Explore UAB

Mathematics Fast Track Program LEARN MORE
""

Professor; MS Program Director, Graduate Advisorshterenb@math.uab.edu
(205) 934-2154
University Hall 4035

Research and Teaching Interests: Mathematical physics, Functional analysis, Operator theory, Spectral theory, Scattering theory, PDE, Boundary problems, Inverse problems, Non-linear differential equations, Mathemathical biology

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

  • B.S., St. Petersburg St. Univ. (Russia), Physics
  • M.S., St. Petersburg St. Univ. (Russia), Physics
  • Ph.D., St. Petersburg St. Univ. (Russia), Mathematics

I originated from St. Petersburg, Russia. After my Ph.D. in 2003 (advisor: Professor M. Birman) I continued as a post-doc at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. I moved to the United States in 2005 as visiting assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and finally started my work at UAB in 2007.

In teaching I prefer to create an “at home” environment. I tend to describe how problems and techniques we develop can be applied to different fields. That makes students more interested in the subject. I also practice team work, where students can more deeply understand the topic during peer-to-peer discussion.

I am involved into different high school activities like the Talent Search Days organized by our department. At the undergraduate level I mentor our fast-track students, providing additional individual material based on student's interest and of course my own research activities. I also serve as Ph.D. advisor for graduate students. In this way students obtain continuous training and a sense of what science is, which makes them much better prepared for their future career.

pdfDownload Curriculum Vitae