakis, "Arterial motions and flows seen in virtual reality", Proceedings World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia, August 2003.

    • I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, D.H. Laidlaw, and G.E. Karniadakis, "The effect of unsteady geometry on flow in coronary arteries", 55th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 2002.