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, 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)

RESEARCH AREAS:

PDE and Homogenization

AWARDS:

John Bogart Prize, 2000

PUBLICATIONS:

High-order mimetic finite difference method for diffusion problems on polygonal meshes with Konstantin Lipnikov (2008).

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).