CurriculumVitae

Name:    Avinoam Rabinovitch

Born:    1938

Higher Education:

1959 B.Sc. - Electrical and Nuclear Engineering, The Technion, Haifa

1962 M.Sc. - Experimental Nuclear Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1969 Ph.D. - Solid State Physics, The Technion, Haifa

Research Fields:

• Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
• Fracture physics
• Influence of external electric and magnetic fields on properties of solids
• Diffusion in solids

Previous Employment:

1987        Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

1989-1990   Sabbatical, Physics Dept. Stony Brook, N.Y., U.S.A.

1980-1987   Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

1980-1981   Visiting Scientist MDD, AERE, Harwell, U.K.

1979-1980   Sabbatical, MDD. AERE, Harwell, U.K.

1974-1980   Senior Lecturer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

1971-1974   Lecturer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

1969-1971   Research Associate, Northwestern Univeristy Evanston, Ill.

1965-1969   Instructor, Physics Department, The Technion, Haifa.

1962-1964   Physicist, Physics Department, Defence Ministry.

1959-1960   Electrical Engineer, Physics Department, Defence Ministry.

Recent Publications:

• A. Rabinovitch, D. Bahat and V. Frid, "Emission of EMR by Rock Fracturing", Z. Geol. Wiss, 24, 3-4, 387,1996.

• J.Pelleg and A. Rabinovitch, "A Note on Solute Enhanced Diffusion", Phys. Stat. Sol., b, 197, 309-313, (1996).

• A. Rabinovitch, R. Thieberger, M. Friedman and S. Goshen, "Resonance Effects in the Bonhoeffer van der Pol System", Chaos, Solitons and Fractals7, 1713-1719,1996.

•  D. Klausner and A.Rabinovitch, Transient adaptation of electrons to Bloch environments, Physica B, 239, 388-404,1997.

•  A.Rabinovitch, V. Fridand D. Bahat, Parametrization of electromagnetic radiation pulses obtained by triaxial fracture of granite samples,Phil. Mag. Lett. 77,289-293,(1998).

•  A. Rabinovitch, D.Bahat and Z. Melamed, A note on joint spacing, Rock Mechanics and Rock Eng.,32, 71-75 (1999)

• A.Rabinovitch, I. Aviram, N. Gulko and E. Obsyshcher, A model for the propagation of action potentials in non-uniformly excitable media, J. Theor. Biol..,196, 141-154 (1999)

• A. Rabinovitch and D. Bahat, Model of joint spacing distribution based on shadow compliance, J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth, 104, 4877-4886 (1999).

• V. Frid, A. Rabinovitch and D. Bahat, Electromagnetic radiation associated with induced triaxial fracture in granite, Phil. Mag. Lett. ,79, 79-86 (1999).

• A. Rabinovitch, V. Frid and D. Bahat, A note on the amplitude-frequency relation ofelectromagnetic radiation pulses induced by material failure, Phil. Mag. Lett.,79, 195-200 (1999).

• A. Rabinovitch, H. Hadas, M. Einav , Z. Melamed and A. Zaritsky, Model for Bacteriophage T4 development in Escherichia coli, J. Bact, 181, 1677-1683 (1999).

• A. Rabinovitch and I. Rogachevskii, Threshold, excitability and isochrones in the Van der Pol system, Chaos:An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 9,880-886, 1999.

• A. Rabinovitch, A. Zaritsky, I. Fishov, H. Hadas, and M.Einav, Bacterial lysis byphage-model, J. Theor. Biol., 201, 209-213, 1999.

• P. Landa and A. Rabinovitch , Exhibition of intrinsic properties of certain systems in response to external forcing, Phys. Rev. E, 61 (2), 1829-1838, 2000.

• A.Rabinovitch, R. Zlotnikov and D. Bahat, Flaw length distribution measurement in brittle materials,J. Appl. Phys., 87 (11),7720-7725, 2000.

• A. Rabinovitch, G. Belizovsky and D. Bahat, Origin of mist and hackle patterns in brittle fracture, Phys. Rev. B, 61(22), 14968-14974, 2000.

• D. Bahat and A. Rabinovitch, New fractographic aspects of natural and artificial fractures, J. Struct. Geol., 22 (10), 1427-1435, 2000.

•  A. Rabinovitch, V. Frid ,D. Bahat and Y. Goldbaum,Fracture areacalculation from electromagnetic radiation and its use in chalk failure analysis, Int.J. Rock Mech. Min., 37 (7), 1149-1154, 2000.

• D. bahat, A. Rabinovitch and V. Frid, Fracture Characterization of chalk in uniaxial and triaxial tests by rock mechanics,fractographic and electromagnetic radiation methods, J. Struct. Geol., 23 (10), 1531-1547, 2001.

• A.Rabinovitch ,M. Gutman and I. Aviram, Inwards propagating waves in a limit cycle medium-art no. 084101, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 , 4101-4105, 2001.

• J. Goldbaum, V. Frid ,A. Rabinovitch and D. bahat, Electromagnetic radiation induced by percussion drilling, Int. J. Fracture,111 (1), L15-L20, 2001.

• D.Bahat, P. Bankwitz, E. Bankwitz and A. Rabinovitch, Comparison of the new fracture areas created by the formation of en echelon and hackle fringes on joint surfaces, Zeit. Fur Geol. Wiss. 30,1-12, 2002.
• Rabinovitch,V. Frid and D. Bahat, Gutenberg-Richter-type relation for laboratory fracture induced electromagnetic radiation, Phys. rev. E 65, art. No. 011401, 2002.

• A.Rabinovitch, D. Bahat and V. Frid, Similarity and dissimilarity of electromagnetic radiation rom carbonate rocks under compression, drilling and blasting, Int. J. Rock Mech. Min.,39, 25-129, 2002.

• A. Rabinovitch, I.Fishov, H.Hadas et al., Bacteriophage T4 development in E-coli is growth rate dependent, J. Theor. Biol., 216, 1-4, 2002.

• D. Bahat, V. Frid A. Rabinovitch et. al., Exploration via electromagnetic radiation and fractographic methods of fracture properties induced by compression in glass-ceramic, Int. J. Fracture, 116, 179-194, 2002.

• A. Rabinovitch, M. Gutman and I. Aviram, The Sinus-Node as a nonlinear dynamic system, J. Biol. Phys. 28, 713-719, 2002.

• E. Yellin, A. Rabinovitch, Properties and features of asymmetric partial devil’s staircases deduced from piecewise linear maps, Phys. Rev. E67, art.no.016202, 2003.

• A. Rabinovitch, M. Gutman and I. Aviram, Reaction-diffusion dynamics in an oscillatory medium of finite size: Pseudoreflection of waves, Phys. Rev. E67, accepted for publication.