IMI Interdisciplinary Mathematics InstituteCollege of Arts and Sciences

Peter G. Binev

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Mathematics
  • University of South Carolina


Education

Ph.D. Mathematics Sofia University, Bulgaria 1985
M.S. Mathematics Sofia University, Bulgaria 1980

Experience

2007 – Present Associate Professor Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
2007 – Present Associate Professor Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina
2000 – 2007 Research Associate Professor Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina
1993 – 2006 Associate Professor Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria
1991 – 1992 Research Fellow Department of Mathematics, University of Duisburg
1984 – 1993 Assistant Professor Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria

Teaching Activities

Current Courses

  • Math 141 - Calculus I
  • Math 723 - Differential Equations

Previous Courses

  • Math 122 - Calculus for Business Administration and Social Sciences
  • Math 141 - Calculus I
  • Math 142 - Calculus II
  • Math 174 - Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
  • Math 241 - Vector Calculus
  • Math 242 - Elementary Differential Equations
  • Math 522 - Wavelets
  • Math 526 - Numerical Linear Algebra
  • Math 527 / CSCE 561 - Numerical Analysis
  • Math 544 - Linear Algebra
  • Math 574 - Discrete Mathematics I
  • Math 708 - Foundations of Computational Mathematics I
  • Math 720 - Applied Mathematics I
  • Math 721 - Applied Mathematics II

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Honors and Other Special Scientific Recognition

  • Member, Special Bulgarian Awarding Committee in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, 1998-2004
  • Member, Ruling Body of the Scientific Fund of the University of Sofia, 1997-2003
  • Founder and Head of the Master Class of Computer Graphics at the University of Sofia which includes curriculum development for the program, six new graduate and three new undergraduate courses and academic advisement of about 80 M.Sc. students (1996-2003)
  • Member, Scientific Committee in Mathematics and Mechanics, Bulgarian National Science Fund, 1998-1999
  • Fellowship from a TEMPUS program, University of Greenwich, UK, Fall 1997
  • Rector’s Award for the Best Young Scientist of the Year, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1989

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Selected Publications

  • P. Binev, A. Cohen, W. Dahmen, R. DeVore, G. Petrova, and P. Wojtaszczyk, Convergence Rates for Greedy Algorithms in Reduced Basis Methods, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 43 (2011),1457–1472.
  • P. Binev, W. Dahmen, and P. Lamby, Fast high-dimensional approximation with sparse occupancy trees, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 235 (2011), 2063–2076.
  • P. Binev, High Dimensional Learning via Sparse Occupancy Trees, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Report No. 30 (2008), 1675-1678
  • P. Binev and R. DeVore, Fast Computation in Adaptive Tree Approximation, Numerische Mathematik 97 (2004), 193-217.
  • Belochitski, P. Binev, R. DeVore, M. Fox-Rabinovitz, V. Krasnopolski, and P. Lamby, Tree Approximation of the Long Wave Radiation Parameterization in the NCAR CAM Global Climate Model, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 236 (2011), 447–460.

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IMI Preprints and Seminars

Go to the list of 12 preprints and 5 seminars by Peter G. Binev.

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Curriculum Vitae

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