» Dr. Mihaela Vajiac

Associate Professor, Director, Center of Excellence in Complex and Hypercomplex Analysis

Schmid College of Science and Technology

Mathematics and Computer Science , School of Computational Sciences

Office:

VN 107

Phone:

(714) 997-6820

Email:

mbvajiac@chapman.edu

Website:

http://www1.chapman.edu/~mbvajiac/

Education

University of Bucharest, Bachelor of Science
Boston University, Ph.D. in Mathematics

Biography

Classes this Spring 2012:

Calculus I Section 1, MWF 9:00-10:00am, BK 104 Lab Tue 9:50am-10:40pm, LL B14

Calculus I Section 2, MWF 9:00-10:00am, BK 104 Lab Tue 10:50am-11:40am, LL B14

Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, MWF 10:00-11:00am, BK 204

Past Teaching:

Classes last Spring 2011:

Calculus I Section 3, MW 1:00-2:15pm, AF 202 Lab Thu 12:00pm-1:00pm, LL B13

Calculus I Section 4, MW 1:00-2:15pm, AF 202 Lab Thu 1:00pm-2:00pm, LL B13

Classes last Fall 2010:

Calculus I Section 3, MWF 9:00-9:50am, BK 204 Lab Thu 10:25am-11:15am, LL B13

Calculus I Section 3, MW 1:00-2:15pm, BK 204 Lab Thu 11:30am-12:20pm, LL B13

Multivariable Calculus MW 1:00-2:15pm, BK 203

Classes last Spring 2010:

Calculus I Section 2, MW 5:30-6:15pm, BK 203 Lab Thu 11:30am-12:20pm, LL B14

Calculus I Section 3, MW 1:00-2:15pm, BK 202 Lab Thu 10:30am-11:20am, LL B14

Linear Algebra MW 2:30-3:45pm, BK 203

Classes last Fall 2009:

Calculus I Section 1, MWF 10:00-10:50am, BK 202 Lab Thu 11:30am-12:20pm, LL B14

Calculus I Section 4, MWF 9:00-9:50am, LL B3 Lab Thu 10:30am-11:20am, LL B14

Differential Equations MWF 11:00-11:50pm, BK 206

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

“The S-spectrum for some classes of matrices”, to appear in the Springer INdAM volume "Advances in Hypercomplex Analysis"

“Holomorphy in Multicomplex Spaces”, in collaboration with D.C.Struppa, and A. Vajiac, to appear in Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, IWOTA 2010 Proceedings Volume, Birkhauser OT A Series, (2012).

“Hyperbolic Numbers and Their Functions”, in collaboration with M. Shapiro, D.C. Struppa, and A. Vajiac in Analele Universitatii Oradea, Fasc. Matematica, Tom XIX (2012), Issue No. 1, pg. 265-283

"The Cauchy-Kowalewski product for bicomplex holomorphic functions", in collaboration with H. De Bie, D.C. Struppa, A. Vajiac, Mathematische Nachrichten, (2011)

"Multicomplex Hyperfunctions", in collaboration with A. Vajiac, Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations, DOI:10.1080/17476933.2011.603419 (2011).

"Singularities of Functions of One and Several Bicomplex Variables", in collaboration with D.C. Struppa, I. Sabadini, F. Colombo, A. Vajiac, Arkiv for Matematik', Volume 49, Issue 2 (2011), pg.277-294.

“Bicomplex Hyperfunction Theory”, in collaboration with D.C. Struppa, I. Sabadini, F. Colombo, and A. Vajiac, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4) 190 (2011), no.2, 247-261.

“Remarks on Holomorphicity in three settings: Complex, Quaternionic, and Bicomplex”, in collaboration with D.C. Struppa and A. Vajiac, BIrkhauser, Trends in Mathematics, Hypercomplex Analysis and Applications, Springer Basel, (2011), pg. 261-274.

"Hartogs Phenomena and Antisyzygies for Systems of Differential Equations", (in collaboration with D.C. Struppa, A. Damiano, and A. Vajiac), "Journal of Geometric Analysis", Volume 19, Issue 2, 2009

"Computational algebra techniques in electromagnetism", (in collaboration with D.C. Struppa, I. Sabadini, F. Colombo, and A. Vajiac) Journal of Mathematical Sciences: Advances and Applications, February 2009.

"Virasoro Actions and Harmonic Maps" with Prof. Karen Uhlenbeck, UT Austin, in the Journal of Differential Geometry, p. 327-341, Volume 8 number 2, October 2008

"Quantum-Type Products in Symplectic Geometry", Houston Mathematics Journal, 2008.

"The Power of a Point for Some Real Algebraic Curves," with Dr. A. Vajiac, Chapman University, and Dr. B. Suceava, CSUF, in The Mathematical Gazette, United Kingdom, March 2008.