Dr. Adela Nicoleta Comanici-Frent
Visiting Assistant Professor
I have recently moved as a Postodctoral Research Assistant at:
University of Glasgow
Institute of Comparative Medicine
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Comparative Epidemiology and Informatics
Division of Animal Production and Public Health
Jarrett Building Room 355
464 Bearsden Road
Glasgow G61 1QH
E-mail: a.comanici AT vet DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk
Work phone: (44)(0) 141 3304501
Cell phone: (44)(0) 753 5703552
Fax: (44)141 3305602
My new web page will be here and here.
Mathematics Department
Virginia Tech
460 McBryde Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0123
Office: 518 McBryde Hall
Phone: (540) 231-2765
Fax: (540) 231-5960
Email: adelanc AT math DOT vt DOT edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research Interests  [ Research Statement (pdf) ]:

• Dynamical Systems
• Bifurcation Theory
• Dynamics of PDEs and networks
• Pattern Formation
• Nonlinear Waves
• Mathematical Biology, in particular Mathematical Epidemiology

Publications:

• A.N. Comanici, Forced Symmetry Breaking from SO(3) to SO(2) for Rotating Waves on the Sphere, Nonlinearity 19, 999-1019 (2006)
• A.N. Comanici, Transition from Rotating Waves to Modulated Rotating Waves on the Sphere, SIADS 5 (4), 759-782 (2006)
• A.N. Comanici and M. Golubitsky, Patterns on Growing Square Domains via Mode Interactions, To appear in Dynamical Systems: An International Journal (2008)
• A.N. Comanici, Synchrony-Breaking Period-Doubling Bifurcations for Three-Cell Homogeneous Coupled Maps To appear in Int. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (2008)
• A.N. Comanici, Spiral Waves on Spherical Domains : A Dynamical Systems Approach, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Ottawa, Canada (2004)
• A.N. Comanici and J. Burns, Bifurcation Analysis for the Attractor of Chafee-Infante Equation with Parameter-Dependent Boundary Conditions (To be bubmitted)
• A.N. Comanici-Frent, Mode Interaction (1,1) and (1,0) (In preparation)
• A.N. Comanici-Frent, Synchrony-Breaking "Hopf" Bifurcation for Three-Cell Homogeneous Coupled Maps (In preparation)
• A.N. Comanici-Frent, Interaction of Line Defects in the Period-Doubling for 2D Spiral Waves (In preparation)

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