The Worldline of
Владимир Евгеньевич
Захаров
-1939 born (Russia)
-1948 (first sighting, Kazan, Tatarstan)
-1959 (second encounter, Moscow, Energy
Institute) – Live with Plasma media
-1961 (landed in Siberian Campus/
“Academgorodok) True Love Affair
with “Water” (and Waves), shared
with Love Affair with Poetry
-1970-tieth (Landau Institute,
Chernogolovka)
-Since 1990: Deliberate choice to live in one
of the worlds most “arid zones”
(Arizona)
Science of Zakharov
• Nonlinear collisionless “Landau Damping”
(Paradox of non-vanishing collisions)
• Parametric Instabilities of Periodic Waves in
Non-Linear Media
• Weak Turbulence Spectrum of Gravity Waves
on Surface of Water
• …implications followed to present days
• Weak Turbulence Spectrum of Spin Waves
Zakharov and Science (cont. 1)
• Inverse Scattering Technique in Nonlinear
Waves Propagation
• ..Its ever expanding scope of applications..
• Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation as basic
model for Nonlinear Wave Dynamics
• From NLS to Zakharov Equations
• Plasma Waves Collapse
• Non-Kolmogoroff types of Strong
Turbulence
Zakharov and Science (cont.2)
• Strong Langmuir Turbulence /
“Predator vs. Pray” interplay
• ..now ever expanding applications..
(Generation of Zonal Flows by
Micro-turbulence)
• Inverse Cascade in Weak Turbulence
• Topological applications of Inverse
Scattering Technique in Topology
• Revenge of Water: “Killer Waves”
Zakharov and Poetry
• Is Poetry compatible with Theoretical
Physics?
(P.Dirac and R.Oppenheimer episode)
• “Poet in Russia is more than a Poet..”