VASILIOS

ALEXIADES

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΣ ΑΛΕΞΙΑΔΗΣ

Non-official page ... my official Math Dept page is here ...

*Professor of Mathematics*	*and*	*Part-time researcher*
Mathematics Department		Computational Mathematics Group
The University of Tennessee		Computer Science & Mathematics Division
Knoxville , Tennessee		Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

RESEARCH INTERESTS ...also see my official Math Dept page

biomathematics ( chemotaxis - aerotaxis , action potentials in heart , phototransduction , synaptic transmission, ... )

phase-change processes ( alloy solidification, hydrates, In Situ Vitrification , laser ablation , ...)

moving boundary problems - nonlinear PDEs

heat and mass transfer - computational fluid dynamics

scientific (parallel) computing - computational science education

RESEARCH PROJECTS .... list of projects I have worked on ....

Laser Ablation

cardiac action potentials

Phototransduction

Benchmark CFD solutions for flow during melting

Methane Hydrates modeling

Alloy solidification with convection in the melt

Time-stepping schemes in Molecular Dynamics computations

Forward and inverse electromagnetic problems in Geophysics

Super-time-stepping acceleration of explicit schemes

In Situ Vitrification

THE BOOK	( corrections page: PDF, 1 page, 12k )
	Vasilios Alexiades and Alan D. Solomon,
	*Mathematical Modeling of Melting and Freezing Processes,*
	Hemisphere Publ. Co., Washington DC, 1993
	323 pages; Hardcover; ISBN 1-56032-125-3 ; QC303.A38 1993
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THE PROCEEDINGS of the 14-17 Oct 1998 Conference held at UTK
	Vasilios Alexiades and George Siopsis, editors
	*Trends in Mathematical Physics*
	AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Volume 13
	American Mathematical Society and International Press, July 1999
	528 pages; Softcover; ISBN 0-8218-2006-0 ; QC19.2.C654 1999

Here is a Knoxville guide , all sorts of area maps , and zooming maps to UTK.
If you'd rather fly... here is a satellite image of Tennessee and of East Tennessee. Knoxville is at 84^oW 36^oN.

About Mathematics . . . mostly

First, how to pronounce Greek letters correctly ! ( see column in yellow )

LOGICOMIX, An epic search for truth told in a brilliant graphic novel , must read!

Mathematics - The Science of Patterns and Algorithms by Ingrid Debauchies

Mathematics and Science (NSF Report, Jan.2000, exciting reading !)

Mathematics as a Key to Key Technologies excellent article by H. Neunzert

Careers in Mathematics from the treasures in the Math Archives

Who's Hiring Math Majors? . . . and some funny occupational descriptions

Worldwide Job Market for Mathematicians

Science, Math, and Engineering Links (includes Career Resources)

Famous Mathematicians (links)

Famous Scientists chronology (from Kai Lai Chung: Green, Brown, and Probability, 1995)

Oh Calculus ! to the tune of "Oh, Christmas Tree"

Emphasis on Teaching by Marshall Brain and his fascinating HowStuffWorks

The Blueberry Story why school is not a business !

My computation-related links On: Computational Science Fortran - C Maple - Matlab
WWW - HTML Unix converters

My benchmark timings: fspx , meltflow , retbnch-mpi on various computers ...since 1994

Some of my most useful (unix) shell scripts

Some interesting Titbits

and my most favored poem: Cavafy's ΙΘΑΚΗ, in greek and english and some wise thoughts... It's Only Time

Math in HTML - charcodes, greek letters, math symbols - it can be done !

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