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