| 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. | |
| 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, Dynamical Systems 23 (2), 167-206 (2008)
- A.N. Comanici, Synchrony-Breaking Period-Doubling Bifurcations for Three-Cell Homogeneous Coupled Maps, 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 submitted)
- 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)
| Virginia Tech | |
| Multivariable Calculus | Fall 2007 |
| Multivariable Calculus | Spring 2007 |
| Rice University | |
| Differential Equations | Fall 2006 |
| University of Houston | |
| Differential Equations | Spring 2006 |
| Linear Algebra | Spring 2005 |
| Linear Algebra | Fall 2004 |
