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Emil Cătinaş
Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Education and degrees

Employment history

Teaching Experience

• Seminars and laboratories taught at the Technical University Cluj-Napoca (numerical analysis, mathematical analysis, algebra, geometry) 1992-1993, 1999-2000;
• Seminars and laboratories taught at the ''Babeş-Bolyai'' University Cluj-Napoca (numerical analysis, probabilities, statistics) 1994-1997, 2003-2004, 2006.

Selected Talks at Meetings and Symposia

• "The fast trajectories towards the fixed points: characterization and related results ", 9th IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, March 17-20, 2008, Lille, France.
• "On the Newton-GMBACK method", 9th IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, March 17-20, 2008, Lille, France.
• "On a Steffensen-type method", 9th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, September 26-29, 2007, Timisoara, Romania.
• (chair of the session Numerical Methods) "On the convergence of the Newton-GMBACK method", International Conference on Engineering and Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain, July 9-11, 2007;
• "New results in local convergence of iterative methods for nonlinear systems and fixed point problems", International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, August 22-30, 2006;
• (chair of the session Computational Methods XV) "On the local convergence of the quasi-Newton methods", International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, Loutraki, Greece, October 21-26, 2005;
• "The relationship between the models of perturbed iterations, with applications", GAMM Annual Meeting, Luxembourg, March 28-April 1, 2005;
• "Estimating the radius of the attraction balls", Dynamics Days 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 13-17, 2004.
• "Approximation by successive substitutions: the fast trajectories and an acceleration technique", 4th International Bommerholz Meeting on Constructive Approximation (IBoMat04), Witten-Bommerholz, Germany, February 15-20, 2004.
• "Characterizing the fast trajectories toward the fixed points", Dynamics Days 2003, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 24-27, 2003.
• "Characterizing the high convergence orders of the successive approximations", GAMM Workshop on Numerical and Applied Linear Algebra, Braunschweig University, Germany, September 12-13, 2003.
• ''Characterizing the high convergence orders of the Newton-GMBACK method'', GAMM Workshop: Numerical Linear Algebra with special emphasis on Multilevel and Krylov Subspace Methods, Bielefeld University, Germany, September 13-14, 2002.
• ''Newton-GMRES and -MINPERT behave asymptotically almost the same'', Computational Linear Algebra with Applications, Milovy, Czech Republic, August 4-10, 2002.
• ''Some aspects in the convergence of a class of Newton-Krylov algorithms'', Latsis Symposium 2002 - Iterative Solvers for Large Linear Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, February 17-24, 2002 (www.sam.math.ethz.ch/~mhg/CG50/).
• (Invited talk in minisymposia) ''Some Aspects in the Convergence of the Newton-GMRES, -GMBACK and -MINPERT methods'' at The First SIAM-EMS conference ''Applied Mathematics in our Changing World (AMCW01)'', Berlin, Germany, September 2-6, 2001.
• ''Some Semilocal Convergence Theorems for Certain Chebyshev- and Newton-type Methods for Approximating the Eigenpairs of Matrices'', poster at the International Congress of Mathematics ICM98, Berlin, Germany, August 18-27, 1998.
  
  Other meetings.

Membership in professional societies

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
• GAMM Numerical and Applied Linear Algebra Group.

Managing activities

Organizer of the International Conference "Semicentennial of T. Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis (ICTP50)":

Research contracts-coordinator of the following grants:

• 2CEEX-06-11-96/19.09.2006, 2006-2008, (MEdC).
• GAR 11/2006 (Romanian Academy).
• GAR 16/2005 (Romanian Academy).
• GAR 16/2004 (Romanian Academy).
• GAR 19/2003 (Romanian Academy).
• GAR 45/2002 (Romanian Academy).
• GAR 64/2001 (Romanian Academy).
• MEC 7037/B3/2001(T) (CNCSIS).
• GANSTI 6100 GR/2000 (ANSTI).
• GAR 97/1999 (Romanian Academy).
• GAR 95/1998 (Romanian Academy).

Other professional activities

• Member of the editorial board of "Southwest Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics" (USA), 1996-2004;
• Member of the editorial board of "International Review of Pure and Applied Mathematics", 2004-present;
• secretary of the editorial board of "Revue d'Analyse Numérique et de Théorie de l'Approximation" (Romania), 1995-present.

Awards

• "Al. Myller" Prize at the National Students Colloquium "Grigore Moisil" 1988, for the paper The representation of the parametrical surfaces using the depth-sorting method.
• The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Prize at the Students Colloquium, 1988, for the paper The representation of the parametrical surfaces using the depth-sorting method.

Computer experience

• Operating systems: Windows, Linux.
• Programming languages: Matlab, C, (Pascal).
• Word-processing languages: LaTeX, Scientific Work Place.

Languages

• English
• French.



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