Personal information

Date of birth: 16.11.68

Nationality: Ukrainian

Business address  -  Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
                              of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
                              1 Svientsitskii Str.,79011, Lviv, Ukraine.
                              Tel.: (0322) 76-09-08,
                              E-mail:pylyp@icmp.lviv.ua

Temporary address  -  Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica,
                                 11529, Taipei, Taiwan.
                                 Tel.: (02) 2789-6765.
                                 E-mail: usatenko@stp1.phys.sinica.edu.tw

Languages

Ukrainian, Polish, English: spoken,written and read

Education history

1997                              Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics.
Research adviser:            Prof. M.P. Kozlovskii.
Doctoral thesis:

                           "Calculation of the thermodynamic functions of
                        n-component classical magnetic model in the vicinity
                                         of the phase transition point".

1992-1996

                        Post-graduated study, Department for Statistical Theory
                        of Condensed Systems of the Institute for Condensed
                        Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

1986-1991

                        B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics,
                        Physical department of Lviv State University, Lviv, Ukraine.
 

Employment history
2000-Present

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Physics, Institute of Physics Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taipei.

1997-1999

Junior Research Fellow, Department for Statistical Theory of
Condensed Systems of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.

1992-1996

Post-graduate student, Department for Statistical Theory of
Condensed Systems of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.

1991-1993

Dipl. engineer, Physico-Mechanical Institute of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.
 

Field of activity and current interests - condensed matter, critical phenomena, surface physics, polymer physics, statistical and theoretical physics

Scientific experience

1998-Present  -
  Investigation of the critical behaviour of semi-infinite quenched dilute
  Ising-like systems by applying the field theoretic approach directly in d=3
  dimensions as well as in 4-\epsilon dimensions.

1993-1997  - Investigation of the critical behaviour of the classical n-vector
  model in three dimensions in the framework of the renormalization group
  approach and application of the collective variables method.

1990-1992  - The development of the method of calculating the critical
  temperature of three-dimensional Ising-like system using the
  non-Gaussian distribution.

 List of main publications

1. M.P.Kozlovskii, I.V. Pylyuk, Z.E.Usatenko. Method of
calculating the critical temperature of three-dimensional Ising-like system
using the non-Gaussian distribution, Phys. stat. sol. (B),-1996, 197,
P.465-477.

2. M.P.Kozlovskii, Z.E.Usatenko. Investigation of the critical
behaviour of n-component magnetic model. I. Recursion relations, Ukrainian
Journal of Physics, - 1996, 41, N11.- P.1134 - 1143.

3. M.P.Kozlovskii, Z.E.Usatenko. Investigation of the critical behaviour of
n-component magnetic model.ll.Calculation of the free energy at the
temperatures T>Tc, Ukrainian Journal of Physics, - 1997, 42, N3.-
P.368-380.

4. Z.E.Usatenko, M.P.Kozlovskii. Investigation of the critical behaviour
of n-component magnetic model, Materials Science and Engineering A,-
1997, 227, - P.732-735.

5. M.P.Kozlovskii, Z.E.Usatenko. Investigation of the critical behaviour of
n-component magnetic model. Calculation of the equation of state and
thermodynamic characteristics of the system near the phase transition point,
Preprint ICMP-97-12U, Lviv (1997) (in Ukrainian).

6. Z.E.Usatenko, M.P.Kozlovskii. Thermodynamic characteristics of
the classical n-vector magnetic model in three dimensions,
Preprint cond-mat/9812371, 1998.

7. Z.E.Usatenko, M.P.Kozlovskii. Thermodynamic characteristics of three
dimensional classical n-vector magnetic model at the temperatures below the
critical, Ukrainian Journal of Physics, - 1999, 44, N12. (in Ukrainian).

8. Z.E.Usatenko, M.P.Kozlovskii. Thermodynamic characteristics of the
 classical n-vector magnetic model in three dimensions, Phys. Rev. B, - 2000, 62, - P.9599-9615.

9. M. Shpot, Z. Usatenko, Chin-Kun Hu. Surface critical behaviour of random systems at the ordinary transition, Preprint cond-mat/0011114, 2000.

10.Z. Usatenko, M. Shpot, Chin-Kun Hu. Surface critical behaviour of
random systems. Ordinary transition, Phys. Rev. E, 63, 056102 (2001).

11. Z.E.Usatenko, M.P.Kozlovskii. Calculation of the thermodynamic
characteristics of the classical 3D n-vector magnetic model,
Proceedings of the First Regional Conference: "Magnetic and
Superconducting Materials", ed. by A.Akhavan, World Scient.Publ.,
2000.

 I've participated in the work of the following conferences:

1. International workshop on statistical physics and condensed matter
theory, Lviv, Ukraine, September 11-14, 1995.

2. Ninth International conference on Rapidly Quenchered
and Metastable Materials, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1996.

3. Scientific seminar on statistical theory of condensed systems, Lviv,
Ukraine, March 14-15, 1997.

4. Workshop on Condensed Matter Physics, Lviv, Ukraine, May 21-24, 1998.

5. Third Trieste Conference on Statistical Field Theory, Trieste, Italy,
1998.

6. XXth IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Paris,
France, July 20-24, 1998.

7. International Conference dedicated to the memory of Prof.I.Z.Fisher
"Special problems in physics of Liquids", Odessa, May 31-June 4, 1999.

8. International Summer School on Statistical Physics and Probabilistic
Methods in Computer Science, 23 August - 3 September, Trieste, Italy, 1999.

9. Topical Conference on "NP-hardness and phase transitions" 6 - 10
September, 1999, Trieste, Italy.

10. International Congress on Mathematical Physics, London, July 17-22 2000.

11. The 8th Asia Pasific Conference, Taipei, August 7-10 2000.

12. Workshop "Modern problems of soft matter theory", Lviv, August 27-31 2000.

 Brief statement of present research interests

1. The investigation of the critical behaviour of random polymer solutions in three
dimensions.
2. The investigation of the critical adsorption of polymers and heteropolymers on wall.