Short Resume - Mike Neamtu (as of January 2009)

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Areas of Expertise

Numerical Analysis Approximation Theory Computer Aided Geometric Design Spline Theory Probability and Statistics Financial Mathematics

Education

PhD in Mathematics, 1991, University of Twente, The Netherlands MSc in Mechanical Engineering, 1988, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia

Professional History

Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University, Slovakia, September-December 2008 Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 2007-present Associate Director, Center for Constructive Approximation, Vanderbilt University, 2007-present Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, May 2007 Chair, SIAM Special Interest Group on Geometric Design, 2005-2006 Associate Director, Center for Constructive Approximation, Vanderbilt University, 2001-2005 Vice Chair, SIAM Special Interest Activity Group on Geometric Design, 2002-2003 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 1999-2007 Visiting Scholar, The Boeing Company, Seattle, July 2002 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University, Slovakia, January-June 2002 Visiting Scholar, The Boeing Company, Seattle, June-August 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 1994-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 1992-1994 Research Assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 1988-1992

Grants

2006: NSF, ``12th International Conference in Approximation Theory'' (with L. L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt Univ.), 2006/2007, $20,000. 2006: ARO, ``12th International Conference in Approximation Theory'' (with L. L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt Univ.), 2006/2007, $10,000. 2003: NSF, ``11th International Conference in Approximation Theory'' (with L. L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt Univ.), October 2003 - September 2003, $16,000. 2003: ARO, ``11th International Conference in Approximation Theory'' (with L. L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt Univ.), 2004, $10,000. 2003: NSF, ``Conference: Advances in Constructive Approximation'' (with E. W. Saff, Vanderbilt Univ.), April 2003 - March 2003, $14,000. 2002: DARPA, ``New Methods in High-Resolution Global and Local Gravity Field Modeling'' (with Ch. Jekeli (Ohio State Univ.), E. W. Saff and L. L. Schumaker (Vanderbilt)), 2002-2003, $104,737. 2002: NSF Standard Grant in Numeric, Symbolic, and Geometric Computations, ``Bivariate Splines for Geometric Modeling'', CCR 0204174, 2002-2005, $107,000. 2000: ARO Grant DAAD19-00-1-0383, ``Symposium on Trends in Approximation Theory'' (with K. Kopotun, Vanderbilt Univ.), 2000-2001, $5,000. 1998: NSF Standard Grant in Applied Mathematics, ``Topics in Approximation Theory'', DMS 9803501, 1998-2001, $66,439. 1998: Natural Science Committee Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University, $7,250. 1997: Grant-in-Aid Award of the Natural Science Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University, $7,000. 1995: University Research Council Summer Award, Vanderbilt University, $4,000.

Honors

2001: Springer Best Papers Award, Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, Slovakia, April 2001. 1991: Ph.D. Cum Laude, University of Twente, The Netherlands. 1988: Chancellor's Prize for Highest Grades, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia 1986: IAESTE scholarship to visit University of Twente, April-June, 1986. 1983: Nominated to and participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad, Paris, July 1983

Courses Taught

Undergraduate: Calculus Sequence, Honors Calculus (with Mathematica), Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Engineering Statistics, Numerical Analysis, Probability and Statistics Upper Level Undergraduate/Beginning Graduate: Advanced Calculus, Advanced Numerical Analysis (Multigrid and PDEs), Advanced Probability and Statistics, Theory of Interest, Methods for Pricing of Options, Stochastic Processes Graduate: Real Analysis I & II, Functional Analysis I & II, Approximation Theory

Member of Professional Organizations

SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) SIAM Special Interest Group on Geometric Design

Invited Talks

Polyhedral splines, Colloquium, University of G\"ottingen, GERMANY, October, 1991. Multivariate splines: New developments, Colloquium, The Netherlands Society for Numerical Mathematics, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, December, 1991. The theory and practice of multivariate simplex splines, Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA, January, 1992. Multivariate splines, Colloquium, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA, January, 1992. Multivariate splines, Colloquium, Kent State University, Kent, USA, January, 1992. The theory and practice of multivariate simplex splines, Colloquium, RPI, Troy, USA, January, 1992. Multivariate splines, Colloquium, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CANADA, February, 1992. Splines on spheres, Colloquium, Purdue University, USA, May, 1994. Spherical simplex splines, Conference on Scattered Data Fitting, Cancun, MEXICO, March, 1995. Homogeneous simplex splines, Regional SIAM-AMS Conference, Charleston, USA, April, 1995. Subdivision and solvability of refinement equations, Oberwolfach Conference on Methods of Approximation Theory, GERMANY, May, 1997. On a class of generalized polynomials, Oberwolfach Conference on Computer Aided Geometric Design, GERMANY, June, 1998. A primer on subdivision, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Albuquerque, NM, USANovember, 1999. What is the natural generalization of univariate splines to higher dimensions?, International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Plenary Lecture, Oslo, NORWAY, June, 2000. Multivariate simplex splines: new perspectives, Colloquium, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, USA, July, 2001. Subdivision Methods, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, USA, August, 2001. Multivariate splines for scattered data modeling, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Plenary Lecture, Sacramento, CA, USA, November, 2001. Multivariate splines, Colloquium, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE, February, 2002. Multivariate splines - recent progress, International Conference on Surface Approximation and Visualization II, Plenary Lecture, Westport, NEW ZEALAND, February, 2002. Multivariate splines, Tenth South Eastern Approximation Theory Conference, Plenary Lecture, Athens, GA, USA, March, 2002. Delaunay configurations, Comenius University, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, April, 2002. What are wavelets?, Slovak Society for Cybernetics and Informatics, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, May, 2002. Splines and wavelets, Colloquium, University of Nitra, SLOVAKIA, May, 2002. Multivariate splines for scattered data, Colloquium, Dresden, GERMANY, May, 2002. Multivariate splines, Univ. of Twente, THE NETHERLANDS, June, 2002. Splines and wavelets, Colloquium, Technical University of Zvolen, SLOVAKIA, June, 2002. Splines and data fitting, SIAM 50th Anniversary Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A, July, 2002. Shape preserving approximation, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, USA, July, 2002. Bivariate splines, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, USA, July, 2002. Bivariate splines, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA, July, 2002. Questions in approximation theory: On the edge between pure and applied mathematics, Plenary Lecture, Comenius University, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, December, 2003. Bivariate B-splines used as basis functions for data fitting, Plenary Lecture, Conference on Multivariate Approximation and Interpolation, Stuttgart, GERMANY, October, 2004. Theoretical versus applied mathematics: Which will prevail?, Plenary Lecture, Conference of the Slovak Mathematical Society, Jasn\'{a}, SLOVAKIA, November, 2004. Delaunay Configurations and Beyond, Plenary Lecture, Algorithms for Approximation 5, Chester, UK, July, 2005. Splines for Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology, Plenary Lecture, Sixth International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Avignon, FRANCE, June, 2006. Splines for Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology, Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Multivariate Approximation: Theory and Applications, Cancun, MEXICO, April, 2007. On Generalizations of Splines, Colloquium and Five Additional Lectures, University of Stellenbosch, SOUTH AFRICA, May, 2007. Splines on Surfaces, Colloquium, Comenius University, SLOVAKIA, October, 2008. On Generalizations of Splines, Colloquium, University of Malaya, MALAYSIA, November, 2008.

Contributed Conference Talks

Recurrence Relations for Simplex Splines, The 6th Texas Symposium on Approximation Theory, College Station, USA , January, 1989. Discrete Bernstein Polynomials and Subdivision, Curves and Surfaces, Chamonix, FRANCE, June, 1990. Local Parametric Interpolation via Degenerate Surface Patches, CBMS Conference, Kent State University, Kent, USA, December, 1990. Approximation and Interpolation of Convex Functions, Approximation Theory, Spline Functions and Applications, NATO ASI Conference, Maratea, ITALY, May, 1991. Multivariate Divided Differences, Oberwolfach, GERMANY, November, 1991. Subdivision of Simplex Splines, The 7th Texas Symposium on Approximation Theory, Austin, USA, January, 1992. Polar Forms for Trigonometric Splines, Curves and Surfaces II, Chamonix, FRANCE, June, 1993. Non-polynomial Polar Forms, Special Semester in Approximation Theory, Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL, May, 1994. Non-polynomial Polar Forms, 7th Southeast Conference on Approximation Theory, Nash\-ville, USA, November, 1994. Spherical Bernstein-B\'{ezier Polynomials, The 8th Texas Symposium on Approximation Theory, College Station, USA, January, 1995. Simplex Splines on the Sphere and on Other Closed Surfaces, Fourth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Nashville, USA, November, 1995. Subdivision with nonnegative masks, AMS-Meeting, Memphis, USA, March, 1997. Subdivision with nonnegative masks, Southeast Conference on Approximation Theory, Athens, GA, USA, April, 1997. Interpolation and approximation from convex sets, 9th International Conference on Approximation Theory, Nashville, TN, USA, January, 1998. Some results for a class of generalized polynomials, Oberwolfach, GERMANY, May, 1998. On the existence of compactly supported functions in shift-invariant spaces, Workshop on Approximation Theory and Wavelets, Montecatini, ITALY, June, 1998. Approximation from shift-invariant spaces, Workshop on Approximation Theory, Signal Processing, and Wavelets, Eilat, ISRAEL, September, 1998. Spherical wavelets, SPIE Conference, Denver, CO, USA, July, 1999. Multivariate splines, 10th International Conference on Approximation Theory, St. Louis, MO, USA, March, 2001. Simplex splines: A new paradigm, Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, SLOVAKIA, April, 2001. Approximation order of spherical splines on triangulations, AMS Sectional Meeting, Chattanooga, TN, USA, October, 2001. Bivariate B-splines on uniform meshes, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Seattle, USA, November, 2003. Delaunay Configurations, Conference on Wavelets and Splines, Athens, GA, USA, May, 2005. Bivariate B-splines: An Introduction with New Results, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Phoenix, USA, November, 2005.

Publications

Prof. Neamtu has (co)written more than forty research and survey papers. Please click here, for a list.

Book Editing

Prof. Neamtu has (co)edited five books. Please click here, for a list.

Conference Organization

Prof. Neamtu has organized or co-organized more than a dozen of domestic and international conferences and meetings. Please click here, for a list.