Cristina Popovici

Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar
                                     
University of Utah
Department of Mathematics
155 South 1400 East, JWB 233
Salt Lake City, UT  84112-0090

Office: JWB 203

Email: popovici@math.utah.edu

Tel: +1 (801)585-6967
FAX: +1 (801)581-4148


MATH 1210 Section 4-Spring 2006


Education
Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, April 2005
Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Irene Fonseca
Ph.D. Thesis: Coupled Singular Perturbations and Homogenization in Phase Transitions

M.Sc. in Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2000

Bachelor Degree in Mathematical Sciences, University of Craiova, Romania, June 1997
Bachelor Thesis Advisor: Professor Vicentiu Radulescu
Bachelor Thesis: Hahn-Banach Type Theorems in Functional Analysis

Employment
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah (since July 2005)
Research Assistant, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (June 2003-April 2005)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (August 1999-May 2003)

Publications
I Fonseca and C. Popovici, Coupled singular perturbations for phase transitions. Asymptotic Analysis 44 No. 3-4 (2005), 299-325.

I. Fonseca and C. Popovici, A Homogenization Result in the Gradient Theory of Phase Transitions. Scientific Report 05-CNA-009, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University (2005).

C. Popovici, Multiscale homogenization for anisotropic singular perturbations. In progress

Talks given
upcoming: Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January 2006

PDE and Applications, University of Florida, November 2005

MSRI Workshop for Women in Mathematics: An Introduction to Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, August 2005

Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, GA, January 2005

Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Utah, November 2004

Mathematical Sciences Graduate Student Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2004

Partial Differential Equations Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, February 2002

Partial Differential Equations and Kinetic Theory Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, April 2001