People at UWO Applied Mathematics

Mikko Karttunen
Associate Professor

Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario Middlesex College, Rm. 282 London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 tel: (519) 661-2111 ext. 88790 fax: (519) 661-3523 email: mkarttu at uwo.ca web: http://www.softsimu.org PhD McGill, Physics; condensed matter theory, 1999 MSc Tampere (Finland), engineering physics, 1993. Minors: Math & medical engineering

Research Interests

• Biological physics & soft condensed matter
• Self-assembly
• Nanosystems
• Colloidal systems & electrokinetics
• Pattern formation
• Computational methods, multiscale modeling

Representative Publications

• Dielectrophoresis of nanocolloids: a molecular dynamics study, E. Salonen and E. Terama and I. Vattulainen and Mikko Karttunen Eur. Phys. J. E 18, 133-142 (2005)
• Lessons of Slicing Membranes: Interplay of Packing, Free Area, and Lateral Diffusion in Phospholipid/Cholesterol Bilayers, Emma Falck, Michael Patra, Mikko Karttunen, Marja T. Hyvönen, and Ilpo Vattulainen Biophys. J. 87, 1076-1091 (2004).
• Crumpling of a stiff tethered membrane, J.A. Åström, J. Timonen, and Mikko Karttunen Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 244301 (2004).
• Electrorotation in graded colloidal suspensions, J.P. Huang, K.W. Yu, G.Q. Gu and Mikko Karttunen, Phys. Rev. E 67, 051405 (2003).
• Integration schemes for dissipative particle dynamics simulations: From softly interacting systems towards hybrid models, Ilpo Vattulainen, Mikko Karttunen, Gerhard Besold, and James Polson, J. Chem. Phys., 116, pp. 3967-3979 (2002)
• Defects, Order, and Hysteresis in Driven Charge-Density Waves, Mikko Karttunen, Mikko Haataja, K. R. Elder, and Martin Grant, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 83, pp. 3518-3521 (1999)