Vitaliy Gyrya Graduate Assistant, Applied Mathematics Office: Department of Mathematics 418 McAllister Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Telephone: (814) 863-9021 Fax: (814) 865-3735 E-mail: gyrya@math.psu.edu

EDUCATION:

MS in Applied Mathematics (University of Akron), August 2005

BA in Mathematics (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), May 2003

BA in Computer Science (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), May 2003

COURSES:

Math 250, Ordinary Differential Equations, Fall 2007 (section 4)

Math 230, Calculus and Vector Analysis, Fall 2006 (sections 1 and 2)

Math 220, Matrices, Spring 2006 (sections 10,11, and 13)

RESEARCH AREAS:

PDE and Homogenization

AWARDS:

John Bogart Prize, 2000

PUBLICATIONS:

A model of hydrodynamic interaction between swimming bacteria with Leonid Berlyand, Igor Aranson, and Dmitry Karpeev (2008).

High-order Mimetic Finite Difference Methods on Arbitrary Meshes (highlight) with Konstantin Lipnikov (2007).

A Numerical Study of One-Step Models of Polymerization: Frontal vs. Bulk Mode with Stephen A. Cardarelli, Dmitry Golovaty, Laura K. Gross, and Jianping Zhu, Physica D, 206 (3-4), pp. 145-165 (2005).