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Michel E. Jabbour

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Kentucky

Mailing Address:
729 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027

Phone: (859) 257-8836
Fax: (859) 257-4078
E-mail: jabbour@ms.uky.edu




Employment & Education:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, 2007-present.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, 2001-2007.
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999-2001.
  • Ph.D., Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2000.
  • M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 1994.
  • Maîtrise de Mécanique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), 1993.

Research Interests:
Continuum Mechanics and Mathematics of Materials, with emphasis on the modelling and analysis of crystal growth and epitaxy.
Selected Publications:
  • P. Cermelli & M. E. Jabbour, A Novel Mechanism for the Onset of Step-Bunching Instabilities During the Epitaxy of Single-Species Crystalline Films, Phys. Rev. B, 75, 2007, 165409-1/165409-9.

  • F. Hausser, M. E. Jabbour, & A. Voigt, A Step-Flow Model for the Heteroepitaxial Growth of Strained, Substitutional, Binary Alloy Films With Phase Segregation: I. Modeling, SIAM Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 6, 2007, 158-189.

  • M. E. Jabbour, Epitaxy of Binary Compounds and Alloys, J. Elasticity, 80, 2006, 153-189.

  • P. Cermelli & M. E. Jabbour, Multispecies Epitaxial Growth on Vicinal Surfaces With Chemical Reactions and Diffusion, P. Royal Soc. London A, 461, 2005, 3483-3504.

  • M. E. Jabbour & K. Bhattacharya, Multispecies Thin Solid Film Growth by Chemical Vapor Deposition, J. Elasticity, 73, 2003, 13-74.

  • M. E. Gurtin & M. E. Jabbour, Interface Evolution in Three Dimensions With Curvature-Dependent Energy and Surface Diffusion: Interface-Controlled Evolution, Phase Transitions, Epitaxial Growth of Elastic Films, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 163, 2002, 171-208.

  • M. E. Jabbour & K. Bhattacharya, A Multispecies Step Flow Model of Growth of Compound Thin Films by MOCVD, Thin Solid Films, 357, 1999, 26-30.


Biography (PDF) Teaching SNP Meeting/IMA-PI Conference (September 2003)