Tal Malinovitch

My research focuses on Schrödinger operators, using scattering and spectral theory tools; I am also interested in periodic systems and, more specifically, twisted bilayer graphene. My recent projects revolve around analyzing the dynamics of a periodic system with potential in some directions and decaying in others.

My thesis revolves around systems where the potential decays only in some, but not all, directions. In collaboration with Adam Black, this work generalizes the usual setting of short-range scattering to various general geometries. By utilizing microlocal tools, we showed that for such operators, any function decomposes into two components that differ by their asymptotic behavior in time.

Before starting my graduate program, I worked for the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission as a researcher, and later as head of the nuclear reactor physics group. My research required intimate knowledge of our reactor and a deep understanding of its physics. One of the projects I worked on, which later became my M.Sc. thesis, was to generalize the current noise experiments formalism to include energy and spatial dependencies.

In addition to my current research, I am also involved in an ongoing project with a doctor from Yale Medical School to develop a general mathematical framework for analyzing steady-state experiments for determining metabolic rates.

Publications

  1. What is Ballistic Transport? Preprint, March 2024, with David Damanik, and Giorgio Young.
  2. Directional Ballistic transport for partially periodic Schrödinger operators- Preprint, November 2023, with Adam Black, David Damanik, and Giorgio Young.
  3. Scattering for Schrödinger operators with conical decay- Preprint, October 2022, with Adam Black.
  4. A new formalism for analyzing metabolic rates in steady state experiments - in preparation, 2022, with Stephan Siebel.
  5. Scattering for Schrödinger operators with potentials concentrated near a subspace - Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 376 (2023), no. 4, 2525–2555, with Adam Black.
  6. A Multi-region Multi-energy Formalism for the Feynman-alpha Formulas - Annals of Nuclear energy, October 2014, With Chen Dubi

Invited Talks