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Date and Place of Birth
- April 23rd 1955, Bârlad, România
Education
- B. S. and M. S. in Mathematics: 1980, Universitatea "Al. I. Cuza" Iaşi, România
- PhD in Mathematics: 1991, Universitatea "Al. I. Cuza" Iaşi, România
- Thesis advisor: Professor Viorel Barbu
- Thesis title: Approximation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equations by means of Lie-Trotter formulae
Professional Experience
- 1980-1984: Teacher of Mathematics, Liceul de Artă "O. Băncilă", Iaşi
- 1984-1993: Researcher, Universitatea "Al. I. Cuza" Iaşi, România and Institute
of Mathematics "O. Mayer", Iaşi, Branch of Romanian Academy
- 1993-1996: Assistant Professor, Universitatea "Al. I. Cuza" Iaşi, România
- 1996-2006: Associate Professor, Universitatea "Al. I. Cuza" Iaşi, România
- 2006-present: Professor, Universitatea "Al. I. Cuza" Iaşi, România
Other positions
- Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, USA,
Spring semesters of 2003, 2004 and 2005
- Researcher, Institute
of Mathematics "O. Mayer", Iaşi, Branch of Romanian Academy, 2005 - present
Research Interests:
- Partial Differential Equations (particularly, Hamilton -
Jacobi equations, variational inequalities, equations of fluid dynamics),
- Control Theory (particularly, dynamic programming, Pontryagin maximum principle,
controllability)
Selected Publications
- Feedback laws for nonlinear distributed control problems via Trotter-type
product formulae, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 33(1995), 971-
999.
- The relationship between the maximum principle and dynamic programming
for the control of parabolic variational inequalities, SIAM Journal on Control
and Optimization, 35(1997), 1711-1738.
- On the convergence of Euler-Stokes splitting of the Navier-Stokes equations,
Differential and Integral Equations, 15(2002), 657-670.
- Fluid-magnetic splitting of the magnetohydrodynamic equations, Mathematical
Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 6(2003), 893-917, together with S.
S. Sritharan.
- Exact controllability of the magnetohydrodynamic equations, Communications
on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 6(2003), 732-783, together with V.
Barbu, T. Havarneanu, and S.S. Sritharan.
- Exact controllability for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with
the Navier slip boundary conditions, Indiana University Mathematics Journal,
54(2005), 1303-1350, together with T. Havarneanu and S.S. Sritharan.
- Exact controllability for the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with
the Navier slip boundary conditions, Systems and Control Letters, 55(2006),
1022-1028, together with T. Havarneanu and S.S. Sritharan.
- Exact internal controllability of the magnetohydrodynamic equations in multiconnected
domains, Advances in Differential Equations, 11(2006), 893-929, together
with T. Havarneanu and S.S. Sritharan.
- Exact internal controllability for the two dimensional magnetohydrodynamic
equations, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 46(2007), 1802-1830,
together with T. Havarneanu and S.S. Sritharan.
- Feedback Laws for the Optimal Control of Parabolic Variational Inequalities,
Editura "Alexandru Myller", Iaşi, 2005.
- Controllability of the Equations of Fluid Dynamics, Springer, New York, to
appear, together with T. Havarneanu and S.S. Sritharan.
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