Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics
Integral Geometry with applications to Computerized Tomography and Biomedical Imaging
Geometric Analysis
Photonic crystal theory.
Quantum Graphs with applications to mathematical modeling of meso- and nano-scale structures.
Enhancement of K-12 education
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Date |
Degree |
Institution |
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1983 |
Science Doctor in Mathematics and Physics |
Acad. of Sciences, Kiev, USSR |
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1973 |
PhD in Mathematics |
Kharkov State University, Kharkov, USSR |
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1971 |
MS in Mathematics |
Voronezh State University, Voronezh, USSR |
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Dates |
Position |
Institution |
|---|---|---|
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2011 - present |
University Distinguished Professor |
Mathematics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA |
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2001 - 2011 |
Professor |
Mathematics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA |
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1993-2001 |
Professor |
Mathematics and Statistics Dept., Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA |
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1990-1993 |
Associate Professor |
same Department |
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1985 -1989 |
Professor |
Math. Departments, State University and Forestry Institute, Voronezh, USSR |
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1987-1989 |
Chairman |
Math. Department, Forestry Institute, Voronezh, USSR |
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1976-1984 |
Associate Professor |
same Department |
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1972-1975 |
Assistant Professor |
same Department |
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1971-1972 |
Math. Teacher |
High school, Voronezh, USSR |
Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics ("For All Practical Purposes")
Trigonometry
Calculus Sequence
Advanced Calculus
Ordinary Differential Equations
Introduction to Mathematical Biology
Engineering Mathematics
Complex Analysis
Linear Algebra
Numerical Linear Algebra
Partial Differential Equations
Numerical Partial Differential Equations
Functional Analysis
Theory of Distributions and Fourier Analysis
Topology
Microlocal Analysis and Pseudodifferential Operators
Computerized Tomography
Probability and Statistics
Classical Mechanics
Classical Field Theory and Special Relativity
V.Sviridov, Some problems of the theory of periodic differential equations, 1986, Voronezh, USSR. Currently an Assoc. Prof. at the Polytechnic Univ., Kursk, Russia.
L.Khinkis, Spectral synthesis on semi- simple Lie groups, 1987, Voronezh, USSR. Currently an Assoc. Prof. (formerly Chair and Dean), Math. Department, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY.
L.Solomatina, Some problems on invariant differential equations on Riemannian symmetric spaces, 1990, Voronezh, USSR. Currently an actuary in Moscow, Russia.
V. Aguilar, The range of the exponential Radon transform, 1995, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. Currently an Assoc. Professor (and formerly Chair), Math. Dept., Univ. San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
S. Lissianoi, Mathematical problems of tomography and radiation therapy, 1996, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. Won the 1997 Dora Wallace Hodgson Outstanding Doctor Dissertation Award and an Award for the best student presentation during a 1996 Meeting of Kansas Section of MAA. Currently at Bay Networks in Boston, MA.
I. Ponomarev, Numerical analysis of problems of tomography, radiotherapy, and photonic crystal theory, 1997, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. Currently in the family oil business.
L. Kunyansky, Numerical and Analytic Study of Problems of Photonic Crystal Theory, 1998. Wichita State University, Wichita KS. The 1998 recipient of the Dora Wallace Hodgson Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. Currently an Associate Professor at the Math. Dept., U. Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
H. Zeng, Convergence of spectra of mesoscopic systems collapsing onto a graph, 2001, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. Currently an Associate Professor at Fort Heys Univ., KS.
Gaik Ambartsoumian, Spherical Radon Transform and Mathematical Problems of Thermoacoustic Tomography, 2006, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. The 2006 recipient of Guzeman Award. Starting 2006, an Assistant Prof. at Univ. of Texas, Arlington.
Beng-Seong Ong, Spectral Problems of Optical Waveguides and Quantum Graphs, 2006, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Currently at the geophysics company Veritas, Houston.
Yulia Georgieva-Hristova, Mathematical problems of Thermoacoustic and Compton camera imaging, 2010, Texas A&M University. The recipient of the 2nd place poster award at the 2009 IAMCS workshop. Graduating in summer 2010. Starting September 2010 - postdoc at the Inst. Math. and Appl., Minneapolis, MN.
Linh Nguyen, Mathematical problems of Thermoacoustic imaging, 2010, Texas A&M University. The 2009 recipient of Guzeman Award and of the 2nd place poster award at the 2009 IAMCS workshop. Graduating in summer 2010. Starting September 2010 - postdoc at the Math. Sci. Res. Inst., Berkeley, CA. Starting January 2011 - Assistant Prof. at Univ. of Idaho.
Moritz Allmaras (co-advising with Wolfgang Bangerth), Modeling Aspects and Computational Methods for Some Recent Problems of Tomographic Imaging, 2011, Texas A&M University. The recipient of the 1st place poster award at the 2009 IAMCS workshop.
Alexis Olson, current student.
Tracy Weyand, current student (co-advising with Gregory Berkolaiko).
Sunghwan Moon, current student.
Bingsheng Zhang, new current student.
Ngoc T. Do, current student.
A. Panchenko, John's equation and the range of the exponential Radon transform, 1996. Wichita State University, Wichita KS. Currently Assistant Prof. at Washington State Univ. after receiving a PhD from the Univ. of Delaware.
W. Axmann, Computations of spectra of photonic crystals, 1998. Wichita State University, Wichita KS. Currently helds PhD in Physics from Kansas State Univ. and teaches at Wichita State Univ., KS.
D. Meyers (2005)
E. Rodriguez (2005)
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PI or Co-PI |
Agency |
Project title |
Duration |
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PI |
NSF (Mathematics, Classical Analysis) |
Floquet Theory for Partial Differential Equations |
1991 - 1993 |
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PI |
Wesley Foundation (currently Kansas Health Foundation) |
New mathematical methods of correction and reconstruction in the medical SPECT imaging |
1991 - 1994 |
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PI |
NSF EPSCOR (Applied Mathematics ) |
Some problems of integral geometry with medical and industrial applications |
1992 - 1995 |
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PI |
NSF EPSCOR (Education) |
Kansas Outreach School in Mathematics |
1995 - 1996 |
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PI |
NSF (Applied Math.) |
Photonic band-gap materials |
1997 - 2000 |
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PI |
DEPSCoR (ARO) |
Mathematical analysis of photonic band-gap materials |
1997 - 2000 |
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PI |
NRC, COBASE (Cooperation in basic science and engineering with eastern Europe) |
Spectral theory of periodic differential operators |
1998 |
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Co-PI |
NSF |
Midwest Geometry Conference |
1998-2002 |
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Co-PI |
NSF EPSCoR (Equipment Grant) |
Acquiring a high performance computer. |
1999 |
|
PI |
NSF (Applied Math.) |
Band-gap Materials, Mesoscopic Structures, and Related Topics |
2000 - 2003 |
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Co-PI |
BiNational Science Foundation USA-Israel |
On representation of solutions of periodic elliptic equations and Liouville theorems |
2000 - 2003 |
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PI |
National Science Foundation |
Various Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations and Methods for their Solutions |
2002 - 2003 |
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PI |
National Science Foundation |
Quantum Graphs and Their Applications |
2004 - 2007 |
|
PI |
National Science Foundation |
Quantum Graphs and Their Applications - supplement |
2005 - 2006 |
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PI |
Texas A&M University |
Grant for developing a honors course on Mathematical Biology |
2005 - 2006 |
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PI |
National Science Foundation |
Mathematical Methods of Novel Modalities of Medical Imaging |
2006 - 2010 |
|
PI |
National Science Foundation |
Mathematical Methods of Novel Modalities of Medical Imaging, student supplement |
2006 - 2010 |
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co-PI |
National Science Foundation and DHS DNDO |
A Framework for Developing Novel Detection Systems Focused on Interdicting Shielded HEU |
2007 - 2012 |
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co-PI |
National Science Foundation |
Transition Points for High School and Undergraduate Mathematics Students |
2008 - 2013 |
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PI |
National Science Foundation |
Analysis on Graphs and its Applications (conference support for the 2007 Isaac Newton Institute program) |
2007 - 2008 |
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PI |
National Science Foundation |
Collaborative research: Mathematical Techniques for Emerging Methods in Biomedical Imaging |
2009 - 2012 |
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Co-PI |
DOE/DHS |
Nuclear Forensics Education Program |
2009-2012 |
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PI |
National Science Foundation |
Special Meetings: "Analysis on Graphs and its Applications", Cambridge, UK, July 2010. |
2010-2011 |
University Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University, 2011
Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 2009
Paper "Tight frames of exponentially decaying Wannier functions", J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) was chosen as IOP (Inst. of Physics) Select Paper. 2009
Texas A&M Department of Mathematics Outstanding Teaching Award, 2008.
Texas A&M Association of Former Students College Level Tecahing Award, 2008.
Member of Clare Hall college, University of Cambridge, 2007
Joint paper with M. Agranovsky "Uniqueness of reconstruction and an inversion procedure for thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography", Inverse Problems 23 (2007) was selected by the Editorial Board for the 2007 highlights.
Texas A&M Department of Mathematics Outstanding Service Award, 2005.
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Mathematical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America, American Physical Society, International Association of Mathematical Physics, Institute of Physics, Pi Mu Epsilon.
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Analysis and Mathematical Physics, Birkhauser, 2010 - .
Panel Member, "Cultivating Mathematical Interest and Talent of Precollege Students: Outreach through Summer Math Camps and Academies", Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco, January 13th 2010.
Inverse Problems core leader and member of the Executive Committee, IAMCS (Institute ofr Applied Mathematics and Computational Science) at Texas A&M University, June 2008 - December 2009.
Bulletin of the AMS (Editorial Board for Book Reviews): Chair, 01/2012 -, Member, 01/2005-12/2011.
Judge, SIAM student paper contest, 2008.
Editor of seven AMS volumes and one special journal issue.
Member of the AMS Committee on Education, February 2000 - January 2003
Co-organizer Focus group discussion, AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2001.
Member of the AMS Committee on Meetings and Conferences, February 2000 - January 2001
Referee during the past several years for: Comm. Math. Phys.; Comm. PDEs; GAFA; Inverse Problems; J. Approx. Theory; J. Comput. Physics; J. Theor. Probability; J. d'Analyse; J. Fourier Analysis; J. Math. Anal. and Appl.; J. Operator Theory and Integral Equations; J. Optics; J. Physics; Medical Physics; Memoirs of the AMS; Neural, Parallel, and Scientific Computations; SIAM J. Appl. Math.; SIAM J. Math. Anal.; Transactions of the AMS; IEEE Optics Lett.; IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging; IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques.
Proposal reviewer and member of several panels during the past several years for NSF, DOD, DOE, SPSRC (UK analog of NSF), Isaac Newton Inst. Math. Sci. (Cambridge, UK), ISF (Israel Scie. Found.), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Binational Science Foundation USA-Israel, L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), New Eurasia Foundation (Russia).
Books, music, travel.
Citizen of the USA
(with G. Bal, D. Finch, et al., Editors) Tomography and Inverse Transport Theory, AMS 2011
Periodic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications
(with M. Agranovsky) Spherical Mean Operators and their Applications
(with G. Berkolaiko) An Introduction to Quantum Graphs
(with G. Uhlmann) Radon Transform and Tomography (tentative title)
Co-chair of the SIAM Imaging Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 2012.
Member of the Organizing Committee (with W. Rundell, R. J Carroll, M. Jaoua, L. Paivarinta, O. Scherzer, J. Schotland, G. Uhlmann, M. Yamamoto, J. Zou) of the international conference “Applied Inverse Problems”, Texas A&M University, May 2011.
Member of the organizing Committee (with G. Uhlmann (U. Wash.), M. V. van de Hoop(Purdue Univ.), C. Koenig (U. Chicago), L. Paivarinta (Univ. Oulu), M. Zworski (Berkeley), L. Borcea (Rice)) "Inverse problems" semester program, MSRI, Berkeley, August 16 to December 17, 2010.
Co-organizer (with M. Brown (U. Cardiff), P. Exner (Dopler Inst., Prague), and T. Sunada (Meiji Univ., Tokyo)) of the workshop "Analysis on Graphs", Cambridge Univ., July 2010.
Co-organizer (with D. Lagoudas, R. Lipton, and J. Walton) of the IAMCS workshop "Multi-Scale Materials Modeling: Nano-Scale to Macro-Scale Materials Modeling and Hybrid Theories", Texas A&M, December 2-3 2009.
Chair of the organizing Committee (with D. Finch (Oregon St.), J. Schotland (UPenn), Y. Xu (Ryerson Univ., Canada)), "Mathematical Methods in Novel Modalities of Medical Imaging", Banff, Canada, October 2009.
Co-organizer (with G. Berkolaiko (Texas A&M), J. Harrison, and K. Kirsten (Baylor Univ.)) of the section "Analysis on Graphs and Singular Manifolds" at the Amer. Math. Soc. Meerting, Baylor Univ., October 2009.
Co-organizer (with N. Datta (U. Cambridge)) of the section "Non-relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum computation" at the Congress of the Internat. Soc. of Math. Physics, Prague, August 2009.
Member of the organizing Committee (with M. Braverman (Northeastern), L. Friedlander (U. Arizona), T. Kappeler (Lousanne), J. Weitsman (Northeastern)), "Spectral theory and geometric analysis", Northeastern Univ., Boston, July 2009.
Organizer, Mini-symposium on "Novel methods of medical imaging" at the Soc. Ind. and Appl. Math. Life Sciences conference, Montreal, August 2008.
Co-organizer (with T. Sunada, B. M. Brown, Y. Colin de Verdiere, R. Grigorchuk, and A. Teplyaev), Workshop on "Analysis on Graphs and Fractals", University of Wales, Cardiff, UK. May 27th - June 1st 2007.
Organizer, Workshop on "Quantum Graphs, their Spectra and Applications", Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, April 2 - 5 2007.
Co-organizer, AMS Special Session on Radon Transform and Tomography, January 2007, New Orleans, LA.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the 6 month program "Analysis on Graphs and its Applications" at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 8 January - 29 June 2007.
Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences "Quantum Graphs and Their Applications", Snowbird, UT, June 18 -- June 24, 2005.
Co-organizer of the Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences "Mathematical Modeling of Novel Optical Devices", Snowbird, UT, June 11 -- June 18, 2005.
Organizer of the special 2004-2005 year on spectral theory and mathematical physics at Texas A&M.
Organizer of a mini-workshop on Mathematical Analysis of Photonic Devices, Texas A&M Univ., May 2003.
Co-Organizer of the Special Session on Inverse problems and Tomography at the AMS Meeting, Binghamton, NY, October 2003.
Organizer of the Section on Spectral Theory and Wave Propagation at the 2002 UAB International Conference on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, Birmingham, Alabama, March 26-30, 2002.
Organizer of the Joint Summer Research Conference on Waves in Periodic and Random Media, South Hadley, MA, 2002.
Organizer of the 11th Midwest Geometry Conference, April 2001.
Co-organizer of the Joint Summer Research Conference on Integral Geometry, Tomography, and Impedance Imaging, South Hadley, MA, June 1993.
In the past several years numerous invited and contributed talks were presented at international and national meetings and at universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey, UK, and USA. Among the recent ones:
Series of invited lectures on integral geometry and tomography, July 2012, University of Washington, Seattle.
Principal speaker (10 lectures) at the CBMS Conference "Mathematical Methods of Computed Tomography", Univ. of Texas Arlington, May 27 - June 1, 2012.
Invited lecture "Integral geometry and microlocal analysis in hybrid imaging methods", Geometric Analysis on Euclidean and Homogeneous Spaces (in Honor of Sigurdur Helgason's 85th Birthday), Boston, 8-9 January 2012.
Invited lecture "A nodal domain count mystery", MAA Invited Paper Session on Decoding Geometry, at the Joint Math. Meetings, Boston, January 4-7, 2012.
Invited lecture "Nodal counts of billiard eigenfunctions and critical partitions", The 4th Cornell Conference on Analysis and Probability on Fractals, Cornell University, September 10-13, 2011.
Invited lecture "Ultrasound Modulated Imaging Modalities", Session on Hybrid Methods in Medical Imaging, at the ICIAM (Int. Congr. Industr. Appl. Math.), Vancouver, July 18-22, 2011.
Invited lecture "Hybrid methods of medical imaging", Applied Inverse Problems conference, Texas A&M University, May 2011.
2 Invited lectures "Tomographic methods in Imaging, I, II", Pre-conference workshop, Applied Inverse Problems conference, Texas A&M University, May 2011.
Invited lecture "Ultrasound Modulated Imaging Modalities", at AMS Special Session on "Inverse Problems and PDE Control", at the Joint International Meeting Pucon, Chile, December 15-18, 2010.
Invited lecture "Parseval frames of exponentially decaying Wannier functions" at Missouri-Illinois Harmonic Analysis workshop, October, 2010, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Series of 4 invited lectures on novel hybrid methods of imaging, Introductory Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications, August 23-27, 2010, MSRI, UC Berkeley.
Invited lecture "Parseval frames of exponentially decaying Wannier functions" at Spectral Geometry workshop, July 19-23, 2010, Dartmouth College.
Series of 9 invited lectures on integral geometry and tomography, June 26th - July 10th, 2010, University of Washington, Seattle.
Invited lecture "Detection of small low emission radiation sources" at the workshop Inverse Transport Theory and Tomography, BIRS, Banff, May 16-21, 2010.
Invited Colloquium Lecture "Can one hear the heat of a body? Mathematics of thermoacoustic tomography", Math. Dept., SMU, Dallas, November 18th, 2009.
Invited Lecture "Survey of mathematics of thermoacoustic tomography", Internat. Workshop "Mathematical Methods in Novel Modalities of Medical Imaging", Banff, Canada, October 2009.
Invited Lecture "Can one hear the heat of a body? Mathematics of thermoacoustic tomography", IAMCS workshop. May 2009, College Station, TX.
Series of 4 invited lectures on Radon transform and its applications, Graduate Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications, July 26-30, 2009, MSRI, UC Berkeley.
Invited Lecture "On reconstructions in thermoacoustic tomography" at the international conference on Integral Geometry and Tomography, Stockholm University, Sweden, August 12-15, 2008
Invited Lecture "Mathematical problems of thermoacoustic tomography" at the international conference Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation, Oludeniz-Fethiye, Mugla, Turkey, May 26 - 30, 2008.
Invited Applied Math Colloquium "Can one hear the heat of a body? Mathematics of thermoacoustic tomography", MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2008
Invited Colloquium "Can one hear the heat of a body? Mathematics of thermoacoustic tomography", Tufts University, Medford, MA, April 2008
Invited Lecture "Mathematical problems of thermoacoustic tomography. " at the Special Session on Radon Transforms, Tomography, and Related Geometric Analysis, Amer. Math. Soc. meeting, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 28 - 30 March 2008.
Invited Lecture "Mathematical problems of thermoacoustic tomography" at the international "Biomedical imaging" workshop, Radon Inst., Linz, Austria, November 2007.
Invited Lecture "Liouville theorems for periodic equations on abelian coverings" at the international conference "Spectral Analysis in Geometry and Number Theory", Nagoya, Japan, August 2007.
Invited Lecture "Low dimensional models for wave propagation in thin structures" at the international school "Complex optics in mesoscopic materials", Erice, Sicily, Italy, July 2007.
Invited Lecture "Analysis on graphs and its applications", Correspondents Meeting, Isaac Institute for Math. Sciences, Cambridge, UK, June 2007.
Invited Lecture "On Representations of Solutions of Periodic Elliptic Equations on Abelian Coverings" at the international conference "Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory" dedicated to the 85th birthday of S. Agmon, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel, Jan. 28 - Feb. 2, 2007.
Series of four invited lectures "Introduction to quantum graphs", workshop "Analysis on graphs and its applications" by the Newton Institute and London Math. Soc., Gregynog, Wales, UK, January 2007.
Invited lecture at the Autumn School on Analysis, Simulation and Design of nanotechnological processes, Department of Mathematics, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 17 - 20 October 2006.
Keynote lecture "Some mathematical problems of nano-technology" at the Opening Ceremony of the Graduate School on Analysis, Simulation and Design of nanotechnological processes, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany, 17 - 20 October 2006.
Invited lecture at the international workshop Inverse Problems and Applications, Banff International Research Station, August 19 - August 24, 2006.
Invited lecture at the international workshop Mathematical Methods in Tomography, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, July 30 - August 5, 2006.
Invited lecture at the program Spectral Theory and Partial Differential Equations, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 17 July - 11 August 2006.
Invited lecture at the International Conference on Analysis and Applications, University of Science and Technology of China and City University of Hong Kong, Hefei, China, June 28 - 30, 2006.
Invited mini-symposium talk at SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, IMA, May 15-17, 2006
A course of 6 lectures on "Photonic crystal theory" at the Mathematics Department, Seoul National University, March 2006.
Invited lecture at New Mathematics and Algorithms for 3-D Image Analysis, IMA, January 9-12, 2006
Plenary talk at 2005 New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, December 5 - 7, 2005.
Invited lecture at 2005 Special Session on New Directions in Spectral Theory and Geometric Analysis, AMS Meeting, Eugene, OR, November 12-13, 2005.
Invited lecture at Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and Dynamical Systems,Texas A&M,3 - 6 November 2005
Plenary lecture at Multi-scale problems: modelling, analysis and applications, University of Bath, 12th - 14th September 2005
Invited seminar talk "Circular Radon transform, theormoacoustic tomography, and all that" at University of Bath 17th September 2005.
Invited lecture at the international workshop Geometrical Aspects of Spectral Theory Matrei, East Tirol, Austria July 1-12, 2005.
Invited lecture at MolchanovFest, Probability and Mathematical Physics, A Conference in Honor of Stanislav Molchanov's 65th Birthday, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal June 27- July 1, 2005.
Invited lecture at the AMS Short Course on Radon Transform and its Applications to Inverse Problems, Atlanta, GA, January 2005.
Invited lecture at the NanoPhysics section of the international conference QMath9 (Mathematical results of Quantum mechanics), September 2004, Giens, France.
Series of 6 invited lectures at the Inverse Problems special year, Univ. Helsinki, May 2004.
Invited lecture at the international conference Inverse Problems: Results and Perspectives, Univ. Helsinki, May 2004.
Invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Israel Math. Union, May 2004.
Invited lecture at the Inverse Problems workshop at IPAM, November 2003.
Plenary address at the 24th Annual Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations, Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga, October 22 - 23, 2004.
Plenary address at the AMS Meeting in Binghampton, NY, October 2003.
Invited mini-course at the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Partial Differential Equations, Inverse Problems and Non-Linear Analysis, January 6-18, 2003, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Invited lecture at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2002.
Invited talk at the PECS-IV: International Workshop on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (Jointly Sponsored By PECS-IV and IPAM), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, October 28-31, 2002.
Invited lecture at the International Workshop Guided Quantum Particles: from Mathematics to Mesoscopics, Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences, and Doppler Institute for Mathematical Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 9-15, 2002.
Plenary address at the 3rd International Congress of ISAAC (Internat. Soc. Anal. Appl. Comp), Berlin, August 2001.
Organizer and main lecturer (2008-present) of the High School Math Summer Camp at Texas A&M.
Member, MAA Math Circles group, 2008-present.
Chair of the Outreach Committee (Texas A&M) 2008 - 2009.
Judge, SIAM student paper contest, 2008.
Chair of the Talent Search Committee (Texas A&M) 2005 - 2008.
Teaching at the Summer Educational Enrichment in Math program for middle school students, TAMU, 2002-2005, 2008.
Chair of the Math Awareness Committee (Texas A&M) 2003-2008.
Author of several booklets for KOSM students (see publications)
Organizer (1994-1995) and teacher (1994-2001) of the Math Club for middle school students.
Organizer (1994) and the Head of the Committee (1994 - 2001) of the Kansas Outreach School in Mathematics (KOSM), a program for middle and high school students.
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