{"id":152,"date":"2018-08-06T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=152"},"modified":"2019-02-15T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:15:37","slug":"yakov-dimant","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/profiles\/yakov-dimant\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakov Dimant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professional Preparation<\/strong><br \/>\nNovosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), <em>Physics &amp; Applied Mathematics<\/em>, M.Sc., 1972<br \/>\nLebedev Institute of Physics (Moscow, Russia), <em>Theoretical &amp; Mathematical Physics<\/em>, Ph.D., 1979<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Position<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Senior Research Scientist<\/em>, Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2001\u2013present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Interest and Current Research Activities<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Dimant\u2019s primary research interest is in collisional plasma theory. Current active research topics include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Theoretical studies of plasma instabilities at the lower ionosphere and related macroscopic phenomena<\/li>\n<li>Theory and simulations of meteor plasma and related phenomena<\/li>\n<li>Ionosphere-Magnetosphere coupling through anomalous conductivity<\/li>\n<li>Theoretical studies of plasma instabilities at the Solar chromosphere<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><br \/>\nAuthored and co-authored about 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and collections of papers. Made more than 150 presentations at various national and international conferences and workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9387,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/152\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}