Marina Chugunova
Curriculum Vitae

Postdoctoral Fellow (NSERC)
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
40 St. George Str.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4,Canada
Phone: (office) +1 (416) 946-3769
Fax:    +1 (416) 978-4107
Email: chugunom at math.utoronto.ca

PERSONAL:

Place of birth: Khabarovsk, Russia
Citizenship: Canadian

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Mathematics, McMaster University, 2007, Canada
Thesis: Spectral Stability of Solitary Waves in Dynamical Systems
Supervisor: Dmitry Pelinovsky

Candidate of Math.Sc. Mathematical Analysis - 001, Ulyanovsk University, 1997, Russia
Thesis: Inverse Sturm-Liouville Problem with Spectral Parameter Dependent Boundary Conditions
Supervisor: Abraham V. Strauss

M.Sc. Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1990, Russia
Thesis: The Automated Construction of Different Sectional Views for a Three-dimensional Model of the Russian Space Station "Mir".
Supervisor: Michail Komarov

B.Sc Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1988, Russia

AWARDS

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008 - 2010

Best Student Paper Award, IMACS International Conference, Athens, GA, 2007

Summer Scholarship ( Stability and Instability of Nonlinear Waves Workshop), 2006

NSERC Graduate Scholarship, 2006 - 2008

Sharcnet Graduate Scholarship, 2004 - 2006

On-line Education Award, 2001

Insitute of Applied Mathematics Research Grant, 1989

 

PUBLICATIONS

[1] M. Chugunova, I. Karabash, and S.G. Paytkov, On the nature of ill-posedness of forward-backward heat equation, preprint (2008) [available on request]

[2] M. Chugunova, V. Strauss, Factorization of an indefinite convection-diffusion operator, to appear in Math. Reports Acad. Sci. Royal Soc. Canada, (2008) [available on request]

[3] M. Chugunova and D. Pelinovsky, Spectrum of a non-self-adjoint operator associated with the periodic heat equation, to appear in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, (2008) [available on request]

[4] M. Chugunova and D. Pelinovsky, On the uniform convergence of the Chebyshev interpolants for pulse solutions, submitted to proceedings of IMACS conference, (October, 2007) [available on request]

[5] T. Azizov and M. Chugunova, Pontryagin theorem and analysis of the spectral stability of solitons, submitted to Mat.Zametki, (May, 2007) [available on request]

[6] M. Chugunova and D. Pelinovsky, Two-pulse solutions in the fifth-order KdV equation: rigorous theory and numerical approximations, Discr. Cont. Dyn. Syst. B 8,4, 773 - 800, (2007) [available on request]

[7] M. Chugunova and D. Pelinovsky, Count of eigenvalues in the generalized eigenvalue problem, submitted to SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (January, 2006) [available on request]

[8] M. Porter, M. Chugunova, and D. Pelinovsky, Feshbach resonance management of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices, Physical Review E 74,1 (2006) [available on request]

[9] M. Chugunova and D. Pelinovsky, Block-diagonalization of the symmetric first-order coupled-mode system, SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems 5, 66-83, (2005) [available on request]

[10] M.Chugunova, (2001) "Inverse spectral problem for the Sturm-Liouville operator with eigenvalue parameter dependent boundary conditions", Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Switzerland, Vol. 123,187-194 [available on request]

[11] M.Chugunova, (2000), "Principal aspects of object-oriented programming", Some questions of teaching mathematics and information science, Ulyanovsk,110 –116 [available on request]

[12] M.Chugunova, (1997),"On the effective methods for the solution of some inverse problems", Funct. Analysis, Ulyanovsk, 36 , 66-75 [available on request]

[13] M.Chugunova, (1994), "An inverse boundary value problem on a finite interval.", Funct. Analysis, Ulyanovsk, 35 , 113--122 [available on request]

[14] M.Chugunova, (1993) "Entire extension of a second-order differentiation operator", Funct. Analysis, Ulyanovsk, 34, 76--79 [available on request]

CONFERENCE TALKS

[1] The 7th Workshop Operator Theory in Krein Spaces and Operator Polynomials (Berlin, 2007)

[2] Fifth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory (Athens, US, 2007)

[3] Young Mathematicians' Conference in PDE and Dynamical Systems III (Toronto, 2006)

[4] SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves (Seattle, 2006)

[5] The 6th Workshop Operator Theory in Krein Spaces and Operator Polynomials (Berlin, 2006)

[6] CMS/CSHPM Summer 2005 Meeting “Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations” (Waterloo, 2005)

[7] International Conference on Characteristic Functions of Linear Operators Theory (Ulyanovsk, 1997)

[8] Conference on Operator Theory in Honour of M. Livshits (Beer-Sheva--Rehovot, 1997)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

• (2008 - now), Postdoctoral Fellow,

- Mathematical Department University of Toronto

• (2007 - 2008), Teaching Assistant

- 2007, Engineering Mathematics II, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University

• (2006 - 2007), Teaching Assistant

- 2007, Numerical Linear Algebra, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University
- 2006, Discrete Dynamical Systems and Chaos, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University

• (2005 - 2006), Teaching Assistant

- 2006, Mathematical Physics II, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University
- 2005, Mathematical Physics I, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University

• (2004 - 2005), Teaching Assistant

- 2005, Mathematical Physics II, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University
- 2004, Mathematical Physics I, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University
- 2004, Differential Equations, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University
- 2004, Statistical Analysis for Engineering, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University
- 2004, Probability Theory, Math.&Stat. Dept. McMaster University

• (2003 - 2005), tutoring K-12, Academy for Mathematics & Science, Toronto

- Principles of Mathematics, Grade 9, Academic (MPM1D)
- Science, Grade 9, Academic (SNC1D)
- Principles of Mathematics, Grade 10, Academic (MPM2D)
- Science, Grade 10, Academic (SNC2D)
- Functions and Relations, Grade 11, University Preparation (MCR3U)
- Functions, Grade 11, University/College Preparation (MCF3M)
- Mathematics of Personal Finance, Grade 11, College Preparation (MBF3C)
- Advanced Functions and Introductory Calculus, Grade 12, University Preparation (MCB4U)
- Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Grade 12, University Preparation (MGA4U)
- Mathematics of Data Management, Grade 12, University Preparation (MDM4U)

• (2000 - 2003), Research Associate, Sessional Lecturer, Department of Computer Techniques Sciences at the Ulyanovsk Teacher's Training State University

- delivered lectures on topics in numerical methods.
- conducted research on topics of parameter dependent eigenvalue problems.
- developed on-line educational system ((C++, C#.NET))
- developed internet-oriented testing system (C++, C#.NET)

• (1997 - 2000), Research Associate, Sessional Lecturer, Department of Information Sciences at the Ulianovsk Teacher's Training State University

- delivered lectures on topics in numerical methods.
- conducted seminars on the topics of numerical computing.
- implemented the simulation of physical experiments, corresponding to the problem, in C++ code.

• (1993 – 1997), software developer, private company Vector +

- developed client - server applications in C++ Builder 5.0 (SQL server 7.0) for different branches of Ulyanovsk Energy Complex.

• (1990 -1993 ), software developer, Ulianovsk Center of Microelectronics.

- took part in the development of a package to optimize the work of milling machines.
- implemented, in C code, a set of programs to calculate the best surface for cutting faces.

• (1989-1990), research assistent, Institute of Applied Mathematics

- conducted my graduate research at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- developed a method of automated construction of different sectional views for a three-dimensional model of the Russian Space Station "Mir".
- implemented the numeric scheme of the method in C code and created a graphics package to visualize the computation results.

CERTIFICATIONS

- Microsoft Certified Data Base Administrator (MCDBA).
- Microsoft Certified Programmer (MCP).

PROGRAMMING

Programming Languages And Libraries:
Pascal, C/C++, Borland C++/ DELPHI, HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, MPI, Open MP, Lapack, Petsc, Slepc.

Databases And Database Access Libraries:
SQL/TSQL, ODBC/ADO, MS Access, MS SQL Server 7.0/2000.

Internet Technologies:
Apache Server

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