Curriculum Vitae of Ivan Slapnicar

• General
• List of Papers
• Teaching

General

Education

• B. Sc. in Mathematics (1984), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• M. Sc. in Mathematics (1988), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
  Thesis: Quadratic Convergence of the Falk-Langemeyer Method. Supervisor: Professor Vjeran Hari.
• Ph. D. in Mathematics (1992, with ``summa cum laude''), Department of Mathematical Physics, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany.
  Thesis: Accurate Symmetric Eigenreduction by a Jacobi Method. Supervisor: Professor Kresimir Veselic, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany. Referee: Professor James Demmel, UC Berkeley.

Work Experience

• 2003 - : Professor, 1999 - 2003 Associate Professor, 1993-1999 Assistant Professor, and 1985-1989 Teaching Assistant, all at the University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture.
• August 2001 - May 2002, Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
• 1990-1992: Teaching Assistant, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany.

Professional Positions

• 2002 - 2004: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture.
• 1999 - 2002: Chair of the Division of Mathematics and Physics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture.
• 2000 - : Chair of the Center for Scientific Computing of the University of Split.

Grants (scientific)

• CRO-GRID Infrastructure - Poliproject of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Educations and Sports, 2004-2007.
• CRO-GRID Applications - Indexing and Search of web/local Networks and Data Mining - Poliproject of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Educations and Sports, 2004-2007.
• Fast and Accurate Matrix Algorithms and Applications (leader), 2002 - , Project No. 0023002 of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
• Numerical Methods of Linear Algebra (collaborator), 1992-2002, Project No. 037012 of the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology. Project leader: Professor Vjeran Hari.

Grants (teaching)

• Mathematics 1, Internet-based textbook financed by CARNet, with interactive programs NetPlot, FAni, FRed and Octave On-line for plotting functions, animation of convergence of series of functions, computation of Fourier coefficients and general numerical comuptations, respectively.
• Mathematics 2 and Mathematics 3, Internet-based textbooks financed by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology

Organizing Committees

• VI International Workshop on Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems, The Pennsylvania State University, May 22-25, 2006.
• V International Workshop on Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany, June 28 - July 1, 2004.
• Third Croatian Congress of Mathematics, Split, June 16-18, 2004.
• IV International Workshop on Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems, University of Split, Croatia, June 24-27, 2002.
• III International Workshop on Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany, July 3-6, 2000.
• Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computation, Dubrovnik, September 1999.
• International Workshop on Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, July 1998.
• International Workshop on Accurate Eigensolving and Applications, Split,July 1996.

Refereeing

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX)
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC)
Linear Algebra and its Applications (LAA)
BIT
Glasnik matematicki
Mathematical Inequalities and Applications (MIA)

Memberships

Croatian Mathematical Society
Division Split of the Croatian Mathematical Society (President from 1998-1999).
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Awards

• Prize of the Croatian Mathematical Society to the Young Scientist for Outstanding Scientifical Contribution in Mathematics (1996).
• Preis zur Förderung junger Wissenschaftler der Fernuniversität Hagen (1992).
• Graduate Fellowship of the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology (1990).

Visits

1. FG Numerische Mathematik, TU Berlin, Fellowship FP 7 People "Marie Curie" IEF, April 2009 - March 2010.
2. Centro de modelamiento matematico, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, March 2004.
3. Fernuniversität Hagen, Department of Mathematical Physics, November 2002, June/July 2000, July 1998 and October 1996.
4. The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State College, PA, January - April 1997 and August 1993.
5. Eidgenoßische technische Hochschule, Institut für wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Zürich, August 15-31, 1994.

Invited Lectures

1. Modeling Invasions by Fungal Pathogens, U. de Chile, Santiago, March 2004.
2. Modeling Invasions by Fungal Pathogens, UC Berkeley, May 2002.
3. Relative Perturbation Theory for Hyperbolic Eigenvalue and Singular Value Problems, The Pennsylvania State University, October 2001.
4. On-line Interactive Programs for Calculus Students, Utah State University, September 2001.
5. On-line Interactive Educational Programmes for Mathematics and Engineering Students, Universität Klagenfurt, June 2001.
6. Relative Perturbation Theory and Highly Accurate Eigenreduction and SVD, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, May 1997.
7. Relative Perturbation Theory and Highly Accurate Eigenreduction and SVD, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile, May 1997.
8. Accurate Computation of Singular Values and Eigenvalues of Symmetric Matrices, Croatian Mathematical Society, Division Osijek, May 1996.
9. Accurate Symmetric Eigenreduction, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, September 1993.
10. New Trends in Solving Matrix Eigenvalue Problems, Croatian Mathematical Society, Zagreb, December 1992.

List of papers

1. I. Slapnicar, On the spectra of generalized Fibonacci and Fibonacci-like operators, Operators and Matrices, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2012, pp. 49-62.

2. D. Krstinic and I. Slapnicar, Grid-based mode seeking procedure, Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 343-356 (2011).

3. I. Slapnicar, Symmetric Matrix Eigenvalue Techniques, in CRC Handbook of Linear Algebra, Leslie Hogben (ed.), CRC Press, 2006, pp. 42:1-23.

4. N. Truhar and I. Slapnicar, Relative Residual Bounds for Indefinite Hermitian Matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., Special Issue in honor of Friedrich Ludwig Bauer, No. 417, pp. 466-477 (2006).

5. J. L. Barlow, H. Erbay and I. Slapnicar, An Alternative Algorithm for Refinement of ULV Decompositions, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 198-211 (2005).

6. J. A. Powell, I. Slapnicar and W. van der Werf, Epidemic Spread of a Lesion-Forming Plant Pathogen - Analysis of a Mechanistic Model with Infinite Age Structure, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 398, pp. 117-140 (2005).

7. I. Slapnicar and N. Truhar, Relative Perturbation Theory for Hyperbolic Singular Value Problem, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 358, pp. 367-386 (2002).

8. I. Slapnicar, Highly Accurate Symmetric Eigenvalue Decomposition and Hyperbolic SVD, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 358, pp. 387-424 (2002).

9. Z. Drmac, V. Hari and I. Slapnicar, Advances in Jacobi methods, Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2-9, 2001, Kluwer, Doordrecht, to appear.

10. J. Barlow and I. Slapnicar, Optimal perturbation bounds for the Hermitian eigenvalue problem, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 309, pp. 19-43 (2000).
    Also Technical Report No. 99-001, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,

11. K. Veselic and I. Slapnicar, On spectral condition of J-Hermitian operators, Glasnik matematicki, Memorial Issue in Honor of Branko Najman, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 3-24 (2000).

12. N. Truhar and I. Slapnicar, Relative perturbation bound for invariant subspaces of Hermitian matrix, Glasnik matematicki, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 221-232 (2000).

13. N. Truhar and I. Slapnicar, Relative perturbation bounds for invariant subspaces of graded indefinite Hermitian matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 301, pp. 171-185 (1999).

14. I. Slapnicar and N. Truhar, Relative perturbation theory for hyperbolic eigenvalue problem, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 309, pp. 57-72 (2000).

15. J. Demmel, M. Gu, S. Eisenstat, I. Slapnicar, K. Veselic, and Z. Drmac, Computing the singular value decomposition with high relative accuracy, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 299, pp. 21-80 (1999); also LAPACK Working Note #119.

16. I. Slapnicar and K. Veselic, A bound for the condition of a hyperbolic eigenvector matrix, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 290, pp. 247-255 (1999).

17. I. Slapnicar, Componentwise analysis of direct factorization of real symmetric and Hermitian matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 272, pp. 227-275 (1998).

18. N. Truhar and I. Slapnicar, Relative perturbation of invariant subspaces, Mathematical Communications, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 169-174 (1996).

19. I. Slapnicar, Accurate computation of singular values and eigenvalues of symmetric matrices, Mathematical Communications, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 153-168 (1996).

20. P. Arbenz and I. Slapnicar, On an implementation of a one-sided block Jacobi method on a distributed memory computer, Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 76 (Suppl 1), pp. 343-344, 1996.

21. P. Arbenz and I. Slapnicar, An analysis of parallel implementations of the block-Jacobi algorithm for computing the SVD, in: D. Kalpic and V. Hljuz-Dobric, eds., Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, pp. 343-348, Pula, 1995.

22. I. Slapnicar and K. Veselic, Perturbations of the eigenprojections of a factorized Hermitian matrix, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 218, pp. 273-280 (1995).

23. K. Veselic and I. Slapnicar, Floating-point perturbations of Hermitian matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 195, pp. 81-116 (1993).

24. I. Slapnicar, Accurate Symmetric Eigenreduction by a Jacobi Method, in Linear Algebra for Large Scale and Real-Time Applications, M. S. Moonen, G. H. Golub and B. L. R. De Moor eds., NATO ASI Series, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1993, pp. 417-418.

25. I. Slapnicar and V. Hari, On the quadratic convergence of the Falk-Langemeyer method, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., Vol. 12, pp. 84-114 (1991).

Teaching

Undergraduate

1. Mathematics for Engineers I.
2. Mathematics for Engineers II.
3. Mathematics for Engineers III.
4. Multiprocessor computing.

Graduate

1. Matrix computations and mathematics of search engines
2. Matrix computations on multiprocessor systems

Textbooks

1. I. Slapnicar, Mathematics 1, University of Split, FESB, Split, 2002, www.fesb.hr/mat1
2. I. Slapnicar, J. Baric, M. Nincevic, Mathematics 1 - excercises, University of Split, FESB, Split, 2011, www.fesb.hr/mat1