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personal photo 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


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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

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TEACHING:

Math 250, Ordinary Differential Equations, Spring 2010 (section 2)

Math 250, Ordinary Differential Equations, Summer 2009 (section 1)

Math 251, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Spring 2009 (section 9)

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)

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RESEARCH AREAS:

PDE and Homogenization (PhD Advisor: L. Berlyand)

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AWARDS:

John Bogart Prize, 2000

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PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Effective shear viscosity and dynamics of suspensions of micro-swimmers from small to moderate concentrations
    with K. Lipnikov, I. Aronson, and L. Berlyand,
    submitted (2009).

  2. Mimetic finite difference method for the Stokes problem on polygonal meshes
    with L. Beirao da Veiga, K. Lipnikov and G. Manzini,
    Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 228, no. 19, pp. 7215-7232 (2009).

  3. Mimetic Finite Differences for Modeling Stokes Flow on Polygonal Meshes
    with K. Lipnikov,
    highlight, Los Alamos NL (2008).

  4. High-order mimetic finite difference method for diffusion problems on polygonal meshes
    with K. Lipnikov,
    Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 227, no. 20, pp. 8841-8854 (2008).

  5. A model of hydrodynamic interaction between swimming bacteria
    with L. Berlyand, I. Aronson, and D. Karpeev,
    Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, published online, DOI 10.1007/s11538-009-9442-6 (2009).

  6. High-order Mimetic Finite Difference Methods on Arbitrary Meshes
    with K. Lipnikov,
    highlight, Los Alamos NL (2007).

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


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