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Welcome

I work in the field of applied and computational mathematics. My work involves mathematical modeling and analysis of PDEs, numerical and functional analysis, probability, and other sciences and engineering. My projects with students and collaborators range from rigorous analysis through algorithm development to applied simulations inspired by interdisciplinary applications and data science.
Details on my professional activities are in my full CV and in short bio.

I have been at Oregon State since 2003. Previously, I held positions at the University of Texas at Austin (ICES and Mathematics); Purdue University; Polish Academy of Sciences; and Warsaw University of Technology. I also was a short-term visitor elsewhere and a Fulbright Research Fellow in 2009-10. I received PhD in Mathematics (1992) from University of Augsburg, Germany under the direction of Prof. Karl-Heinz Hoffmann; see my mathematical genealogy. My MS is in Applied Math (1986), and Habilitation in Mathematics (2011), from Warsaw University of Technology.

Appointments

University Distinguished Professor (2024-), Joel Davis Faculty Scholar 2022-2025, Professor (2012-), Graduate Director (2015-2019), Mathematics Department at Oregon State University.
Program Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation (2019-21), while on leave from Oregon State.
Pacific Math Alliance, Executive Board, 2022-2025.
SIAM PNW Section (see SIAM PNW homepage) President (2018-20), Vice-President (Inaugrural; 2016-18) and SIAM PNW Section Fall 2017 biennial meeting, Corvallis, OR, Chair of Organizing Committee, Fall 2017; SIAM PNW Fall 2019 member of OC. SIAM PNW 2022 Officer Nominating Committee.
SIAM committees: Committee on Programs and Conferences, 2017-2022. SIAM-JMM, 2018-19-20 and ad-hoc SIAM JMM 2019-20; SIAM CSE Officer Nominating Committee (2022), SIAM Geosciences Officer Nominating Committee (2020). SIAM MPE Prize Committee (2023-24); SIAM Geosciences Prize Committee (2018-19); SIAM Geosciences 2021 (Milan) and 2023 (Bergen) Program Committee. SIAM MPE 2024 Program Committee.
AWM-SIAM Committee, 2022-24. AAAS-SIAM liason (2023-).
AWM-SIAM Sonya Kovalevskaya Prize Lecture Committee 2019-22 (Chair 2020).

Editorial Board

Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2013-2022).
Associate Editor, IJNAM (2006-).
Editorial Board, Computation (2016-).
Associate Editor, Results in Applied Mathematics (2022-).
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics - Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation (2023-)
Associate Editor, Computational Geosciences, (2023-).
Editorial Board, PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research. (2023-).
Associate Editor, JAM (2010-2019).

Awards

University Distingushed Professor, Oregon State University, 2024.
SIAM Women's History Month (March 2023) Honoree.
Joel Davis Faculty Scholar, 2022-25, OSU Mathematics.
Champion of Science award, 2022, OSU College of Science.
SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences Career Prize, 2021 (awarded at SIAM Geosciences Conference June 2021).
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Honorary Fellow, 2020; see press release and this COS article.
Joel Davis Faculty Excellence Award (awarded by Mathematics Department), 2016.
Graduate Faculty Award, (awarded by Mathematics graduate students), 2016.
Distinguished Fellow of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry, Kosciuszko Foundation, January 2015.
Fulbright Research Scholar, 2009-2010, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Mortar Board Top Professor Award, Oregon State University, May 2005
Co-author of [10], Honorable Mention, Best Paper in Geophysics by Society of Exploration Geophysicists at the occasion of its 75’th Anniversary, 2005
First Award of the Director and Scientific Council of Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences (1993)
Stefan Batory (Soros) Foundation International Travel Award (1993)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Fellowship, 1990–1992, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Activities

Applied Mathematics and Computation Seminar
SIAM PNW 2017 conference
CASCADE RAIN Meetings 2014-
Applied Mathematics and Computation Journal Club
Women in Data Science, Ambassador, 2017.
PNWNAS

About my work

On OSU Distinguished Professor award: see announcement, and this COS IMPACT article. More publicity on this.
On Joel Davis Faculty Scholar award. See also this link from OSU Foundation.
Feature on MP in Math in the Valley 2022.
On Winter 2022 COS Champion of Science award.
COS feature on the SIAM Geosciences Career Prize.
COS Impact Magazine feature on the AAAS award.
My work at the NSF.

iMPACT feature April 2018. Current link Spring 2018 feature, p.12-13.
About my service for SIAM PNW, April 2018
iMPACT feature April 2017. See also Spring 2017 feature, p10-11.
OSU College of Science iMPACT Magazine feature "Mathematics professor contributing to interdisciplinary studies on climate and energy" (Spring 2015)
Oregon Women in Higher Education July 2015 feature
Daily Barometer article "Solving the world's real-life math problems" (December 2014) (available as microfich); PDF of the whole issue here
OSU Terra magazine article "Glass Half Full" about our multiscale modeling project
Science Daily article "New math models to pick up where computers fail" (July 2007) featured information about our DOE Multiscale grant 2005-2010

Service

SIAM Geosciences Program Officer Nominating Committee, 2014, 2020.
Organizer, CASCADE 2014.
SIAM Annual Organizing Committee, 2014
Program Committee, Interpore 2014 and Interpore 2013
Chair, SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences in 2011-12
Program Director, SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences in 2009-10
Chair of the Organizing Committee of SIAM-GS 2011
OSU PCOSW Leadership team, 2013-2015.
OSU Bacc-core (Faculty Senate) Committee, 2013-2015
... more, in CV