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Boris Shklovskii

Professor

420 Tate, 625-0771, email Shklovsk @ physics.umn.edu
http://www.tpi.umn.edu/shklovskii/
Shklovskii

Director of Theoretical Physics Institute, 1995-98, APS Fellow, 1994, LANDAU PRIZE OF ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF USSR, 1986.

Member of the advisory committee, Conference on Hopping and related phenomena 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, General member of the Aspen Center for Physics, 1999 – 2009, Member of the Advisory board of International Crystals, France Conference on Electronic Crystals, Nice, 1999, Member of the Advisory board of 26th International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors, Edinburgh, 2001, Member of the Advisory board of Localization Conference, Japan, 2001, Member of the Advisory board of International Crystals, St. Fleur, France Conference on Electronic 2001, Organizer or Co-organizer of FTPI workshops “Compressible states in QHE”, 1995, “Molecular Biophysics: At the Interface Between Physics and Biology” 1997, “Progress in Quantum Hall Effect”, 1998, “Theoretical Physics” , 1999 “Electrostatic effects in biology”, 2001, “Biologically motivated Physics”, 2004, “Biologically motivated Physics”, 2007. Co-organizer of the workshop “Coulomb Effects in Condensed matter”, Lorentz Institute, Leiden, 2006.

Current Research

Theory of transport and electron-electron correlations in disordered systems, quantum Hall effect, hopping conduction and metal-nonmetal transition. Theory of screening of DNA and other macroions by multivalent ions: charge inversion. Coulomb interaction induced self-assembly of biological structures including chromosomes.

Graduate Students and Postdoctorates

Matthew Loth
Brian Skinner

Selected Publications

Tao Hu, B.I. Shklovskii, “How a protein searches for its specific site on DNA: the role of intersegment transfer”, Phys. Rev. (2007)

B.I. Shklovskii, A.L.Efros, Electronic Properties of Doped Semiconductors, Springer, Heidelberg (1984).

B.I. Shklovskii, Screening of a Macroion by Multivalentions: Correlation-Induced Inversion of Charge, Phys. Rev. E, 60, 5802 (1999).

A.A. Koulakov, M.M. Fogler, and B.I. Shklovskii,, The Ground State of a Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid in a Weak Magnetic Field, Physical Review B, 53 (1996).

Education

Ph.D. Leningrad, 1968. Condensed Matter Theory.
A. B. Physics, Leningrad University, 1966