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Leonid Berlyand is a Ukrainian and American mathematician. He authored seminal works in homogenization theory and percolation.

Life and career
Berlyand was born in Kharkov on September 20, 1957. His father, Victor Berlyand, was a mechanical engineer; his mother, Maya, an electronics engineer. Upon his graduation from the department of mathematics and mechanics of the National University of Kharkov in 1979, he started doctorate studies at the same university and earned a Ph. D. in 1984. His Ph. D. thesis was on the homogenization of elasticity problems. He worked at the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics in Moscow. In 1991 he moved to the USA and started working at the Pennsylvania State University, where he serves as a full professor since 2003. Berlyand authored about 90 works on homogenization theory and PDE/variational problems in biology and material science. He led large-scale projects and organized a number of professional conferences.

Research
Drawing upon the fundamental works on classical homogenization theory, Berlyand advanced the methods of homogenization in versatile applications. He obtained mathematical results applicable to diverse scientific areas that include biology, fluid mechanics, superconductivity, elasticity, and material science. His mathematical modeling explained striking experimental result on collective swimming  of bacteria. His novel homogenization approach to multi-scale problems was turned into a practical computational tool by introducing a concept of polyharmonic homogenization that led to a new type of multiscale finite elements.

Awards and honors

 * C. I. Noll award for excellence in teaching of Penn State University 2004
 * Honorary professor (Professoris honoris cavsa) of the Moscow State University, 2017

Books (author)

 * "Introduction to Network Approximation for Materials Modeling" (with A. Kolpakov and A. Novikov), Cambridge University Press (2012).

Selected publications

 * "Phase-Field Model of Cell Motility: Traveling Waves and Sharp Interface Limit" (with M. Potomkin and V. Rybalko), Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 354(10), pp. 986-992 (2016)
 * "Rayleigh Approximation for ground states of the Bose and Coulomb glasses" (with S. D. Ryan, V. Mityushev, and V. M. Vinokur), Scientific Reports: Nature Publishing Group, 5, 7821 (2015)
 * "Flexibility of bacterial flagella in external shear results in complex swimming trajectories" (with M. Tournus, A. Kirshtein, and I. Aranson), Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12 (102) (2014)
 * "Vortex phase separation in mesoscopic superconductors" (with O. Iaroshenko, V. Rybalko, V. M. Vinokur), Scientific Reports: Nature Publishing Group 3 (2013)
 * "Effective viscosity of bacterial suspensions: A three-dimensional PDE model with stochastic torque" (with B.M. Haines, I.S. Aranson, D.A. Karpeev), Comm. Pure Appl. Anal., v. 11(1), pp. 19-46 (2012)
 * "Flux norm approach to finite dimensional homogenization approximations with non-separated scales and high contrast" (with H. Owhadi), Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., v. 198, n. 2, pp. 677-721 (2010)
 * "Solutions with Vortices of a Semi-Stiff Boundary Value Problem for the Ginzburg-Landau Equation" (with V. Rybalko), J. European Math. Society v. 12 n. 6, pp.1497-1531 (2009)
 * "Fictitious Fluid Approach and Anomalous Blow-up of the Dissipation Rate in a 2D Model of Concentrated Suspensions" (with Y. Gorb and A. Novikov), Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., v. 193, n. 3, pp. 585-622, (2009), DOI:10.1007/s00205-008-0152-2
 * "Effective Viscosity of Dilute Bacterial Suspensions: A Two-Dimensional Model" (with B. Haines, I. Aronson, and D. Karpeev), Physical Biology, 5:4, 046003 (9pp) (2008)
 * "Ginzburg-Landau minimizers with prescribed degrees. Capacity of the domain and emergence of vortices" (with P. Mironescu), J. Functional Analysis, v. 239, n. 1, pp. 76-99 (2006)
 * "Network Approximation in the Limit of Small Interparticle Distance of the Effective Properties of a High-Contrast Random Dispersed Composite" (with A. Kolpakov), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 159, pp. 179-227 (2001)
 * "Non-Gaussian Limiting Behavior of the Percolation Threshold in a Large System" (with J.Wehr), Communications in Mathematical Physics, 185, 73-92 (1997), pdf.
 * "Large Time Asymptotics of Solutions to a Model Combustion System with Critical Nonlinearity" (with J. Xin), Nonlinearity, 8:161-178 (1995)
 * "Asymptotics of the Homogenized Moduli for the Elastic Chess-Board Composite" (with S. Kozlov), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 118, 95-112 (1992)