C u r r i c u l u m    V i t a e

Personal Data

Name:                    Boris Rubinstein
Position:                 Post Doctorate Fellow
Work address:        Department of Mathematics, University California at Davis,
                               One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
                               tel.: 530-754-5407, fax: 530-752-6635
                               e-mail:  boris@math.ucdavis.edu
                               website: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~boris/

Academic Degrees

Ph.D., 1989           Nonlinear Optics
                              Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, USSR
M.Sc., 1982          Experimental Nuclear Physics
                              Ural Technical University, Sverdlovsk, USSR

Research Activities and Interests
Biophysics
: cell motility, microtubule physics.
Number theory:  theory of integer partitions.
Nonlinear optics: pattern formation, chaotic dynamics, statistical theory, optical multistability.
Hydrodynamics: numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equation, interfacial instabilities, contact line theory.
Development of algorithms for symbolic algebra software:
analytical solution of partial differential equations, theory of bifurcations,
weak nonlinear analysis of distributed systems.

Programming Skills
Finite element method.
Development of symbolic and numerical algorithms for ordinary and partial differential equations.
Development of numerical algorithms for moving boundaries problems.
Development of XWindows interfaces for UNIX.
UNIX script programming.
Functional programming.
Programming Languages: C, Fortran, Mathematica, Femlab, Matlab, Unix Bourne Script.
Operating systems: Unix, Windows, Macintoch.

Employment
2002 -              Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Davis,
                        Davis, CA, USA
2000 - 2002     Postdoctoral Research Fellow,  Northwestern University
                        Evanston, IL, USA
1996 - 2000     Research Engineer, Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
                        Technion, Haifa, Israel
1993 - 1996    General Manager, Kernel Knowledge, Ltd.
                        Technion City, Haifa, Israel
1991 - 1993     Post Doctorate Fellow,
                        Department of Chemical Engineering,
                        Technion, Haifa, Israel
1985 - 1991     Researcher, Metal Physics Institute
                         Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
                         Sverdlovsk, USSR
1982 - 1985     Doctorate Fellow, Ural Technical University
                         Sverdlovsk, USSR

Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant                 Ural Technical University, Sverdlovsk, USSR
                                                October 1982 -- June 1984
                                                Undergraduate courses in mathematics.
Lecturer                                  Ural Technical University, Sverdlovsk, USSR
                                                October 1983 -- June 1985
                                                Teaching of mathematics in pre-university courses.
Lecturer                                   Technion, Haifa, Israel
                                                March 1999 -- January 2000
                                               Mathematica  programming in engineering sciences.

Awards and Honors
1991 - 1993                             Lady Davis Posrdoctoral Fellowship, Technion, Israel.


Consulting Activity
Tester for beta version of Mathematica computer algebra software (version 3.0) developed by
Wolfram Research, Inc., Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1996.
Tester for beta version of Mathematica computer algebra software (version 5.0) developed by
Wolfram Research, Inc., Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 2003.

References

Prof. Alex Mogilner                          Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
                                                            One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA
                                                            tel.: 530-752-1072
                                                            e-mail: mogilner@ucdavis.edu

Prof. George Andrews                       Dept. of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University,
                                                            University Park, PA 16802, 
                                                            tel. 814-865-6642
                                                            e-mail: andrews@math.psu.edu

Prof. Alexander Nepomnyashchy      Dept. of Mathematics, Technion
                                                            Haifa, 32000, Israel
                                                            tel. +972-4-8294170, fax +972-4-8324654
                                                            e-mail: nepom@math.technion.ac.il

Prof. Vladimir Volpert                      Dept. of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
                                                            Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd.
                                                            Evanston, IL 60208, USA
                                                            tel.: 847-491-8095
                                                            e-mail: v-volpert@northwestern.edu

Ass. Prof. Alexander Golovin           Dept. of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
                                                            Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd.
                                                            Evanston, IL 60208, USA
                                                            tel.: 847-491-4356
                                                            e-mail: a-golovin@northwestern.edu