Dr. Robert Shcherbakov
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University 2002Department of Earth Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy Western University London, Ontario, Canada
E-mail: rshcherb [at] uwo.ca Office: B&GS 1080 Lab: B&GS 1059 Phone: (519) 661-4212
Overview
My research interests have evolved from problems in theoretical physics to problems in nonlinear geophysics. Although, they differ in many aspects, these problems share characteristics that can be described and studied in terms of the nonlinear behavior of dynamical systems, ideas of criticality and scaling, phase changes, chaos and complexity.
Topics I am currently interested in are: Earthquake physics and statistics; Temporal and spatial scaling properties of earthquakes and aftershocks; Earthquake hazard assessment and forecasting; Large-scale computer simulations of seismicity; Applications of continuum damage mechanics to fracture processes in solids, rocks, and the Earth crust; Planetary geodynamics; Self-organized critical behavior in nonlinear dissipative complex systems.
