SHORT BIOGRAPHY

I was born in Rosiori de Vede, a small town at 70 miles away from the capital city of Romania, Bucharest, in 1967. Rosiori de Vede is one of the oldest cities in Romania. It was first mentioned in a document which dates back to 1385, when the city was visited by two German pilgrims who were returning from Jerusalem and stopped for a few days in Russenart, as they named the city at that time.

I received my M.S. in Mathematics from University of Bucharest in 1992, and my Ph.D. in Mathematics from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997. I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Northeastern Illinois University, and a Visiting Faculty at Northwestern University. 

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, A BRIEF HISTORY

The  University of Bucharest (Romania) was founded in 1864, with three faculties. One of the faculties (departments) was "The Faculty of natural, mathematical and physical sciences". A turning point in its evolution was marked by the coming, as professors, of the first doctors in mathematics from Paris, at the end of the 19th century: Spiru Haret, David Emmanuel, Constantin Gogu and Nicolae Coculescu. Excepting David Emmanuel, the other three dealt in their theses with Celestial Mechanics problems. Spiru Haret's doctoral thesis (1878), on the invariability of the major axes of the planetary orbits, made a major contribution in the study of the stability of the solar system. His name was assigned to a crater on the invisible face of the Moon.

University of Bucharest at 
the end of the 19th century

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