Short Vita of Raytcho Lazarov

Biographical Data

• Born: in Bulgaria
• Citizenship: Bulgaria and U.S.A.
• Home address: 2909 Cortez, College Station, TX 77845, U.S.A.

In the Profession

• 1992 - present: Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M
• 2008 - present: Professor Emeritus, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS
• 2008 - 2010: Scholar of the ESIM (European School for Industrial Mathematics), TU Kaiserslautern (one month each year)
• 2005 - Visiting Professor, University of Linz and RICAM, Austria, (2 months)
• 2006 - Visiting Fellow, Fraunhofer Inst. of Industrial Math., Kaiserslautern, Germany, (6 months)
• 2006 - Visiting Professor, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, (2 months)
• 1991 - 1992: Professor of Mathematics, University of Wyoming
• 1985 - 2008: Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, (BAS)
• 1985 - 1991: Professor of Mathematics, Sofia University, Bulgaria
• 1985 - 1991: Head of Laboratory on Numerical Analysis, Institute of Mathematics, BAS
• 1985 - 1989: Deputy-Director of Center for Informatics and Computer Technology, BAS
• 1985 - 1989: Director of Laboratory on Parallel Algorithms and High Performance Computer Systems, BAS
• 1979 - 1985: Senior Researcher, Institute of Mathematics, BAS
• 1976 - 1977: Research Associate, Rutherford Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
• 1972 - 1979: Research Associate, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)

Education

• Dr. of Science (mathematics), Sofia University, Bulgaria, 1982
• Ph. D. in mathematics and physics, Moscow State University, 1972
• M. S. in mathematics, Wroclaw University, Poland, 1966

Awards/Honors

• Honorary Doctor (Dr Honoris Causa), Sofia University, Bulgaria, 2006
• Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2008

Publications

Lazarov has published more than 160 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and one monograph (co-authored by A. Samarskii and V. Makarov). List of recent selected publications is available and list of all publications is here.

Research interests

• Finite volume, finite difference, and finite element methods for steady-state and transient problems
• Domain decomposition, penalty and mortar approximations on non-matching grids
• Discontinuous Galerkin method (stability, approximation, and preconditioning)
• Modeling and numerical simulation of flows in porous media

Invited presentations

Lazarov has given more that 60 invited lectures at conferences, workshops, symposia, and summer schools. List of recent invited talks is available.

Teaching

Lazarov has taught courses in calculus, numerical analysis, applied mathematics, differential equations, partial differential equations, finite elements, and finite differences at Sofia University, the University of Wyoming, and Texas A&M University. He has advised more than 30 master students and he has directed Ph. D. dissertations of 17 students .

Editorial work

• Proc. Int. Conference on Integral Equations and Inverse Problems, Varna, 1989, Longman, London, Editor.
• Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, An International Journal, John Wiley and Sons, Member of the Editorial Board, 1990 -- present.
• Journal on Numerical Mathematics, (formerly East-West Journal on Numerical Mathematics) Member of the Editorial Board, 1992 -- present.
• Mathematical Modeling and Computational Experiment, An International Journal, Member of the Editorial Board, 1995 -- 1998.
• SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Member of the Editorial Board, 1999 -- 2004.
• Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics, Editor, 2000-2010.

Recent grants and contracts

• NSF-DEIA, Predictive Contaminant Tracking Using Dynamic Data Driven Application Simulation (DDDAS) Techniques (Collaborative Research: ITR/AP Grant), NSF-ITR-0218229 , September 10, 2002 -- September 15, 2005, Y. Efendiev, R.E. Ewing, and R. Lazarov -- Co-PI.
• LLNL-DOE, "Construction and preconditioning of finite element approximations of mixed problems", Contract with the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, May 30, 2005 -- September 31, 2005, R.D. Lazarov and J.E. Pasciak -- Co-PIs.
• Fraunhofer Society, Institute for Industrial Mathematics (Germany): "Numerical methods for problems in poroelasticity and their applications", December 1, 2005 -- July 30, 2006, PI.
• NSF-DEIA Adaptive Data-Driven Sensor Configuration, Modeling, and Deployment for Oil, Chemical, and Biological Contamination near Coastal Facilities, (Collaborative Research: ITR/AP Grant), October 1, 2005 -- September 30, 2006, Y. Efendiev, R.E. Ewing, and R. Lazarov - Co-PIs.
• NSF: IGERT: New Mathematical Tools for Next Generation Materials , July 2005 - July 2009, R.D. Lazarov -- Research Advisor.
• LLNL: "Computational issues of neutron transport", June 1, 2007 -- December 30, 2007, R.D. Lazarov and J.E. Pasciak -- Co-PIs.
• NSF-DMS: Discontinuous Galerkin method for PDEs with heterogeneous coefficients , DMS-0713829, September 1, 2007 -- August 31, 2010, Co-PI
• GLOBAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Inaugural Global Research Partnership Center Grants: Texas A&M University, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS), May 1, 2008 - May 1, 2013, Investigator.
• NSF-DMS: Subgrid Discontinuous Galerkin Approximations of Brinkman Equation with Highly Heterogeneous Coefficients, DMS-1016525, August 15, 2010 -- August 14, 2013, PI

Last updated January 2, 2012