Milos Dolnik

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Departments/Programs

Chemistry

Degrees

Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Ph.D.
Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, M.S.

Expertise

Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics. Pattern Formation in Reaction-Diffusion Systems. Mathematical Modeling of Complex Chemical Reactions. Deterministic Chaos, Control of Chaos and Communication with Chaos. Modeling and Analysis of Gene Networks. Cell Cycle Dynamics.

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My research focuses on dynamics of oscillatory chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. I taught undergraduate courses in chemical engineering, chemical calculations, technological projects and chemical engineering laboratory courses in Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic. At Brandeis I have been involved in research on nonlinear dynamics of chemical and biological systems and I have taught the general chemistry and honors general chemistry laboratory courses.

Courses Taught

CHEM	18a	General Chemistry Laboratory I
CHEM	18b	General Chemistry Laboratory II
CHEM	19a	Honors General Chemistry Laboratory I
CHEM	19b	Honors General Chemistry Laboratory II

Scholarship

Konow, Ch., Somberg N.H., Chavez J., Epstein I.R. Dolnik M.. "Turing Patterns on Radially Growing Domains: Experiments and Simulations." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21. (2019): 6718-6724.

Nagao R., De Miranda R. C.C., Epstein I.R., Dolnik M.. "Effect of the Ultraviolet Light on Turing Patterns in the Chlorine Dioxide – Iodine – Malonic Acid Reaction." J. Phys. Chem. A 123. (2019): 992-998.

Fulczyk A., Łata E., Dolnik M., Talik E., Kowalska T., Sajewicz M.:. "Impact of D2O on peptidization of L-Cysteine." Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis 125. (2018): 555-565.

Gaskins D.K., Soohoo J.S., Epstein I.R. Dolnik M. "Birth and Death of Invading Standing Waves in the BZ-AOT Reaction-diffusion System." Isr. J. Chem 58. (2018): 1-6.

Gaskins D.K., Soohoo J.S., Epstein I.R. Dolnik M.. "Turing-Hopf Front Invasion: Rings and shells." Phys. Rev. E 98. (2018): 040201-1-6.

Gaskins D.K., Pruc E.E., Epstein I.R., Dolnik M.. "Multifold Increases in Turing Pattern Wavelength in the Chlorine Dioxide-Iodine-Malonic Acid Reaction-Diffusion System." Phys. Rev. Lett. 117. (2016): 048304-1-4.

Gentili P.L., Gotoda H., Dolnik M., Epstein I.R.. "Analysis and prediction of aperiodic hydrodynamic oscillatory time series by feed-forward neural networks, fuzzy logic, and a local nonlinear predictor." Chaos 25. (2015): 013104.

Gentili P.L., Dolnik M., Epstein I.R.. "“Photochemical Oscillator”: Colored Hydrodynamic Oscillations and Waves in a Photochromic System." J. Phys.Chem. C 118. (2014): 598-608.

Haim L., Hadberg A., Raphael Nagao, Steinberg A.P., Dolnik M., Epstein I.R., Meron E. "Fronts and patterns in a spatially forced CDIMA reaction." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 16. (2014): 26137-26143.

Sajevicz M., Dolnik M., Kowalska T., Epstein I.R.. "Condensation dynamics of L-proline and L-hydroxyproline in solutions." RSC Advances 4. (2014): 7330-7339.

Steinberg A.P., Epstein I.R., Dolnik M.. "Target Turing Patterns and Growth Dynamics in the Chlorine Dioxide-Iodine-Malonic Acid Reaction." J. Phys. Chem. A 118. (2014): 2393-2400.

Nagao R., Epstein I.R., Dolnik M. "Forcing of Turing Patterns in the Chlorine Dioxide-Iodine-Malonic Acid Reaction with Strong Visible Light." J. Phys. Chem. A 117. (2013): 9120-9126.

Feldman D., Nagao R., Bánsági T. Jr., Epstein I.R., Dolnik M. "Turing Patterns in the Chlorine-Dioxide-Iodine-Malonic Acid Reaction with Square Spatial Periodic Forcing." Physical Chemistry - Chemical Physics 14. (2012): 6577-6583.

Dolnik M., Bánsági T. Jr., Ansari S., Valent I.,Epstein I.R.:. "Locking of Turing Patterns in the Chlorine-Dioxide-Iodine-Malonic Acid Reaction with One-dimensional Spatial Periodic Forcing." Physical Chemistry - Chemical Physics 13. (2011): 12578-12583.

Miquez D.G., Dolnik M., Epstein I.R., Muñuzuri A.P. "Interaction of Chemical Patterns in Coupled Layers." Phys. Rev. E 84. (2011): 046210.

Sajevicz M., Dolnik M., Kronenbach D., Gontarska M., Kowalska T., Irving R. Epstein. "Oligomerization Oscillations of L-Lactic Acid in Solution." J. Phys. Chem 115A. (2011): 14331-14339.

Bánsági T. Jr., Ansari S., Epstein I.R.: Dolnik M.. "Rearrangement Dynamics of Fishbone-like Turing Patterns Generated by Spatial Periodic Forcing." Physical Review E 81. (2010): 066207.

Berenstein I., Yang L., Muñuzuri A.P., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R:. "Breathing spiral waves in the chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction-diffusion system." Phys. Rev. E 78. (2008): 025101.

Epstein I.R., Berenstein I. B., Dolnik M., Vanag K. V., Yang L., Zhabotinsky A.M.. "Coupled and forced patterns in reaction diffusion systems." Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 366. (2008): 397-408.

Miguez D.G., Dolnik M., Muñuzuri A.P., Kramer L. "The Effect of Axial Growth on Turing Pattern Formation." Physical Review Letters 96. (2006): 048304.

Yang L., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Turing patterns beyond hexagons and stripes." Chaos 16. (2006): 037114.

Berenstein I., Dolnik M., Yang L., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Turing Pattern Formation in a Two-Layer System: Superposition and Superlattice Patterns." Phys. Rev. E. 70. (2004): 046219-1-4.

Berenstein I., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Spatial periodic perturbation of Turing pattern development using a striped mask." J.Phys.Chem. A 107. (2003): 4428-4435.

Berenstein I., Yang L., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R. "Superlattice Turing structures in a photosensitive reaction-diffusion system." Phys. Rev. Lett. 91. 5 (2003): 058302-1-4.

Hasty J., Dolnik M., Rottschafer, Collins J. J.. "Synthetic gene network for entraining and amplifying cellular oscillations." Phys. Rev. Lett. 88. (2002): 148101-1-4.

Yang L., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Pattern Formation Arising from Interactions between Turing and Wave Instabilities." J. Chem. Phys. 117. (2002): 7259-7265.

Yang L., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Spatial Resonances and Superposition Patterns in a Reaction-Diffusion Model with Interacting Turing Modes." Phys. Rev. Lett. 88. (2002): 208303-1-4.

Dolnik M., Berenstein I., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Spatial Periodic Forcing of Turing Structures." Phys. Rev. Lett. 87. (2001): 238301-1-4.

Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M.,Epstein I.R.. "Resonant suppression of Turing patterns by periodic illumination." Phys. Rev. E. 63. (2001): 026101-1-10.

Hasty J., Isaacs F., Dolnik M., McMillen D., Collins J. J.. "Designer gene networks: Towards fundamental cellular control." Chaos 11. (2001): 207-220.

Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Rovinsky A.B., Epstein I.R.. "Spatio-temporal patterns in a reaction-diffusion system with wave instability." Chem. Eng. Sci. 55. (2000): 223-231.

Hasty J., Pradines J., Dolnik M., Collins J. J.. "Noise-based switches and amplifiers for gene expression." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 97. (2000): 2075-2080.

Hasty J., Pradines J., Dolnik M., Collins J. J.:. "Noise-based switches for gene expression in "Stochaos: Stochastic and Chaotic Dynamics in the Lakes", eds. Broomhead D.S., Luchinskaya E.A, McClintock P.V. and Mullin T.,." American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY 502. (2000): 191-196.

Horváth A.K., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M.,Epstein I.R.. "Kinetics of photoresponse of the chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction." J.Phys. Chem A 104. (2000): 5766-5769.

Vanag K.V., Yang L., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M.,Epstein I.R. "Oscillatory cluster patterns in a homogeneous chemical system with global feedback." Nature 406. (2000): 389-391.

Yang L., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M.,Epstein I.R. "Oscillatory clusters in a model of the photosensitive Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction system with global feedback." Phys. Rev. E 62. (2000): 6414-6420.

Dolnik M., Rovinsky A.B., Zhabotinsky A.M.,Epstein I.R. "Standing Waves in a Two-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion Model with the Short-Wave Instability." J. Phys. Chem. A 103. (1999): 38-45.

Dolnik M., Gardner T.S., Epstein I.R., Collins J. J.. "Frequency control of an oscillatory reaction by reversible binding of an autocatalyst." Phys. Rev. Lett. 82. (1999): 1582-1585.

Horváth A.K., Dolnik M., Muñuzuri A.P., Zhabotinsky A.M.,Epstein I.R.. "Control of the Turing structures by periodic illumination." Phys. Rev. Lett. 83. (1999): 2950-2952.

Muñuzuri A.P., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M.,Epstein I.R. "Control of the chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid oscillating reaction by illumination." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121. (1999): 8065-8069.

Dolnik M., Bollt E. M.:. "Communication with chemical chaos in the presence of noise." Chaos 8. (1998): 702-710.

Gardner T.S., Dolnik M., Collins J. J.. "Controlling cell division through manipulation of cell cycle dynamics." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 95. (1998): 14190-14195.

Bollt E.M., Dolnik M.. "Encoding information in chemical chaos by controlling symbolic dynamics." Phys. Rev. E 55. (1997): 6404-6413.

Bollt E.M., Dolnik M.:. "Learning the grammar of a chaotic dynamical system in a format suitable for controlling symbol dynamics and communications." Proc. 1st International Conference on Controlling Chaotic Oscillations, St. Petersburg, Russia (1997): 573-577.

Dolnik M., Banks A.S., Epstein I.R.. "Oscillatory chemical reaction in a CSTR with feedback control of flow rate." J. Phys.Chem. A 101. (1997): 5148-5154.

Bugrim A.E., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Heterogeneous sources of target patterns in reaction-diffusion systems." J. Phys. Chem. 100. (1996): 19017-19022.

Dolnik M., Epstein I.R.:. "Coupled chaotic chemical oscillators." Phys. Rev. E 54. (1996): 3361-3368.

Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Modulated and alternating waves in a reaction-diffusion model with the wave instability." J. Chem. Soc. Far. Trans 92. (1996): 2919-2925.

Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Epstein I.R.. "Modulated standing waves in a short reaction-diffusion system." J. Phys. Chem. 100. (1996): 6604-6607.

Orbán M., Dolnik M., Epstein I.R. "Reply to "Mechanism of the oscillatory bromate oxidation of sulfite and ferrocyanide in a CSTR"." J. Phys. Chem. 100. (1996): 16443.

Buchholtz F., Dolnik M., Epstein I.R. "Diffusion-induced instabilities near a canard." J. Phys. Chem. 99. (1995): 15093-15101.

Zhabotinsky A.M., Dolnik M., Epstein I.R.. "Pattern formation arising from wave instability in a simple reaction-diffusion system." J. Chem. Phys. 103. (1995): 10306-10314.

Dolnik M., Abbott L.F., Epstein I.R. "Concentration dependent regulation of flow rate in a chemical oscillator." J.Phys.Chem 98. (1994): 10124-10130.

Dolnik M., Kosek J., Votrubová V., Marek M.. "Spatiotemporal patterns in simple reaction cell arrays with time delay." J. Phys. Chem. 98. (1994): 3707-3715.

Eager M.D., Santos M., Dolnik M., Zhabotinsky A.M., Kustin K., Epstein I.R. "Dependence of wave speed on acidity and initial bromate concentration in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction-diffusion system." J. Phys. Chem 98. (1994): 10750-10755.

Zhabotinsky A.M., Györgyi L., Dolnik M., Epstein I.R.. "Stratification in a thin-layered excitable reaction-diffusion system with transverse concentration gradients." J. Phys. Chem. 98. (1994): 7981-7990.

Dolnik M., Epstein I.R.. "A coupled chemical burster: The chlorine dioxide - iodide reaction in two flow reactors." J. Chem. Phys. 98. (1993): 1149-1155.

Dolnik M., Epstein I.R. "Excitability and bursting in the chlorine dioxide - iodide reaction in a forced open system." J. Chem. Phys. 97. (1992): 3265-3273.

Dolnik M., Marek M., Epstein I.R.. "Resonances in periodically forced excitable system." J. Phys. Chem. 96. (1992): 3218-3224.

Dolnik M., Marek M. "Phase excitation curves in the model of forced excitable reaction systems." J. Phys. Chem. 95. (1991): 7267-7272.

Finkeová J., Dolnik M., Hrudka B., Marek M. "Excitable chemical reaction system in a CSTR." J. Phys. Chem. 94. (1990): 4110-4115.

Dolnik M., Finkeová J., Schreiber I., Marek M. "Dynamics of forced excitable and oscillatory chemical reaction systems." J. Phys. Chem. 93. (1989): 2764-2774.

Dolnik M., Finkeová J., Schreiber I., Marek M.:. "Dynamics of a periodically forced reaction system. I. Oscillatory system." Sci. Papers of the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology 22. (1989): 209-239.

Dolnik M., Finkeová J., Schreiber I., Marek M.:. "Dynamics of a periodically forced reaction system. II. Excitable system." Sci. Papers of the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology 22. (1989): 241-271.

Dolnik M., Marek M.. "Pulse stimulation of coupled chemical oscillators." Proc. of "A Nonlinear Wave Processes in Excitable Media",eds. A.V. Holden, M. Markus, H.G. Othmer, Leeds (1989): 91-97.

Marek M., Dolnik M., Schreiber I., Finkeová J.. "Excitable chemical reaction systems." Proc. of "A Nonlinear Wave Processes in Excitable Media",eds. A.V. Holden, M. Markus, H.G. Othmer, Leeds (1989): 79-89.

Dolnik M., Marek M.. "Extinction of oscillations in forced and coupled reaction cells." J. Phys. Chem. 92. (1988): 2452-2455.

Schreiber I., Dolnik M., Choc P., Marek M. "Resonance behaviour in two parameter families of periodically forced oscillators." Phys. Lett. A 128. (1988): 66-70.

Dolnik M., Padušáková E., Marek M.. "Periodic and aperiodic regimes in coupled reaction cells with pulse forcing." J. Phys. Chem. 91. (1987): 4407-4410.

Dolnik M., Schreiber I., Marek M.:. "Dynamic of chemical reactions with periodic forcing." Sci. Papers of the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology K21. (1987): 261-294.

Dolnik M., Schreiber I., Marek M.. "Dynamic regimes in a periodically forced reaction cell with oscillatory chemical reaction." Physica D 21. (1986): 78-92.

Marek M., Dolnik M., Schreiber I.. "Dynamic patterns in interacting chemical cells and effects of external periodic forcing." Proc. of the Conf. "Selforganization by Nonlinear Irreversible Processes", eds. W. Ebeling, H. Ulbricht, Springer Verlag (1986): 133-136.

Dolnik M., Schreiber I., Marek M. "Experimental observations of periodic and chaotic regimes in a forced chemical oscillator." Phys. Lett. A 100. (1984): 316-319.

Dolnik M., Suchanová D., Marek M., Lichnovský P.. "Periodic concentration forcing of chemical oscillations experiments." Sci. Papers of the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology K18. (1983): 151-175.