Alexandros Sopasakis
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Fretwell Bldg., rm. 235D, 9201 University City Blvd.
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, NC 28223

 

Tel       : (704) 687-2580  

FAX: (704) 687 6415

e-mail : asopasak@uncc.edu

URL: http://www.math.uncc.edu/~asopasak/


Education

Ph.D. Mathematics, May 2000, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Title: ``Developments in the Theory of the Prigogine-Herman

Kinetic Equation of Vehicular Traffic''         (Adviser: Paul Nelson)

M.A. Mathematics, Aug. 1993, Texas A&M Univ.  B.S.  Applied Mathematics, Aug. 1991, Texas A&M Univ.


Awards/Grants
           NSF DMS: National Science Foundation Grant, (2006-2009): $92,923

Program addressing "cross-cutting topics in analysis, modeling and computation of stochastic systems".

           Commonwealth College fellowship: research assistant funding for undergraduates, 2006.
           TMR Network: European Union funded postdoctoral work Chalmers, Sweden, 2000-2001.
           Energy Resources Program: Interdisciplinary research award, summer 1995, Texas A&M Univ.
           Supercomputer research grant: 1990, Texas A&M Univ.

Students Directed
           Timur Alperovich, undergraduate Computer Science at UMass, (2005-currently)
           Are Sasanka, PhD student in mathematics at UMass, (2006- 2007)
           Niamph Dundon, M.S. in mathematics at UMass, employed by Matlab, (2004-2005)

Academic Employment

Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte

Assistant Professor

[Sept. 2007-currently]

University of Massachusetts

Visiting Assistant Professor

[Sept. 2003-Aug. 2007]

Position for 2006-2007 partially supported by DOE-FG02-05ER25702 to study multi-scale modeling of protein interactions and phenomena such as receptor clustering to understand and eventually control certain types of cancers.

Courant Institute, New York Univ.

Associate Research Scientist

[Sept. 2002-Aug. 2003]

Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley

Research Fellow

[Jan. 2002-May 2002]

Georgia Inst. of Technology

Vis. Assistant Professor

[Aug. 2001-Dec. 2001]

Chalmers Inst., Sweden

Post Doctoral Research

[Jan. 2000-June 2001]

Texas A&M Univ.

Research/Teaching Assistant

[1991-1999]

 

Teaching Experience (see teaching page for more details)

UNC Charlotte

Calculus I (Spring 2008), Statistics (Class solely through internet - Fall 2007)

Univ. of Mass.

Math. Modeling (Spring 2006 & Spring 2005), Numerical Analysis (Spring 2005),
Linear Alg. (Spring 2006), Ord. Diff. Equations: (Fall 2005, Spring 2005),
Honors Calculus I&II (Fall 2004&Spring 2005), Calculus I&II (Fall 2003&Spring 2004).

Georgia Tech.

Ord. Diff. Equations (Fall 2001).

Texas A&M

Numerical Analysis (graduate comp. lab. 1999, 1993 & undergraduate comp. lab.
1999, 1998, 1996, 1995), Calculus I & II, Calculus on the web, etc...

 

Computational Experience

Languages  :

C/C++, Fortran, Basic

Oper. Systems  :

Unix, Dos/Windows, Linux

Scientific Software  :

Matlab, Maple, Mathematica

Simulations  :

Monte Carlo (Metropolis, Arrhenius, etc.)


Personal Data

Citizenship : Greek (currently with H1B visa from Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte).
Languages : Fluent in English and Greek (native). Swedish (beginner).